Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

what if we made out like bandits

It's the Magnificent Mile. Miracle Mile is a 1988 apocalyptic thriller in which Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham are incinerated in a helicopter.

Makes me think of MAO II where DeLillo is talking (in 1991) about how terrorists now occupy the space novelists once held. Novelists once dangerously influenced mass consciousness, now they don't, and terrorists have seized their role. Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.

No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either. If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing. We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

This is literally that Tuxedo Mask meme

low polyamory

"LET HIM SPEAK!" 9" x 12" ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

i hate when my friends and i encounter a very weak monster with incredibly high evasion that gives you a lot of XP but only if you kill it before it runs away

*SCREAMS AS THEY'RE PULLING ME AWAY*: JINU FROM KPOP DEMON HUNTERS IS THIS GENERATIONS KOVU FROM LION KING 2. YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

The date passed but friends, you know I had to acquire this shit

This story made my blood boil and that's happening so much lately that I'm starting to wonder if my blood will just start evaporating.

Dick Durbin: - Chicago Phone # doesn't accept voicemails outside of business hours; not accepting them now because it's full, and no one is picking up - DC Phone # doesn't accept voicemails at all, period, and no one is picking up - Springfield # can leave a vm, no one is picking up

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

They just turned Indivisible into the clean radio edit of DSA

Every building should have a tiny little room that you can go into to scream and everybody promises not to jerk off in there

ok yes those are definitely skeleton panda sea squirts

NO ONE IN NO ONE OUT

Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:

give it up for soup season!!!

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

The Sharks???

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Fossil build

every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.

That filthy fucking CPD officer defending the person in a car with a gun from people standing in a street with cellphones. Fucking pigs sticking together.

me: maybe i should do the dishes the sith holocron i keep on my desk, suddenly glowing red: 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓. 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐎 𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄. 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒. 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝟐𝟓 me: hmm…. more NASCAR 25, perhaps

I do not believe that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, and I have consistently argued against those who say it is, but if you see the act of condemning anti-Diaspora antisemitism as inherently Zionist and pro-Israel, you are really telling on yourself.

Remember: when cops strike, crime rates drop. Abolition is the way!

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

it's a secret so don't tell anyone, but I painted an orange last year

Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco/Bay Area - here are some restaurants helping with food if you’re struggling with loss of SNAP benefits. Please share!

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

I can't stress enough how much Chicago is showing up for each other