I don't know if it qualifies as a compulsive behavior but I own at least five different copies of Rocky Horror, across various formats, because if I see one in a thrift store or at a flea market, I will always buy it, and never once think to myself "But I already own this."

eternal gratitude to Cuba for offering sanctuary and a home to some of our most cherished political heroes. Rest in power Assata Shakur.

touching grass isn't enough I need the complete destruction of the US government

Fun fact about me, I used to work at a grocery store in the same building/strip mall where these murders occurred (years before my time there). At closing time it was a pretty regular topic of discussion.

This is just explicitly true in my experience. Being willing to do anything asked of you without ever asking questions is the only ‘skill’ the vast majority of employers care about, and if they suspect that you might develop a spine at some point they just won’t ever let you through the door.

The United Nations was created in 1945 to replace the ineffectual League of Nations after it failed to prevent the Holocaust. Here we are 2 years into a full blown live streamed genocide and they invite Hitler to the mic. Who gives a shit that some people walked out...he should have never been there

Imagine thinking being a centrist in 2025, when rights are being violently taken away from people is simply a “difference of opinion”. Your kind is useless. Your fence straddling is immoral. Your existence is a hindrance. The ghosts of MLK Jr, Herman Melville, and William Lloyd Garrison laugh at you

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

"while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it. . . We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody tell them who the enemy is." 3/3

"has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth 2/

Assata Shakur: "There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism. In fact, there was not a single liberation movement in the whole world that was fighting for capitalism. The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that 1/

There are occasional tiny moments when I remember what it feels like to be proud of being a Texan, and all of them are like this.

I haven’t kept up with One Piece since like 2006 but I’m getting the feeling that it’s one of those pieces of media that is so influential with younger people on the left that I might need to get caught up just to stay conversant with The Youths.

are people "giving in to doomerism" or are they just actually gonna die when Medicaid cuts kick-in? Are they actually being defeatist or do you just not like being reminded that not everyone can outlast this situation?

Ok, we “saved” Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?

Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

My most millennial take is that software as a service and anything explicitly browser based that requires an internet connection and does not run off the drive inside my machine is a fucking scam

When I was growing up it seemed like the world would just keep getting hornier and less religious over time but then something went terribly wrong in the late 2000s and now we're ruled over by incel nazis with AI-induced religious psychosis.

adults largely DON'T care what young people think about sex scenes. what adults care about (especially queer ones, and creators) is puritanism increasingly seeping into our culture in ways that impact us all very negatively and people's concern about this does not make them creepy!! sigh

Ah yes CLEARLY an attack on ICE agents where only the detainees were shot

everything alive is being killed and no one notices anymore

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

This was extremely obvious from the increased inequality and concentration of wealth stats. People who refused to see this are stupid.

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Just heard that I will not be getting the part I need for my car after all, meaning I broke no-contact with my parents for nothing. If anyone needs me I will be screaming into a pillow for the next few hours.

Hey, lots of good people are addicts. RFK is a bad person. It has nothing to do with his heroin use. My mom was a heroin addict and an amazing person. I'm a recovering alcoholic. Stop shitting on addicts. It is not a moral failing, it's a disease. You're part of the problem if you're doing this.

Monstrous

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“The majority of our anarchist collectives believe in organization without hierarchy, fostering open conversations even with communist radicals who genuinely seek egalitarian societies. We believe solidarity within the leftist movement is essential, so we judge by actions rather than ideology alone”

In Nepal, protests earlier this month culminated with the toppling of the government. To get a clearer understanding of the background of the insurrection and the dynamics within it, we interviewed Black Book Distro, an anarchist collective and library in Kathmandu. crimethinc.com/Nepal2025

The only thing keeping me going today was the expectation of getting to try a new coffee spot on my break today and they closed as soon as I finally got mine.

Did you know that instead of watching the propaganda funeral for a dead nazi you could be watching old episodes of Pokemon on the internet? It's true! You could be thinking about Bulbasaur right now instead of neck-geyser Goebbels.

This absolutely correct. I would add that no sentient being should take Fang seriously about ANYTHING but particularly about organizing. He doesn't know anything.

i think everyone needs to get a lot less religious

Did you know that instead of watching the propaganda funeral for a dead nazi you could be watching old episodes of Pokemon on the internet? It's true! You could be thinking about Bulbasaur right now instead of neck-geyser Goebbels.

a domestic terrorist grips a woman by the throat in a choke hold. Another domestic terrorist comes up and pulls his hand away to stop the choking - even this fascist knows it is a step too far - and the hero in the photo tearfully holds up a peace sign with stoic grace

Okay, there is precisely one cool thing about my new job, and his name is Chief.

I have never had great self-esteem, but the one constant in my life that tells me I must be doing some things right is the frequency with which I am immediately invited by new acquaintances to join their DnD campaigns.

Menstrual products can be a huge help, too! And are covered by FSA funds, in case you’re starting to think about use-it-or-loose-it season.

While trying to find a picture of her dog to show me this woman just scrolled past 30+ nearly indistinguishable AI-generated pictures of the crucifixion on her phone. The knowledge that people like this exist is a splinter in my brain that cannot be removed.

I fixed it! Kinda! I was able to reset it while it was plugged into my laptop and from there I was able to break it out of the boot loop. It looks like without access to my old iTunes account, which I lost years ago, I can't get anything off of the device, but at least it still kind of functions.

I think I may have broken it. I hooked it up to an external power bank to try and get some more battery life out of it and now it's stuck in a boot-crash loop. I had been rediscovering music I hadn't listened to in ten years (as well as photos!) and now I'm afraid it's really dead.

despite how bad things may seem, now is the time to start radicalizing your liberal friends and relatives, because the dems are doing an excellent job of proving the left correct when we kept repeating that boths parties collaborate to keep us oppressed under the ruling class

Life hack: steal things

Israel is goint to try to murder Greta Thunberg (again). If they succeed, you will see absolutely none of the grief that was poured out for Charlie Kirk, and when her death is inevitably mocked by zionists, bluesky moderaters will not give a shit. Only some political assassinations matter, to them.

Biggest terrorist attack on journalists since Charlie Hebdo. I'm sure everyone will be covering it

imagine if we swarmed them in the tens of thousands, when it takes ten of them just to handle one of us we could end this within a week