It was time to do that several years ago but you were all entirely too busy to be Very Concerned About Biden's Mental Health.
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It was time to do that several years ago but you were all entirely too busy to be Very Concerned About Biden's Mental Health.
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
as it turns out, a lot of the "I hate my wife & children" humor is written by people who were not joking
Elon Musk will be championing the Tommy Robinson 13/9 rally, on grounds that Nigel Farage is "weak sauce" on mass deportation and too soft on Islam Govt not even reviewing its use of X since 2022 shows different rules apply to Elon Musk than we expect of every school-child on British values
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It is very important to note, when talking about the VICP program, that it's a very low bar to clear and well over half the compensation paid out is in cases where there is no causal evidence that the vaccine is responsible for the result.
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
The ones who weren't bankrupted by judgements couldn't find liability insurance: no one would insure them, because no one knew what the next court case would do. So the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was enacted in 1986. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
This is awesome of them to do, but also what an indictment of the way things are that it's a valid marketing tactic
There's a lot you don't know, Kristi.
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
Sorry, no, that's exactly what fascism did the first time 'round too. "Criminal madness" and general incompetence are hallmarks of fascism; the whole notion that a fascist government is "harsh but effective" is and always has been propaganda.
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
A thread about the time someone tried to use ChatGPT to police me in my museum tour guide job:
Today is a great day to donate to wikipedia. Tomorrow works too. donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to...
Listen I’m sure he just fell asleep in a sunbeam somewhere dreaming of inhuman deportation techniques, or accidentally glued himself to one of his golden toilets with his own orange clown makeup, but we can all have a little happy hope in our hearts it ends up being something else, can’t we?
WEST LA! Please help find a friend’s cat!
It’s going to be so satisfying when Taylor swift bankrupts Mark Zuckerberg
"Telling the world outright that the stupid things I did were in fact stupid will embarass me"
Friendly reminder that trolling Trump doesn't make up for this.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
These people are genocidal fascists. They should be opposed because they are wrong, and evil. If, for whatever reason, that is not enough for you, they should also be opposed because none of us are safe from them unless we all are.
Like to charge, reblog to cast. Let's make this happen.
I... Wow. Huh. I'd never before considered if it was possible to "goon the wrong way" outside of situations where it's illegal. And yet, if anyone is gooning wrong without technically breaking the law, it'd have to be Elon.
In other words, it's not that social media use makes kids anxious and depressed, it's that anxious and depressed kids use social media more, because they can find support and community that way. And gee, I wonder why more kids are anxious and depressed lately!
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Feeling for a bunch of Aus artists and businesses today. This is all so unnecessarily, destructively, stupid.
I DEEPLY FUCKING RESENT the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme Court for making me write this goddamn fucking news post
To prove it's possible, a region of Germany cut itself off from the national grid & ran its own regional standalone grid purely on renewable energy & batteries. No nuclear, no fossils.
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.
LOL, he blocked me, which is a shitty strategy to kill posts that alert people that you are posting disinformation. He is doing this systematically to others also. Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social
This is completely insane and a sign of how washed A.I. truly is. Why do you have to threaten people to use this if it's so good
And even well before that, German military leadership saw the writing on the wall and was actively looking for solutions not for victory, but at least a success significantly enough that they had some kind of leverage to negotiate a surrender that might keep them out of war crimes trials.
WW2 ended with the fascist would-be ruler of the world committing suicide in his underground bunker, completely alone. Would be nice if we could hurry that along a bit this time...
if anyone needs a reminder why kings are a bad idea they should, apparently, read this book good lord
But let's not forget the origin of the MAGA slogan "America First"...
also, like, the bolter is just dogshit compared to the lasgun! Lasgun is cheap, accurate, can operate for centuries, can be recharged in a *fireplace* - it's just the perfect fucking gun
40k loses to most sci-fi universes! 40k loses to ITSELF as of 10,000 years before the game is set! the whole point of 40k is that it is a decaying, dying setting of failures, fuckups and losers!
(After all, for the "stun" setting to work on a human, a Klingon /and/ a Romulan it's pretty self evident that *something* is adjusting the power output in real time depending on what you're shooting at)
My headcanon is that the reason it looks more like a glorified TV remote is because that's what it is -- it contains a sensor to spot what you're vaguely aiming at and enough software to identify the species and/or body mass and gauge the power requirement for a stun shot accordingly.
Better headline: Dead pedophile's convicted pimp is character witness for adjudicated rapist.
I will always reblog this for today's lucky 10,000
For those who missed the reference, or just want to read it again.
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
Unlawful and unqualified.
Ok ok ok but how far does the needle swing back towards progressive if he *checks notes* smiles for the camera as he throws an unhoused constituent's belongings into a dumpster as part of a camp razing event he helped with awww fuck this guy is an ASSHOLE.
For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
When the herd bolts, it bolts all at once in the same direction. Someone was telling me earlier they think investors have a good case here for claiming they were defrauded but I don’t know: if someone sells you a perpetual motion machine and you believe them, then surely caveat emptor applies.
Let me be even more explicit here. Every Democrat with a national profile needs to be on the record condemning Cuomo's "independent" bid. They need to be seen twisting his arm to get him to drop out, and making it clear that he will be a pariah, win or lose, if he doesn't. Yes, seriously.
