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Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

This came up in my feed as I was mindlessly scrolling and I did a double take because I thought it was an image of Aquaman with a gigantic butt

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

The United States is currently a country where you can be kidnapped by secret police and shipped off to a slave labour concentration camp without ever being charged with a crime or getting a chance to argue your case in front of a judge. If you think it can't happen to you, why do you think that?

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

This is what I’m caught in at work at this very moment.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

TOMORROW: Over 500,000 Americans are taking to the streets at more than 1,200 nationwide events. “One main reason we’re showing up is because we recognize that the creeping authoritarianism is creeping closer and closer towards all of us.” Find an event near you: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 21 hours ago • 88 comments

You know what I just randomly remembered? Pirates vs Ninjas Like, that was such a big meme back in the day. Anyway, I’m old.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Two things I’m sick of: 1. People claiming that anyone opposing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is anti-Semitic. 2. People using Israel’s genocide of Palestinians as a pretext to spread anti-Semitism.

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Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

submitted 2 days ago • 427 comments

A bunch of people in the Animation Guild (including me) are in a task force working on helping make this happen. There's a whole bunch of really smart (not including me) and dedicated volunteers who work in animation that are trying to make sure studios stay here.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs. The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I have always been baffled by the advice to do exercises while you watch TV. Like, no. I am watching TV. If I start exercising, I won’t be able to pay attention to what’s going on.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh, of course

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Well, this is… concerning.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Okay so I'm NOT LOOKING at the news but Cory Booker is filibustering in the Senate in order to draw attention to the lawlessness of Trump, Musk, et al., and I think that's important.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

We are deporting our best and brightest, sending them to be enslaved in torture camps with no hope of release, for protesting this. For protesting the government that massacres aid workers and dumps their bodies in mass graves. How does any human with a soul and a conscience not oppose this?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

It's Trans Day of Visibility! Today of all days I try to remember that even though the world feels pretty fucking hopeless right now, I'm living my life in spite of it all, I am here, I am proud, I am happy, and I wouldn't have done anything different to get here.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Random art from my collection: page 28 from the graphic novel “Snow, Glass, Apples” by @colleendoran.bsky.social. Stunning page, one of 12 from the graphic novel that I own and was part of a traveling museum exhibit from 2023-2024.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Either the TV or the remote in this hotel room is broken. I can turn on the TV and adjust the volume, but that’s it. So no wrestling for me tonite. 😔 (I talked to reception; they’ll send someone by to take a look tomorrow.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is what every Dem leader should be saying - and as Garcia says, if you can't do this, step down and let someone who will fight take your place.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Update: The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,600 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

For the life of me I will never understand why GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra didn’t have an after-credits scene where one of the Joes has to teach some kids not to run out into the street or something. Like, c’mon! Those PSAs were a classic!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A Turkish student living and studying lawfully in the U.S. was arrested by federal immigration officers. A lawyer explained to NPR some of the basic rights people have in such a situation.