All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

"And Jonathan, who did NOT die..."

On the left: bell hooks On the right: hell books

I went to my local Trans Day of Visibility event, but I guess they all kept their invisibility on?

i was trying to explain to a friend the way new fonts look, so i made this graphic

I may not be happy with my alma mater, but it looks like the kids are alright

That's right, ladies, why would you want to do anything exciting or fulfilling with your one wild and beautiful life? Just sit there in a pretty dress and wait for sum dood to claim you as his prize. [pats head condescendingly]

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Kat Abughazaleh used her campaign to try a lot of things that the party should been embracing a long time ago. The entire left coalition is better off because she ran.

Ha! This is too real. I'm a stop-at-the-crosswalk-at-2am-until-the-walk-sign-comes-on person, but I've recently shifted alignment from Lawful Good to Chaotic Good for exactly this reason. If the laws are unjust, you can't follow them and still be Good.

Me, *reading my own posts* "She is so funny. I love her."

I saw a western bluebird today!

I was almost on season 1 of Survivor (like got through all the physical & psychological pre-screening & in-person interviews) and the show side wanted me but the network execs thought I was, "too weird" for national TV

god saves his spiciest mustard for his bravest lil corndogs

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Post old memes to confuse young people

Our pantry always has 72 extra bottles of lemon juice, except when I'm looking for a new one, at which point there are always 0 bottles of lemon juice, thus causing me to buy another on my next grocery trip. Inevitably, when I go to put away that new bottle, the 72 other bottles reappear.

Hamilton sing-along muscle memory just kicked in. "I wanna be in the room when it happens, the room when it happens, the room when it happens."

This feels like it shouldn't be controversial to say, and yet...

As someone commented, this is the principal equivalent of jury nullification.

People have always been people

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Sometimes, friends in other countries ask me, "What's it like in the U.S. right now?" & I feel I can't do better than this actual photo posted by someone I know in real life. (Sadly, I do not have a photo of the random gun I found in a Starbucks bathroom a few years back to accompany it)

Lots of them are panicking that AI uptake isn't fast enough and they might run out of momentum to do the sweep they are attempting to do on society. This isn't about AI, it's about the window in which they have permission to remould society. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

this is a very basic point to make but I hate that so many tech people are going "whoops haha AI is about to destroy society as we know it!" and yet incredibly few tech people are arguing in favour of just...slowing down the roll-out of AI, apparently progress must crush us and we have no say in it?

I guess we know what Ichiban & Kiryu are doing with their money now... #yakuza

Welp.

Best Valentine's Day gift ever: 2 tons of hay!

BRO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!

Sweet potato enriched sourdough bread

Turning to AI for support and advice, especially in times of distress, is never a good idea. @sesmith.lol provides the facts on bots, the effects of prolonged use of AI, and offers alternatives to these crappy "companions." www.scarleteen.com/read/bad-c...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

"You can be against ICE killing people and still be against violent illegal immigrants" Sis, just be against violence, there's no need to bring immigration into this

The concept of evolutionary psychology is really interesting, but no one who practices it seems to be aware of any human culture outside of, like, 1950's America.

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

I'm feeling very clever because I said an actor in All Creatures Great and Small looked like a young Emma Thompson, and it turns out it's her daughter!

House Transportation Democrats issued the statement below. Is now really the time for a "bipartisan solution"? Or is it time for a full throated investigation into the incompetent leadership at the FAA, DoD, and CPB that is endangering Americans and disrupting travel?

This is why, "I just use NYT for the games," doesn't really make sense if you don't want to support their news coverage, because the games side funds the news side

What are the 3 branches of government again? I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?

We signed up for that Lay's challenge during the Super Bowl, and they arrived tonight! They are better than normal chips, but I put at least some of that down to how protected they were in transit. I've never received a bag of chips with so few broken.

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

It is absurd that Dems have as their starting point in negotiations, "Pretty-please don't continue violating the Constitution." As a reminder to Schumer, your starting point should be your most extreme demand & you compromise from there. Give them the option to keep breaking the law & you lose.

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

That Ring ad

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them