See through it.
I buy parts to build trains. I also run ttrpgs for money. He/him.
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See through it.
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
I have to admit, aside from all the drama and speculation, it’s been nice not having to avoid seeing or hearing him.
Not a drag queen
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
"Blueskyism" is just the latest rhetorical stand-in for a certain class of political commentator to signal that principled progressivism annoys them personally. Previous stand-ins include "woke", "DEI", "critical race theory", and "political correctness"--also all used by the far-right. Curious!
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
In slightly better societal news, a friend is doing a suicide awareness project in Minnesota, so if that’s pertinent to your interests here’s a link
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
And now I just learned our president ordered the murder of 11 people. Every day a new low.
Glad to see Pritzker standing up forcefully against the current tyrant in chief. Needless to say, none of this is normal, and every day it’s pushing us closer and closer to an outright shooting war. If you’re a member of the military, remember you swore an oath to the Constitution above all else.
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
You can hear the crashes from the MIT student center or the great lawn. You can hear them while you’re playing tennis on the outdoor courts.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Good Exalted name
Ben gets it.
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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Yes, but the lesson of modern America is that if your brand caters to the +55 white crowd (CB, the Republican Party) then you’re stuck with them until they all die because no one else wants you and if you try and change to appeal to not 55+ white people, they have screaming tantrums.
Kait gets it
Oh for fuck's sake...
So this is definitely weaponized bad faith brigade reporting, right? @safety.bsky.app how do you plan on dealing with THAT?
Im having flashbacks to Blizzard's automated ban reporting system, only this is an even stupider reason :/
Grandpa knows NOTHING.
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Oh my god we’re still making this context-ignorant argument. Get with the times, if we’re adjusting for inflation without addressing how wages have stagnated, corporations are making money hand over fist, and products as a whole are enshittifying, we’re being a corporate thrall.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
Among the worst aspects of aging is that when you stop exercising for a bit the suffering involved in getting back into shape is exponentially greater. Nearing 50 I understand how people stop and just..never start again. It's the difference between "Damn, I'm out of shape" and "I might die here."
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Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
What’s happening is a lot of people who thought a little fascism just meant clearing out some undesirables and making the trains run on time are realizing that actually yes they too will be effected and it’s making them slightly nervous.
We were taught to fear communism & socialism but Christian Nationalism wasn’t even on the radar. Genius.
Newsom rattling poor Johny boy
Fantasy is when it doesn't matter how the sausage is made. Science fiction is when it absolutely matters how the sausage is made.
The creepy fight against porn has encourged me to share more porn stuff on main. I think it's important to share sexual art I enjoy especially as an asexual woman given my existence is often weaponized against sex. As case against kink and sex being on display.
If you keep room after room after room of boxes of junk, they'll call an intervention and make exploitative TV shows about you. If you fill your house floor-to-ceiling with animals, they'll arrest you. But if you grab every single dollar you can and never let it go, they'll fall down in worship.
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
Evergreen
man the thing is. if you're lucky enough to get old, when you're dying, you know there's gonna be a few people who don't mind it. everybody has haters. it's what it is. but our special boy at 1600 pennsylvania gets to live knowing that millions of people were excited to hear that maybe he died lol
FSU is not a traditional rival to Bama fans, but it turns out you can’t schedule a game against rickets and process servers.
Robert Lee was a goody two shoes straight A student. He commanded like it, with no sense of how to proceed once the parameters of the textbook changed.
This person gets it.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
Darkseid is, indeed, the bad guy
the demand is always expressed in terms of blue state governments step in and keep rural hospitals open. but why can't red rural county governments step in and keep rural hospitals open?
Also like, it behooves you to be seen as an expert in your field! People love when devs talk candidly about design, and a great way to do that without giving away what you’re working on is professional and respectful commentary on the rest of the scene
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Familiar phrase
That is pretty much how the space program started.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Seconded
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
Historians and our "soft" skills are so often seen as less rigorous than the "hard" skills of STEM, even when that supposed rigor is actually confidence, bordering on braggodocio, that masks naivety
Trans people never stole the entire Social Security database and put every American at risk by uploading their personal information to an unsecure server. But Trump and Elon Musk sure did.
Another super wealthy kook who is delusional
The Gilded Rage
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
No reason.
Made my first set of stickers! I *will* become obsessed with this.
"See you in hell, Johnny Reb."
This guy gets it.
Well done to your mom :)
As much as people deride his wrestling style, "consistently putting in the work" is the thesis statement for Cena's entire career :)
I laughed my ass off at Heads of State
I'm reminded of Jim Cornette saying Cena and Bautista were destined for stardom when he worked with them as developing wrestlers in OVW. I dont always like Corny's opinions, but man, when the guy's right, he is very right.
"Would you use the free tool to file your taxes if it cost the govt money to run?"
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It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
Or Browns fans every preseason?
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?
The Republican party must be destroyed.
I see a discussion re: whether science fiction as a lit genre is dying. My thought about that is no BUT there are two important factors to consider: One, it was/is heavily cis-white-dude coded and that group buys fewer books now; Two, SF thrives with optimism about the future, and, well.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Also sucked
The executive term of Mayor McCheese lasted longer than the Confederacy
“was Lee or Grant a better general” is a question with an obviously correct answer that a whole lot of people get wrong
