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Don't wear goggles to a protest unless they're rated shatter resistant. You're better off with NO eye protection than eyewear that will send shards of plastic into your eye. If you can't find shatterproof goggles, get lacrosse goggles. Cheap and effective eye protection from larger munitions.

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 7 hours ago • 126 comments

Indigenous protesters set up tent 'occupation' at Queen’s Park over Bill 5 www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigen...

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fascism is here already. fuck ICE fuck nazis!!!

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 13 hours ago • 2066 comments

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

submitted 5 hours ago • 80 comments

I have a lot of objectively funny things to say right now but it feels like a situation where everyone is hiding from the xenomorphs and one joke might tip off the feeding frenzy so I’ll just keep my pretty mouth shut. for the moment.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you you're overreacting, and rich liberals saying "well, the fascists do have a bit of a point".

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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 7 hours ago • 569 comments

Art is a bit like a living thing. 🌷 Sometimes it needs time and space to grow before it's ready to come out. Until then, you nurture it. A gardener can't make flowers bloom on command, only take care of them and wait for them to grow! It's OK to not make art every day. You are still an artist! ❤️

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

SS behaviour

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Masks and respirators have long been a part of the cyberpunk aesthetic, because genre always involves bloodthirsty corporate overlords driving massive amounts of pollution. Perhaps it's time to start updating our wardrobes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Mask up, punks!

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Fuck ICE.

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

I said healthcare is a human right and now Elon Musk is posting about “suicidal empathy” at 3 am:

submitted 19 hours ago • 509 comments

this guy is basically a terry pratchett character. definitely click thru and read it all.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I was out on my daily walk this evening with my daughter. It was dusk and we were watching for the owl and saw a group of javalina instead, 😃. They weren’t afraid of us and we weren’t afraid of them. In the twilight, as they walked by, they reminded me of the group of boar in Princess Mononoke.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 1 day ago • 634 comments

Jumping spiders were the first step in curing my arachnophobia

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Please stop using "Fallujah" as a catchphrase every time you see heavily armed paramilitary forces on U.S. streets. The "City of Mosques", profoundly damaged by the US invasion. 70% of its homes destroyed, attacked with white phosphorous and depleted uranium by a military with no right to be there.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

People don’t realize just how much damage this administration is doing to American science—and confidence in American science globally. Everyone I speak with inside is horrified…

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

This is why they want to kill education, by the way. They want people to grow up in a world where this stuff never happened, so they will resist the knowledge if it does find them, and resent those who try to burst their pretty bubble.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 778 comments

Police state

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Los Angeles: About 100 people, mostly kids on bikes and skateboards, hanging out peacefully in the intersection near the federal detention center on Alameda. LAPD and CHP are staged and have some of the streets closed.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you are going to be an Irish writer." Maeve Binchy

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Hey babe wake up, universities can't pay their workers because they need that money for cop shit and ableism.

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I feel like peanut butter is underrated as a sauce ingredient.

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Friendly reminder that if you use gen AI to make your stuff, YOU did not make it. You prompted it. A writer writes, an editor edits, an artist draws (etc). Gen AI is the antithesis of creativity. Like, you’re not a chef, you’re presenting a (stolen) microwave meal and want applause for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The Expense.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“ICE ISN’T PROFITABLE/ IMPERIALISM ISN’T PROFITABLE” They are using your money! Not theirs! They don’t care how much they use!

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Asexuality is a sexual orientation describing little to no sexual attraction. Ayyyyyy sexuality is a guy at the bar irritating Chandler from Friends while talking about sexuality Aye, Sexuality is a pirate Dad giving his kids The Talk

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This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments