YIKES!!!! -- People have climbed atop the spire of the Empire State Building right now

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

This is the answer of the Antichrist

This is great and we should do it

This is true but it’s something that I, as a member, view as a structural problem for DSA as it matures into a national presence.

Enjoying a nice sandwich on Planet Guilt.

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Ellsworth Kelly, Seaweed

I think he gives the general schema - tailoring it to specific situations like "come out as gay, Ray" or "fake your own death, Seth" is left as an exercise for the reader

This is just incredible. It’s really something to even see it online, it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to hold it in your hands.

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Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.

That Elon Musk killed these people using a squad of incels instead of guns and bombs is really immature. Their blood is on his hands.

ALF makes so much more sense when you remember he’s a 250 year old alien who lost everyone in his species and his home world - closer to J’onn ‘Jonzz than Superman, the Melmacian carries a sorrow to shatter the world. the Tanners know to keep it light, at the risk of courting disaster.

Achrome by Piero Manzoni, 1962 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137430

Ideological currents which seem to have grown out of this site: - woke small-c conservatism - vanguard liberalism - palingenetic internationalism - girl-coded technocracy - cosmopolitan supremacy - anti-comfort stalwart progressivism

The thing about misogyny isn’t just that it’s a moral failure that so many people are willing to overlook the violence and indignity created by *this* bigotry in pursuit of narcissistic gratification. It’s also that doing so makes them actively stupid.

Let’s be clear, because I see a lot of people glossing over this. These allegations are of domestic abuse and physical violence. You could get an order of protection based on these allegations. Domestic abuse isn’t about “hitting,” it’s about using violence and coercion to control your partner.

People want to give up on this possibility, but we can’t. We don’t have the moral right to quit.

An interesting thing is that Lincoln definitely moved from atheism to theism across his life, but the evidence he was a Christian is not strong. But he believed in God enough to make a pact with him that, if the Lee driven out of the North, he’d take it as a sign that slavery must be abolished.

Pretty damn cool #catsvibing

You’ve got to feel for the women in these guys’ lives, man.

Gender overload

These are so cool. I’d love to know what D, E, Q, and S are.

Pokez fucking sucks.

It was only much later that I came to understand that I came of age in a particularly reactionary time (the 90s) in terms of gender and sexuality. I don’t know if young people today would believe what it was like. Though at my school, different from mtsw, the openly gay boys were viciously bullied.

The brutalist residential complex "Aul" in Almaty, Kazakhstan r/brutalism

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

I increasingly suspect that pornography is literally the theoretical text for the American fascist movement. I know that sounds insane but I think it’s true. Its ideology structures their worldview and is bound up in the libidinal thrill of transgression that typifies their politics.

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Holy shit we’re gonna do it!

I just finished this book and it was so, so good. It creeped me out, which never happens. 5/5, great stuff!

So much of the federal government has worked so well that people forget what it actually does. The federal government is why we have had interstate highways, wireless telecom, and safe food, water, and medicine. Like vaccines, it worked well enough that decadent morons think they don’t need it.

ok happy Monday I give you: ducklings and lily pads 🪶

When I was a kid I was so mad about Knightfall and AzBats that I waited in line at the 1993 Comic-Con so I could talk shit to Denny O’Neil’s face. I feel bad about it but I hope he thought it was funny.

One of the things I enjoyed in studying the 19th C in the US and France is that it’s the earliest point where I look at it and recognize the world I live in, just with newspapers instead of podcasts. The relatively staid post WWII consensus in the US is the aberration not the norm.

Gerry Conway has died. Age 73. Cancer. Conway's stories and characters loom large in my personal comics history. I grew up reading, and loving, his work. He's best known for writing the gutwrenching Death of Gwen Stacey. As good as superdude comics get. Thanks, Gerry. Safe travels.

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Young Americans are very low trust, sometimes bordering on nihilism. It’s up to us to build institutions that make them want to act with social trust—to make an effort at school, to vote, to have normal social interactions in public spaces, to date, to not shoplift or evade fares, etc

I’m really glad to see this. I’d hoped it would happen. The person who wins this nomination is going to be in Congress for as long as they want, and it’s important a progressive holds this deep blue seat.

"Mike smiled, and his canines and incisors were white and sharp. The smile itself was a mere flexing of the muscles around the mouth; it never touched the eyes. They retained their original dead blankness." — @stephenking.bsky.social, 'Salem's Lot