"We are here because, as a collective yt Americans are cowards."

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

An infinite number of math students go to a bar. The first one orders a pint, the next orders half a pint, the next orders a quarter pint, the next orders an eighth of a pint. The barkeep sighs, pours two pints and says "you have to know your limits". This is a post about neoliberalism.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Firearms. Class consciousness. Socialism. Dictatorship of the working class. Communism.

We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

Order the police to arrest them, then. Order the police to drive them from the state or these are just words from a boy mayor trying to sound like a big man.

Actions have consequences.

I’m of the firm belief that police and militia members have been quietly running right wing death squads in the US for years. The fate of the most notable Ferguson protestors is the most blatant example of it. ICE in 2025-26 is simply the same people operating in public.

I have thoughts on what should happen to ICE and its employees.

probably a good day to turn off autoplaying video; as noted in the comments, this sometimes is reset by updates/reinstalls

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

Watching my friend recite random pages from the wizard’s spellbook we stole and they accidentally cast fireball centered on themself

I still have to use Windows for some things and it seems to be just about every day now I'm seeing complaints about it sucking in new ways. So here's a little list of tools I use to make Windows not suck by debloating virtually everything out of it that makes it bad and making it more usable. 🧵

Will be interesting to see how this plays out, especially given the numerous security issues already discovered in XChat. A reminder to all hackers that I can be reached over Signal at the username @mikaelthalen.12 😉

on a tablet like "the arc of the ass bends inexorably towards fathering the legs"

There we go. That there’s a headline.

lots of people suddenly discovering there is no materially real "rules based international order" if all it takes is for the folks with the biggest sticks to decide there isn't.

Important first aid tip here.

didn't realize we already had the post of the year

AH

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

Just hit the Gen Z/Gen Alpha with this meme and they’ll forever be skeptical of the military recrooters.

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

I no longer wonder why that fight scene goes on and on and on

no, please say it loudly because they're still blaming us & calling us stupid

I need to see reposts of Black people from nonblack people on the skyline. Let’s go. Folks who know are talking to you. Stop listening to the platformed whites who make you feel good about ignorance.

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

So when can you start

Punk Cat PSA

violence is a tool. currently, the ruling class uses it to maintain power and extract resources and all the other horrible things it loves doing. cops are an occupying army loyal to the rich above all else. it is a tool we can also use.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

At some point (*soon*), we have to release ourselves of our need to refer to these actions as illegal. Legality has never curtailed authoritarianism. Unethical. Inhumane. Death dealing. We have so many more words to help with this.

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

please read this thread. we have not grieved because we havent even acknowledged covid.

I wish I had several million dollars so I could solve all my friends’ problems

Going @techconnectify.bsky.social mode on this coffee maker

Free buses are good but we need to start with free, universal headphones for anyone on the ttc

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

actual quote from a language company executive: “Why should we pay for higher quality translations when people will happily pay us for poorer quality translations?”

It's true: language service providers offering machine translation post-editing and companies hiring them KNOW they are delivering subpar translations, but don't care. Sometimes they will require human translation for "high visibility content" but it's just painting a fancy facade on a ruin.

Fun fact, Metropolis is set in 2026

*Witch cackles*

Blockbuster interview about institutional transphobia at the New York Times that names names of the bigots responsible: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan at the top, plus Pamela Paul, Jeremy Peters, Azeen Ghorayshi, Katie J.M. Baker, & an entire anti-trans pro-mgmt splinter group in the union

To everyone who can openly declare that they are transgender, and to everyone who cannot yet come out to those around them🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 The world has not yet fully seen the dawn, but let’s continue to support one another. Chiitan is here with everyone’s hearts. Everyone is beautiful♡

The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot

FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOT...