Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

I have problems with a lot of Green policies, as I do with all parties, but a "pro drugs and porn" party that wants "a world without borders" and provides housing, employment, and healthcare for immigrants sounds pretty fucking great to me.

HE NEVER MISSES

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Counterpoint: No. ICE doesn’t need reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum.

Wow, a mayor can just do that? IMAGINE

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Chris's passion about the computer is palpable. I stay nostalgic about computing as a kid because it was a wondrous new world. It felt like anything was possible with tech and the early Internet. Now it blows cuz RW freaks have set it to extract dollars and push their abhorrent existences on you.

A man of the people.

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

Love when the news starts to catch up to what everybody who isn't a spineless grifter has known for years

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

It should be trivially fucking easy to not engage in antisemitic rhetoric or conspiracy thinking, the bar is in hell, and yet people insist on taking the journey downwards just to trip over it.

Evil took over the whole planet, got inside our heads and stole all of our souls when those who think of us as things - or worse, data points, less than pixels - referred to all of human expression, experience, creation and culture as “content”. Content for data shit bucket for humans turned things.

he was sitting in his office in a very dignified manner congratulating himself on how restrained he was being. "they'll remember me for my honorable conduct," he said, sipping some tea

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Bill Watterson

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

It’s also virtually impossible to become a billionaire without choosing immorality many, many times.

One of the great myths of our society is that really rich people are rich because they are smart. They are not rich because they are smart. They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.

Ah yes artists, famously undedicated to their work, never obsessive, who don’t understand {checks notes} creating things. This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant. You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.

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Zohran genuinely loves the people of his city and wants the best for them. It’s astonishing how much we’ve all been starved of that by our leaders.

Some people online are part of a fandom that only superficially overlaps with politics and Natalie was right to call it a philosophical hobby (context: a guy hoping Mamdani loses, but from the left)

Given how much the decay of Congress is responsible for where we are, I'd really like to see AOC have a 6-year stint in the Senate... ...but I can get behind a POTUS run too

Holy. Shit.

the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle

oh man this is gonna be GOOD good

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

Honestly lmao

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying "They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

also, shoutout to the Dinosaur Convention

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Protest ICE and they scan your face. Three days later, your Global Entry and TSA PreCheck are gone. No charges. No explanation. Just surveillance → retaliation. Facial recognition. Watchlists. Revoked privileges. This isn't security It's Big Brother policing dissent in real time.

the worst human art is still better than any AI art

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

Not a 🐉? #illustration #kidlitart #fantasyart #BRart

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

This is Iraq War style propaganda: They make the face of a well-researched, (near) academic consensus, that isn't egregiously controversial among experts on the subject... and make the face of it a famous but uncredentialed young woman so they can pretend it's vacuous and naive.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's- Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it