It is, believe it or not, SHOCKINGLY hard to google which Olympic figure skaters have come out against ICE because for the word "ice" appears in literally every post about them

Business is business, etc., but in my view it is pretty fucking galling to be condemning book bans that "deny young people access to stories that broaden their understanding of the world," and also publishing a vanity book by the Supreme Court justice who is empowering that reactionary movement

We live in a Verhoven movie and the proof is that we are constantly told fully automated robots are around the corner and it's literally just slave labor, that thing androids are created to be a metaphor for.

Reminds me of this song, with the trashiness/scolding/hive-mind:

😳😳😳

Oh and along the same lines, Wicked also correctly identifies that you can’t beat a lie with a truth, you can only beat it with a better lie. The truth is intolerable to most people. You can’t have a Wicked Witch tell you the truth (the truth is what makes her Wicked!).

So cool!

I keep thinking about this quote from Amos Lawrence about the 1854 Boston Slave Riot - “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”