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last day to imbibe this shiny, happy offer friends!

im not talking about messing up someone's pronouns and apologizing, i mean the hardcore "your GENITALS are WRONG" shit, its invariably linked to every other bigotry around

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No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

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Is it wrong that this made me think of smutty scifi plots about weird alt eugenics projects

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8.3 billion! Everybody buy more comics goshdarn it!

The kid wanted Minecraft Bedrock for PC. After a grueling two-hour struggle with Microsoft account creation, family groups, biometrics, passkeys, and QR bluetooth links, we couldn't get it to take our money. Sort of flabbergasted at how difficult it was. Is it just us or is Microsoft super broken?

Pour one out, gang. I'll never forget how great it would feel watching Silver Sprocket storefront vids, and seeing Iron Circus books chilling on the shelves. ♥ Senpai noticed me! But San Francisco ain't the city it once was.

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Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo

Looking forward to this. Also, totally chuffed to find my longtime literary crush here after looking for her specific blend of weirdzo cool for years. Love to @blaftrakesh.bsky.social for bringing her my reading way.

literally just an openly pro pedophilia admin, it's unreal

tapping the sign again

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Proud to be 1/8 Irish 😛

I miss when billionaires used to implode 3000 m underwater

Modifying genes in living species, implanting babies in surrogates to be reared in closely related species, does NOT and can NOT bring back an extinct species. This is why we will always need an Endangered Species Act to be enforced to protect species headed toward extinction #2026MMM

Talking to a friend who lives in Abu Dhabi, mother of a 3-year-old, about wartime parenting and her efforts to explain the random explosions and why there's no school 😞

jail the kalshi and polymarket owners today, make an example of them and in 3 months this problem doesn't exist, either do it or shut up about it

This is very bad news indeed. Goes completely against the historic 2014 NALSA judgment which recognised the right to self identify, among other things:

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Mehrab Bookshop in Kochi is launching a book club.. and BANDIGOAT is the first on the agenda! With a focus on Rashmi's boochandi story and Jugal Mody's "Ice Cream Boy" docs.google.com/forms/d/1ixq...

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

I feel like you don't see as much about this as you see about the schoolgirls or the rockets hitting Dubai or about Hormuz or oil prices. There's something so grim about this kind of long-term environmental terrorism that even social media outrage shrinks away from it.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I don't want to start seeing GenAI/use of LLMs as a black and white moral issue, but it's really hard not to when all its proponents seem to be so profoundly, reflexively, chronically dishonest.

I like these weird Chinese-made stickers that keep showing up in the local art supply store

This is actually truly how it went

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R.I.P. Country Joe MacDonald. This song still feels pretty current. 😢 youtu.be/ws0DLWApHko

"And so, from the bottom of my underpaid, deeply creative heart: Fuck you." 🔥♥️

My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...

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ASSASSIN BUG DEFEATS BONE COLLECTOR CATERPILLAR and becomes the #16 seed of the THAT'S SO METAL DIVISION OF MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS!!! #2026MMM

And wars of greed, hate, & empire, cough, I mean current and expanding military conflicts, threaten people, wildlife, & landscapes in increasingly catastrophic ways. #2026MMM therevelator.org/war-harms-wi...

I am an indie publisher. I spend a good chunk of my time and budget securing legal rights to writing and art. But apparently those rules are for us mere mortals. Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the US govt (see recent propaganda vid full of unlicensed cips) can just take whatever they want. 😡😡😡

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

I was born in the US. I hold a US passport. I have *benefitted*, in terms of passport privilege, education, access to all kinds of things, from the violence of the American state. Reading about those dead schoolgirls feels so fucking shitty.

The Three Investigators also spawned several unauthorized South-Asian-language knockoffs, including a fab-sounding Bengali series "Tin Goyenda" by Qazi Anwar Hussain, in which the lead characters were a Bangladeshi-American kid, an African-American Muslim kid, and an Irish kid

Deporting people because they don’t talk right sounds like a pretty shitty thing to do in the first place, let alone automate.

Idk how the silverfish is going to defeat the crocodile but it will! Silverfish are crazy powerful! I have confidence! Still no match for a gila monster though. Or a Megaptera #2026MMM

There's a political firestorm in India about the fact that our Big Strong Heroic regime invited this unarmed ship from a former (?) allied state to our waters and then stood by and said nothing as Big Daddy USA blew it up. From the world's largest democracy to small fry nazi state on Empire's plate.

I know it's like #943,285 on the list of things going wrong with the world, but I'm grumbly about how bright the LED shop signs have gotten all over Chennai. The whole mood of a nighttime excursion has totally changed. Feels like the city is suffering from early-stage Vegas

எனக்கு பிடிக்கல

I just can't get over how much money they spend on fancy ways to kill people.

“May the ground swallow me up, may old hags rattle my dry bones, and may I never eat ice cream ever again if I don’t guard this secret with my life.” #BestOath