‘Adamant’ and ‘diamond’ are related. Both are from 'adámas,' a Greek word that means “material of extreme hardness.” 'Adamantium' is a virtually indestructible man-made steel alloy controversially used in the Weapon X Program.
I was Hodorific back on the Xitter but that name was taken over here. Here's hoping this place has fewer Nazis than the old one...
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‘Adamant’ and ‘diamond’ are related. Both are from 'adámas,' a Greek word that means “material of extreme hardness.” 'Adamantium' is a virtually indestructible man-made steel alloy controversially used in the Weapon X Program.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
This is awfully dark, but sadly on the nose.
I'd be happy to buy all three. The Warden books were great. I do a lot of my reading on my phone these days but I know these are not available in electronic format (I've already asked you about them).
The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then. Refs: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Did Tr*mp's people just ask Rudy to quickly whip up some of his special brand of scandal so we'd stop talking about him being maybe gone or swiftly going? Or were we just due for a "Rudy gets caught with his pants down" event and the timing was fortuitous?
They are the same kind of people who told Jews on their way "to the showers" their belongings would be waiting for them when they came back. That kind of people.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
Guy Economies exist in parallel with Mom Code Economies, come the rev they will merge into one grand post-gender Middle-Aged People Who Show Up And Do Stuff Economy and on that day utopia will finally be realized
It's sort of like the Powerball ticket we bought for tonight. It's not really going to happen for us but until we know for sure we get to think happy thoughts about what might be.
i'm being so good and virtuous in my daily routine, why do i feel like i'm dying
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
Alan Dershowitz has become a querulous, lawless buffoon and serial abuser of the legal system. This lawsuit was indefensible and a contemptible example of the sentiment “I am famous and important, you can’t disrespect me.”
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Longstreet was the real brains of that operation in my opinion. He at least knew what war he was fighting.
When we bought our house, which is close to two schools so i figured we'd get lits of kids, I decided to be "that house" and hand out full sized candies. The kids are awesome and get so excited, my wife and I love seeing them all. Halloween is fun!
she said that “black” with a hard r
In 1933 the Nazi Party looted and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) in Berlin, the first clinic for modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world. The Institute's library and archives were publicly burned.
A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.
shocking reports that donald trumps economic policies are doing the exact goddam thing everyone said they would
*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army
“Write this down,” he says. “No matter which way it goes—taking the Senate or the fall of democracy—whatever the eventuality, the work remains the same.”
Read the whole thread, it's batshit crazy. Why can't we just allow people to live their lives? Is this ridiculous attitude toward transition an exclusively whyt, English-speaking problem (US/UK I'm looking at you) or does it happen everywhere?
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
The first part is accurate, the second part I believe was much more hope itself than observation to pin hope on. I just don't see those democratic ideals in the vast majority of the population. The man had a way with words though! Here's hoping he was right and I'm just an old cynic.
Entire childhood defined by Reagan. Twenties defined by Bush. Middle age defined by Trump. No wonder I'm so sickly and broke.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:... For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:...
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Handful of complaints in the Declaration: He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Everything is a "mystery" when you know nothing, don't read, and have have no critical thinking skills.
You can't be genuinely antifascist while endorsing cruelty to homeless people. It isn't possible.
This is how you do it.
I don't know that the Democratic Party survives the Trump years, it has proven itself such a soulless husk of an opposition party that I don't know that what's left will even be worth a gut and reno. Whatever comes after, though, these people cannot lead within it at any level.
Sounds like a call to action to me. Unintentional, sure, but still.
this is a 🔥 quote from a local city councilor in Arizona who faced, *and survived,* a recall effort for lifting up mutual aid efforts rather than policing
3. Then drive the unhoused or whoever needed the help to the perfectly adequate public housing we spent the money on; 4. Give them a basic monthly income but we call it wages for "monitoring" or something; 5. Show off the massive savings over cops/private prisons; 6. Watch crime plummet. 2/2
I've got an idea: We agree to spend $50 billion/year to "clean up the streets" and then: 1. Give social workers fancy tactical vests and tell the hillbillies they are "troops" or something; 3. Have them load folks up into big vans (with comfy seats) painted black so they look scary; 1/2
It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
For what it's worth, I'd say the best analog is the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany in the 1920s (Italy) and 1930s (both). Second best is good old fashioned Soviet communism. These guys want workers to own nothing and will ensure their servitude at the barrel of a gun (see LA and DC).
It's amazing how people utterly fail to understand the basic meaning of words. Socialism is where the WORKERS own the means of production collectively. I'm begging people to consult an historian before spouting nonsense like this. 1/2 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
So weird how all these hard core capitalists have gone full state ownership of the means of production.
this is an interesting piece but I'm going to lose my mind if we get another of these pieces that mentions bible quotes but doesn't mention how the W Bush admin did precisely this during the 2nd Iraq War
They're going to give AI human rights before trans people
“Can AI suffer?” No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
If you're almost but not all the way homeless in California, Gavin Newsom and his cops have a solution for you and it is to make you all the way homeless
Yeah, we tried to schedule a last new one but were told we had to wait for the 2025-26 version which they "expect to be approved in a matter of days." The pharmacy folks don't seem to read the news.
Once again: the military takeover of U.S. cities is not a distraction from the thing, it is the the thing
Dobson was frightened of the social progress of the 20th century and he saw that the only way to halt it was by abusing children. Today the right wing bans books on social emotional learning and anti-bullying because they know: abused, stunted children are needed to replenish their movement
On this Bob Uecker day in Milwaukee: You hear Uecker and think "Juuuuust a bit outside." I hear Uecker and think "I must be in the front row!" We are not the same. ...am I roughly using this meme format correctly? In my defense I'm very old. #Uecker
This useless man needs to be primaried. "Centrists" can't bring themselves to say it out loud, but "local law enforcement" has been part of the problem - they just arrested a person for videoing them in DC. Fascism isn't a distraction - it's the whole deal.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
I remember reading all about the famously difficult armistice negotiations between the Allies and the ghost of Hitler after he offed himself in that bunker. It's in all the textbooks, trust me. No, don't check on that, there's no need. And definitely don't look up Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki.
[at space coven] Hugo Gernsback: I've had enough of this! Gernsback: for too long, my precious hugos have been besmirched by scandal and controversy! Gernsback: but no more! Gernsback: i'm taking charge now
Part of how we got into this mess is that for decades purportedly center left politicians all over the world have been allowed to get away with using the threat of the far right to openly, brazenly blackmail their own voting bases while calling themselves fair and sensible.
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Whenever you feel like the world is falling apart, take a deep breath and remind yourself that you’re probably not wrong.
University of Chicago being gutted because of insane debt loads and wasting money on crypto is incredibly ironic after what their school of economics put the global south through. Behind, the neoliberal boomerang.
I agree -- getting into a discussion about "crime" is just lose-lose. I think the best way to frame this is about crushing local sovereignty, a continuation of Jim Crow efforts to ensure Black residents could not govern themselves as they saw fit.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
He’s using taxpayer money to buy stuff from maralago and put it in WH. Specifically patio furniture.
Oppressors shall be fed to the old gods.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
I would argue stories about Trump’s military occupations should not even contain the word crime unless it’s describing the occupation itself.
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
Gavin Newsom is a demon. Truly. Just a vile excuse for a human being,
realized as I was writing something that I made this for a class a while ago. still works.
Fascist regimes exercise economic control over big companies. The regimes themselves—there’s no worker participation, as fascists don’t like organized labor or democracy. There’s no need to try to figure out some new theory of what this is. This has been done before, and it is fascism.
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani opening city-run grocery stores or Eric Adams handing potato chip bags filled with cash to reporters, both candidates have provocative ways of getting food to New Yorkers.
Four out of five sex traffickers surveyed recommend Donald Trump for President.
Education - Lol Transportation - Limo Service Agriculture - Rural White Bailouts Commerce - Market Manipulation
Reality based names for #CabinetDepartments: Defense - Intimidation Justice - Corruption DHS - Staats Polizei State - L'Etat c'est Tr*mp Labor - Strike Busting HHS - Death Treasury - Treasure HUD - Redlining VA - Suckers and Losers Energy - Drill baby drill continues...
To be fair, if there is ANYTHING that Trump is truly an expert in, it's mortgage fraud.
A woman who criticized Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to their facility in an interview has been transferred out to another facility which houses violent offenders. Trump’s DOJ is now punishing people who criticize his sex offender friends. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
Putin meets alone with Trump. A week later, US intelligence is gutted by Tulsi Gabbard. FBI goes after John Bolton. Had Putin ordered it through Amazon, could not have been more efficient.
We really need to dispense with the term "law enforcement" because it in no real sense describes what these organizations actually do. I'll let cleverer people than I come up with a new term, but we prejudice the conversation by suggesting that there is "law" being enforced. It's power enforcement.
This Old Blue agrees completely.
Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
i'm really sad about james dobson dying peacefully at the age of 89. he should've died screaming in terror.
James Dobson died? Well, things are looking up. Including him. Because he's in hell, where part of his torment is he has to look up and watch us all being queer as fuck. Nobody's even making him do that. He just can't look away. He could, but he won't.
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
W.T.A.F?
Such a shame he died today, the world would be better if that piece of shit had died decades ago.
I know I need to sleep but there are so many things to worry about
It’s that time again
Yeah, summer here in Surface of the Sun, CA has gotten insanely expensive, particularly this year. Just looked, my last bill was $526 for July. One of many reasons I wish we could move somewhere cooler.