and, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

When Marx said that the defining feature of private property is that most people do not have any,

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tbh, the scope of criminality described in barely-literate text and the scale of how many people involved are both genuinely really shocking to me

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

"but what about" listen you are competing with people who write "thing is broken, plz fix" and then on the best of days remember to sign their name lower your standards and live

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To anyone struggling to perfectly phrase an email: you are competing with "thing broke, plz fix sent from my iphone" lower your standards and chill

For most of human history, literacy was reserved for a select few persons within a given community. It is only during the last couple of decades that the idea emerged that this changed somehow

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Communism in one city

To be sure, the majority opinion is not in favor of a publicly funded health system it is rather something along the lines of "I literally never want to think about how anything related to healthcare is funded at any point in my life, can't it just work please" which is perfectly achievable

"we sold all our AI stonks" good "to buy different AI stonks" you have turned me into a liar

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”

Farewel happy Fields Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

Unfortunate woman: can't you just be a person for once? Cohen: I am guided by the beauty of our weapons

magnets *takes a drag off an enormous liquorice pipe* yeah, I got nothing

there is no labor market there are only people with jobs

TIL that Moloko still does tours

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds #ducks

This year's dose of flu and covid is not messing around and the jab's no joek either

Logging on

the west, so scared of strong pasta, now has no pasta

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

As a chaos demon, embrace declaiming - very loudly - the sentence "hey google, call mom" in public settings

Again? Again www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Ue...

plants they truly do not give it they have it but they do not give it

woah plot twist

*looks at the timeline* [everybody hated that]

Boost if you are stuck in a thought loop Boost if you are stuck in a thought loop

*sees the news about air controllers in the US* is this a backdoor attempt to reduce carbon emissions by cutting down on air traffic, cuz that would be some evil genius "they wouldn't let us do it if we just tried it, it has to be borne out of spite" maneuvering

Jucika, always at the forefront of anti-silicon valley sentiment which isn't difficult, since the silicon valley sentiment tends to be barely disguised misogyny

“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark

This #Caturday is brought to you by ✨attack mode✨ #blackcats #catsofbluesky

ya know it would have been less work for everyone involved if he just acted like a classic corrupt politician and played golf whilst his underlings engaged in old-fashioned behind the scenes grifting

Person: so I asked a chatbot, and - Me: you know how cats bring dead mice as presents, thinking it a nice gesture, and you have to metacognize that you are a human and they're a cat, and so you take their inborn behavior as it is intended, rather than as experienced? Person: no Me: I can tell

I cannot stress this enough: This wave of AI is not providing anything that we cannot do without. This doesn't even have the veneer of necessity that banking did. We can just let them fail. We can afford for this technology to hit setbacks and need to spend more time being evaluated. This is silly.

A $200,000 50 year mortgage at 6% interest would mean you would be paying $631,685.75 total in payments! You would need to make your payments for 38 YEARS before you'd be paying more towards your balance than towards your interest! This is by far the worst idea I've ever heard!

Can we normalize trains?

When the Pope, God's infallible representative on this Earth, declared that altering one's identity is akin to stealing the divine power of creation - a blasphemous act of hubris indeed - he somehow got confused about the specifics of which aspect one should or should not alter

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there are godspeed bootlegs out there that differ so much from the studio albums that it is akin to listening to 'em for the first time all over again

EU5 has a modifier against peace deals that cause border gore truly, Paradox knows the minds of their target audience

Be like Hornet when a seemingly impossible problem faces you, disassociate for an ungodly amount of time until the situation seemingly appears out of nowhere

head empty no thoughts only shoegaze

When the front person of a popular band dies, the remaining members often try to replace them with someone else or go on without them. But the band usually breaks up or fades into obscurity, maybe playing old hits to a small crowd if they're lucky. Anyway, just thinking about politics this morning.

There is no such thing as acting crazy. Instead, you are in an obtuse feedback loop which may or may not be straightforward to convey

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Repost your posts. Brag about your accomplishments. Get yourself treats. Be weird as fuck. Above all, do all these things for those you love too. Life is too short to try not to take up the space you need