STEM incels, noun: Silicon valley's basic building block

Patent-pending snowflake

Influencer economy: A rising tide lift all showboats

My fingerprints don't have branches

Tech bruhs developing machination to monetize our minds to bag big defence deals to send drones to kill us is the price of not paying attention?

Nosering attached!

Haiku

That’s what someone on ketamine would say

One year ago today, Azerbaijani authorities wrongfully arrested Farid Mehralizada, a passionate journalist who works for the congressionally funded @rferl.org.web.brid.gy. He should be allowed to continue his important work providing audiences unbiased, independent information. He must be released.

Thousands of people protested in Paris in solidarity with Palestine, with demonstrators calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.

Is Monday the root word of mundane?

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

– William Fitzjames Oldham

I drink, therefore I am

(Mojito ergo sum)

Conviction of Courage

All books are self help

Marriage is an institution. So is an asylum.

God speed!

“Harassment is always a sexual demand, but it also carries a more sinister and pathetic injunction--You will think about me": Jacqueline Rose

notes on woke identity politics may be dead but identity itself is still inscribed upon many against their will

‘Woke’ is not meant to be a substantive idea, it is an ill-defined caricature of the left – originally stolen from the vernacular of Black antiracist activists in the United States. It is a phantasm, a vessel into which anything can be poured.

open.substack.com/pub/shonfaye...

I mean, wow. “Friendlier Nazi Germany.” That’s quite the statement.

The Sesotho verb for singing (ho bina), as in many of the world’s languages, also means to dance; there is no distinction, since it is assumed that singing involves bodily movement.

What value would it have, this independence that we have demanded for so long, if all it means is that tomorrow we will fall into the hands of other guardians?
~Patrice Lumumba

You strangle them, you starve them, and then you have an election and everybody talks about how wonderful democracy is.
-Noam Chomsky

The United States has only one party—the property party. It’s the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
- Gore Vidal

Souha, Surviving Hell (2001) - Full Film YouTube video by From the Periphery

I'm gonna start a thread about Lebanese film and documentaries. Every day, I'll post a link to a film and provide a small description about it and why its important to understand the country, the history, and the current moment. First up 'Souha: Surviving Hell' (2001) youtu.be/5cK5uXrrRYo?...

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

HL Mencken

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler~

The reason cults often restrict calories is because being hungry makes you compliant. Think about that as super thin bodies are being normalized again.

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.

We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.