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submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Mai Shiranui from Street Fighter 6✨

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

I'm just gonna let AI rot everyone else's brains so I can reign as the smartest person on earth

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submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

At protest against DOGE, Congressman Glenn Ivey tells NIH workers facing mass layoffs, "We're gonna make Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker of the House in two years, right?"

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating without AI have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

submitted 26 days ago • 505 comments

Measles is surging, and the guy in charge of public health is RFK Jr.—an anti-vaxxer. Meanwhile, Trump is gutting the CDC, FDA, and NIH. Watch and share this. Know the symptoms. Because the people who should be protecting and informing us just got fired. (Video 🧵)

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

I'm loving these skits www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yQabfg/

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The concept of human prosperity does not hinge upon any expert knowledge or tradesman skills. It primarily rests upon how likeable you are. The rest builds off that.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

While not giving into doomerism, I have stopped being hopeful with advancements in tech. Adam Bleakney and UIC started research for a hands-free wheelchair a few years back, but my initial thought was: Current wheelchairs are prohibitively expensive WITH insurance. Who can afford this?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND!!!!!!!! @pringusmcdingus.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

NEW: A White House official's sworn statement that Elon Musk isn't technically in charge of DOGE has added to the confusion at the US DOGE Service, where workers say they have no idea who the DOGE Administrator, ie their boss, actually is. This is from @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 8 days ago • 401 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 8 days ago • 712 comments

On a day named for a saint who wouldn’t bow to Caesar, I was so glad to read this beautiful story. I think you will be, too. “We’re just as much a part of this world as anyone else. We’re here to stay, and we will not be erased by a Christo-fascist, neo-Nazi administration.” - Tanya Walker

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The Super Bowl is over, and we are now in the 40th year since the Chicago Bears won the big game. Meanwhile, the arts and culture scene in Chicago just keeps winning. Here are a few favorites and underdogs to place your bets on: to.wttw.com/4aVMPcx

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

if you need me I'll be shouting this from the nearest rooftop

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

DOOMERISM IS NOT A STRATEGY. If this is the first time the state has ever been an adversary for you, take your cue from people who this is business as usual for and DO SOMETHING.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve reached the point where I only have time to practice things I HAVE to practice and I hate all of it and I just want to play anything else.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

You exist in this moment in time as you are because someone more powerful allowed it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

scoop: PBS is closing its DEI office in response to President Trump’s recent executive order. Note from CEO Paula Kerger

submitted 12 days ago • 186 comments

If you have two parties, and one party wants ethnic cleansing and eugenics, and the other party wants to cooperate with them and meet in the middle, you have one party that wants ethnic cleansing and eugenics.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 12 days ago • 492 comments

Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased - https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Wish you could edit Godot scenes in context of a bigger scene, like in Unity? I scripted a plugin which hijacks your viewports to do exactly that. You just gotta hit save though 🤷. Grab it here: github.com/CozyCubeGame... #GodotEngine #gamedev

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

“Warner says the kid OD’d on a mixture of Pop Rocks and unfermented Pepto Bismol. Word on the street is it’s called ‘Catalina Island Crack’. Munch says they picked him up off 6th & Waverly screaming that the straws were biting back.” #SVUFutureDrugs

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Israel has repeatedly violated the Lebanon ceasefire, continuing frequent strikes despite the November 27 agreement. Here’s how https://aje.io/7qqmbx

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Always anchor your TVs and furniture to the wall.

submitted 15 days ago • 167 comments

Elon is such a classic villain. He wanted to be seen as saving the world with no actual work and when we didn’t buy it he decided he would destroy it. That’s some comic book shit.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

coffee ain’t gonna cut it today. i need a week by the sea that ends with me being eaten by a shark.

submitted 14 days ago • 187 comments

The real hierarchy of needs

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

Major breaking trans news: The States of Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block it from enforcing a national gender affirming care ban for those under 19 years of age. This is the second major lawsuit over Trump's trans ban EO. Docs to come.

submitted 15 days ago • 145 comments

After nearly a decade at HuffPost, today is my last day. I’ve grown so much & I’m grateful for the journey. This has been a dream job and now I’m on to new dreams. I’ll still be writing, hosting and moderating, just doing it as a freelancer for now. Pitch and commission me at [email protected].

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Yesterday, I was laid off after 10 years at HuffPost. I’m obviously gutted. But once I take a breath, I’ll be open to jobs & freelance work, both in journalism and outside of it, given the state of our industry. To get in touch: [email protected] Signal: marinafang.72

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

lol we’re all gonna die. CDC sets vaccine schedules. FDA monitors our food/medicine safety. This will kill people. Not in years but days. Months. This is a fucking emergency.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Are you a federal government employee? Do you work with or have insight into DOGE? Do you work at Treasury and/or Bureau of Fiscal Service? If you’re any of the above please contact me using a non-work device. You can find me on Signal at LBarron07.01

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Motherfucker.

submitted 15 days ago • 369 comments