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You didn't name the horse during that entire trip through the desert? Is this a joke to you
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
You didn't name the horse during that entire trip through the desert? Is this a joke to you
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Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them
January 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them
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This was a major factor, yes—like a big pile of cultural kindling
Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This was a major factor, yes—like a big pile of cultural kindling
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prepping for cyber monday like
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
prepping for cyber monday like
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And in @thatrebecca1.bsky.social’s authoritative biography of James Cameron ‘The Futurist’, here are James Cameron’s own words on why the T-1000 is a cop and the true danger of our time isn’t tech but dehumanization.
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
And in @thatrebecca1.bsky.social’s authoritative biography of James Cameron ‘The Futurist’, here are James Cameron’s own words on why the T-1000 is a cop and the true danger of our time isn’t tech but dehumanization.
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
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25 years ago at this time, two guys on TV would be yelling at me to buy a sword
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
25 years ago at this time, two guys on TV would be yelling at me to buy a sword
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I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
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Can’t even begin to tell you how deep this one cuts for me. And I’ll admit, there’s a lot I don’t say online any more because of it. The chilling effect is real.
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Can’t even begin to tell you how deep this one cuts for me. And I’ll admit, there’s a lot I don’t say online any more because of it. The chilling effect is real.
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A friend writes:
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
September 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A friend writes:
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
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I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/
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This is, weirdly, the most purely fascist shit anyone in the administration has said so far
- Your health is an asset of the fatherland
- Illness is a failure or a moral failing
- You have a duty to maintain your health
- Healthcare is not a right, it's a finite resource
- Die for the fatherland
- Your health is an asset of the fatherland
- Illness is a failure or a moral failing
- You have a duty to maintain your health
- Healthcare is not a right, it's a finite resource
- Die for the fatherland
Now it's your fault if you get sick?
Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'
Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'
April 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is, weirdly, the most purely fascist shit anyone in the administration has said so far
- Your health is an asset of the fatherland
- Illness is a failure or a moral failing
- You have a duty to maintain your health
- Healthcare is not a right, it's a finite resource
- Die for the fatherland
- Your health is an asset of the fatherland
- Illness is a failure or a moral failing
- You have a duty to maintain your health
- Healthcare is not a right, it's a finite resource
- Die for the fatherland
I had to zoom close in to tell which one is the spider. Amazing disguise. Whenever I’ve spotted an ant mimic irl, the thing that tips me off is it not having the all-business ant attitude.
As someone who often speculates on the model of a salticid's mimicry - it's SO satisfying to come across a scene like this:
(Peckhamia sp ant-mimicking jumping spider among Crematogaster sp ants on a picnic table in woods, NE OK)
(Peckhamia sp ant-mimicking jumping spider among Crematogaster sp ants on a picnic table in woods, NE OK)
April 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I had to zoom close in to tell which one is the spider. Amazing disguise. Whenever I’ve spotted an ant mimic irl, the thing that tips me off is it not having the all-business ant attitude.
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I don’t give a flying fuck about the stock market that’s happened so many times in my short life; abducting students & citizens off the streets and sending them to black site prisons because of the exercise of their free speech or ethnicity is where we lose our Constitutional rights.
April 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I don’t give a flying fuck about the stock market that’s happened so many times in my short life; abducting students & citizens off the streets and sending them to black site prisons because of the exercise of their free speech or ethnicity is where we lose our Constitutional rights.
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Kinda bland from a distance - just blending into muddy edge of a pond...
...but upon a closer look - brilliant metallic green punctures! Larger depressions of blue?! So beautiful, so weird 🫡
Elaphrus sp marsh ground beetle, March 22, 2023, Oklahoma
...but upon a closer look - brilliant metallic green punctures! Larger depressions of blue?! So beautiful, so weird 🫡
Elaphrus sp marsh ground beetle, March 22, 2023, Oklahoma
March 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Kinda bland from a distance - just blending into muddy edge of a pond...
...but upon a closer look - brilliant metallic green punctures! Larger depressions of blue?! So beautiful, so weird 🫡
Elaphrus sp marsh ground beetle, March 22, 2023, Oklahoma
...but upon a closer look - brilliant metallic green punctures! Larger depressions of blue?! So beautiful, so weird 🫡
Elaphrus sp marsh ground beetle, March 22, 2023, Oklahoma
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‘A cat is never on the side of power’ Chris Marker
March 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
‘A cat is never on the side of power’ Chris Marker
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent this internal memo to diplomats about Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI (1/2)
January 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent this internal memo to diplomats about Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI (1/2)
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This is the future Mike Davis warned us about, right here.
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is the future Mike Davis warned us about, right here.
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this goes to my other pet issue, which is that "kids safety" has become synonymous with social media use, when their safety in reality is most threatened by guns and cars
Also traffic is one of the top-ranked causes of injury in the US. Add that to the health effects of pollution and it is one of our most damaging public health exposures.
December 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM
this goes to my other pet issue, which is that "kids safety" has become synonymous with social media use, when their safety in reality is most threatened by guns and cars
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People Who Use AI Images for Anything: Dogshit, not worth listening to, absolute malarkey, nothing you say is valid and you will never find love
People Who Make Shitty Photoshops: Remarkable, respected individuals to be taken seriously, absolute Chad behavior, They fuck and everyone fucks with them
People Who Make Shitty Photoshops: Remarkable, respected individuals to be taken seriously, absolute Chad behavior, They fuck and everyone fucks with them
'Tis the season.
December 20, 2024 at 2:01 AM
People Who Use AI Images for Anything: Dogshit, not worth listening to, absolute malarkey, nothing you say is valid and you will never find love
People Who Make Shitty Photoshops: Remarkable, respected individuals to be taken seriously, absolute Chad behavior, They fuck and everyone fucks with them
People Who Make Shitty Photoshops: Remarkable, respected individuals to be taken seriously, absolute Chad behavior, They fuck and everyone fucks with them
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We could use a good latrine disaster right now
December 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
We could use a good latrine disaster right now