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We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

submitted 8 days ago • 338 comments

every day I wake up and choose to log onto this website in order to be mugged by the most appalling facts imaginable

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or two-thirds of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic. "Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

submitted 34 days ago • 111 comments

Nothing like the feeling of dawning horror that the deodorant you’ve used successfully for a decade+ has suddenly been discontinued

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I saw Sinners yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. I want to see it again!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Accidentally became hooked on Nate the Hoof Guy videos. This guy trims cow hooves on dairy farms and narrates his way through it all. Is this relevant to my life? No. But it’s good, necessary work and he seems good at it.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

submitted 61 days ago • 67 comments

Oh this SAMHSA thing is going to be a problem for me in my professional life ohhh noooo

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

submitted 72 days ago • 306 comments

bring back sci fi movies that are 90 minutes long and shot 50% in the desert and 50% in a weird-looking industrial building

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments

Governments don’t need to be profitable. Money is fake. Food is real. Medical care is real. Violence is real. Safety is real.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

This comic is so incredible, it absolutely blew me away.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

submitted 81 days ago • 15 comments

Went to my 5th grader’s student-led conference today and came home with a flyer stating an adult at the school has been diagnosed with Whooping Cough

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

You ever think about how Republican voters never need to urgently call their representatives out of fear that they're gonna collectively support the Democratic party agenda for no explicable reason? Must be nice!

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

submitted 85 days ago • 36 comments

Today it's Palestine, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", the next day it's the Luigi Mangione meme you liked on Instagram

submitted 86 days ago • 26 comments

I bought two CDs today after being influenced by @eve6.bsky.social to buy CDs. I got a Type O Negative single of Cinnamon Girl (it contained a coupon for $2 off October Rust if purchased by 9/24/97) and Myrkur’s Folkesange

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

All right lads; we're giving up Target for Lent.

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

This is probably the most insidious thing about Trumpism as an ideology. It's negatively polarizing people against the idea of helping other people in any way at all, even if they themselves benefit too.

submitted 93 days ago • 12 comments

Idaho is so embarrassing

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

submitted 95 days ago • 69 comments

I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

BAD. BAD BAD BAD WEEWOO WEEWOO BAD NOT GOOD BAD HOLY FUCK BAD.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

It's amazing how much of the support for Donald Trump and grievance politics comes down to "if I have to interact with people different than me in public life without using slurs I'd rather burn the whole country down."

submitted 98 days ago • 14 comments

Don’t think “they can’t do that.” Think of what they would need to do in order to do that, and realize that’s what they intend to do.

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

I got a couple of new-to-me shirts in the mail today and I tried one on after Thora was home and she said “Um… hmm. It… it kind of looks like something Grammie would wear.” (The shirt was objectively bad so she was 100% correct but still)

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

submitted 104 days ago • 143 comments

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 110 days ago • 145 comments

I’m watching The Truman Show for the first time and the exhaled noise he makes when Pluto the dog stops jumping on him is so funny

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

I found myself starting to doomscroll, but instead of doing that I have decided to stop scrolling and tell you about communal shower traditions in Iceland and why I love them. And no, it‘s not sexual. It‘s because of mental health. Yes, this will be a 🧵 1/?

submitted 117 days ago • 38 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 119 days ago • 200 comments

every day i find out what cartoonishly evil thing they did, like uh oh! tesla intern octavius fiddlehorne has deleted the database at the research institute for cancer in kids. and all i can do is post until i find the words that activate one of my followers to go manchurian candidate on elon musk

submitted 120 days ago • 35 comments

I took a whole Unisom last night to try to appease the sleep gods. Technically it worked, but now I feel like a human slug whose batteries have run out

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

average senate republican: here is the new US Constitution I wrote on the back of a napkin this is now the law get fucked average senate democrat: I wish I knew someone in the senate

submitted 123 days ago • 22 comments

I had a really lovely, lengthy conversation with W last night (nearly age 15) about politics, current events, and how weird it is to live in an extremely conservative state when you yourself are not conservative. Teens are great, actually?

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

submitted 124 days ago • 102 comments

it sure would be cool if someone like. did something

submitted 124 days ago • 30 comments

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & distro freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

submitted 127 days ago • 112 comments

LIVE 👏 TO 👏 SEE 👏 THEM 👏 DIE

submitted 126 days ago • 37 comments