Right here. Remember how they had a vote to repeal the ACA every day for two years? Why are the Dems not doing that with impeachment??

The purpose of pushing impeachment articles through the House, via a fucking discharge petition if necessary, is to make Trump have to spend resources defending himself in the Senate. And if new impeachment articles come through every two weeks, you force the motherfucker on defense.

Things are extremely shit right now, yes. They have also been extremely shit before, but your ancestors were not injecting war crimes porn and the hot takes of a thousand malinformed people about it all straight into their eyeballs for hours each day either.

I'll be honest. I don't care if proposing articles of impeachment is an empty gesture that will ultimately die in the Republican controlled congress, I want Dems to do it anyway. I want them to put political pressure on their opposing party even if it's doomed to fail.

Quoting this again to bring to you: EL TIGRE ES PEQUEÑO Y GORDO

Nobody thinks a guy doing the YMCA in a frog costume on a city sidewalk is a credible threat to public safety AND Oregon lawyers were able to leverage that perception to discredit the argument that Portland needed immediate federal intervention. Both tactics work in tandem to reinforce the other.

I would like to hear about a time someone, a stranger even, was very kind to you without any prompting, ulterior motive, or strings attached.

Does my network contain a California tax lawyer who can help a widow straighten out a horrifying post-death earnings boondoggle? @dataandpolitics.net is the widow in question

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate. #murderbot #slyart

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)

Our allies need to catch the fuck up and shouldn't be afforded this level of careful explanation but this bugs the shit out of me so here we go: Biological sex, as an immutable binary, IS THE ACTUAL PSEUDO-SCIENCE HERE. Y'all are getting played by language that just SOUNDS SMART to your ears.

As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

For anyone worried: you literally can’t be found unless you opt into this.

If you would like to help me replace the $323 bit bill for Molly and maybe something toward her extra wet food and treats, we would very much appreciate it. It all goes for the human bed fund and feeding her goopy food. PayPal.me/Quiara Venmo: QuiaraH Hoping to raise $350 for basics

people often change it to “let us live to make men free” in modern performances and I say that’s coward shit

China: "How do we get kids to give a shit about our history and folklore?" The Guy About To Invent Wuxia: "...what if a dude kicked like, fifty other dudes in the head?"

the deep oceans of fanfic on the internet are so great because, yeah, apparently everybody *does* have a novel in them! it just turns out that a lot of those novels are about transformers being gay together

My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy? Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy Nephew: How??? Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine Nephew: … Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor

if you, U.S. resident, forgot something and absolutely have to go shopping tomorrow, it's cool, we all understand. unless you say something like "I can't believe they're making you work the holiday!" in which case your cashier is legally entitled and morally obliged to shoot you in the face

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Bedtime boost. My driver’s side wing mirror is snapped at the base. It needs a new assembly and the door panel has to be disassembled. I live on about $900/month and coming up with nearly $500 is beyond my ability. If you can help, I would appreciate it.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Her first film will be g rated

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

#3157 A helpful tutorial

The way I've heard it explained is that there are people who are 1) actively against you 2) passively against you 3) don't care 4) passively support you 5) actively support you You'll never get from 1 to 5 in one jump, so you want to move each person 1 notch more supportive. 1→2, 3→4, 4→5, etc

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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

A few thoughts 1: basically every democrat outside the senate opposed this 2: it seems like most dems *in* the senate opposed it too (jury's out on who exactly) 3: this was the first vote, not the last 4: the house will have to come into session to pass this and that'll probably be a shitshow

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Chicago Pope is going to say some things we all dislike because he is the Pope and still very Catholic but he is spending enough time poking directly at the worst Catholics alive that I’m ready to put him in the Pretty Good For A Pope bucket already also the sports jersey thing is incredibly funny

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I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild. Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

To exist until my benefits are transferred — I.e., buy food and afford gas to get to medical appointments 2 hours away — I need to raise at least $1000 more. I’m sorry. Please share? gofund.me/72b6e44c8

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

So while this is a bit inside baseball, it’s also a deeply concerning data point for how deeply fucked a search engine with an LLM makes the information ecosystem. It’s hallucination, but it’s also shitting cholera directly into the information well. www.wonkette.com/p/are-you-ok...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.