It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.

The image that won’t go away A photo taken in 1985 has resurfaced this week. Kelly Grovier looks at the power of a figure pushed to breaking point.

Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.

a beautiful story of courage under Nazi occupation

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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Expect disappointment and you’ll never be disappointed

As a bears fan I hate it here. Sports are much more fun when your team is bad.

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Okay, I've seen enough.

Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things

Democrats say this constantly, but when front pages of The NY Times and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it, or thinks stating it is is being a Dem partisan, how do you break through?

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍

The greatest minds in history are on the case

I dunno, maybe you also needed to see this seven month old video of Sam Neill asking you if you want to fly through some lavender like a bumblebee

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DE1XGxD...

It is easier for a cybertruck to fit through the eye of a needle than for its owner to get into heaven.

if you are ever tempted to use chatgpt just text me and I will tell you the wrong answer instead. it will not harm the planet and it will have much more razzmatazz

Buzzzzzzzzz Something to actually do about insect decline

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Well, They Made A Cubs Fan The Pope [UPDATE] | Defector Update (5:55 p.m.) Contrary to the ABC News report, Chicago’s WGN-TV caught up with the new pope’s brother, who said that Robert Prevost actually grew up a White Sox fan, not a Cubs fan. The original ...

You never like to have to do this sort of thing as an editor, but if you have to update and amend a story, "the pope is actually a White Sox fan, contradicting earlier reporting" is a pretty good reason. defector.com/well-they-ma...

I’ve seen so many attempts to explain exactly why this is but the only explanatory framework that works is that the media has an extremely strong conservative bias

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

the contrast between the journalists at 60 minutes who are risking their careers for their independence and the white house correspondents chuckling at nerdprom about how they helped trump get elected is pretty jarring and infuriating

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

Try as they might, the Trump admin will never be able to extinguish the light of knowledge and pursuit of science

We have to become comfortable saying: Art matters. The humanities matter. The digital world is ephemeral and we weren’t meant to spend our entire lives online. Log off, read for pleasure, spend time with your loved ones, devote yourself to the things we can’t afford to lose.

I have a friend who is just finishing up a documentary on this! Going to be out in the next couple months but I think its going to be awesome.

Its been 10 years since Freddie Gray was murdered by Baltimore Police.

I am tempted to yell about systems and change and justice, but mostly, I am grieved for a family who watched every single person responsible for walk free.

He would have been 35 today.

Stargazing 4 xkcd.com/3072