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This is yet more of the shit that traps people into a cycle of epistemic & hermeneutic injustice and deception— frameworks where people don't know what they think they know and can't trust the mechanisms that are supposed to help them gain knowledge. Not only that, but now they have false CERTAINTY…

Years Of Learning To Love Self Undone By Single Glimpse Of Body In Self-Checkout Camera https://theonion.com/years-of-learning-to-love-self-undone-by-single-glimpse-of-body-in-self-checkout-camera/

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things i did not expect to see in a parking lot in 2026:

I already yelled about this in the comments but I'm still mad EQUINOX JUST MEANS A DAY WITH AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT AND DARKNESS. A CONJUNCTION LIKE THIS IS CALLED A SYZYGY WHICH IS A COOLER WORD ANYWAY CAN WE PLEASE GET THIS RIGHT THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

This is something we get accused of surprisingly often and all I can say is: yes. Good. I am here to destroy the hopes and dreams of husbands who don't think they have to add value to their wife's life.

There’s a benefit to being strongly flavored, even if it doesn’t seem like it at times.

If Americans need our little southern recipe for how to defeat fascism it goes like this: - Put people in the streets by standing for popular demands (wages, healthcare, public services) - Do not engage with fascists online - Do not succumb to doomsayers or media-driven narratives - Be happy

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Closing detention camps means closing jails. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-field-guid...

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

DANCING HUGGING NO AMNESTY this is the way 💕

Sports is not fair by design. That's the best part of sports. Football would be dull if everyone was the same height, weight, ran the same top speed, and had all the same skills and reaction speeds. The rules just make sure there's a basic foundation and provide limits that can be helpful.

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. ARE YOU HYDRATED?

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

It's only socialism when you tax the wealthy & use it to fund services for the poor & middle class. Otherwise, it's just sparkling kleptocracy! Related: Family farmers have made more take-home income than non-farmers every single year since 1997. Yes, that's AFTER farm debts & expenses.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

the point of cheesecake factory is it's classy AND fancy AND trashy AND goofy. staff in fresh-pressed restaurant whites but half the menu items are cheeseburgers. you look equally normal eating there in a suit or in jorts. kris jenner filmed a music video there. it's the fever dream of John Everyman

they could be immunocompromised. they could be Batman. they could be immunocompromised Batman. either way it's none of your business and you might get your head sliced off with a batarang

Aled is a subirb source of joy in your timeline!

My mom could work a minimum wage job over the summer and have her tuition covered for the next year. I went to the exact same public university three decades later and tuition was $10k a semester. If I worked 24 hours/day for 3 months at minimum wage ($7), I'd have just over one semester covered.

Bit of a fracas in the sparrow tree this morning. #charcoal

For the 100th daily bird I had to go with the fabulous peacock 🦚

Mini animals 3 - Green tree frog

this is why we did a ton of polling on winning messages and what we found is that cracking down on corruption is really, really important for any cost-of-living argument because people straight up don't believe any of your promises if you don't show you're serious about accountability

If you have a rabies vaccine skeptic in your life, you should sit them down and show them videos of rabid animals. Start with wildlife and end with humans dying of rabies. Do it every day until they get a restraining order or vaccinate their pets

there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

Something I wish more people would realize.

“One of the lessons I learned as a young journalist covering earthquakes in California is that the places identified as having the most damage from a natural disaster are not necessarily the worst-hit places. They’re often the places that are the worst hit and still have the ability to communicate.”

I don’t think the young people (ie if you’re under 25 you don’t really remember Obama) realize just how electric a speaker he is