can your heart withstand the shocking truth of the SWAMP CREATURE www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I really really hope this isn't news to you. It is, please check this out. If it isn't you might need a refresher. What they will do to any one community - because we let them - they will do to yours.

Art is a weapon. Use yours wisely.

Y'all go on ahead. I'll stay behind.

You need this. No. Really. You need this book read to you. Or just order a copy.

Aha

Data centers are harming every environment they are placed in.

“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.” — Robert Anton Wilson

TIL... Scientists are now describing more than 16,000 new species each year, according to a paper published in 2025..." Some of these discoveries come from citizen science, average folks who love the natural world, even if you're not a scientist for pay. From iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org

This is why we no longer look at local news. This is the entirety of this story, a stock photo and a sentence that might seem to imply only a single bar exists here. Cox Media fails us so we owe them nothing.

Is there anything they can't screw up?

A music gift. Pascoal was among the most brilliant musicians of the 20th Century. Miles Davis called him "the most impressive musician in the world" I'm no Miles Davis, but I'd agree. Go find him if you don't already know.

Yup. This is real, a thing. Your tax dollars not only pay for shoddy work on monuments, tearing down the Whitehouse, party jets, empty detention centers and campaign events disguised as lawn parties, but it'salso maintaining this Anti First Amendment section of the official Whitehouse website.

Best thing posted on the Internet. I got lazy for the past 3 weeks and didn't do this. Guess whose laptop isn't booting? Guess who has some stuff I don't want to lose on that drive? Please. Please. Please. Back yer shit up!

Good read. How women who grew up with this programming and then feminism could have found themselves struggling with careers is made so clear. That's not really the thesis here, but it sure does address so many questions of my generation and those coming, after.

Bailey's, the jewel of Ohio's cycling network and economic development driver of Hocking Hills, is in trouble, folks. Call or write Governor Dewine to line-item veto the $750k cut... governor.ohio.gov/contact athensindependent.com/orca-state-f...

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist rockin'🎶'Bagpipe Swing' #bluesmusic

Just asking for a few million friends: Where do you suppose the Trump Family® is sheltering their money and assets?

70+ billion images. If you use a smart phone, a ring camera, or leave your house, apparently your face is in their database. What might YOU be arrested for? Not just in abstraction, AI is a hot mess and it's destroying lives in real ways.

“...until the sacredness of human life is the starting point of every police encounter, we must demand changes in training and work unrelentingly to reform policies around police accountability.” Bernice King on the murder of 1-yr old Kohen Wiley. What if this were your child?

So now suspected shoplifting is an offence for which we kill people. If these cops aren't tried for murder, then the state is sanctioning shooting babies in parking lots.

Christ on cracker indeed.

This is OURs. We paid into this, sometimes working two jobs at a time so the US wouldn't have works houses and poor houses for the elderly. This not their money. We will fight for the end of this conversation.

His name may not be on the Kennedy Center anymore, but it's still in the Epstein Files over 38,000 times.

Mortgage co. is so fully automated & fully staffed with call centers that their computers call my number without their ID showing and when I don't answer--because robo sales call are incessant--they hang up with no message. Then I get nasty notes saying they've tried to reach me. This is wrong.

If a lawyer is afraid to fight an unfair policy then can we say they don't care about justice? Have you ever encountered being told, "nothing can be done because it's policy" by a lawyer?

Toxoplasma gondii. The take-over is complete.

Wayyyyy up in the sky I saw a wisp of a cloud and a white object. I thought it was a small plane appearing to move slow. Then I saw a jet. Whoa! Am I about to witness a mid-air crash? I grabbed my binoculars-- coffee & birds each morning--and watched as the jet completely missed the plastic bag.

Congratulations! More of this, please.

You go to that fancy Italian restaurant — and who’s in the kitchen? Latinos. You go to that fancy French restaurant — who’s in the kitchen? Latinos. Latinos grow it, pick it, clean it, cook it, serve it, and do the dishes. We are the backbone. Don’t fuck with us, we’re busy.

If the AI bots and the bots harvesting other people's comments aren't addressed here soon I'll be completely done with social media. I'm losing interest when so many people don't pay attention to 'who' they are responding to.

Not ALL things need come from an algorithm or even involve electricity. Wheeee

NEW: Two Ohio congresswomen are slamming the FBI over reports that agents on Thursday searched the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, an organization that advocates for voting and labor rights and against outsized corporate power. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/12/f...

TY buyer for picking up some sci-fi/fantasy coloring books! I was not expecting this at all as I haven't sold one in quite a while. I HOPE YOU ENJOY!!�

Sobriety is becoming more important to my replies on here. I just realized I've been having a convo with an AI bot. It'll eventually find you. Right now it's likely someone's toy...

We are vaccinated for the lies told by the POTUS. Anyone in leadership has been lying to us since the beginning. Thanks to the Internet (not being sarcastic) no one believes anything said by anyone who wants $$ including elected people. Of course he lies. They all lie, so what's for supper.

Came across this. Really powerful.

Rise of the machines? The continued horrible behavior of individuals. The drones didn't make the decision to kill & the human who did actually saw the other human they killed. Some inhumane person is no doubt working on side-stepping their decisions to kill by building a machine they can blame.

Someone recently was worried at seeing no honeybees in the clover this weekend, thinking it was because of the declining bee populations. It's not. Three weeks ago the yard was filled with clover blossoms and honeybees. They aren't there because pollen's gone. Better collection spots elsewhere.

There is no President of the United States right now. There is no American government currently. There is ZERO rule of law. We are the only thing holding this place together.

Do you still believe anyone you're writing or calling cares what you want? It's over. The oligarchs no longer need your buy-in. Customer service is over and legislators can now be purchased for low discount prices. No one is listening. No one cares. There are no humans on their end to contact.

This was the only sports site with this sort of headline, but wtf? #yahoosports is worse than weird.

It’s only satire if it comes from the Satire region of France! Otherwise it’s just sparkling wit!

Under the new techno-feudalism they will leave serfs to die, choosing not to euthanize us as they would unhealthy four-legged livestock, so the techo-lords can be lauded and praised for their love of life and generosity.

I'm hoping the Knicks game ends with a score of 86-47

The Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.

A Post Empire Poem Consumers no longer matter. Competition is irrelevant. Businesses don't care Regulators don't care. They were always the same. In this new world we buy anyway. We reelect anyway. We have always been like this. We don't really care. We keep buying anyway.