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Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster announced at the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

submitted 64 days ago • 46 comments

Proud of Cory for holding the floor for 23 hours and counting calling out Trump’s destabilizing policies, including his reckless new taxes. I was glad to join Cory on the floor and look forward to forcing a vote tomorrow on my legislation to challenge Trump’s trade war with Canada.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

You can probably trace this back to the Nixon pardon, the post-2008 "Too big to jail" decline in white collar prosecutions, and of course more recently the half hearted Trump prosecution. These are fundamentally political, not legal problems

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

This is a really good way of looking at art -- "The conversational partner changed" is SUCH a good way of phrasing how I personally see art/writing/music/etc. Original post: www.tumblr.com/shinesurge/7...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

realized i never posted this wuk lamat chibi i drew here #ffxiv

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

And, to be clear, it's almost certainly happening *because* the base has been screaming for action from elected Democrats. This isn't "relax, they've got this." This is "keep yelling, it's working."

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

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there are 46 other senate democrats. perhaps they, too, could each filibuster for a day. intriguing concept...

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Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.

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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

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"Girl Scout Cookie Breakfast" is the name of my next album

submitted 38 days ago • 145 comments

Very important messaging guidance — colleagues: Start saying DOGE is "stealing from you"

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

Smudge wants to know what the heck you're doing down there

submitted 66 days ago • 323 comments

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submitted 66 days ago • 21 comments

All of my #FFXIV job snowflakes together ❄️☃️ Thanks for coming along for the journey!

submitted 139 days ago • 15 comments

Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut (repost to add alt text)

submitted 351 days ago • 54 comments

The wisteria in my backyard is blooming like crazy, it smells so good and it's absolutely FULL of bees 🐝

submitted 376 days ago • 21 comments

GREEN MORAY EEL #pixelart

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The idea that there is or needs to be a one-to-one correspondence between "college major" and "career," such that you're going to be a loser/failure if you can't immediately read off a clear job from your major, IS A LIE. Everyone involved knows it's a lie -- except students and parents.

submitted 487 days ago • 17 comments

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

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Ok, so. Back in 2002, my honors English class had us do, as a MAJOR part of the grade, a thesis on whatever topic we wanted. As a pretentious nerd, I decided, initially, to do mine on ‘how a story is written’. One of the first parts of this project was to assemble primary sources. 1/?

submitted 491 days ago • 8 comments

this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.

submitted 492 days ago • 144 comments