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Same as it eva was.

Can’t fall for a phishing scam if you never open emails. Check. Mate.

My entire adult life Dems have conceded every narrative to the GOP - patriotisn, fiscal responsibility, morality even work ethic.

"what is *up* with all these questions about the white supremacists on my staff and at my dinner table"

GOP is the party of Big Business. The Democrats are the party of protecting Big Business from the wrath of the voters.

The whole damn thing is problematic between the gambling and the brain damage and the domestic violence and the fascist billionaire owners

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

Someone said that a lot of people essentially destroyed the country out of "boredom" because they couldn't find their own happiness/personal satisfaction within their lives and I hate that it is probably true for a good chunk of these fuckers.

Do politics, or politics will do you.

My "I am not complicit" tshirt has people asking...

A religion whose ultimate goal is annihilation is not a good religion

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/

Exactly. You cannot shame fascists by pointing out how brutally evil they are, because they see violence and other forms of 'dominance' as strength. You need to hammer on their insecurities to get them on the defensive.

My vocation:

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

The only thing on the interwebs giving me joy these daze

Happy Solar Eclipse Day to those who can celebrate!

I drive to work at the same time and route every day. The sunrise was particularly beautiful today, an interesting visual reminder of the seasons changing. I travel during the same spot on the clock and map, but the sky/earth/solar system has it's own timeline.

Dear me from the past; 2026 is going to be an absolute shit show and you will not be prepared. But here’s the kicker. Absolutely no one else will be either. Fun, right?

© Simón Jones. '2 Trees Solaris Mons.' Oil on canvas, 2019. 40 × 50 cm.

Wish team blue would realize this

Surrender your human rights or we will take them from you anyway

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

Humans really aren’t good at slow moving catastrophes though (I think as I wait for the start of another 100 degree day). We often only notice and get into gear when we are already in deep shit.

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

The people want Democrats who will fight for them. If Socialist Democrats are the only ones fighting, that’s who will be elected.

Thousands of Mobula Rays moving together across the ocean in one of the densest migrations ever captured on camera. Photographer Aidan Bedford documented this phenomenon at its finest.

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

So I finished #DTFStLouis last night. It had several actors I like a bunch, and it was mostly 'good' but the ending was deeply sad.

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

I think about art like this and how the artist and perhaps the original trees it's based on are GONE but the beauty created lives on.