It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

unreposted kelsey's "we never should have" post not because i disagree with him but because i never legitimized gambling or outsourcing thinking and so i'm not going to pile myself in with the people and companies who did that, there's no faang on my resume *on purpose* lol

If you lead with anger, if your politics is built out of grievance, then you’re always looking for a target for your anger. But the path to liberation is one built out of love, out of wanting to no longer feel hatred in your heart.

I actually do think a lot of white Americans think activism is about yelling people into submission

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

I have been very slowly reading @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's book about this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

love watching pundits try to get ahead of the AI bubble crash just late enough that it’s irrelevant

ah yes, the two genders

i think ive paid gabe newell more from the proceeds of my games than i've paid the government, but gabe doesn't pave my roads or fund my schools or feed the kids in my community probably a few overdue conversations to be had about maybe paying less gabes before we pay less taxes or something

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

everything about this is so unspeakably evil and rage-inducing, but the fact that a non-zero number of Republicans believe Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are the same guy makes me want to S C R E A M

we should be opposed to the consolidation of power if only because the main thing this consolidated power is used for is exploding and starving babies before it was the airplane, the submarine, and the nuclear bomb, but our gen's tech for accelerating the consolidation of power is AI, full stop

US media has defunded and fired almost all foreign correspondents and that’s a big part of why they are just stenographers for the administration I’m watching middle eastern coverage instead. With reporters on the ground all over the region

I have to try and forcibly remind myself that it's two things at once - that we hate Trump and his cronies not just because it's fun to dunk on the mad king for clicks, but because we love the people he is hurting and our anger is on behalf of the vulnerable, which makes it sacred and honorable

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

fucking death cult

gave a shitload of furniture to my brother and his friends 😎🥰

I’m gonna mute the word “distraction” for the next 72 hours. None of this is a distraction from anything else, the US Government is, and has been, a death cult run by rapists. Every atrocity they commit is its own reward.

consequences please consequences. right now. consequences. not tomorrow, not Monday, not when its conveient. now. consequences. radical transparency around those consequences. motherfucking consequences.

I don't like the term "cargo cult fascism" because I think it's a bit racist and frankly unfair to cargo cults, but this is an example of what people are naming when they talk about this dynamic. You have to actually manufacture consent first for this to work

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

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told the kiddo about the folks that called out an employer’s ICE contract and were retaliated against I told him of burned bridges and lost friends and that I’d do it again in a heartbeat never seen them so proud of their guardian 🥹

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

all the the mighty and morally superior “West” knows how to do anymore is murder children

It's almost darkly funny that Hegseth spent yesterday shaking down the Boy Scouts over trans kids and publicly feuding with a chatbot company, knowing full well that he was about to throw us into World War III hours later.

all the steri-strips have fallen off and it’s honestly pretty impressive how they made incisions at the edges of my tattoos love how they worked around the art and respect the craft

Update late last night:

They just like killing people.

Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military. www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

May everyone involved burn in hell

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

okay real quick 🧵: why AI is definitely going to explode and die, because of the last two times this happened: the dot-com bubble, and enron. people say these events are complicated, but they're actually pretty simple

The Palestinian exception is so fucking glaring and gross. It pervades everything.

HUACing your own kneecaps

The idea that Stanford, a school that fostered eugenics, the military industrial complex and Silicon Valley is hilarious to me

Situational awareness.

Whenever an institution announces that it has "banned DEI" at Trump's request, it is now an explicitly white supremacist institution. Just remember that and plan accordingly.

have just seen someone blaming corbyn for the labour electoral loss and time is a circle

I gave someone cash and they asked if I could lead them in a healing prayer (since I’m clearly in a sling) and my unintentionally metal response was “I pray to no god”

I've been thinking about how this has already played out in games - there was a massive push to convince the industry and world that there was this huge audience of angry reactionary gamers who weren't getting what they demanded. And it turned out there weren't that many and they don't buy games

this motherfucker needs to be drawn and quartered