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Waveform delivery service 🎧 audio engineer and DIY organizer 🎤 Mostly post about politics and history

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…Elon Musk is going to buy TikTok isn’t he?

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

Elite democrats giving bland speeches about democracy and continuity on the same stage as Elon Musk doing literal sieg heil is such a perfect microcosm of the state of our country, it’s almost too on the nose.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Some nuance to add to the discussion about “slave firefighters” I’m seeing on Instagram. I’m becoming increasingly concerned about my community’s propensity to simply believe infographics because they confirm prior biases. You can’t change the world if you don’t actually know what’s happening.

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

You really gotta hand it to Octavia Butler. Parable of the Sower is turning out to be spot on about almost everything, once again.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

submitted 167 days ago • 115 comments

“Dead End on Papaya Street” is the noir screenplay Jimmy Buffett never got to write.

submitted 166 days ago • 126 comments

factions of the far right may be eating each other alive, but they always do this, and would be just as glad to turn and sink their teeth into your neck. the sniping can be entertaining and useful, but don't mistake it for meaningful fractures in the project of ressentiment.

submitted 168 days ago • 36 comments

Barack Obama has shared his top erotic free-to-play games of 2024

submitted 176 days ago • 133 comments

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.

submitted 177 days ago • 108 comments

A friend described the current Democratic response to the political moment “bringing a strongly worded letter to a knife fight” and I can tell that’s one of those phrases that’s going to be sticking

submitted 180 days ago • 85 comments

My theory is that a lot of what’s driving the Trump movement is people’s desire to be free of all social constraints and moral rules governing their behavior. It boils down to “I want to do exactly what I want at all times and not feel bad about it”. I have a story to illustrate this-

submitted 180 days ago • 1 comment

I am utterly convinced that if the Democrats ran AOC in 2028 they would win in a landslide. There’s a very deep well of working class anger at the brutal unfairness of our society, and it’s a crime that the Dems fumbled the bag to the point that a literal billionaire was the one to tap into it.

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating reporting that illuminates a crucial aspect of Putin’s transformation of Russian society

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

The ovulation tracking app, "Ovia", now mandates you identify what state you live in. Delete immediately and warn anyone who might need to know.

submitted 187 days ago • 98 comments

Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.

submitted 189 days ago • 17 comments

This guy is like a real life V for Vendetta

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money

submitted 190 days ago • 288 comments

Imagine how grim the Grayzone office holiday party is going to be

submitted 189 days ago • 19 comments

Hearing unconfirmed reports that Timothee Chalamet is the United Healthcare shooter.

submitted 191 days ago • 1 comment