I Adore this man

Use the impeachment of Noem as groundwork for abolishing ICE AND DHS. Do public education. Use media, etc...

This is one of the best threads I have ever read abt Star Trek and voices complaints I had not really consciously articulated! It also lays bare, imo, the contradiction of sci-fi and a "franchise" --a pitfall which Trek avoids more than most, but not entirely.

Such an important point. Like, this is cool! I'm not opposed to playing god to save ourselves! But these radical geohacking techniques never seem to...happen. Not at scale, certainly.

PUMP IT

That was quick. 🤣

My New Year’s resolution is to produce a *normal amount of mucus.*

Everyone was like get into STEM not a silly liberal arts degree but the best degree for understanding this moment in time is the much maligned gender studies degree(with a history minor concentrated on the Gilded Age)

Hilton Hotels all the way!

an campy burlesque calendar, but it’s just different artists and models creating their renditions of various rebecca paperback covers

This IS a particularly scary Sunday, though

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

This! I might say there exist *small* queer communities, e.g. the NYC House & Ballroom scene is a community. But this idea that there is an automatic affiliation between queer people--especially queer people who hold different values (?!), is at best wishful thinking of those just out of the closet.

So I feel like "female" has been (somewhat?) reclaimed by trans folx, which makes it a lot harder to know if it's being used: a) as a dog-whistle b) as an act of reclamation c) nobody cares about this shit go home laney

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

This is my favorite part of post-electoral revisionism. Imparting values and positions to your teams candidate that they never held On the trans issue specifically, Kamala was asked if she'd support trans rights. She dodged the fucking question

the default Democratic legislator and to some degree supporter position is "I may not win but at least I have a factually nuanced position" and I'm afraid to say that it doesn't really matter if you don't win

Sad to say but ~strategy brain~ got Pritzker.

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When marxists talk about "materialism," it's b/c the alternative political philosophy is to get angrier over politeness than human lives.

Full-throated admission that torturing queer people and designating women as reproductive property is core to the sanctified patriarchy of your belief system. A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)

Look I'm just saying that there's a lot hackers can do to help our present situation and this is one such excellent use of their time and skills.

NBC News: “How soon will elections be held in Venezuela? Within 30 days?” Rubio: “Elections? I think it is premature at this point.” The US is going to be there for the long haul.

Ok chat, where are the protests? What's the big, dumb, liberal mass protest? The one that won't really accomplish tangible goals, but at least lets us know that this country isn't *entirely* filled with imperialists?

It was always obvious for the past decade that the never Trumper grifters would begin consolidating with the vote blue no matter who grifters, and all the warnings that this was very extremely obviously happening got ignored by the miserable dipshits.

Someone looking to blame the left for the rise of fascism is probably not going to be solutions-oriented when meeting the moment.

i assumed that their emergence was a total sea change in life on earth but actually they had a prolonged flop era. inspiring honestly

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

He is not going to be perfect, he is going to fail and compromise and backtrack a lot. Our job is still to sift between actual failure and propaganda.

Always love seeing this meme

I think I understand the point here, that "does a minority get rights" is self-evident, therefore not up for debate--but *everything* is political (read: subject to politics). Trying to redefine politics as "practical civic questions" feels like idealism cloaked in marking.

Same girl same

Tesla at the moment is a company without a customer base, and running on illusion and fumes.

Ok so I've been vibing with The Tyrant Philosophers series, & I've been playing Sunless Sea & Possesor(s), and I feel like I'm close to some kind of sociological breakthrough re: the modern devil (or demon).

It's like, low-effort posting, but I will never miss an opportunity to clown on this a-hole.

The Luddites created & practiced what was called "collective bargaining through riot" which is probably one of the coolest phrases ever coined about any movement ever

Background detail at beginning of horror movie

Chat, help me. I need something to read that has TLT vibes. Lesbians + space + gothic fantasy w/ a religious vibe...anyone?

"Why don't you furiously reply to your own argument, and I'll trail a post or two behind, so as to agree with your brilliance without interrupting your righteous flow."

This is part of what it means to be controlled opposition. NYT puts out meek opposition and mostly normalizes Trump, and he turns around and treats them like overt radicals knowing that he's not going to do anything to them. There are three purposes for this relationship between the two of them.

Honestly, still a better model than most of what the manosphere will tell you son? ME and DA stay winning.

Imagine thinking the "unique threat" of fascism is its lawlessness. I would say "eugenicists and techno-feudalists are a more pressing threat (and also "unique," or rather, "unusual"), and by this metric, MTG hasn't changed a bit.

I'm in my 50s & pretty sure I haven't heard anyone mention Bardot at all in decades. obviously some ppl kept up with her post-acting years & far-right turn, but I don't think it was common knowledge here in the US

If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.

Ok I've noticed this change too, & the eternal cynic in me thinks this is like the shift to caring about secular sexuality purity again ("body count"), in that both are signs of tightening patriarchal control.

The way people have started to speak about infidelity as a crime akin to physical or sexual abuse is wild. You can’t send the whole of France to jail.

Every so often, I am glad I didn't go with Tumblr in 2012.

Gonna try to get McNally to order this in.