The fact that the pandemic also revealed that, in spite of what we've been told, the social safety net could easily be a whole lot bigger also might informs the motivations of those frantically telling us it must Never Happen Again. Get back to the office - it's for your own good, honest.

'Superdole'. Jfc.
There is an ugly streak of puritanism in those who continue to wag their finger at anyone who, during a deadly and terrifying time, maybe stayed in their pyjamas all day.

The absolute last fuckin thing we need to devote attention to right now is building robots who are good at absolutely nothing that helps us

This is a stunt. A car ran faster than a horse? Yeah, it’s a machine. Vehicles can go faster and farther than living things and also carry more stuff. That’s why we have them! No one needed the problem of people running in a race to be “solved”

This is not an achievement when you consider, like, vehicles and things

I feel like "anti rich current reaches crescendo" is when the guillotine operators are getting OT not when you find a way to levy a new small tax on an undertaxed upper class

The audacity of the man to complain about OTHER PEOPLES’s ‘human slop’ when this is his writing

and another thing: im not drunk.
please dont put in the atlantic that i got drunk.

"saying free palestine at coachella is useless" yes we should yell free palestine at gazans, who i'm sure have never once considered that.

the penne opticon

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

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I'm going to eat 10,000 babybels and meet god on his terms

On multiple occasions in the past year, members of a security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to justice department of White House officials. Our request for “breaching equipment” – normally used by SWAT and hostage rescue teams to quickly gain entry into the buildings – was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind, locked doors, according to multiple their request

I’ve been drunk but never “call the breaching team” drunk

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

CORMAC MCCARTHY: you are like a little baby. watch this

We used to build things

A big part of why the elite media and politicians have been railing against the supposed power of the purple haired baristas with their frivolous concerns and moralistic hectoring for years now is the older people’s struggle to reconcile the fact that the lefty students protesting against war and ICE and for trans rights and so on have something that they will never have again which is youth. There is an abundance of everything available to every human being on earth except for one single thing. And running out of it can drive a person insane. To be fair it's driving me insane too but it is pushing my soul in the opposite direction. Life is supposed to be beautiful and everyone should get to live it without a gun metaphorical or literal pointed at their heads every second of every day. Do you suppose that gluttonous self interest above all is a kind of serenity or does it more closely resemble the torment of the damned? Not only dwelling in isolation from God and humanity but doing so by choice. A self-imposed exile.

There is an abundance of everything available to every human being on earth except for one single thing.

Visiting Knapp and Michaels in prison and telling them they get to win this time

In the museum in Key West, there’s a handwritten letter that goes on for several pages where Hemmingway pisses and moans about getting $5000 for a short story for a magazine. In 1932.

That’s $120,000 today

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

The New York Times absolutely hates the idea of a shared society where we have obligations to one another and government helps people

And anyone who believes in that in any real way is their enemy

They do nothing but push fascism and hatred as ideas liberals should find acceptable

Street Fighter looks fun and like half the cast would have accepted crypto and horse medicine as payment.

Exactly one year ago today:

We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.

A) we don't own anything now
B) the stuff we don't own doesn't work and can be taken away at a moments notice

A tweet by TMZ with the headline: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cut Penis off Raccoon”. The image shows RFK Jr with two raccoons over his shoulders. The raccoon on the left looks outraged. The raccoon on the right, more devastated. RFK Jr looks half dead as usual.

I really like how the art here captures the wide range of emotional responses to this news in the raccoon community, from mad (l) to sad (r)

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