There’s a lot of interesting talk happening on TikTok regarding Taylor Swift’s new album merch. This necklace in particular, the Showgirl Silver necklace with double lightning bolt motifs. 8 of them with an 8 pointed star below. There are 14 chain links between the lightning bolts

My neighbor Judy hits it out of the park again with her Halloween yard skeletons, this year the busted “Coldplay Couple”.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Chicago

Portland brilliance

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Chiitan has a dream. I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past. I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination. Until then, let's all support each other🤍

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

The Freedom Frogs of Portland are multiplying. It’s beautiful.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Cool, finally a place kids can enjoy.

Trump is like the Oprah of threatening to jail people

BREAKING In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.” WHEW.

If I was a kid and I went trick or treating and someone tried to hand me a mandarin I would lose my fucking shit

Congratulations to whoever at Rayban who made the decision to partner with Meta on these things for turning the image of all Raybans from a timeless cool classic brand of sunglasses into snitch spectacles for perverts

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Bread and puppet theater

I'm not worried: Once ICE rounds up all the illegals, they'll stop.

The text here doesn’t even do it justice. Watch the video. His brain is just soup at this point.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

I know a lot of people really really do not want to have to care about the Jay Madness Discourse. But it is actually a really bad thing that the CEO of the platform we all decamped to because Elon got transphobic mod madness... ...is now doing transphobic mod madness.

As with AI "authors" and "artists" all I can say is what a sucker! See, AI is about eliminating the middle man and these people don't realize that they are the middle man up for the chop. Why go to Paramount or Warner or Disney for an AI movie when you can go to the AI company?

Today I conquered The Beast. (Went on the stair master for the first time after being too intimidated for the past two years of going to the gym)

I seriously don’t think anything like this has ever happened even once anywhere in the world

Meanwhile in Australia’s Northern Territory, Justice Blow has published his report about dodgy employment practices in the local police, and a local journalist has just spuffed all over his keyboard.

I’m not a Swift fan or defender but men, especially middle aged and older straight men, no one wants your opinion of her new album. No one cares that you think it’s shit. It’s not for you. Everything else in the world is for you. Stfu and let girls and women enjoy their thing

Even creepier given that this was written by a 63-year-old dude

if you don't like the mod situation on bluesky boy do I have bad news about mastodon admins literally cutting off entire parts of the network over personal grudges

here at the department of war, we're getting rid of all the bullshit. no more namby pamby geopolitical logistical ecological gay girl crap. we only have two goals: create a climate of pervasive fear and uncertainty at home, and defend the american way of life abroad

See if I were in charge of a social media site whose entire user base is "people who are sick of Elon's shit" I would go out of my way to NOT post Elon shit, but I guess that's why they don't pay me the big bucks

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

absolutely incredible things are happening. someone should write a poem about it

Excellent simple demonstration of preferential voting. I’d suggest showing this to every Australian citizen before voting but there are people (Americans) in the comments who still don’t understand it 🙃

I’ve said it before, any judge who so comfortably and clearly shows their prejudice should immediately be barred from their jobs, but we don’t live in a world that makes sense. We live in a world where white people get to deem racism as a simple inconvenience and be the sole arbiter of its weight.