what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines

"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

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I wrote a letter to my readers about the importance of trying. It’s available to read (totally free) on my patreon Patreon.com/beetlemoses

Ok, so 86 episodes into One Piece and... I think I finally get it?

From what little One Piece I've watched the fundamental difference between Sanji Womaneering (goofy, endearing) and Yellow Boy Perv (gross, grating) is that one fundamentally views women as people and one fundamentally does not. Be like Sanji.

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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The non-linear nature of healing is good and all, but being in so much pain that all I can really do is lie in bed is like watching all the wellness I fought for disappear over the horizon.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

this is a small thing but it would be nice to feel good about paying taxes. i would like to write a check to the government and think about kids going to school and freshly paved roads not all the death squads my income helps fund.

This whole thread is great journalism and so full of hope. Let's build utopia, together.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

these people are out in literal -17F/-27C weather absolute hats off to them

It's BS you need to love yourself first. Even if you hate yourself now, love them fully and fearlessly🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 I want a world where someday you'll love yourself and live proud, just as you are

such a lovely thing to think about

I literally personally know two of the people in this photo

The modded X-COM? Yeah, it is going pretty well

every picture of bovino looks like he's in agony like his skull desperately wants to escape from his face and only a thin layer of skin and membrane is preventing it from leaping forth like a lost soul from doom

Ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that much of the OSR movement is merely reacting to indie TTRPGs' tendency to lose sight of why many folks take up the hobby: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.

There is a wave of publicly announced decency coming, and it gives me so much hope. Remember that part of loving your neighbor is telling bullies no.

Watching SYBERSIX because I am going through pain med withdrawals, so I know I'm EXTRA EMOTIONAL and hopefully that means my commentary about the Canadian anime about the hunky biochem professor romancing the absolute bi-gender queen will be EXTRA FUNNI

I am once again thinking about Don't Be A Sucker (1947). There have always been people who say we can do better. Love your neighbors, and let's build a better world together. Cw: Footage of Nazis and war archive.org/details/0022...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Watching Jello and co's play of Of The Devil and holy hecc. Apparently the only media I inbibe while trying to recover from surgery is media that makes me cry. Go play this game, it is free and it will Change You store.steampowered.com/app/2739630/...

So I did finally play #TheOldKingsCrown and not only did I have a great time but also learned to not let one player have the Kingdom Card that lets you pick turn order the whole game and just completely run off with all the Influence

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

Me: I am normal. Also Me: *Thinks about 'How To Identify A Communist' Again Unprompted* youtu.be/8jsoHonwQT8?...

Pre-writing cryptic clues in my own blood on my front walk before going up on the roof to clean my rain gutters so that if I slip and fall, whoever finds my corpse will have a fun mystery to solve.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Oh uhm. This one's important.

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I enjoy when folks get tetchy about the term "sequential art" and claim it's just a pretentious word for "comics", because when I point out they're overlapping but non-identical mediums, they always demand an example of one that isn't the other, and I get to hit them with "PowerPoint presentations".

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs: 1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts 2. cops must be present at all times during protests

If you haven't gotten one yet today, this is your sign to spend an hour playing "taking my Dark Knight Girlfriend to the corner store" store.steampowered.com/app/3789280/...

“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Hey folks, we live in difficult and scary times. If we can stomach it, it is powerful and important to remember what transpired and learn from it so we can carry it forward in our own lives. Happy Anniversary Cw: Yelling, violence, grievous bodily harm in first person youtu.be/CvL4sXhGrYs?...

I just backed Comix Cleric! Only 44 hour left till the campaign ends. There is this handy stretch-goal they have for hiring additional developer, would make me happy if they reached it. If decentralization of indie comics is important to you I really suggest supporting them.

Hey so I swore I would try to watch #OnePiece while I recovered from surgery but what is this.