Social consequences for fascism, harm and complicity with same. Or: Kindness and "nice" aren't the same fucking thing. Kindness centers human dignity and the preciousness of all life, not social comfort.

A concert? in Seattle?? with proactive covid-safety measures??? in MY feed???? It's more likely than you think! cleanaireventspresents.ticketspice.com/mollylele

Also of interest: stereogum.com/2485199/band...

BAMI THE DOG HAS BEEN FOUND YOU GUYS SHE HAS BEEN FOUND www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yep

we don't need fresh horrors, we have horrors at home

Trying to live my life so that when I die it’s a “pour one out for a real one” scenario over a “rest in piss” situation

Melody is on overwatch

Every single fucking time, I swear.

Is vote for someone who promises to undo Citizens United and similar subsequent decisions by the Roberts Court.

I guess you can’t tell a story from the point of view of something that you don’t think has a point of view.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Maybe lyric can help keep the nightmares away...

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Waking up from a nightmare during an unexpected nap is... Something

Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.

ICE goes after people based on skin colour, without warrants and with violent force. This isn't new under Trump, it's just more brazen. And then Sensible Moderates chirp in with "ermmmm deportation is necessary though, we can't have uncontrolled borders" fuck off fuck you

Melody is my desk cat. She camps out in this cat tree right next to me when I'm at my computer. 🥰😻

Lyric, staking her claim.

Lyric, staking her claim.

Why isn't St Patrick's Day a chocolate holiday. I've got chocolate from Xmas to last me until Valentine's Day, but March is a dead zone. I'm gonna need a chocolate holiday in March to hold me over until Easter for crying out loud

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

I saw a post going around yesterday that ICE should be like the sex offender registry, you should have to announce yourself to your neighbors and stay 500 feet away from kids. I have never supported any watchlist more

This reads like a gaslighter's wet dream. I bet episodes of psychosis would skyrocket too

Sometimes happiness is a big stretch in a sun beam.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for digital safety at protests. You need to decide in advance what your goals are, what is important for you to protect, and what is likely to happen to you, and threat model accordingly.

Sometimes happiness is a big stretch in a sun beam.

Their resolutions suck

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

Lyric thinks you are paying too much attention to your phone, and not enough to her...

The US should not be allowed to host any international competitions in any sport until we stop doing this. This includes the Olympics.

Lyric thinks you are paying too much attention to your phone, and not enough to her...

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

To me if you elect to be a police you have forfeit the ability to use fearing for your life as justification for your actions. Putting your life on the line is a bare minimum job requirement.

She looks sinfully happy...

Pretty sure I just popped a dislocated rib back into place.... That's new...

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “Zoon tribes are very proud of their Liars. Other races get very annoyed about all this. They feel that the Zoon ought to have adopted more suitable titles, like ‘diplomat’ or ‘public relations officer’. They feel they are poking fun at the whole thing.”

I hate everything

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

I stepped outside yesterday evening, and caught this fortunate sight of the full Wolf Moon.

Lyric approves of this, and doesn't think the pets should ever stop...

Me, sitting in front of my computer, overwhelmed, under-rested, with a brain that's being slowly poisoned by a constant infusion of infuriating, terrifying news and clumsy fascist propaganda masquerading as news. "Boy, I'm having a lot of trouble focusing today!"

Ouch

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

“Don’t walk in” instead of “just walk out.”

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I was ambushed by these two when I got upstairs today 😯

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here