Nice dissonance. Let me guess, cognitive?

Would love for there to come a day when it didn't feel necessary to regularly trot out personal trauma just to get people to maybe consider that sexual misconduct is a foundational part of political culture in this country.

It turns out that if you repeatedly tell the most mediocre intellects on the planet that they are geniuses, you end up with people who speak with tremendous confidence on topics they know very little about and only poorly understand.

if "cancelation" can refer to someone either 1. Being broadly disliked by a bunch of powerless randos on the internet, or 2. Being legally barred from entering a G7 nation, then I think the word is too imprecise for further use. pack it in, fellas

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

i have a great idea, let's all get foaming mad at each other over shit none of us control

never felt more like a geriatric millennial when all of my hobbies became birdwatching and lusting over depression-era glassware on ebay.

Israeli attacks across Lebanon kill dozens hours after Iran-US ceasefire Israel's army says it carries out the largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since its renewed war on the country.

Israel’s army says it carries out the largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since its renewed war on the country.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.

You are being lied to

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

I genuinely can't stop thinking about the Iranian kids who spent yesterday wondering if they were all going to die and what that day will do to them for the rest of their lives.

our analogies about nuclear weapons come from the Cold War - we expect world annihilation if one is used

this is likely not what would happen. rather than envisioning your death if the US uses a nuke, you will need to image what your life will be like *after*

you will have to live with it.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Gf showing my cute animal videos to try to calm me down and I keep saying that’s a bad guy in Redwall that’s a bad guy in Redwall

81 year old Korean Do Keum-Yeun stating "I hate all American presidents" at a 2017 protest

#evergreen

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

The United States isn't now acting like Israel.

Israel was acting like the United States.

the fuck am i supposed to say in therapy today lol

Iran closes all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the U.S., suspending the exchange of messages, following Trump’s threat to kill Iran's "whole civilization." -Reuters

Before she read one of her poems, near the end of her life, June Jordan said of political struggle, “We’ve lost a lot of fights... on the other hand, we’re still fighting.”

Imagine being dem leadership, seeing a convicted rapist and pedophile wildly rampaging about murdering people and going "listen, we all know the real issue here: the price of eggs is murdering our wallets, am I right folks?"

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)

The "everything is oil" part of the coming global disruption hasn't sunk in for people yet. The price of gasoline in your car will be one of the smallest effects.

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

ME: sorry folks - one sec, having gamera issues

CHAT: lol gamera. gamera issues. mfer said gamera

[I enable a secondary camera feed showing the infamous kaiju Gamera attacking me]

CHAT: oh fuck

“don’t walk funny” is such a cheap alternative to improved civic infrastructure.

what will they think of next?

“don’t step on a sidewalk crack, it’ll break your mother’s back, and she can’t afford her medicare premium.”

I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. My job kills you. Please,

Anybody want all the Claude source code?

No oil, no power, no surgical gloves: Inside Cuba’s medical collapse As the crisis continues on the island, its once-vaunted health care system is fighting to keep patients alive.

No oil, no power, no surgical gloves: Inside Cuba’s medical collapse

inspector gadget just about to put the cuffs on me but then he pushes a button on his crazy trench coat and it throws him against the wall so hard he dies