You know, I want to read more utopian fiction. Something has changed in me. What are some of your favourite reads imagining a future where we all survive this, and build something together?

the nazis and pro-nazi media blamed all the ills of german society on jewish people. it was how they primed the pump before the holocaust. if u dehumanize people and say they cause all the problems, it becomes easy to exterminate them. the right is doing the same thing to immigrants.

A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning. heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...

I was a huge fan of SG-1 and Atlantis (and the original movie, to a lesser extent), but I am NOT looking forward to this. Please, PLEASE stop rebooting everything and make something original for once.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

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Happy #Halloween! A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

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with his trusty Bowie knife!!

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

“If our ancestors could do without tea, then we can do without a new Tesla. We might even be able to do without Amazon Prime.” Today, environmental activist @billmckibben.bsky.social joined protesters at Lexington’s Battle Green, the site of the original #NoKings protest:

That's right

#A_NewHope ✊

Happy indigenous peoples day

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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

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It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

Holy shit! That was one of the main places we ordered books from when I worked in acquisitions. We ordered more from Ingram overall but B&T had things they didn’t…

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In summary: The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for. Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.

Oh yeah, the lefties are the violent ones...

A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.

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Girls in your area Girls in proximity to your location Girls approaching your coordinates Girls have breached the perimeter Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the

It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion. Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I keep coming back to this because it's the heart of it and their weakness. They like to put on the costume of patriots who love freedom. But actually they hate America, and they don't believe in anything but themselves. Republicans are weak and stupid people

Well there goes my fucking Medicaid

I will lose my Medicaid if this thing passes. Please, please call your reps!

I've never seen the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline so viscerally represented. This is incredible.

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows

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It’s a little late, but I made my now-traditional blueberry cake in honor of Greenhithe Day! 180 years since the Franklin Expedition set sail…

180 years ago today, on May 19, 1845, the Franklin Expedition set sail from Greenhithe, England, to try to find the last link in the Northwest Passage. They would never return. #GreenhitheDay

I know we're all at our financial limit right now, and I'm sorry. That's why I'm gonna add a $5 option for a sketch, and $15 for linework only. I'm out of food until the 5th of next month, when I get food stamps. I have a week cooked but no idea what to do after that.

Work requirements are meant as cuts to Medicaid. They make it harder for disabled people to get the services we need to survive. We can stop this - meet with your elected officials and tell them #HandsOff Medicaid! We can show you how: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/03/tell...

Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.

Without context, this is a generally good response to have

it’s not really a chicago style pope unless he has celery salt and neon green relish

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

The pope contains potassium benzoate

Hey it's almost like we should fight every fucking order this idiot makes, because they're not legal, he's a buffoon, and fuck him

Happy Dracula Daily Day to all who celebrate!

Before I go into today's dystopian nightmare, let's take a minute to bring down your blood pressure. Here is one of my favorite creatures, the #RedPanda. Enjoy. #nature #animals

regular reminder that we can trace features of autism through folklore back to like, the prehistoric era. the fuck do you think ‘changelings’ were