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not a lot of sympathy, but you know, let's be for fckn real -- *every. single. pro league.* being ten thousand percent all-in on pushing every unhinged, predatory microgambling scheme they can? that's going to cause much more damage for a much longer time than anything Derrick or Yaw did.

yes. "notwithstanding the monstrousness of the artist, this art touched or shaped me in a meaningful way and I have to reconcile that" is, in fact, a wildly different conversation than, "notwithstanding the monstrousness of the artist, we are entering into a morbillion dollar contract with them"

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

It's 2026. Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician. Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist. Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)

like, my sibs in Josh, it takes roughly zero observational effort to see where the allegiance of global fascist movements (and European fascist movements, specifically) aligns on this one, and it is surest the fuck not with Ukraine

tiny people with cool bugs

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

this is not a statement of despair, this is a call to arms.

the old world is always dying, the new world perpetually struggles to be born. it has always been the time of monsters.

the latest argument by rightwingers is that the girl school was near an Iranian military compound and that it’s therefore understandable. 1- still a war crime you sociopaths and 2- do you know how many schools are on US military bases around the world? Blood on your hands

not even three matches in and we are five injuries deep on the wings and two deep at centerback lol could not catch a break at a break-catching convention istg

when it’s us versus them it’s a sounders injury 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

alright seattle open wide for some SOCCERRRRRRRRR

this made me cackle all the way through

If you say that it is “throwing Jews under the bus” to correctly call Israel an apartheid state and raise the legitimate question of whether the US should give aid to Israel, you abandon the grounds to call out actual antisemitism at a time when it is rising.

it’s very funny watching people get OUTRAGED about Wrexham BUYING RESULTS when they aren’t even a top ten spender in their league (and were a fairly distant third last year in league one) like oh no, a team paid players and marketed smartly, how VERY the fucking DARE they

if I see a "buy/read my book" post by someone I know, or by someone I don't know but reposted by someone whose opinion I trust, I will pretty much always reshare it and i think more people should do the same tbh

man I don't even particularly *like* breaking bad, but istg why are we doing "omg they made walter white TOO COOL and it's IMMORAL" disk horse again they absolutely did not, they made him a dork-ass loser who constantly fucks things up and then dies surrounded by grubbly idiot nazis who also die

Sucks about the knee injury, but at least he's established himself as a fan least favorite

The problem with Mullin isn't that he doesn't have a Bachelor's Degree. Lots of very smart people don't have Bachelor's Degrees. And I'd even say you can be smart enough to run a government department without one. The problem with Mullin is that he's an evil fascist.

honestly the most important thing Firefly did was end after thirteen episodes and I'm not even shittalking it (although I sure could) -- that Fox went and Fox'd it so hard explicitly led to a bunch of people who were openly deeply moved by it making *better* media later lol

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

Heathers (TV series) was in 2018. I just want everyone to know how long ago that happened

It's actually a bit worse than this, because originally they predicted a wave of regret-fueled detransitions. Those never materialized, so instead of admitting they were wrong they concluded the happy, well-adjusted trans young adults would be better off if they'd done conversion therapy instead.

far too many such cases ://

man, I hope he's serious I would, for the first time ever, say "thanks, Obama!" and mean it

summoning TurboJesus with blood sacrifice is the single most immutable evangelical policy position of my lifetime

My basic advice to you, when speaking to Iranians right now, is to recognize the stress that they are under and not assume you know how they feel about all of this.

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I think it is funny how qualifications and clean records without red flags matter way more for someone interviewing to work as say, a bartender than a white man trying to get hired to be a senator.

I think there is some truth to the fact that certain groups that claim to fight antisemitism have damaged their credibility by labeling too much criticism of Israel as antisemitism. But a lot of people are way too gleeful that this means they no longer have to pretend to care about antisemitism.

The US is monstrous

I wrote this in January www.hauntologies.net/p/how-hezbol...

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

In the position of believing simultaneously that the majority of Democratic electeds are in fact qualitatively better than Republicans on the issue of criminal adventurism in the Middle East but also that much of the Democratic *foreign policy blob* is functionally identical to the GOP's.

how the fuck are you getting "closure" from bombing an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT COUNTRY jesus fucking christ americans are never beating the allegations

Some of yall are getting a little too comfortable with your antisemitism that yall are trying to cloak around being anti-impearlist.

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

I'm disgusted enough that it makes me upset to see people speculate as to the impact this all will have on the 2026 midterms and 2028. But it is nonetheless important *as a pure practical matter* to observe who is saying what and what they're aiming for. Ossoff and Gallego are instructive.

A lot of us despise the Trump regime, Per, doesn’t mean I want the elementary school in my town vaporized.

Brother, Captain, King from @fridaytea.com is very good :)