Marie from the PNW

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Wendy O Williams, Nina Hagen

Exene Cervenka, Ari Up, Chrissie Hynde, Kathleen Hannah

Kim Gordon, Brody Dalle, Siouxsie Sioux, Penelope Houston

Alice Bag, Cherie Currie, Kim Shattuck, Donita Sparks

Theo Kogan, Kat Bjelland, Poly Styrene, Pauline Murray

Trying to put together a presentation about AI and AGI for my human services students and even explaining some of the basics sounds wild because it's...just wild.

"I swear I'm not up here trying to make AI look bad, it just really is this weird and bad" is what I'm going to have to say.

2788 families in oregon were served eviction notices in january; a record high, nearly twice pre-pandemic levels.

if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Just loving all the armchair athletes having a go at Lindsey Vonn.

No, you wouldn't have attempted that with a ruptured ACL. You also didn't attempt it, and would have been laughed off the mountain, with an intact ACL.

Olympians are not like the rest of us. That's why they're there and we're here.

The way this warmed my cold, cynical heart

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Something I think about probably once a week is how I've always been a little meh on Death Cab for Cutie's song Transatlanticism but then I finally saw them two years ago and hearing it live transported me to a new plane. Hell yes live music.

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*frantically googling*

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Yelling doesn't work but the way I want to yell "everything is political" in people's faces whenever they say "I don't talk about any political because it divides us." The urge to yell. Overwhelming!

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If you're feeling helpless, this might help. Pass it on.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

Building community and networks is one of the most important things we can do for each other right now. Ideas 👇

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

I live adjacent to the Rogue Valley in Oregon famous for its pears. And yet, pears. Not that great.

I hate that this is true

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here

Remember, it's only technically Orwellian if it's from the Orwell region of England, otherwise it's just sparkling authoritarianism

I love a niche skeet about one of my favorite niche bands.

yes—and also, it is not everyone's job to act like a politician! if you're not a politician, it's actually not your job at all. so if you think ice should be abolished, don't give up on saying it. politicians will never be brave unless they're scared of the rest of us.

Mood

ANGRILY BOOSTING THIS AGAIN

Anybody else?

The dismissal of women activists as "wine moms" is misogyny whether it comes from the right or from the left and I am just so very tired