In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

How to keep troops loyal: make them beg for food from the people you want them to oppress

Is ICE about to go buck wild using cell site simulators? Good thing EFF has a project to help you detect them: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

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A completed custom character design commission done up for @hoennotaku.bsky.social ; a patchworked Franken-vee composed of different eeveelutions! #anthroart #furryart

fox with an ovipositor

Ooh but socialism is totalitarian and authoritarian lmao shut the fuck up Trump is sending the military in to pacify cities, grabbing people off the street with no due process, ignoring the courts, openly tampering with the witness to his sex crimes... How're you gonna fucking scare me with UBI?

Please understand that if you air even a single ICE ad on your program, on your podcast, on your stream, you will never, for the rest of your mortal life, receive another dollar or another second of attention from me, or from millions of others. I promise you, it is financial suicide.

The people are sick of being lied to. We can’t afford NOT to do it. #MedicareForAll

most americans spend hours a day marinating their brains in either: - rw 'news' showing cities on fire - gruesome true crime content - police procedurals

We should all be yelling at our state officials about the complete insanity of posting vital emergency information *exclusively* on Twitter/X and/or Facebook in 2025. There is absolutely NO good excuse for this. Many, many people don’t use those platforms. Many never did.

trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states

Yo momma so weird that the iczn lists her under an enigmatic taxon

We have invented like 700 ways for people to say "I'm right wing" without saying it and it's honestly pathetic that these guys can't just say how they feel even when they're outrageously rich, cowards to the core

I love it when a rotten politician dies. I'm the first one to jump up and crow about it, callously and often. A state getting hit by a natural disaster is not that, and however that state went in any given election, it's deeply anti-human to jeer at people living there & tell them they deserve it.

I've seen some posts suggesting day drinking to deal with today's news, and I want to offer some suggestions for how to get through today if you don't want to drink, or use drugs. I'm going to suggest these things as someone who hasn't drank or taken drugs in over 9 years. I hope they help.

Yep. This is illegal and unconstitutional on its face. The budget and appropriations are laws. The President "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", according to the express dictate of the federal constitution. His "priorities" are literally irrelevant.

elon musk’s body count will end up being higher than most wars and most of the worst most oppressive regimes in history

I get that media literacy is not a strong suit of these people, but the gathering of wealth in Erebor lead to the destruction of the mountain kingdom and mass deaths by Smaug. Like, the hoarding of wealth was very much their downfall. It drove their leaders crazy and dropped a whole dragon on them.

He’s holding a trans flag, which is also a thing that absolutely fucking terrifies the Dem establishment, which has been tripping over themselves to throw trans folks under the bus.

The Crock Pot is one of the only times when real life works like video game crafting. You dump in some powders and the remains of several vile birds and out comes hot delicious food

They had to expand the Y axis this does not bode well

before trans people started existing in the year 2006, it was very hilarious to write "yes please" on a form asking you to list your sex. now it is illegal. this my friends is what cancel culture is.

As one does when one is simply impartially applying the law in the obvious constitutional way with no underlying agenda

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

This whole debate takes place in a kind of bizarre time warp where the existence of gay and trans people is some kind of dirty secret children could be oblivious to, but for insidious woke kid lit.

For everonye outside of germany, a superrich family fumbled dodging taxes and now paid the record sum of 4 BILLION euros. Which would cover nationwide child coverage by 166% That is the amount of money countries miss out on due to rich people evading taxes

Any excuse to repost an all-time Bluesky banger

So, overall, a gish gallop of nonsense. No compelling data. Lots of not-studies. Mostly irrelevant. No RCTs. Designed to overwhelm rather than illuminate. This is so far from “gold standard science” that it’s not in the same zip code. We deserve better.

Well, this paragraph will haunt my fucking nightmares forever ABOLISH ICE RIGHT FUCKING NOW archive.is/GWkC0

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

and believe me I mean that in the full fucking sense of the term

Reminder: You don't actually need to even throw a brick at cops for cops to say you threw a brick at them

This is the hill I will die on for public health: public transport and infrastructure that allows for active commuting is key. The public health dose for activity in a week is 150 min of moderate activity (or 75 min of vigorous). That’s about 20 minutes daily. Most USians don’t achieve that.

"Whats this line item?" "Counterintelligence, sir" "It says they bought over 10,000 pizzas in FY25?" "Yes, sir"

A good counterargument to "you shouldn't do [xxx] because then the fascists and press will call it a riot!!" is you can literally not show up and the fascists, the press will still call it a riot

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

corviknight family... terrifying Corviknight matriarch and her preppy daughter who's majoring in literature Madame Corviknight and Mama T have Beef. buuuutttttt their daughters are dating : ) #pokemon

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

Experimental post: Untruthful Mario Boxes Occasionally, box art of Mario-related games will be misleading about the number of levels a game has. I list three examples in ascending order of "fraudulence", alongside equivalent statements if these were real estate ads.

no you see cops are an inherently higher caste than the rest of us, so being degraded to being an ordinary person is already enough punishment for his repeated victimization of society's weakest under the guise of law

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

The HHS is now telling medical centers to adhere to their latest sham report on transgender healthcare which literally says is not a treatment guideline. They’re sending this letter to hospitals in blue states and threatening them unless they stop trans care. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/...