So Friday will be... interesting.

Dystopian living makes me crave chocolate. Either that or, idk, PMS. Anyway, I need a Milky Way or something.

I met cool people!

Bob Ross would've been one of the first people that wanted to help so this is really great.

Balthazar is thinking about pork soda. It looks angry.

The radical left.

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I just hope the Dems grew enough of a notochord to hold the line on the shutdown because they've fucked up everything else already. If they'd learned fuck all anything from 2016 we might not be here. Then again if non-voters and centrists had learned anything we wouldn't be here either.

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Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Another example of a UBI adjacent experiment working for the benefit of all people. Imagine what would happen if straight up UBI happened… universally.

So very the same poor intern.

It's true! When I studied economics, I was stunned by the ROI of social programs. Every dollar spent on childcare returns about $2.80 to the economy, and healthcare delivers even greater returns with broader social impact. A universal basic income is simply smart fiscal policy. Why the reluctance?

A little slice of hope to start your day.

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

I'm not talking about US politicians I'm talking about normal people. I see people fighting back and organizing every fucking day. ICE hasn't met their recruitment goals. They haven't met their kidnapping goals. That's WHY they keep escalating.

Yes, the way we teach this stuff makes it seem like we can win by memes & PR stunts. I only recently learned the peace activists burning draft records weren't just making a symbolic statement. The draft board didn't have copies - every file destroyed was a man who'd never be called up to war.

This needs to be a bigger story. She didn’t try to run them over or point a gun at them. She followed them and honked and they got annoyed and basically Dirty Harry’d her, “Do something, bitch,” and even though she didn’t take the bait, they shot her repeatedly. It’s a miracle she’s not dead

ICE VS Anti-Fuh

Everybody was kung fu fighting Those cats were fast as lightning In fact, it was a little bit frightening But they fought with expert timing

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

A gentle reminder that the bulk of AI is mass data gathering disguised as fun toys.

Frankly, we should all be getting a universal basic income just for allowing corporations to harvest the data we slough off every day.

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#New: There are now no major metro areas in the US where buying a home is less expensive than renting a home. Gap between monthly mortgage payments and rent payments: San Francisco: 191% San Jose: 186% Seattle: 120% Source: @InvestorsObserv

Reminder that America has more yoga teachers than coal miners. And look at these tools:

✨So I somehow did worse this time on my practice test lmao grad school is probably not 4 me and I'll be an administrative assistant for the rest of my life unless ai renders me unemployable✨

Picking a parking lot to cry in before deciding where to get groceries before avoiding all the neighbors is just peak suburbia.

New Taiyaki joint? Don't mind if I do.

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I am SO USING MY THERAPY BENEFITS this week.

New faces, same Karen attitudes. I like upstate NY, just not my specific current neighborhood.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

He's not working the phones to end the shutdown because: A) He wanted this shutdown and doesn't care about the damage it causes B) He lets others do the actual work C) He's not a real leader and doesn't know what that means D) He's had a rough week and the mean generals didn't clap for his speech

‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Regarding minting a coin of your own face when you're alive, which is supposedly illegal and probably also really bad karma:

*picks up human baby* *puts down human baby* *picks up cat jealous of human baby* *puts down cat jealous of human baby*

I'd like to see the big American cities get into a competition about which one of them can give ICE the hardest time. L.A. did well, Chicago has represented, surely New York can challenge. If NY is doing it, then Boston has something to prove. And that's before we get Gritty involved...

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This bit of conventional wisdom is repeated everywhere as gospel truth, but if you dig a little deeper, the shutdown party often wins significant concessions below the radar.

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"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

I got up at 7am on my day off to chase a cougher to the linoleum so he didn't wake up the grumpy baby and his exhausted caregiver. No more hairball now of course, we're saving it for later I guess. 🤣😑🥲😫

I think they genuinely thought all they needed to build a successful community was a protocol. It's a depressingly recurrent theme in tech, really, to get excited about the technical achievements and not care or maybe not even know about the people-oriented work that's also needed.

Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary Banner at Nintendo Live. If Nintendo included more than just the 2D and 3D Platformers, it would need to be much larger! Picture: @poohmouse519

Aside from all the other obvious points it strikes me as particularly cringeworthy to feel you need to put your own face on BOTH sides of the coin

Let molten coin be thy damnation

Happy purrthday Link and Nova! Orphaned in the wild last year and brought to the zoo by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, these cougar cubs are celebrating their first birthday this weekend