Very important: I do not want cannibalism or pizza horror stories.

the main issue with editing Calvin & Hobbes comic strips as a meme template is that you are probably not as funny as Bill Watterson

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

SNAP work requirements don’t boost jobs, but drop participation, research finds • Minnesota Reformer As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance.

New research again shows that stricter work requirements for SNAP don't boost employment, they just reduce participation in the program. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/13/r...

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

NEWS: Trans kids in Minnesota can access their gender-affirming care again.

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Picture of a burning hillside where a warehouse used to be A California distribution warehouse for the consumer products of giant Kimberly-Clark burned to the ground on Tuesday and an employee has been taken into custody under suspicion of arson. The sixth alarm fire required 175 firefighters to contain. A video circulating online, reportedly taken by the agreed worker shows them setting fire to several pallets of toilet paper while calmly repeating "all you had to do was pay us enough to live."

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"

Forces of capitalism, these are the Canaries in your coal mine.

Pay attention to them.

Might be important.

Just might be.

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"

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It makes me feel insane that people are like “he threatened genocide” when there has BEEN genocide for the past three years, for the past three hundred. May they see the connections. May the realization free them from imperialist hegemony and make them work tirelessly against it.

Hennepin County faces SNAP shortfalls and other federal cuts Hennepin County faces federal cuts to SNAP, Housing and Urban Development grants, but commissioners hope to avoid property tax increases.

We're facing unprecedented federal cuts to health care and food assistance because Trump needed that money to fund a brutal secret police force and kill a bunch of people for no reason while losing a massively inflationary illegal war with Iran.

If you review my issue one story ("What a Name Does Is Let You Leave"), you will get nothing, but I'll be very pleased. (Is that how you do self promotion.)

So HCMC has a donation page and they are absolutely worth supporting and also UCARE owed them a shit ton of a money and our taxes should just make sure the safety net hospital is there. Anyway here is the donation page.

my sister asked me "are there any games on the ps1 like pound" and i was like "what the hell is pound??????" and

Apologies to the escape room actor getting the notifs for this post instead of me, but this includes my scifi flash "Europan Culture (Seven Theses)" -- two Galilean moons down, two to go.

Super happy to have snuck into this TOC with a great group of authors, even if I’m not pleased with the reason I got the chance. This one goes out to everyone with a really stupid name on Signal.

UNDER A MALEVOLENT EYE, our upcoming surveillance horror and Weird fiction anthology, will feature these fabulously paranoid stories: “I Spy” by Cynthia Gómez “Burden of Guilt” by Briar Ripley Page “Reflections from Day 19 Surveilling Christie Tonkin” by Charlene Elsby “In Sickness and In Hell” by Joe Koch “Rest Not, For You Have Scarcely Toiled” by Eric Raglin “Eyes Don’t Melt” by Meagan Kane And two more stories to be announced!

Updated the TOC based on a freshly signed contract! In this anthology, you'll find watchful dolls, suffocating AI companions, obsessive surveillants, sinister supervisors, and far too many eyes where they shouldn't be. Two more story announcements soon!

Featuring, incredibly enough, my @pseudopod.org story from last month, "What Haunts the Newbuild?" What a wonderful surprise to come inside to after shoveling a foot of snow.

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Bozo the clown checking out ahead of me at the grocery store asking the cashier if they think his cybertruck will get towed if he uses their lot for event parking 🙄

This is a WIN for science.

RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been BLOCKED by a federal court. The ACIP committee cannot meet as planned this week, since its membership has been invalidated, and ALL votes made by those advisers in the last year have also been invalidated.

This entire "well explain human consciousness smart guy" thing is really making me take stock and realize fully how many people A) don't see other people as people and B) how badly many people understood decades of science fiction writing about synthetic consciousness

The only way my sick baby stops fussing and naps right now is if i play lofi beats to study to versions of the ffx soundtrack

i just feel like people should be more embaressed about falling for the 'we told the computer to type out "i'm alive" and it did. oh my god!'

this type of software is as old as computers

though i walk through the valley of the shadow of it's so over, i am so back

Bought my wife one of those assistive grabbers because of dizziness when bending down too much and ive had several lost socks handed to me and had my butt pinched so I think it went over well

What really matters is that you stand for something. It doesn’t matter what. Just don’t let your heart be a void that nihilism can creep into.

You don’t need a fully coherent ideology. You don’t need a plan to fix the whole world. You just need to know what you’re for, and fight like hell for it.

rent is due tomorrow and again today 2/28 bench pressed are donating proceeds from sales of this “FUCK ICE” shirt online and in store to rent relief funds in minnesota!

This is so small in the grand scheme of things but its nuts to me that people adopt animals from different countries it just seems like a wacky use of resources

sleep well tonight. each day moves us closer to an immense reckoning.

Raffi’s Sephiroth posting on threads

Here's the link for the kickstarter!

Do people say last repost here like they used to say last retweet? Anyways read the short story linked in last repost if you like robots or prison abolition or Io the moon of Jupiter