Shane

This thread is something I have worried about around separate things like VR and Utility and the crowd pacification problem for some time. AI just makes it more obvious.

Since SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Southern states can now redraw a dozen majority-Black districts in time for the 2028 elections, triggering the largest drop in Black congressional representation since the end of Reconstruction. And that’s just the beginning.

Donald continues his sexual fascination with male body parts.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

This chart about data center construction blew my mind. Watch.

America's gun psychopathy continues: *448* mass shootings so far in 2026: 💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Reno, Nev.: www.2news.com/news/local/a...

This guy and his weird dick need to be taxed out of existence.

The boys that Jane Doe 1 reported never seemed to miss class for any disciplinary reason, she said, and the boy who allegedly first shared the photos had his record expunged by Utah Courts. “No one wants to come forward because not a goddamn thing happens,” Jane Doe 1’s mom said.

The bare minimum American needs to do in order to show they want to be part of the world again, is to bring Elon and Trump to justice for crimes against humanity.

When Dems retake control of Congress arrest him and hold him incommunicado pending charges for high treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He must be made an example of. To show the world that his seditious arrogance and subversive criminality will not be tolerated.

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Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy. Don't believe me? Look at this chart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmiaRj_voY

Fun fact: a great way to fight fascism is to treat all people as if they are indeed people. In the case of trans rights, a great way to do that is to realize that trans rights are just rights. If you are going to protect them for anyone, you protect them for everyone. It’s not fucking hard.

40th Anniversary! ALIENS (1986) screens in 35mm today, Friday October 23rd, at 2:00pm.

Feels like every day we are hearing bad news about the humanities, but this stat is pretty shocking. Graduate research production has roughly declined by half in 10 years.

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth?” ― Carl Sagan

Metaphor police!

"So the guy called himself a king" *muffled gasps from the panel* "and he sent thousands of soldiers to quarter in my city" *Washington audibly whispers "what the f-"* "and so we, like, formed this system where we'd call up people within a minute or two if they showed up" Paul Revere: hell yes

Tesla is manufacturing humanoid robots while still working out how to make them useful, reliable, and durable enough for customers. www.theverge.com/tech/1016492...

Mike and Carol obviously murdered their respective spouses so they could be together, and ordered those grieving, traumatized, terrified children to never speak of it again.

In Venezuela last September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy, especially opaque oil deals with former regime cronies. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t... No individual should have this much power, especially a Nazi shithead like Musk

CARTOON OF THE DAY H/T @sketchyrepublic.bsky.social

Insanity

The one thing we know the GOP is without question: pro rape.

It would be useful, too, to point out that Elon's robot has been used to turn children's school photos into child sexual abuse material.

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Giving £2 a day to people in the Amazon helps protect rainforest, pilot project finds

So if we tax billionaires we will get less of them?!? That’s the point, assholes.

So close to reality it must burn…

There is an increasingly non-zero chance he drops an n-bomb on live tv in the next two weeks

This is the racism publications like the New York Times constantly edits out

My humble request for all of you this evening: Read this piece. The fear of not being believed is real, and I'm asking for allies - especially *male* allies to read and process this.

If you’re a Christian, how can this possibly be okay?

There are only two uniting themes to American fascism: sexism and racism.

Okay, as a father and former kindergarten teacher, this is perfect.

“I am so American that I have a flag shirt, but if you expect me to pay taxes so that government services can keep coming to my 6,000 square foot McMansion, well in that case I will ignore the more perfect Union and general welfare, because I am American in name only.”

"Our democracy depends on our ability to distinguish between genuine Nazis and ordinary Americans who merely share some of their ideas. And until I see that diminutive rectangle of hair, I intend to keep that distinction firmly in place." buff.ly/SQwmock

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

Honestly, any multimillionaire rapist who doesn’t appear with Trump must really feel left out at this point.

That post alone should be enough to commit Space Karen for life.

Ah yes, the Utah Republican Party going full Soros conspiracy theory.

After a couple of replies, I realized the obvious quote tweet is “the life you can save: for tax purposes”

It amazes me that fElon is able to somehow make the worst version of technology and also still sell it to legions of idiots.