They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

"We can't charge this person with the crimes they've been credibly accused of because it would be unpopular" is a hell of a precedent to set for American life, because if we're just openly agreeing the law doesn't apply to the most brash and arrogant then that's nothing but a challenge.

Just a reminder that the adult behind Axe Cop (although the kid is probably an adult now too) is a card-carrying fascist. He was the director of The Babylon Bee (the right-wing 'alternative' to the Onion) for years and then moved on to the Daily Wire (Ben Shapiro's operation).

Hasbro is forcing folks who have *NEVER* worked in Seattle to upend their lives and find a place to live in Seattle in short order this is also known as "trying to lay people off from their most profitable division without getting called out" sign to show your support for the union!

there may not be a worse human experience than being in the closet and speaking with someone irl who seems chill only for them to take the opportunity to say the most bigoted thing that could ever leave a person's mouth and you feel every ounce of safety suddenly leave your body all at once

Man you have no idea how insane you felt when dudes you worked with were merrily slobbering over pictures of 15 year olds out in public and everybody else was like "Oh, you."

you are creating a culture of violence against us by accurately reporting on the culture of violence we're gleefully inflicting on others

I also enjoy Looney Tunes Monotogari : Sylvester to Tweetie no Fushigi Daibouken

The "I'm just a little guy and the Democrats' harsh rhetoric :/" play doesn't work when you're constantly yelling from the rooftops that you are doing evil stuff and you love it! Being gleefully instead of reluctantly evil is the major thing that separates this admin from a pre-Trump Republican one!

We’re doing Kathy Griffin again?

The kind of political violence that happens every single day, but doesn't make the headlines because it doesn't happen to the gentry.

In 1970 a kid got a lawn dart in the head and they were off the shelves the next day. Today, "AI" software will reliably tell kids how to plan their suicides and school shootings and none of the monsters who built it are held accountable. This is indefensible.

it'll never cease to amaze how many people like the taste of boot. landry isn't even advocating for pork here. like, i get it when an elected bangs the drum to have a lockheed plant in their state/district. this? dude just likes to lick boot.

We're at 56 years and counting of a GOP-appointed SCOTUS majority, since 1970, and it's effectively self-perpetuating now. When presidential wins alternate near evenly. It doesn't take a partisan preference either way to see how insanely unhealthy that is. It's indefensible on neutral principles.

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

Adding on to this, Devil's Advocate should not be for its own sake. There should be a reason behind it, such as checking for biases, lapses in understanding, and the standard "are we the baddies" check. "I'm doing it just 'cause" is a surefire way to be annoying.

Hold on New Game Plush is an incredible name what the fuck

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

One of my favorite bits of trivia about DQ2, a game with a notoriously difficult finale, is that no one on the dev team beat the final version of the game before release. Imagine their reaction to hearing how brutal the Cave to Rhone is. (Interview translated by Shmuplations)

The people who force us to live in a violent country really thought they wouldn't have to live in a violent country along with us. They thought other people would do the dying for them. When one of them catches one of the strays they put in the air to catch us, what are we supposed to do but shrug.

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Perry being aggressively anti union & clearly hating Black women and Oprah not bringing a successor to her talk show empire behind her instead we got Dr fucking Oz and fucking Dr Phil. They both have done the "I got mine fuck y'all" crab in a bucket mentally & we (Black ppl) are worse because it

We need to prepare ourselves for just how bad the trauma bond between the president and the press is going to be.

As a child I was stumped on how they got the motion blur in this scene. It's claymation so it can't just be drawn in. Much later I found out that all the blur in the tracking and panning shots is actual *motion* blur. The sets were moved for a fraction of a second during each exposure!

there's lots of changes but one of the major differences between the new internet and the old internet is that on the old internet when someone linked to an article that generally meant you would actually be able to read it

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

There are mass shootings every week, stories mainstream media barely mention. So spare me your tears over the trauma of them having the leave the ballroom before their chicken piccata arrived.

I feel that the more the attendees of the WHCD come into contact with the general sentiment of "who cares lol" that they'll more visibly cleave to Trump as daddy and savior.

Trump insisting the WHCD be rescheduled gives away the game, those pocket squares, their "bingo card." It was always class solidarity. Those weren't the people's press, they're willing collaborators. Trump is trying to save their fancy starfucker party and they will be grateful.

It's funny that this time the collective reaction is a big "meh, whatever" but you know since it was personally experienced firsthand by the actual eyes of the stupidest fucking people on earth in person, that they're all gonna try to kirk it up into a grand spectacle.

As a one time—and one time only—guest of the Washington Hilton, the only insight I have to contribute is that the lobby of the hotel is not the entrance to the ballroom where the correspondents’ dinner is held. It’s approached via a separate driveway off a different street on another level. fwiw

Turn up the volume for #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧 Our Magellanic penguins have a lot to say. That braying sound? It’s how these charming waddlers communicate (and yes, it does sound a bit like a donkey).

I love how the people freaking out about gender affirming care because one person in a hundred might turn out to not be trans can turn around and say it's completely safe and normal to live in a country with multiple shootings every day.

awesome

Weird how every time a cishet white man does a mass shooting in this country, the problem is neither the cishet white men nor the guns, but rather trans people or Black people or Muslims or immigrants who somehow aren't even there. 🤔

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

I talk about this ALL the time that advertising doesn't work and we all KNOW it doesn't work (when's the last time you bought a product because it was advertised to you?) it's that it's too convenient as a way to shuttle assets between major corporate concerns to just abandon it and data is the same

My plumber about to tell me I have irreversible water damage

Some of the current efforts to dilute and dismantle Black American social, cultural, and especially political power: 1) Ending civil rights era legislation. 2) Voter disenfranchisement. 3) FBA/ADOS movements. 4) Blaming Black America for US "one drop" racial strata. 5) D9 & PHFAM orgs as "demonic."

There are actual cis men on the board of many women's charities, but weirdly this does not lead to, uhh, "sustained criticism" (quite the euphemism there for "organised campaign of abuse and harassment").

Hi, Moea! 👋 Rescued from an oil spill and rehabilitated at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, this curious, confident Southern sea otter is thriving. 🦦 📹: Animal care staff Kristyn #seaotter #animalcare #otter #cuteanimals

i knew there was a far side comic for the news today

The wealthy oligarchs broke the social contract but the media only cares when everyone else catches on and decides they don't want to be bound by it if the wealthy and powerful aren't either. That's the moral hazard of letting these bastards get away with all of it.

When the richest man on earth murders millions faces no accountability and instead he only gets richer and becomes a trillionaire, I think shoplifting a few fruits at whole foods isn't that big a deal. Of course, the reactionary centrist crowd only gets angry at the latter.