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A couple of months ago, I posted a checklist of things one could do to be useful in these days of rising fascism. Here’s Part Two of that list—more focused on ways to protect you and those in your tightest circles of care. Part One is embedded and also skeeted below.

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 6 days ago • 597 comments

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's you on the ground.

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Wikipedia... IS THE SUMMARY. THAT'S WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE IS. A SUMMARY.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

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Disney and Universal are suing AI company Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement “Midjourney is [a] bottomless pit of plagiarism” "Piracy is piracy"

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

"Bothsidesism is 'suicide for democracy.' In becoming stenographers rather than reporters, journalists effectively legitimize MAGA lies, hate, and fascism as just one reasonable side of a debate in which all partisans are equally credible."

submitted 7 days ago • 147 comments

These are con-artists. And I feel like I'm going crazy because so few people recognize them when it used to be a very common skill most people had!

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments

Remember making art and expressing joy is a form of protest. They want you to be overwhelmed and lose sight of the beauty around you. They want to distract you and control your gaze to be locked in fear. Dare to look and gaze on the world around you with joy and wonder.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

My humble brag is that I'd never have known ChatGPT was down if you hadn't told me.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Fight the Empire.

submitted 8 days ago • 248 comments

Taco 47 hates you in law enforcement and in the military. The only thing he hates worse is the constitution. You took an oath to protect and serve the the American people, Not a dictator with a dick like a tater-tot.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 10 days ago • 886 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 10 days ago • 2419 comments

Abolish ICE. I survived growing up without these asshats and I don’t see why we need them now.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: International coalition of over two dozen worker unions declares emergency over AI use in animation

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

submitted 12 days ago • 430 comments

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

submitted 11 days ago • 1576 comments

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 13 days ago • 107 comments

Do the New Dooms Make Sense as a Series? youtu.be/cb1JKnsbI-E

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

My precious bby 🥰

submitted 17 days ago • 5 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 18 days ago • 105 comments

Yea it is.

submitted 18 days ago • 113 comments

Whenever I see "AI ethics concerns" it's always crap like "should Claude have a social security number?!" and not "should OpenAI all be in jail for marketing ChatGPT like it's your friend and designing it to prioritize continuous engagement above all else?"

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

Horizon: Forbidden West -- Anatomy of a Crowd Pleaser youtu.be/cdSUtxWyewY

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Satanically Adorable: What Makes Cult of the Lamb so Charming? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q6B...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

submitted 20 days ago • 101 comments

Time to post it again.

submitted 20 days ago • 92 comments

Surviving Pacific Drive youtu.be/jOln-0c5dPY?...

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Patreon Post! Current release schedule and upcoming projects. www.patreon.com/posts/spring...

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Why the FUCK would I pay actual human currency for what is essentially a text-to-speech kindle book? Why the FUCK would I ever want that?? THATS NOT THE POINT OF AN AUDIOBOOK.

submitted 24 days ago • 100 comments

The cruelty is the point.

submitted 25 days ago • 3032 comments

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to suppress internal dissent and tighten control over information. A new wave of polygraphs is underway, targeting individuals suspected of leaking or resisting from within. Internal guidance has been distributed. Please 🙏 read and follow!

submitted 25 days ago • 117 comments

This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.

submitted 26 days ago • 219 comments

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

Crash Course is a free educational video series that is used in over 90% of high schools in the US. Because it's free, teachers and students decide for themselves whether they want to use it...and they do. Also...the world record for most high fives in a day is 15,338.

submitted 27 days ago • 38 comments

neglected guinea pig + scary cat #boblena #thunderbolts

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

On Mass Effect, our love scenes -- soft-lit gentle scenes players got after getting to know their love interest for two-thirds of the game -- got called "virtual orgasmic rape" by Fox News. Nothing is respectable enough. They aren't attacking porn. They're attacking intimacy and openness.

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There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

submitted 33 days ago • 955 comments

Yeah, that’s Superman. youtu.be/Ox8ZLF6cGM0?...

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Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

God every time I see someone say ai is helpful because it makes writing/art easier I just think like... if you really need ai to help you tell your story, then you have nothing of worth to say. You just want the gratification that comes with telling a story that resonates with people.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments