“It’s the same old genocidaires using the same old playbook. Murdering… Bombing… And then playing the victim.”
Arundhati Roy warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity & economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness.
Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/iran-is-no...
In Israel, reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian drone and missile attacks. While Jewish neighborhoods are “well protected” by bomb shelters, shelters are much rarer in Palestinian neighborhoods.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
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panel 1: older lady with glasses and leon s kennedys hair on the phone saying "Hello, Mr. X? this is Mrs. kennedy... uh-huh... that's right..."
panel 2: close up leon s Kennedy (old), scared face. off panel his mom continues "i just wanted to let you know Leon hasnt been eating his vegetables.."
my resident evil fanart
Right about what? The same things everyone else was?🙄
FUCK FUCK FUCK so much shit to deal with huh.
Wasn't she a good friend of Harvey Weinstein who people knew was a sexual abuser? Her husband endorsed a fellow sex pest, Andrew Cuomo, for NYC mayor. And of course people just ignore that shit because they're Dems.
Her husband was friends with Epstein and there are pictures of him with victims. She was also a good friend of Harvey Weinstein a sexual abuser.
And fuck off with the slut shaming, loser.
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
Biden supported Israel's genocide with *our* taxes that we could have used for healthcare. Harris said that Iran was a major threat to our country and she wanted a more lethal military. Schumer is happy to bomb Iran. There is no way that you are this ignorant.
Shut up, loser. People can see your likes btw.
I'm disabled and you assholes need to stop using his disability as an excuse to say racist slurs! You think fascists apologize to the people they harm? You're an asshole who wants to drag people from their houses & be killed for saying that disabled people should apologize when they harm others. FU!
Asshole.
⚡1995 - 2025⚡
Happy 30th Anniversary!
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Democracy Now! remembers civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, who died today at the age of 84.
Tweet Feb 13 by Yossi Klein Halevi: "Israeli genocide" is the new blood libel of our time. It will haunt Jewish life for years to come. Together with several friends, I've written an open letter expressing "outrage and contempt" for the accusation. Please sign and circulate. Here's the link
It's not the genocide, it's the term "genocide," that "will haunt Jewish life for years to come."
#rizzidentevil
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley.
They’ve been locked up for 130+ days.
I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
Black residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have won a major environmental racism ruling, with an attorney saying the decision acknowledges a public health emergency rooted in slavery-era land use and pollution.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
A growing chorus of experts, agency whistleblowers, and members of Congress say Noem has left the U.S. unprepared for disasters by gutting the FEMA and impeding the dispersal of federal aid.
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
An ocelot (I think!) with a lead on, climbing a spiral staircase, and turning its spine and head around so it is looking directly over its own back. The caption is 'ohoho what is that I hear behindst me, mayhaps I TWIMST aroumd and take an peep for mineself'
