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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” - Ursula K. Le Guin Macro photography, microscopy & sometimes I draw things. Collector of video game soundtracks on vinyl
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Joe Rogan always looks like he’s being viewed on the back of a spoon.

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All along its goal was to gain access to critical government information and personal data to sell it off to the highest bidder.

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

Excellent question.

submitted 8 hours ago • 517 comments

this does offend my sensibilities as an american

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

👇👇👇

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I once had a grant client who ran an arts org in a suburban town and also sat on their town council as the arts rep and HOO BOY the things I heard from her about how the police demanded special treatment. coming into budget meetings with a cop entourage to intimidate everyone else at the table

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

People are getting kidnapped by the secret police for arguing the position of the Financial Times opinion page.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

The vinyl soundtrack to Team Fortress 2 has been restocked by @ipecac.com and is available from their Bandcamp once again: valvestudioorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/fight-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

The way politics works is that Dems pass legislation like the IRA that are explicitly designed to spend more money in red states than blue states, and they get repaid by having the next president illegally seize the money Congress allocated to blue states www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

While working on this piece, I learned there are more "private security" guards than regular police. They do quite a lot of "policing," however. It's a shadow economy that is so under-studied, no one could tell me how big it was.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

does feel like we shouldn't overlook the fact that amid all the extremely funny shit the richest man in the world in no uncertain terms announced that his wealth is responsible for republicans' control of government and that they, and the president, should be beholden to him

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Senate GOP are lying. Full stop. Not “misinformation”. Not “misleading”. It is a lie. Knowing, intentional, from Senators who are aware of the law. Undocumented *do not* receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

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We keep hearing that Covid "became politicized" without any indication of WHO FUCKING POLITICIZED IT. It's no wonder people keep voting for these freaks.

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I have a more fun way. The AI overview gets disabled if you add in a cuss word. Put this at the end of your search string: -fuck It tells Google not to include that word, but it still disables the AI overview. You might need to pick a different word, depending on what you’re searching for.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Captain and crew of said civilian ship are much more likely to face prosecution and incarceration because the EU's tacit policy is as many of these people should die as possible.

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Immediately essential follow for those of us following repro news:

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I used to work with a guy who thought he sounded smarter when he used big words He didn’t always know what he was saying, though

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My coworker was just talking about this. Her son’s inhaler is no longer covered under our insurance at work.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately." My latest newsletter is about why art and culture are more important than ever, and why the world's most powerful people are trying to wreck them. This is a huge theme in my new book! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The Madleen Gaza aid flotilla – where Greta Thunberg is aboard – reports they've just spotted a drone hovering overhead:

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

BEEF - Billionaires Eagerly Expressing Fealty PITA - Pardon Investments Trump Accepts KABAB - Kushner-Arranged Benevolent Arab Billionaire

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Was really impressed with this profile of Curtis Yarvin from Ava Kofman, one of our most talented investigative reporters, which was full of perfectly revealing scenes of her subject. But I particularly enjoyed this passage:

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Weird that so many government employees and contractors feel compelled to hide their names, faces, and corporate logos when carrying out a policy they insist is just and right and moral.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

"Thought Police"/"Minority Report"

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ICE goons roleplaying Call of Duty while in front of a Mexican restaurant with a sign that says “Make Tacos not Walls”, as if the symbolism could get more on the nose

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ∶ French-made existential grief ∷ NieR: Automata ∶ French maid existential grief

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I bet defund the police is resonating like a muthafucka now. You can’t afford groceries, but these goofy asses have running around with night vision in the daytime money.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Perfection. 🐛🪲🐝

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The Black Alumni Association of Dartmouth's email was suspended by the college after they shared this message of concern over the treatment of student protesters. As a result, they asked us to share their message widely. dartmouth.imodules.com/controls/ema...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he *lost* money.

submitted 5 days ago • 188 comments

I watched “Late Night with the Devil” the other day and while it wasn’t a *great* movie - I find myself thinking about how it could have been with a larger budget

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On the three-year anniversary of the verdict in Depp v. Heard, I wrote about realizing the terrible truth that she was, in fact, the victim—and seeing the DARVO playbook weaponized against endless women online and in the courts ever since. spitfirenews.com/p/what-we-di...

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

The intellectual crime of being against massacring starving people when they crowd aid trucks, of bombing hospitals, of targeting journalists and doctors for death, killing tens of thousands of children--all in the vain hope of avoiding repercussions from the criminals behind these atrocities.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Remember when Donald Trump got caught with all sorts of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after saying he didn't have anything, and then he got indicted but the judge slow walked the case to death? Yup. He did that.

submitted 6 days ago • 109 comments

let's enjoy the internet while we have it frens (solar event is happening for the next couple of days)

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5 years ago every LinkedIn Dude was posting pictures of Greta Thunberg with hollow 'inspiring' messages of action on climate change and fawning about her bravery As soon as she took up the cause of Palestinians being killed they stopped

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

I’m sure the Palantir database will only be used against the people MAGA doesn’t like…

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

hyperallergic.com/1016952/amid...

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Yes, I am saying that every single American member of the IDF who participated in this genocide should face criminal charges. The commission of a war crime by an American is punishable by life imprisonment *regardless of where the war crime occurred.* www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

If they come to our streets... they will eventually come to your streets.

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