The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Painting of a pink snail, whose shell is a bubble tape dispenser.

Laid up with a torn rotator cuff so I made this.

And he looks out over his audience of chairs and pictures them all naked.

Billions of Dollars
Gigabecquerel
Bun
Family Unit
Sandwich, Fold, Stokes
Horsepower Days per Air Dry Metric Tons
Actual Tons
Theoretical Tons
Scoville Units

I am filling out a price list for a government agency, and their dropdown list for "unit" has 900+ options. Some of the highlights:
Apothecary Scruple
Mother Tincture
Wet Pound
Thimble Full
Inhalation
Wafer
Calorie
Quire

Periodic reminder: if you were to break down the Bill of Rights clause-by-clause, more than half of them make it harder to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and punish people for crimes

It is the most profoundly anti-law enforcement document the Government has ever had

And that's a good thing

zackeryatlas 12h The degradation of society: 1. Celebrating the k!lling of a CEO 2. Cheering on warehouse arsons 3. Making heroes out of people who attempt political violence You can be outraged at the system and still not glorify violence. These aren't wins. This is a society losing its moral compass. [Coming from a liberal btw]

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

“The only ethical way to become a billionaire is to divorce one.” -Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social

the useful thing about this is that the people using it are revealing to the rest of us that they never believed Jesus was a real guy in the first place

Why would you ask AI to tell the story of your own life? defector.com/why-would-yo...

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

jd vance at the donut shop saying “just whatever makes sense”

jd vance negotiating with Iran

If an AI future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind. A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.

‘if you don’t learn to use AI, you’ll get left behind!’ 🍆✊
www.patreon.com/posts/155290...

Cats
Apple Pencil
Ear plugs
Peach skin joggers

I’M SORRY WHAT

I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency.

The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.

Embroidery of a manic-looking open-mouthed black cat looking at a hand dangling a rosary. Cross-stitch style text has been added reading ‘jesus is dead til tomorrow so let’s do some crimes’

Time to crime

We Can't Keep Doing Capitalism Like This YouTube video by Elly ZK

This is so good. Are you subscribed to @ellyzk.bsky.social on the YouTubes? You really ought to be.

Anyway, insert famous le Guin "divine right of kings" quote here.

youtu.be/OlloCvuMpLU

thank you, my friend. 🙏

We Can't Keep Doing Capitalism Like This YouTube video by Elly ZK

‪My newest illustrated video essay: We Can't Keep Doing Capitalism Like This #capitalism #socialism #animation #youtube #ubi #wealthinequality
youtu.be/OlloCvuMpLU

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?

That’s how the internet was.

6/ Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment.

It’s rooted in the concept of fetal personhood: that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.

Wrong to table

$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo. That would essentially abolish severe poverty in America. Poverty would drop by about a third, and because the downstream costs of poverty are about $3 TRILLION a year, that would be a return on investment of $800B a year.

“Drawing Comics the Marvel Way” is rolling over in its grave