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Posting anything apolitical feels tone deaf as hell right now but I had to share this little piece of joy - an automated aromatherapy setup I made. Also, tinkering has and always will be inherently anticapitalist. Void all the warranties! youtube.com/shorts/DtuyC...

Where is the lie?

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Or, you know, a country that isn’t based on picking the objectively wrong option in the trolley problem a billion times in a row.

Imagine spending an amount of money that could solve American homelessness for 3-4 years on detention centers for people who are generally busy working, renting, parenting, and paying taxes.

Someone made a thing www.jmail.world

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

"Ever heard of the Vietnam War?" Two of the most devastating replies ever on social media, both at the expense of the same person.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

You just know that at this moment someone in the White House is frantically asking Grok to whip up some footage showing how the ICE agent did nothing wrong.

IN. SUM: “Trump’s White House claimed NPR and PBS shouldn’t get federal money because they produce ‘woke propaganda.’ But both are reputable news sources, and the reality is Trump simply wants to shut them down because they don’t report on him in flattering ways.”

Abominable. They destroy everything and create absolutely nothing.

Stop motion Tom Waits. Frank’s Wild Years. Ink, paper, 500 photographs. #art #animation #illustration #tomwairs

I don’t know who you are, where you’re from, what you’ve done as long as you try hot chocolate with Chartreuse in it at least once. Literally heaven.

Watching Revenge of the Sith for the first time after avoiding it for decades and on top of everything the fuck else the sight of Padme *brushing her hair when it’s in perfect ringlets* has me screaming in curly girl rage because that is not a thing you ever do!

Now this is the kind of shit that I love. After reading @blacktopkid.bsky.social’s KING OF ASHES, I was wondering if its setting of Jefferson Run, VA is a real city. It isn’t, but I was validated to see that I’m not the only reader who was so entranced by the book that they had the same question.

'Prometheus' my ass these guys aren't stealing fire from the gods they're stealing money from the people and setting fire to the planet. All for Bezos living out the 'Olympians punish him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle eat his liver every day' phase of a titan's life tho.

@dasrupa.bsky.social

Posting the moon again. Oil on canvas. Pose from @trueref.bsky.social #art #painting #fantasysrt

Might have miscalculated the timing of my trip.

Surprised not to see more discourse about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. What I loved most about it was how it contrasted Bob’s bombastic, violent, immediately satisfying activism with Sensei’s quiet, plodding, unglamorous but utterly crucial community building and mutual aid infrastructure creation.

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation.

This is an extract from a list of colours for Dungeons & Dragons figurines. Some of them could be makeup shades (Pixiedust Pink, Green Flame)... ... But that's the deal with Skeleton Bone? Lads. All bones are skeleton bones.

Don’t miss Hanif Abdurraqib’s essay about it in his book “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us”, which starts with this incredible first page -

Eternally shocked by the number of South Asian Trumpers. Man, I stopped going to see my favorite *band* bc their singer hates me (we were friends until I criticized their antivax posts and they blocked me). Cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance of *voting* for someone who definitely hates you.

Good fucking riddance, Disney+/Hulu. Can we get a spinoff streaming service just for watching Bluey?

SORRY, YOU'LL FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING, BUT HAVE WE ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDED THAT IT IS WRONG TO COLLECTIVELY PUNISH A CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR THE ACTIONS OF A BODY THAT CLAIMS TO SPEAK AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF?

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Wild to read Jennette McCurdy’s “I’m Glad My Mom Died” last week, a book about coming to terms w/ the fact that you are under no obligation to canonize someone in death, especially if their existence jeopardized yours - and then see so many (esp those in power) fail so spectacularly at exactly that.

When it’s your bird-loving sister’s birthday. #watercolors #tuftedtitmouse

Before the @nin.com show tonight. There is some universe in which I didn’t buy that cassette of The Downward Spiral in India back in 7th grade and in that universe I probably look very, very different 😅 #nineinchnails #girlswithmohawks #eldergoth

Good Morning [Bookmarked, for future mornings when needed!]

ALIEN: EARTH gets an A+ for creepy crawly things moving in the background and also for making me forget for the horrors of the world for 2 hours.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

Lots of men on this flight complaining they can’t find dinner idk

It's very clear now that if Nazi Germany had restricted its extermination campaigns and invasions to West Asia, the entire world would have bent over backward to accommodate their genocide, with an occasional murmur of concern every several months.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

@matthewkressel.net and I are raising funds to keep this venerable institution alive. Info here: www.gofundme.com/f/fantastic-...

Linework sharper than any scalpel 🥵

Don’t Worry Ink on paper #art #artist #artsky #ink #drawing

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

I know it’s 1am and I should be sleeping but guys -

This is an absolutely critical read. Truly urge everyone to take ten minutes and read this. It adds so much context to where we are now, with strategy and vision for how and why we must not give up hope. "Take my hand. We can do this."

My mom brought up what a very different world she lived in at 22, when her and my dad worked full time at local fast food chain and were able to buy a house, raise kids, and go out for dinner once a week. They had a boat, at one point! Both came from working class families. That was a real thing.

Not kidding when I say that if our national leaders had half the moral principles of this man our nation would be a radically better place