turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control

Paramedics Praised For Being Too Late To Save Lindsey Graham https://theonion.com/paramedics-praised-for-being-too-late-to-save-lindsey-graham/

Had no memory of this. Made me laugh.

there's no "just let ICE go after the 'bad ones'" there are no good immigrants/bad immigrants. there are no acceptable targets, no justifiable victims of state violence. I do not accept the starting position of fascism. I will not compromise when the stakes are someone else's life or freedom.

Saw this driving home. “god with us.” The van belongs to some kind of church, I think, and they think they’re slick, but this is a nazi thing (“gott mit uns”). I see you.

What a headline from The Advocate

OMG, we just passed a whale! Everyone went to one side of the boat and I turned and saw a water spout! Massachusetts is the best. Shit just be happening.

Literacy is liberation!

the thing that is forever beautiful to me about skateboarding is that it changes how you view an urban landscape in every possible way

And there it is The Jared Kushner Port of Infinite Grift

I was taught to not speak ill of the dead, but to say only good things. lindsay graham is dead. Good.

What a banana used to taste like.

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

It took 500 years of intensive fishing for the cod population to collapse in the NW Atlantic. The first Europeans joked about walking to shore on the backs of the cod. Or flocks of passenger pigeons that blacked out the sun. Bison herds each with millions of animals.

You're looking at a 200 year-old wisteria vine at Byakugou-ji Temple in Tamba, Hyogo, Japan. The delicate pink/purple blossoms create an otherworldly place where magic can happen. But here's an interesting fact: wisteria are in the legume family (Fabaceae). This is a magic beanstalk.

I finally saw ‘Them!’ The giant ant monster movie. Fascinating to see one of these films where the writers did their research; most of the ant facts were true! Including the existence of slaver ants (yes really)

honestly the world might have been a better place if we'd all been in the habit of openly expressing contempt for dead monsters a lot sooner

Let's speak truthfully about the dead. The more we do, the greater the drive to make one's story a good one.

I feel like the general public really has bought into the ridiculous idea there will be cities on the moon and mars even relatively soon. Even though we barely built a few low orbit stations at titanic cost.

"Trump’s Illegal Boat Bombings Are Just ‘Murder for Murder’s Sake,’ U.S. Official Says" Donald Trump’s boat strikes aren’t working – because they’re ‘not actually designed to end the fentanyl crisis,’ a senior administration official tells Zeteo.

Turned out the Epstein files are full of billionaires and trillionaires, not immigrants.

Not help—‘force’ them. They want to force women who do not choose to be mothers to become mothers against their will.

Image: a man stands silhouetted against a starry sky.

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

The right has forced us into an all or nothing, zero sum game We need to stop pretending that bipartisanship is still a possible or even rational option At this point, bipartisanship is the same thing as collaboration

The Republican Party is not our enemy because we intend to kill them, but because they intend to kill us--and already have killed a great many of us. Your friendship ought not to have survived that; it is to your great discredit that it did. Our anger, born of discouragement, is real and abiding.

The rise of the gen-z luddite www.economist.com/united-state...

Not gonna joke steal and say I came up with this, but my buddy suggested a heavy metal Jimmy Buffet cover band called: LOST SHAKER ASSAULT

politicians want everyone to speak well of terrible people who died because many of them are terrible people who will die

I haven't been able to track down the actual source, but here it is. www.discovercalculus.com/web/app-Carn...

We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

…for one thing the president of the United States isn’t just allowed to sic armed US troops on you just because he feels like it Per our Trump admin sources: Memphis is a test run for MAGA’s attempt to normalize this kind of militarized America. Don’t let them

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

My lack of surprise at learning this is huge. Now we know why he thinks that people without scandals attached are "vat-grown." He cannot believe that people might not be sex-pests and rapists at least part of the time! I had *wondered* how much he was telling on himself.

The United States has crumbled to the point we only selectively enforce corporate regulations, and things like this are the result. Literally *no one* has stopped OpenAI from doing whatever they please, meaning they just continue to break the law as a matter of routine.

We are forced to exist in a world where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for every animal don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

Mustard (preferably brown), sweet pickle relish or dill pickle relish, and some cheese (American pasteurized process cheese food product is fine). On a tofu dog (which doesn’t really have much less meat in it than a regular hot dog).

“Spending $700 million to bail out the coal industry is like throwing a lifeline to a ship that has already sunk.”

“They killed the wrong person.” Or, hear me out, there is no RIGHT person.

there is a rich vein of "if we perform enough of a caricature of masculinity that's gotta make republicans stop calling us pussies" anxiety in Democratic politics that started with Truman and has not stopped for even a single election cycle since

In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket

Cream pies. #Spirk

If you've asked yourself, what can *I* do, here's a concrete answer. Disable the surveillance apparatus in your own community and cut off the data the regimes relies on to track not only immigrants but women crossing state lines for abortion care. substack.com/home/post/p-...

NEW: Americans are pessimistic about the future. But which actors do they think are having the worst impact on the economy/society? Voters find the most harmful actors to be: 1) Billionaires 2) Corporate landlords 3) Sports gambling 4) Artificial intelligence 5) Cryptocurrency

Total Eclipse of the Heart is great, but Holding Out For A Hero is fucking ROUSING. PLAY IT LOUD TODAY

This one struck me at Baltimore’s Artscape, 2014. I was there to display my Star Wars car, and these folks were across the street. I waited a day after I saw it, but had to being it home while I had the chance. I can make this a #ThingThursday thing too, why not?

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

the core mission of the fascist right's culture war metapolitics is to sow the idea that morality is a lie and ethics are just another predation strategy, that good people are mere status-seeking opportunists and bad people are refreshingly honest players in the inescapable, zero-sum game of power

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We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away