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FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli. ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

So on brand for me that I crossed continents to Asia for the first time in my life for the sole purpose of seeing the memorial to Tombili (“Chubby”) the Cat in Kadıköy. What made it even better was that one of his live successors joined me for the photo op & was quite vocal in demanding cuddles.

a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump

a human girl, whose true mate was stolen from her, but fate forces her to wed an alpha by mistake

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

how this point interacts with the norms of commentary on protests: if it's true that *any* destruction and disruption will attract a disproportionate amount of attention, then fingerwaggers labeling protests and protestors basedon these scenes are in effect demanding blanket, total discipline

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

None of these guys are in proper uniforms. How is the target here supposed to assume this Sicario bullshit is actually the cops?

Shrek's namesake character is a large, bald, dull-green ogre with a broad, round face, brown eyes, and highly distinctive trumpet-shaped ears. Shrek typically wears crude clothing consisting of a canvas-like shirt, a leather vest, and brown leggings.

apropos of the LAPD actions at the protests, law enforcement (local on up) should also be required to answer requests for their name and badge number

Seems like an issue that governors and members of Congress who oppose Trump's tactics could talk about.

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

this fall, Ving Rhames plays twins who were separated at birth, meeting for the first time, in STRANGER VINGS

I've seen a bunch of references to this, but I hadn't seen the post itself until now. The menswear guy intentionally, riskily revealed that he's undocumented—that he's a DREAMer—as an act of public solidarity and witness in the face of our current fascist ascendancy.

The menswear guy has responded to JD Vance, who suggested he should be deported.

It would be so great if Democratic elected officials started acting as if the president was trying to arrest them all, because he is.

I have made this joke before and it's absolutely full dad zone no ragrets but jsyk this isn't the final fantasy either. they're just gonna keep having more fantasies they've been doing this for years. follow the money

don jr furiously printing out epstein emails and shredding them at mar-a-lago

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Has anyone ever tried jousting on Vespas

They're literally doing the meme

just saw this picture of an HP laptop with the ports on the back and I had no idea I wanted that to come back. this is a future is worth fighting for

Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing

people are getting disappeared, innocent men sent to foreign gulags, the civil service hollowed out, thousands left to die without foreign aid, and schumer is saber rattling about iran. these people make me fucking sick.

you shouldn’t care about it because they might be coming for you next, you should care that they’re coming for anyone at all

every swing voter believes the president has a button that punished bad people and one that protects good people and they vote for people who promise to hit the buttons and get mad when the buttons turn out to not exist, a fact they find so upsetting they cannot retain it.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

For those not familiar, here's the opening paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for the term "remigration," a term which popped up in Europe over a decade ago and until very recently has not been part of the U.S. political discourse. It is NOT a neutral term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigra...

the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide: tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice.