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How Cory Doctorow describes Kagi: pluralistic.net/2025/02/15/i...

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 21 days ago • 2823 comments

With so many billionaires and tech companies tripping over themselves to tow the line of actual nazis, it's refreshing to have better options like Kagi out there.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus fucking Christ. It appears that Elon just posted content from an explicitly pro-terror Nazi Telegram channel.

submitted 124 days ago • 50 comments

someone on tiktok said, “we’ve got 7 lex luthors and no superman,” and i can’t stop thinking about it

submitted 49 days ago • 47 comments

Some days my #adhd gets in the way of me achieving my goals (okay, pretty much everyday). Today I am feeling particularly unmotivated about writing a blog post. Solution: Task Complaint Form from @danidonovan.com and her magical #AntiPlanner go check her out #DaniDonovan it really does help

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I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.

submitted 58 days ago • 1508 comments

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

submitted 59 days ago • 83 comments

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

submitted 59 days ago • 124 comments

California legislators had an opportunity to create a climate superfund last year, which would have made fossil fuel companies pay the state tens of billions of dollars for the damages of climate change. The bill never made it to a vote.

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

submitted 59 days ago • 299 comments

The fact that Amazon workers were told to keep working in these conditions is unforgivable.

submitted 59 days ago • 90 comments

The truth is out there

submitted 59 days ago • 23 comments

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

submitted 59 days ago • 118 comments

i do worry that, as cultural criticism and art coverage has basically vanished, where and how people are going to find new authors, artists, musicians, etc if they bail from social media. not scolding or anything, i just do legitimately fret as someone who is trying to make a living here

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

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Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to get away with murder. Daniel Penny is allowed to get away with murder. Cops get away with murder all the time. The people pearl clutching about this CEO killing are really concerned with who was killed, not the act of killing.

submitted 89 days ago • 50 comments

Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

submitted 89 days ago • 83 comments

SMITE!!!

submitted 91 days ago • 256 comments

i think INTERSTELLAR is a bona fide masterpiece — maybe nolan's greatest film — and i'm not at all ashamed to say that i weep every time i watch it.

submitted 93 days ago • 709 comments

here’s a comic about smiling

submitted 93 days ago • 161 comments

The health insurance system can kill hundreds of thousands of people by denying coverage for life-saving measures and medications. Yet names and faces of lives lost, of families grieving due to that neglect, aren’t known to us or attributed to the organization that denied life saving care- 🧵 1/?

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

I have news…that place where you got food poisoning is probably not where you got the food poisoning. Time between exposure and symptoms: Campylobacter: 2-6 days E. coli: 2-5 days Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days Norovirus: 12-48 hrs Shigella: 1-3 days Staph aureus: fast Listeria: 9-48 hrs

submitted 95 days ago • 288 comments

Is wearing my noise cancelling headphones to Thanksgiving dinner too on the nose?

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I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

submitted 109 days ago • 472 comments

Being a gamer in your 30s means you get all the games you always wanted but finish maybe 3 of them and replay your favorite ones over and over

submitted 110 days ago • 832 comments

here’s a comic about ❤️being kind❤️

submitted 115 days ago • 304 comments