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It has been nineteen years since Google created Google Calendar.... And that's the last time I can remember them creating anything I cared about.

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Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

This is hysterically funny once you get the context.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Well, this is one of the more ominous things I've seen:

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Once again screaming that gen AI is a tool of fascism!!! Always has been, always will be. This will continue for as long as AI exists. This is why they want to make it illegal to restrict it.

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From the federal complaint against David Huerta. Note: DON’T TALK TO THE FUCKING COPS. THAT INCLUDES PROCLAMATIONS ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

submitted 2 days ago • 288 comments

A truly well-researched and magnificent own about immigration. It will not make a difference, of course, but it's lovely to see.

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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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"Violence is never the solution"

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Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

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A few words about “peaceful protests.” 1. At least 5% of people are uncontrollable assholes and will behave badly in any situation, let alone a high-tension one. So a large protest without ANYONE throwing shit, yelling slurs or for violence, etc. is likely not achievable. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

Always remember:

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

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Everyone wants to be a Realist (insist that foreign policy is an amoral object of study) until it’s time to do Realist things (actually counter a potential regional hegemon)

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Elon Musk is as depressingly predictable as Donald Trump. * He turned on the "woke" movement when people called him out and his fee-fees got hurt * He turned on Trump when nobody in the government could stand his whiny ass and they kicked him out. It's all about who sucks his ego the best.

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In this first week of #PrideMonth, a friendly reminder that, much like its author’s views of gender and society, the publication of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was closer to the Apollo 11 Moon landing than it was to today.

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Never has having Peter Griffin explain a joke to me been more heartrending yet personally satisfying: www.reddit.com/r/PeterExpla...

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Fun fact: I didn't QUITE grow up in a cult, but I was pretty cult-adjacent as a kid. Mainly because my parents were really into the Erhard Seminar Training System (later The Landmark Forum), and spent hundreds of dollars on weekend courses there. They didn't go broke, but we were under their spell.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Some days I feel America was doomed because half the people understood a joke was supposed to be clever and funny And the other, smarter half understood that "it's a joke" could be a Get Out Of Jail Free card when you said something offensive or stupid

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Respectfully, and speaking as someone who for years did one good whack before blocking, no you don't. That's mindspace they've taken from you, and attention you've given to them, and both of those are seen from others, none of whom benefit. Consign the trolls to the cornfield the second they appear.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

The reason Ukraine didn’t inform the White House about the drone sneak attack is the same reason they didn’t inform the Kremlin about the drone sneak attack.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

happy pride month!

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

Fantasy fiction taught me that wizards would mine the world hollow in a relentless quest for power. It did not teach me how many so-called "wizards" would mindlessly destroy themselves believing their magic would just FIX EVERYTHING while selling other wizards on a thaumaturgical house of cards.

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The Democrats' 2025 platform is here!

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I feel guilty that I, once a huge Doctor Who fan, never have watched either the black Doctor Who nor the female Doctor Who after years of demanding both... But Doctor Who moved away from being a science-fiction show to more of an encoded fairy tale with electronics, which doesn't interest me. Boo.

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WIFE: What's wrong? ME: (turns over) WIFE: Talk to me. You're upset. Tell me why. ME: (big inhale) Bluesky is getting less "unique daily likers". WIFE: Oh honey. Put it out of your mind and try to get some rest. Big day for you tomorrow with the government scheduled to destroy you like a feral dog.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

I see a lot of people blaming the comics industry for the 6-figure debt that Peter David’s medical struggle put him into. But please, please don’t forget to blame the United States, where not having affordable health care is a personal failing not a community issue.

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Didn't we do this with NFTs?

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When I am elected God, I will write these words in five-mile-wide fiery text to blaze their truth over every city, town, and hamlet in the world: "THAT ARTIST DIDN'T MAKE THAT ART TO PLEASE YOU, AND THAT IS AS IT SHOULD BE"

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If I was your President/dictator, I would have a law that forced every news columnist and commentator to submit their work to a third-party service that would keep track of what they've said and give them an "accurate predictions" score. This would be displayed next to their name at all times.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It's weird watching the end of American dominance brought to us by people who are absolutely promising this will make America great again... If only because we watched Britain tank in the exact same way, for the same reasons, by the same idiot class of people

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"House Republicans narrowly pass Trump's agenda megabill" Well, there goes America. The good news is: this should completely shatter the U.S. economy and cause every other nation to look elsewhere for stability, business and growth. Oh...sorry. I meant good news for the rest of the world.

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"The only thing that magic dependably works on is the party performing it. It does not work directly on the world, but rather can transform the individual into someone who can work directly on the world." - Alan Moore

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hey, person with chronic conditions that qualify me for covid vaccines here, please feel free to lie through your teeth about having any of these to get vaccinated, it is literally prosocial behavior to do so

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments