this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"
they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.
Me, growing up: I'm so excited for the future! technology will free our minds! The moral arc, etcetera!
Me now: Oh. Oh fuck. How many more days do we have to do this for
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Every day I read about events/atrocities/political developments that make me think "well, that's an unfathomable number," and yet I'm expected to go about my my life as though nothing has happened. The baseline level of dissonance we're intended to live with in the US is simply unreal to me.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
I think I'm gonna start a Ducktales-themed punk band and call it Hüsker Hüey, Düey and Lüey.
I currently make an annual amount that 20, 10, and even 5 years ago I did not believe would ever even be possible for me.
And it's still not enough for me to become a homeowner in any of the core districts, neighborhoods, or attractive suburbs of my metropolitan area.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
Fuuuuuuuck this
Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
If I had a dollar for every person who asks how defense attorneys sleep at night, I’d be able to pay my student loans. If I had a dollar for every person who asks how prosecutors sleep at night, I could maybe buy a pack of gum. Broken society.
Seattle Women's March www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/03/stop...
Hell yeah. Thank you!
A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week.
Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."
www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
I think what scares me most is that I think it’s entirely plausible that Trump would drop a nuke on someone simply because he really wants to be a president that has done that, wants to know how it feels, wants that distinction no matter how heinous.
it would be pretty funny if a fuel crisis caused regime change in the US before it did in cuba
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
the affordability and iran president
we see a lot of news stories about AI data centers ruining cities, noise, pollution, etc, so i'd really like to see some positive stories about AI, like someone burning down a data center, or a data center falling into a sinkhole. something that brings us together to laugh
I know it's demoralizing to be pouring so much of ourselves into damage control and harm reduction against this fascist rampage.
Please try to remember - and remind each other - that the tide is turning, and this level of effort will yield incredible rewards if we keep it up.
Q: "You said you want to be involved in the selection of the next leader of Iran. Can you talk to me about that?"
Trump: " We want to pick a president that's not gonna be leading their country into a war."
One of the ways enshitification has rotten my brain, that I can recognize, is the lack of websites I check. Before facebook and twitter consolidated our sources, I used to get into rabbitholes from one blog post to the next fansite. Now I rarely do that outside of Wikipedia.
He’s got all the class of a gas-station pay toilet.
If focus group parents are telling you the movie makes them uncomfortable by acknowledging the existence of gay people, that should tell you that you’re doing the right thing by showing kids something is okay when their parents clearly won’t tell them, and that shit matters. That’s what art is.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
What is the least health care a building could provide and still be called "a hospital"? What is the worst food people could produce and still count as a "meal"? What is the worst shelter that could still count as a "shelter"? That's the project. That and putting you in it.
