Okay, so there's a Google Play advert at the top of my IG feed ...and I swear to all that is Divine, although whenever I look directly at it, it says "Go Reward Yourself", I'm absolutely certain when I only catch it in my periphery, it says Go Fuck Yourself.

..is Google subliminally trolling us?

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

Fascists, who deep down know they're pathetic and ridiculous, cannot handle mockery. If there's one thing Portland does well (other than dumplings in chili oil), it's irreverent mockery of everything.

Can't believe these dipshits are still parroting the repeatedly debunked lie that CK murderer was a far-left extremist...as though there's anything that even qualifies as "far left" in America.

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

Fortunate that I'd already gotten most of what I planned to get done today finished beforehand.

I had forgotten how exhausting furious panic is. I was already stuck in the perpetual exhaustion cycle of contemporary existence, but that sudden burst of infuriated terror really sucked anything I had left out of me.

I really could have done without that. I don't think I'm gonna recover today.

I feel like it might also be me, but I hide it so well I'm not even sure *I* know for certain.

...or you don't, but at least the burden of having to actually choose is lifted from your shoulders.

Thanks to Bryan A Murray for pointing this out: When you shop at Spirit Halloween you can donate to Spirit of Children which helps sick kids have a fun Halloween. However, you don't have to go to a Spirit Halloween store to help out. You can donate online.
www.spirithalloween.com/content.jsp?...

It's really all the GOP know how to do - create problems and then lie about them to blame anyone but themselves.

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

I am increasingly glad that I stopped fucking with consoles after the Nintendo 64.

The fact that this whole AI slur discourse has rapidly degenerated to people defending calling disabled people slurs is not exactly helping sell me on the idea that it's harmless. They're using AI as cover to move actual flesh and blood humans into the unperson category because of disability.

i'm not sure how you can claim to cover things fairly and fully when you're using the bootleg name that is officially only a "secondary name" for the department

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

I'm not a Biblical scholar, but if I'm reading Matthew 25 right, Jesus says that Rubio, Trump, Musk, and all their helpers are all going to hell.

I am very much a Gonzo in real life. Striving for brilliance, but mostly having to settle for weird and awkward.

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

Me: Counter-point, no.

And it's actually true.

Immigrants make all cities Great.