Slightly diminish a band:
Kool and the other guy
The Jacknephew 5
Walk DMC
Toots and the Probablywon'ttals
Kool and the other guy
The Jacknephew 5
Walk DMC
Toots and the Probablywon'ttals
Slightly diminish a band (Grunge Edition): Pearl Pectin
slightly diminish a band:
Alice In Ropes
Alice In Ropes
January 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
Kool and the other guy
The Jacknephew 5
Walk DMC
Toots and the Probablywon'ttals
Kool and the other guy
The Jacknephew 5
Walk DMC
Toots and the Probablywon'ttals
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It’s very painful! I’m sad for Good but her death is making me sad for all the lives that didn’t count, don’t count.
January 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
It’s very painful! I’m sad for Good but her death is making me sad for all the lives that didn’t count, don’t count.
This can be done
On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.
January 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
This can be done
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Oh you said antifascist literature? Here, my new novella chronicles the Moroccan monarchy's brutal suppression of bread riots in the city of Fes in 1990.
Fes is a Mirror: a novella
a novella
bookshop.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Oh you said antifascist literature? Here, my new novella chronicles the Moroccan monarchy's brutal suppression of bread riots in the city of Fes in 1990.
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Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Since everyone seems to have forgotten about this, here are three words straight from a horror film:
The Uterus Collector.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
The Uterus Collector.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in US'
A complaint alleges unsafe treatment and conditions at a migrant detention centre in Georgia, US.
www.bbc.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Since everyone seems to have forgotten about this, here are three words straight from a horror film:
The Uterus Collector.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
The Uterus Collector.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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It’s unlikely that Good’s murderer is a particularly depraved or unhinged ICE officer. That’s just everybody who has the personality to be an ICE officer. That’s just ICE. Don’t exceptionalize him, he’s a systemic manifestation.
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
It’s unlikely that Good’s murderer is a particularly depraved or unhinged ICE officer. That’s just everybody who has the personality to be an ICE officer. That’s just ICE. Don’t exceptionalize him, he’s a systemic manifestation.
It's always a good time to push back on these Putin-funded, Musk-groomed, Farage-emboldened, treasonous, racist, flag-fondling pieces of shit. But now it's essential.
Unite yourselves. It's later than you think.
Organise & unite.
www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comm...
Unite yourselves. It's later than you think.
Organise & unite.
www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comm...
Dawn Butler: ‘The far-right is getting organised. And so are we’ - Voice Online
The far-right is organising. A new national movement says Britain’s anti-racist majority must now do the same.
www.voice-online.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
It's always a good time to push back on these Putin-funded, Musk-groomed, Farage-emboldened, treasonous, racist, flag-fondling pieces of shit. But now it's essential.
Unite yourselves. It's later than you think.
Organise & unite.
www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comm...
Unite yourselves. It's later than you think.
Organise & unite.
www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comm...
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*how* grok produced porn and CSAM shouldn’t be of primary importance/concern to regulators. rather, they should treat this as evidence of failure to comply with rules and proceed to enforcement i.e. ban the platform till X shows it complies with regulations
Britain demands Elon Musk's X answer concerns about sexualised photos on Grok reut.rs/3YJrspL
Britain demands Elon Musk's X answer concerns about sexualised photos on Grok
Britain has demanded Elon Musk's social media site X explain how its AI chatbot Grok was able to produce undressed images of people and sexualised images of children, and whether it was failing in its legal duty to protect users.
reut.rs
January 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
*how* grok produced porn and CSAM shouldn’t be of primary importance/concern to regulators. rather, they should treat this as evidence of failure to comply with rules and proceed to enforcement i.e. ban the platform till X shows it complies with regulations
Scared for everyone in the Caribbean, Central America, Greenland...
And I don't hold out much hope for Taiwan. If China doesn't take it, it'll be put into protective custody.
Europe needs to be looking to tool up to defend itself tout suite. And not just from Putin.
And I don't hold out much hope for Taiwan. If China doesn't take it, it'll be put into protective custody.
Europe needs to be looking to tool up to defend itself tout suite. And not just from Putin.
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Scared for everyone in the Caribbean, Central America, Greenland...
And I don't hold out much hope for Taiwan. If China doesn't take it, it'll be put into protective custody.
Europe needs to be looking to tool up to defend itself tout suite. And not just from Putin.
