This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

Commi for Syd 🌱🍉♥️!

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

god forbid

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Both forms of Fascism are immensely cruel, where humanity is to be subjugated before The State. But, original fascism mythologized the state into an almost religious organisation. This new fascism isn't even willing to pay its stormtroopers sick leave,- it's so much more fragile. It can be broken.

Mussolini planned to build a Colossus of iron & marble overlooking Rome in his image, a figure overseeing the rebirth of a modern Roman empire, that would tower over even the Vatican to remind the world that God himself was beneath Fascism. Trump wants, idk, the 70's back & to stay out of prison?

Original fascism had cruel aspirations of remaking the human condition into an idealistic myth, simultaneously ancient & new. This post-modern fascism is empty, replicating the ostensibly transitional means by which fascism was to achieve its future, but as its end goal. Camps for the sake of camps.

“Why tylenol?” Because it’s the pain medication that pregnant people can take. That’s it. That’s why.

The solution right now is not saying “move to Mastodon, to Pillowfort, use Picarto galleries” etc, bc that won't stop this silent escalation of censorship and sexual repression on the internet. The issue is not which platform we choose, but rather raising our voices against what is happening.

The thing they don’t understand about drawing NSFW is that it’s a roleplay with yourself. It’s an expression of your ideas and fantasies, made entirely by you, in a way that can’t hurt anybody. Needing the characters to consent is ludicrous: I’m the artist and *I* consent. I’m the only participant.

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.

I sort of guessed the answer when I asked which Kirk legacy would be honored — debating your opponent, or using state power to shut down the left. But it happened very quickly. www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

almost forgot this classic somehow

26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

Grah! I'm struggling with this Silksong boss! Does anyone have any tips? He's just always hungry!

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Pietà Michelangelo, 1498-1499

i just don't see the point of going to a website filled with trans people to say trans people should sacrifice themselves to your milquetoast politicians and then complain when the trans people tell you to get fucked. if you want a fucking burger don't go to kfc

Hey Firefox users.

When the creator of White Chicks is more based than the Dogg himself

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Sultry Watto!

🩷 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕝𝕜 🏙️

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.

My sentient enchanted sword came out to me as transmasc. Talk about Un-She/They-ing your blade! I told him "I don't care how you identify, I just need you to he/it whatever is in front of me!"

Kaprosuchus devouring the sun, full body commission!

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

want to be in a throuple. not for love, just the homes i want to buy require 3x my income

I don't give a shit about the final product, I give a shit about the people making it. If you don't care about the people working next to you and under you, it shows, and you don't belong in my industry.

"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!" Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

Dog Named Murph Lives Up To Name

But do you condemn the violence at the Bastille?

I guess what I'm trying to say is. There's dangers of punching down. If we are triumphant in even reversing some of these puritanical evangelical practices, I don't really want to see people punching others down to feel like they can have a spot with the "normals", they'll never see us as equals.

this would happen though #dannyphantom

what's happening at itch is insane and terrifying. god. I hate this so much. every time this happens, on any platform, it makes me feel completely insane and honestly just kind of start panicking. so much beauty and creativity being strangled for absolutely no reason at all

When our betters from the stars unearth the remains of our civilization and find blood under the cornerstones, do you think they will give us the benefit of the doubt?

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.