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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?

If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.

One of Canada's advantages is that we know a lot about the US. We follow their news and politics, get their TV channels, travel there. But Americans know nothing about us. They don't understand our politics, history or values. They constantly misjudge us, but we understand them completely. #cdnpoli

Basically, my position is that I'm willing to eat a salad instead of a steak because I'm a team player but I'm not willing to eat a shit sandwich instead of a salad because I expect my teammates to be team players.

i might be getting addicted to halmarut

Is it more likely that Talarico has been misleading voters for six years by his truly exemplary voting record on trans rights or that he was dissembling for 30 seconds once with a clear goal of misleading the sort of voters who watch Fox News Who can say

1.) I strongly believe Dems should hold the line on trans rights 2.) I believe we should call out any of them who actually sell us out 3.) The fact Actual Literal Trans Woman Sarah McBride gets accused of plotting trans genocide daily makes the accusations people make on here lack credibility

I do not think anyone has to leave twitter for bluesky but I do think everyone has to leave twitter

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

Donald Trump is trying to entomb the world with him like a pharaoh and I gotta work in the morning

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L'Arc de Participationne

Feels weird to eat cherry tomatoes without a hobbit nearby singing some miserable song

the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

The fact that one of the most interesting versions of Captain Hook is probably from the 90's Fox's Peter Pan & The Pirates, is kind of crazy. HA they went hard with his dialog....man I haven't seen this in 20 years.

As an aside, this is one reason "but humans are cooperative!" is a non-functioning argument here. You know what one of the most cooperative human activities is? War! If me and my 500 mates raid your village, we are cooperating fantastically in doing violence to you.

trapped in my skin #art

Lasagna

this scene from CITY the Animation is a modern classic, god this is me www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW6P...

Urianger introducing Y’shtola and Thancred

When the public broadly believes something foolish, it isn't wrong to note that fact, but you have an obligation in so noting it *that it is foolish* - yes, actually, the collapse of American democracy will impact you more than the time you had to sit through an HR training.

I would argue this belief in scientific racism is in fact one of the main animating beliefs of "elite centrism" as practiced today. Important to realize this if you're trying to understand what motivates these people and how to deal with them.

The really relevant thing here is, "when they respond to you, do they tell the truth?" We generally prefer fire departments that show up to ones that don't, but if the fire department showed up to your burning house, sprayed it with gasoline, tossed a bomb in and left, that's not better.

Thinking, as I often do, about this tumblr post

There are incredibly good and important conversations to have about what went right and wrong in those movements and none of them will be contained within a vague discourse that attempts to summarize a historical moment that hasn't even passed but whose backlash THIS DISCOURSE ITSELF is part of

scientist, mother, woman

"i respect legacy media journalists but-" i don't. turned their entire profession over to the cultural dominance of the right and for nothing. nothing cutting said in years

Completely agree with this, and I think the sense that everything is scams is connected to the general feeling that the economy sucks

Female character design

I'm sympathetic to people who didn't realize how bad Trump was til 2018 or so, less sympathetic to those who didn't figure it out til Jan 6, and have nothing but contempt for people who support him after Jan 6.

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.

remarkable that the United States has made it official policy to only accept white refugees and people still think it's up for debate whether or not they're white nationalists