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yes, just looking at his saber skills #renewtheacolyte

Increasingly severe cyclones, grazing by invasive goats and persistent turmoil in Yemen have threatened the survival of the country's iconic dragon's blood tree.

I keep having to restate to comrades that Tru*p is broadly unpopular and that this is an ACTUAL opportunity. Even some organizers seem to be convinced that this guy is more popular than he is. His fans are not THE COUNTRY. Stop being propagandized by the terrible US mainstream media.

How you sound to me.

guess ball really is life

Love Death + Robots Vol. 4 is now out on Netflix, and I wrote two of its episodes: "The Other Large Thing" and "Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners," both directed by Oscar-winning animator Patrick Osborne. I hope you enjoy both, and the entire terrific new season.

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

"May Divorce Be With You" - The American Bar Association

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

i wanted to collect links people are posting to good polygon-adjacent sites + ways to follow/support folks who've been laid off from there - almost certainly extremely incomplete but maybe it'll be helpful? haunts.neocities.org/polygon

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What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

In southern Syria, a violent new Israeli occupation emerges Israeli forces have advanced miles into Syrian territory — confiscating land and homes, killing farmers, and seeking to divide the region's diverse population. By Tareq al-Salameh www.972mag.com/southern-syr...

Gamers tm will push a nintendo boycott because switch 2 expensive but nary a peep about BDS and microsoft lol

Tiers: 1.) cancel your gamepass 2) Boycott Call of Duty, Minecraft, Candy Crush 3) boycott all Microsoft gaming products, including consoles, accessories, Microsoft owned studios such as Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, Xbox Game Studios These are tiered to remind you that some is better than none

Israel bombed the last functioning Gaza hospital, killing a child amidst the chaos. The genocide continues as Israel continues to concentrate Palestinians in its violent, Western-backed apartheid extermination. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

Powerful

It’s always weird realising that people will pay more for a blank Moleskine notebook than for a novel.

This is high art

Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably

Where is our humanity?

Just watched yet another Palestinian burn to death because even if the news isn't reporting it, Israel is massacring, torturing, raping, burning, maiming, burning, decapitating, crushing Palestinians of every age and gender every moment of every day. An evil of unrivaled scale in modern times.

“I have had a difficult time even writing these words because I cannot stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out. First, they had to stop the ambulance, the UN vehicle, and the fire truck. Then, they had to tie up the rescue workers. Then, they had to shoot them (repeatedly).”

Oh god, this made me tear up

Boycott Xbox now. #BoycottXbox

The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long. youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...

Val Kilmer has passed away at the age of 65

Wishing Val Kilmer a blessed journey to the land of beautiful souls.

It has been more than a month since we pointed out that the government was contradicting itself over its denial of genocide in Gaza. We have still not received a response. We know why: the government wants to hide its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.

This is a phrase I've been using more than I expected lately....

How does anyone justify this? Why? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

If you tell Dad jokes and you're not actually a Dad, you are a faux pa.

‘Maybe we need to kill more civilians,’ speaker told gathering hosted by pro-Israel nonprofit in New York prismreports.org/2025/03/27/i... via @prismreports

I was just thinking about Miyazaki and the stupid AI Ghibli thing and I think what is so frustrating about something that seems, in the face, harmless, is that it risks creating new and diminished definitions for what style and vision are

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.