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Fiction. Art. More fiction. A dash of poetry.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

BREAKING: SB 1797 and SB 2319 passed — Illinois will be the first in the Midwest to protect consumers and businesses transacting in cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Grateful for Sen. Walker, Sen. Ellman, Rep. Gonzalez, and Rep. Tarver in getting these bills to my desk.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

More footage of the derailment of a Russian freight train in the Kursk region due to the collapse of a bridge span.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

I was curious how Gabbard was approaching this. I don’t actually hate replacing dense text with better viz etc…but this is just shit you do for someone’s who’s cognitive abilities are entirely warped by tv Like, this is beyond stupid. It’s deeply worrying.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

The BBC obtained a mobile phone that was smuggled out of North Korea. The level of control the regime holds over its citizens is shocking but not surprising.

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

SOUTHSIDE!

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

It’s not a victory because it’s a dumb idea and there may not be two more unqualified people on Earth to try and make it work.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Trump is admitting two things here. The first is that he has been serving Russian interests by protecting Putin on numerous occasions. The second is that Trump is feeling pressure to be harder on Russia, which he really doesn’t want to do. Response: keep up the pressure!

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

I don’t think it’s a particularly hot take to say the person who posted a timelapse of themself playing GTA V on the interstate in their Cybertruck should be in prison

submitted 11 days ago • 50 comments

💻⚠️ European and North American cybercrime investigators say they have dismantled the heart of a malware operation directed by Russian criminals after a global operation involving British, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and US police, - The Guardian

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

I have no patience for this. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.95 in November, 1998. That's $117.27 today. You're dramatically underpaying for games right now. In fact, AAA studios are killing themselves with big bet live-service disasters and microtransactions to cover costs.

submitted 16 days ago • 192 comments

I’m getting a tattoo of this.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

submitted 14 days ago • 86 comments

Great thread. I think most folks on here intuitively know this, but it's important to have it explicitly articulated as Higgins does. Arm yourself with this explanation.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Over a quarter of the Dem House Caucus is 70+. How about we stop doing that

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is excellent news! Hopefully universities are investing in their liberal arts departments to meet this demand. But before I check, let me take this big sip of water.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Millions of Romanians are celebrating tonight nationwide. This is what democracy looks like, despite Russia's insane manipulation campaign and army of influencer-propagandists, the people saw right through the bullshit and made the right call for their future. Romania is undefeated. 🇷🇴🇪🇺

submitted 18 days ago • 203 comments

The turtle laughed. The lizards laughed. The snake laughed. The field mouse laughed, and Frog laughed.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

⚡️ Australia sending retired Abrams tanks to Ukraine despite US objections, media reports. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the upcoming delivery of the tanks when meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome on May 18.

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

>We’re putting a 27% tariff on your exports >No wait we’re just doing 10% >No wait we’re gonna give you a letter with your new tariff >Letter says 27% Okay what’re we even DOING here

submitted 18 days ago • 61 comments

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

submitted 19 days ago • 105 comments

Van Hollen: "Trump's visit to the Middle East- my view is the narrative here was selling out US national interests for the private gain of his business. He essentially gave away the crown jewels of US AI and semiconductor tech to the gulf in exchange for a $2b investment in his stablecoin venture"

submitted 18 days ago • 190 comments

🇰🇷🤝🇯🇵

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Because it's all bullshit. They never believed it, they're just a death cult.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Lead Republican tax bill writer says the quiet part out loud. This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.

submitted 21 days ago • 96 comments

New frontiers in depravity

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

The Asahi Shimbun reports: "Grave of the Fireflies to be streamed on Netflix in Japan as well - praised overseas for its resonant reality of war" The overseas Netflix release led to the creation of viral videos of foreign people reacting to the film's saddest scenes. www.asahi.com/articles/AST...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Am I the last to know? The Qatar jet offered to Trump turns out to be an item unsuccessfully for sale since 2020. The "gift" is not only a Trump grift, but also an attempted scam on the US taxpayer, who will assume costs the owners no longer wish to pay. onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal...

submitted 22 days ago • 173 comments

The GOP budget shows this regime’s true colors. It doesn’t eliminate taxes on tips, social security or overtime. That was just a lie. Instead, it slashes health care & food assistance. All to fund tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations. The grift is almost complete. And we’ll all pay the price.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.

submitted 23 days ago • 265 comments

Who could have predicted this except all of us?

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 91 comments

I can't top this one.

submitted 24 days ago • 295 comments

BRUH THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION IS SAYING IT'S NOT JUST GONNA GET WORSE BUT SPREAD???

submitted 25 days ago • 109 comments