NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike. Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

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If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Pee standing in for Holy Water

Instead of making silly AI stuff our spiritual-political battleground du jour, I propose instead that we bring back Sun-oriented civic religion in the Egyptian or Inca vein. Solar panel instillation is worship. It is abomination for a tyrant to deny the Sun's gifts; hubris to stare at the eclipse.

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

"Hang in there, comrade!" I don't regret playing on the "Hang in there, baby" poster for today's #inktober #inktober2025 #RedInktober

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

some seem hesitant about protecting the homeland, like the CBP recruitment booth dog

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A778.4 Milky Way as a stitched seam in the sky.

if you are in Seattle and you drive by my house prepare for the fright of your life

incredible to think it's more likely than not that they'll try to bring this guy up on federal terrorism charges for this

the mere mental image of a sundowning man, with control over a nuclear arsenal, being kept in this AI-generated reverie is immensely disturbing to me on a visceral level

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

BREAKING: AFSCME and AFGE have filed a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration's threats of mass firings of federal workers.

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the only example of consciousness we are aware of was created accidentally by the world's worst optimization process

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity

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If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

my coworkers cheerfully treated me to a recitation of the lyrics to this one right before lunch. when i came back half an hour later one of them pulled me aside and said "i noticed your energy really changed right around lunchtime, you seemed very upset, are you ok?"

Act quickly; you have until November 3, 2025, to let Microsoft know that you don't want your LinkedIn data used for AI training. You're opted in by default... Head to Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off.

I can't exaggerate how important it is that every ICE officer is met with contempt & mockery in public, everywhere they go, for the rest of their lives.

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nothing makes me want to hurry off the wheel of reincarnation faster than this shit. not climate change or rising fascism -- the fact that i will doubtless be reborn to bored parents who sit me in front of the Humanity Simulacrum so they can resume staring at their screens

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

The USPS remains open during the government shutdown. As an independent agency not funded by tax dollars, USPS operations continue as usual. Letter carriers work and are paid as normal. 🔗 www.nalc.org/news/nalc-up...

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hearing concerning reports of monsters developing some sort of mash.

Me: bud can you stop eating grass please My dog, who has no concept of “eating,” only the constant exchange of sustenance and energy among all living things, not least of which, the unassuming blade of grass, which in its humility, communes directly with the sun: 🙂 ?

"They're creepy and kooky..." This month's Rhinestone Digest discusses what makes drag and burlesque families special. https://bit.ly/3KtfA7k

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

if you care about gym etiquette, then make sure you never use the cable machine like THIS *steps aside to reveal cable machine being used to torture Smurfs*

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me

PSA: you don’t “deserve a little treat” The world is endless horrors. You deserve endless treats of all sizes.

I dunno about you but everytime I'm addressing a group of people I need on my side, I always start by calling them fat and lazy

"I can't believe a guy who regularly insults women and trans people for laughs would sell out to Saudi Arabia": buddy, I don't really know what to tell you other than this is not exactly out of character

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

Cats are a type of puppy, but one that grows into more cats instead of dogs. A kitten is a puppy subtype. Dogs if left unattended grow into wolves, which can persist in a state of equilibrium indefinitely given favorable environmental conditions, though proximity to water is likely to produce seals.