And I don't hold out much hope for Taiwan. If China doesn't take it, it'll be put into protective custody.
Europe needs to be looking to tool up to defend itself tout suite. And not just from Putin.
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Please folks, mentally ill people do not need you comparing Trump or anyone in his administration to us today! We're just trying to catch our breath.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Please folks, mentally ill people do not need you comparing Trump or anyone in his administration to us today! We're just trying to catch our breath.
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New years resolutions #1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7K...
Lauryn Hill - I Gotta Find Peace Of Mind (Unplugged)
YouTube video by JeNnILoVeSmUsIc
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New years resolutions #1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7K...
Citizenship must not be conditional.
If it was, we should start with the people who spearheaded the campaign to undermine UK's relationship with its Western European allies, a campaign part financed by Putin's stooges & hugely promoted by Russian bots. One which has done untold harm to the UK.
If it was, we should start with the people who spearheaded the campaign to undermine UK's relationship with its Western European allies, a campaign part financed by Putin's stooges & hugely promoted by Russian bots. One which has done untold harm to the UK.
December 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Citizenship must not be conditional.
If it was, we should start with the people who spearheaded the campaign to undermine UK's relationship with its Western European allies, a campaign part financed by Putin's stooges & hugely promoted by Russian bots. One which has done untold harm to the UK.
If it was, we should start with the people who spearheaded the campaign to undermine UK's relationship with its Western European allies, a campaign part financed by Putin's stooges & hugely promoted by Russian bots. One which has done untold harm to the UK.
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for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
A Lord of the Rings cover band called: Stevie Gondor
Support: Nazgul and the Gang / Elf, Ring and Fire
Support: Nazgul and the Gang / Elf, Ring and Fire
A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called: The More Doors.
a lord of the rings cover band called Shire Straits
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called: Stevie Gondor
Support: Nazgul and the Gang / Elf, Ring and Fire
Support: Nazgul and the Gang / Elf, Ring and Fire
This 100%
I'm a white British person. Had a long conversation with a colleague, also a white British person, about racism a few days ago
They consider themself anti-racist. I've seen them challenge overt racism, and champion non-white people (not as saviour, just using their privilege positively)
I'm a white British person. Had a long conversation with a colleague, also a white British person, about racism a few days ago
They consider themself anti-racist. I've seen them challenge overt racism, and champion non-white people (not as saviour, just using their privilege positively)
Your racism has nothing to do with your intention if you're a white American. Racism is the default mode your upbringing imprinted on you enforced constantly by society over your life. So don't think you have to have meant to be racist. Racism is systemic including in how you learned to think.
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This 100%
I'm a white British person. Had a long conversation with a colleague, also a white British person, about racism a few days ago
They consider themself anti-racist. I've seen them challenge overt racism, and champion non-white people (not as saviour, just using their privilege positively)
I'm a white British person. Had a long conversation with a colleague, also a white British person, about racism a few days ago
They consider themself anti-racist. I've seen them challenge overt racism, and champion non-white people (not as saviour, just using their privilege positively)
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We avoided regulating the Internet to spur innovation
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We avoided regulating the Internet to spur innovation
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
Under Conservative governments, there was a desire not to intervene in the market
Now, big firms dominate - diversity, creativity & safety have suffered
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI.
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Your racism has nothing to do with your intention if you're a white American. Racism is the default mode your upbringing imprinted on you enforced constantly by society over your life. So don't think you have to have meant to be racist. Racism is systemic including in how you learned to think.
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Your racism has nothing to do with your intention if you're a white American. Racism is the default mode your upbringing imprinted on you enforced constantly by society over your life. So don't think you have to have meant to be racist. Racism is systemic including in how you learned to think.
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Untangling racism is not complex. There's so much that's been written to refer to. But almost any Black person you meet with rare exceptions can break it all down to you from their life. But you cannot listen to Black people because of racism.
I've learned that untangling racism is extremely complex. There are in your face issues and small ones it takes forever to recognize. What perpetuates racism is we maintain a society where almost every white can live their daily lives without thinking about it at all.
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Untangling racism is not complex. There's so much that's been written to refer to. But almost any Black person you meet with rare exceptions can break it all down to you from their life. But you cannot listen to Black people because of racism.
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The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th.
On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela.
Bank on it.
On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela.
Bank on it.
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th.
On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela.
Bank on it.
On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela.
Bank on it.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.