RFK jr, looking at his podcast metrics:
“How did I get negative 10 downloads?”

That Dang Ol' Homunculus!

#dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

Every accusation is a confession/preview.

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

Meat Council exec: “We’re willing to compensate you handsomely for your advocacy of a beef-forward diet.

RFK jr: “Great, so when will the deliveries of livers and bull testicles begin arriving at my house? Cheryl insists I put down tarps this time.”

MCE: “…the…what?”

TLDR:

New Faces, Same Old Labour.

Onion headline with picture of man under it. Headline reads “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point”

Where is it…
…gotta be somewhere…
…here it is!

I would also suggest finding, if applicable to your state’s vote by mail rules, your local ballot drop box and/or county elections office.

Ballot drop boxes are a (mostly) secure way to drop off your ballot without having to mail it. County election offices will take a ballot with an appointment.

In one year:

“Tech companies OpenAI and Palantir, facing mounting pressures to deliver results amid compounding losses, are expanding their offerings in company vending machines to include Kratom, amphetamines, and alkyl nitrates. Use is not mandatory, but heavily encouraged by management.”

I still remember the clip from Encarta of her speech at the DNC.

“I, Barbara Jordan, am a Keynote speaker!”
(Crowd goes bananas)

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

The Meaning of Marco Rubio's Munich Speech Is Found in The 'Board of Peace' A new institution is being born. In Munich, Marco Rubio outlined a certain purpose. When will the two join up?

Some thoughts on the world order the Trumpists are attempting to create.

There’s a simpler way of saying this:

Donald Trump is using every tool and dirty trick at his disposal to extract as much wealth from the American people as possible in as little time as possible and skirt any consequence.

I hope Roy Cohn’s toasty wherever he is.

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz).

They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Im currently on a flight watching The Godfather next to my brother.

He now wants to throw me out the emergency exit for “ruining the movie, you jerk”.

Catholic rituals blend with Neapolitan folklore in pilgrimage for queer community MERCOGLIANO, Italy (RNS) — The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing lacquered nails, towering wigs and heavy eyelashes.

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy.

For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com

apnews.com/article/ital...

Reason number one thousand six-hundred fifty-three not to use a cloud-connected camera service: deleted automatically is not gone forever. They can and WILL recover the footage with the right legal leverage.

Russia
Tashkent (capital of Uzbekistan)
Turkey (or Türkiye, according to the Turks)
Uzbekistan (whose capital is Tashkent)

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley Fascism feeds on the arbitrary killings that have long plagued the US. Ending the horror starts with abolishing ICE

“As Ida B Wells noted in her 1892 book Southern Horrors: ‘They forget that a concession of the right to lynch a man for a certain crime … concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime.’”

What a joyous half time show.
Gracias Benito!
#BadBunny #SuperBowl

Meat and yogurt.

Oof. His gut microbiome probably pumps out straight CS instead of flatulence. Cheryl Hines must be in constant misery when they are in the same space together.

there's a reason the Nazis went after Raoul Minot for documenting the German occupation in photographs.

fascists want to own the record: the power to reshoot history, frame by frame, until their preference becomes the only memorable reality. generative AI is the culmination of that desire.

From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.

From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core.
https://bit.ly/4awNC53

I can feel something inside me say "I really don't think you've had enough"...

Art Bell’s old stomping grounds.

Been meaning to take a trip out there next time I’m in the Vegas Valley.

a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in a doorway in front of a group of people and says bone ! Alt: Captain Raymond Holt, fifteen minutes after Detective Rosa Diaz suggested the solution to Holt and his husband Kevin’s marital issues is “to bone”, stands in his office doorway angrily exclaiming “BONE?!”.

To wit:

Enten: "Failure, failure, failure going into the midterm elections, because Donald Trump was elected to fix the economy, and people still believe lowering prices should be the top priority, and at this point 55% of people say the economy is getting worse."