@rhi.bsky.social posted a beautiful article about her father yesterday and I thought we could continue Sir Pterry lore by sharing the Oblivion mod he worked on. www.eurogamer.net/the-story-be...
And tell that to the NY Dems who won’t endorse Mamdani. And I agree with “vote blue no matter etc” but that’s a 2-way street. At this moment, I don’t think I’m selfish for opposing a potential candidate who is willing to sacrifice my trans nephew to gain votes from bigots and terfs
Do people realise she's still being held captive? I feel the headline is a bit misleading... she's still in there...
More. More. More. "A total of 8,462 individuals have used [BfB's] digital platform to register complaints with Ofgem. The public has until Friday to voice their opinions on the application, after which Ofgem will decide whether to grant Tesla a licence." ~AA www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-worl...
Yeah, but bear in mind TERFs think that THEY (and 'real women') are the underdogs and having to acknowledge trans people is oppression.
He's had practice.
He always talks like an abuser. Because he is one.
So it the other guy is bigger, you supposed to just give in? Only a bully would see that as okay. Which why, once again I say, the only way to deal with a bully is to smack him straight between the eyes, metaphorically of course. Although on Orange blob's case, physically would feel really good.
"Yeah, when the bully attacks you, you should just roll over and give him what he wants, that's best for everyone" says notorious bully.
This. We don't even have the best copyright protections for individuals and they still find it too unfair to the rich who can, apparently, only make money by stealing. If your industry requires theft to work then it deserves to collapse on itself.
I think most western countries don’t have a housing crisis at all, they have an asset price crisis 😅 and too many people vote like they’re temporarily disgraced millionaires, rather than to tax wealth hoarders #comic #comics #webcomic
This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about "AI" for the past few years actually wasn't, because that would mean the media, tech executives and most of Wall Street were wrong.
I went to ridiculous lengths to get our house more energy efficient. Sealing air gaps, blackout curtain, raising the AC temperature, automated lightswitch controls ... it worked! Usage is down 30% year over year. But our bill is up 17% so most of those savings are already gone.
By which Sam means "I won't be able to make this profitable if I'm not allowed to steal everything I can get my hands on in order to monetize it"
California!
And then everybody clapped.
Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.
"I am the genie of this lamp! I shall grant you three wi..." "ill." "Um... what?" "I wish ill. All three of my wishes. I wish ill upon her." "I..." "Do you need me to explain?" "No, I get what you mean. I'm just shocked that everyone is wishing for the same thing, lately."
"Throws an angry tantrum when he cannot have his way / calls his mum and sucks his thumb and doesn't want to play..."
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
WE SAVE OURSELVES. No politician is going to save you. If you want to fight fascism, I guarantee you people are doing grassroots work near you. Go join them.
What people miss is that those "terrible jobs with terrible pay" used to support a family of three, while now, with what’s considered "awesome pay," people are barely surviving. bsky.app/profile/karo... #cdnpoli #canada
Briannu Wu sent me a love letter.
None of them particularly want to be associated with you either, Brianna, but here we all are.
Yeah, I'm in there. They even dug into the crap that I wrote in the 90s when I was in high school. Like, if you're gonna copy my homework, at least copy my best stuff.
When a journo hack says "It's a smart bet that..." they mean "Please hodl for a bit longer, I need to unload my shares before the price craters"
My wife bought some pajamas that were REALLY soft. So when she found the same company did a men's version, she got me some. Hers? No pockets. Mine? Identical, but with pockets that could carry about half a Switch. Fucking hell, patriarchy, I'm going to be murdered if you keep this shit up.
On the func_godot discord server we immediately banned a person who was making significant contributions to the parser after we found he had written an anti-trans brochure hosted on his personal website. "But was he transphobic on the server?" gonna stop you right there - I don't care.
... RICKETS COMES FROM MALNUTRITION. I just. I need to go calm down somewhere else, now.
Concurring addendum to friendly reminder that when a company explicitly declines to disclose something like this, it's because the actual answer is way worse than whatever you suspect it might be.
Weird how they couldn't breathe in masks during COVID, indeed.
Looks like someone has you covered.
We *killed off* a strain of flu during COVID masking. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why are the doctors struggling to diagnose, Olivia? Why couldn't Dawas take the kid to a hospital, Tanya?
Also, aren't at least several of those _caused_ by malnutrition and/or starvation to begin with?
Ms. Rachel is a hero
You first meet this guy for like two minutes of some plot exposition and pretty much the entirety of the fandom is ride or die for our New Old Friend, Hythlodaeus.
my friend is playing through shadowbringers for the first time so i paint while watching them play #ffxiv
I was saying this crap was going to happen! I warned people in March! AhhhhhhHHHH www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompe...
Ah, it's; Defending people I find annoying to protect people who are vulnerable n myself, time again.
Your regular reminder that fascists and censors *will* start off by targeting people you dislike, in order to set the precedent that it's "okay" to curb the rights of "terrible people" -- and then they start redefining who "terrible people" are until one day you're part of that category.
Well, yeah. His unfailing kindness makes forces them to confront how petty and small they themselves are and they'll never forgive that.
"Head & shoulders? But you don't have dandruff..."
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