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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 127 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1564 comments

#collapse #dystopia

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This still haunts me: “The American dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now…” — J.G. Ballard, 1983 [via @austinkleon.bsky.social]

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Explaining [waves around] all this to my 9-year-old, and thinking of Emerson in 1851: “one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by the new records of shame…a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, ‘What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?’”

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Behold! My cherished copy of Lois Lane #80! An anonymous former owner altered the iconic Kurt Swan cover's Superman into a beatnik saying "hey, baby, cool off!" Would I trade this for a "mint" copy? Are you serious?

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

A public service announcement from He-Man that I think some people missed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoXw...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

If i were president i would issue an executive order stating that everyone had to love each other and listen to CDs and then I'd push through universal healthcare

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

I play Wordle first, in order to feel smart and capable, and then I play Connections to remind me that the universe is a baffling, capricious “fuck you”

submitted 8 days ago • 304 comments

A great first date activity is going to the CD store

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

Oh; I concur that this is not my circus, but those ARE, in fact, my monkeys. And therein lies the problem, constable: this circus has obtained my monkeys by nefarious means.

submitted 358 days ago • 5 comments

I'm feeling nostalgic for those days when the leopards stopped eating after they'd finished the face.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

gonna start a death metal band called Live Laugh Love and we are gonna be huge. so anytime you are in a suburban mom’s kitchen, you’ll see that on her wall and think wow this bitch is hardcore.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Insomnia is just your body's way of telling you our society might be collapsing

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

submitted 14 days ago • 521 comments

after the fall we should rebuild a society where everyone communicates through trombone like charlie browns parents

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 15 days ago • 541 comments

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 17 days ago • 192 comments

Boy, you're cruising along pretty well on these DC Valentines and then--BOOM. You get your romantic ass handed to you.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

I’ll be honest outside of maybe 5 dog breeds I think people are just making shit up. There’s little dog, medium dog, big dog, Marmaduke, that sort of thing

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings!

submitted 18 days ago • 86 comments

7 Stages of Pen Grief: 1. Realizing it doesn't work 2. Scribbling on the notebook 3. Scribbling harder on some cardboard or whatever 4. Looking at the full ink reservoir and frowning 5. Sucking on the ballpoint 6. Scribbling on the notebook some more 7. Throwing it across the room

submitted 18 days ago • 293 comments

Some Mulder for your timeline

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Mae Jemison made out-of-this-world progress for Black women. In 1992, she became the first Black woman to fly to space on the space shuttle Endeavour. She was also the first Black woman admitted to the astronaut training program, in 1987.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Every day I get closer to understanding how it must have felt when the incoming Senator was Caligula's horse.

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

Reposting me let's your followers know you like alternative rock

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

We owned many very old very well-functioning Subarus growing up so when people said they were "lesbian" cars but no one told me what a "lesbian" was I had to guess that "lesbians" were super-reliable people who required no maintenance and worked in freezing weather.

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

You used to be able to walk into a store and buy CDs

submitted 36 days ago • 138 comments

You know the Democrats are in real trouble when they can't even figure out how to fundraise off it

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

This video has brought me such joy. I can’t stop singing the song lol. It feels like a forehead kiss 🥹

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

submitted 37 days ago • 206 comments

Teen Vogue, man. An essential news source. No, seriously. We live in very strange times.

submitted 39 days ago • 16 comments

Do you think if I walked into the hospital and said hi I’m a democrat, that they would give me Xanax? Asking for all of us.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

My dad, Russ Tamblyn, and David Lynch celebrating the wrap of Twin Peaks in the 90s. Heartbreaking to lose such a visionary artist at this particular time in our history.

submitted 45 days ago • 29 comments

Very informative

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