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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

submitted 13 hours ago • 89 comments

THE TERRIBLE DRAGON SMAUG

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

The only other correlation I can think of, really, is that if you put any stock into IQ like AT ALL you are a very big loser and I don't want you sitting with us.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Probably don't need to worry too much about finding the appropriate form of anti-fascist protest because there is no form of protest that fascists will find acceptable

submitted 13 hours ago • 23 comments

Atlantic Shores Cancels Major New Jersey Offshore Wind Project Amid Federal Headwinds

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved. Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

1. When Trump ran for office, he pledged to "restore free speech." Then, as president, he deployed the military against people protesting his immigration policies. This wasn't an isolated incident It is part of an attack on freedom of speech, targeting anyone who does not share Trump’s ideology

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 comments

We can’t afford healthcare because we need that money to shoot rubber bullets into the stomachs of people who don’t want their neighbors to get kidnapped.

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

submitted 14 hours ago • 119 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 8 hours ago • 22 comments

they want to blame Black people so badly. there's been a consistent push to malign one of the most loyal voting bases for Democrats and if it continues to succeed, Dems will actually see electoral wipeouts for years to come.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

los angeles california 1940

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Look, I'm a well-off middle-age cis white guy with four law degrees, three in commercial law fields. At this point, even I can see that key institutions have failed at the moment they were most needed because we have permitted the development of a largely unregulated and untaxed oligarch class.

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

it’s truly so wild to hear electeds talk about ICE like it’s in the goddamn constitution when it’s been around for less than half my life and they’re older than I am

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

Keep it up folks, if we really work for it we can trigger catastrophic failure of the oceanic oxygen pool and then all our problems are ... well, not solved, but not our problems any more

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Reminds me of living in Seattle in 2020. Family members would reach out asking if the city was in martial law and I was like ‘what? I just walked to the store and got a bubble tea’. To be clear, we had very real protests, but the idea that the whole city was getting destroyed was a total fantasy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Yes. Exactly like that.

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

Hey as a reminder, if you have contact with a bat, that should be treated as a potential rabies exposure and if a fucking healthcare worker tries to dissuade you from getting the vaccine, report their fucking ass because holy hell you do NOT mess around with rabies??

submitted 23 hours ago • 30 comments

FOR IDRIS ELBA (Palindrome) Able sir, did nobody fit recognise it ties in? Go, certify — do Bond, Idris Elba!

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

As the government is putting up photos and rewards for protesters that they want to go after, remember that the person who called in the tip about Luigi never got paid.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 1 day ago • 270 comments

This is sort of what happened with DOGE. They were convinced there was a mountain of easily-detectable waste and fraud that a handful of folks equipped with "common sense" could root out & eliminate in a manner of weeks. And there wasn't. But they had promised headlines about big cuts...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

The entire state of South Dakota, where she's from, is a massive fraudulent haven for white collar criminals who skirt tax laws and hide money. It's arguably the most lawless state in the union. A shocking percentage of people in her state either are criminals or abet criminals.

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

One of the memes on the left is about how cops can contain one 1000 person march but not ten 100 person marches and honestly just having two marches in the same city a small distance away from each other can debilitate a police force

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

“One day before the Trump administration deployed U.S. Marines to confront protesters in Los Angeles, [DHS Sec] Kristi Noem asked Defense [Sec] Pete Hegseth to direct the military to detain or arrest “lawbreakers,” a move one expert called “a grave escalation.’” www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

Post a ten year old picture of yourself.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Immigration is good, actually.

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

And as I always harp on when this comes up— not just cervical cancer! HPV causes penile cancer, anal cancer, head and neck cancers. It is important for people of every gender to get the vaccine, and in the US you can get it up to age 45

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

Jaws at 50: Was the Terrifying Movie Really to Blame for Worldwide Shark Declines? • @whysharksmatter.bsky.social digs into history for @therevelator.org therevelator.org/jaws-at-50-s...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

PSA: If you think a guy standing on a vandalized Waymo car with a Mexican flag is a bigger issue than the president calling for the arrest of a governor for no reason, you may have lost the plot.

submitted 1 day ago • 319 comments

I just watched the baseball episode of Poker Face so this came at the right time on my TL. (I don't like sports, but this is cool.)

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Doomers really need to dial it down right now and actually pay attention to what is happening. It's not just that they're incompetent, they're fucking up massively. And this is their big moment, if they fuck up the martial law rollout idk that they get another chance

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

There's this super cool thing tech companies use to decide what products to build. They ask people "would you use this?" and then use synthesis techniques to interpret the answer as "yes" no matter what it actually was. This is called "validation" and you can make six figures doing it for a living.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

reminder that gavin newsom is a genuinely terrifying person who routinely allows his hatred for homeless people to propel him into public acts of cruelty that no regular person would ever be associated with in broad daylight. you do not have to hand it to that man!

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Sending the Marines to shut this down is 2025's Footloose remake.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

I was in the counterprotest to Boston's "Straight Pride" in 2019. We were entirely peaceful, harmed no one. Those we were protesting shouted constant provocations and flew literal Nazi flags. We were then kettled, maced, and beaten by Pepper Jack's bike squad. Yr "peace" means nothing to cops.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Friends: Unless you are from Los Angeles, are an American West historian, or a Latinx/Latine scholar, you might not understand how intrinsic the Mexican flag is to protests movements there. Grape boycotts, Chicano high school protests, all of it. It's history.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There’s been a lot written about the reactionary backlash to the 2020 protests but not enough about how much of Trump’s current shtick is driven by that night he got scared and had to hide in the basement.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

A lifelong liar and the world’s biggest antivaxxer broke his ‘promise’ not to destroy vaccination. Bill Cassidy knew exactly what self-serving partisan deal he made and who he was making it with.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments