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We need more bookstores.

A leading pediatric cancer group 2 days ago celebrated the child cancer research funding 👇🏽- until President Musk & VP Trump demanded cuts… and it came out of the bill. 💔

dave: i’m going to open an arcade dave’s mom: you have to include buster

Shot down one of those drones today.

if we rebranded cajun seasoning as american seasoning we'd move up like two tiers on the global food rankings overnight. something to think about

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

zaslav cancelled Sesame Street, if you were like. waiting on one more straw to break your camel’s back wrt to hating that man and all he stands for

So... working at Baen, during orientation, they actually show you a photo of Jim Baen testifying in Congress during one of Newt Gingrich's corruption hearings, because he had a book deal with Baen. It's a company horror story. "Don't make us testify before Congress, and you'll do fine."

I think MAGAs and their oligarch supporters really haven’t fully reasoned through “we’re going to make Americans as poor and desperate as possible to turn them into peasant vassals, but we’re also going to make sure they can still get lots of guns.”

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

Protesters in Tbilisi made a machine gun out of fireworks. Dang, lads.

american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊 me: that sounds nice! what happened next? american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert

When you have the brain of a dog

Happy Thanksgiving! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/b...

Did…did a minotaur write this

just incomprehensible how this fucking asshole is spending the last few days in office before handing the presidency to Trump. the only part of his legacy that will last

her: did you spend all afternoon editing kevin james into that norman rockwell painting? me:

(twenty minutes into a video game) ah hell this is one of those you have to get good at fuck this

Long distance relationships (I drew this one a while ago)

The other exploding area of dark money in politics is the crypto lobby. They have dumped insane sums in elections in both parties (Dem primaries + GOP general elections). It’s pretty bad

If I take a step back and think about it, it actually makes perfect sense we would end up with a right coded social media platform and a left coded one.

It’s all in the telling.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

My teenage daughter confessed to getting high but said it “wasn’t worth it because of the hangover.” Okay, pussy

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This is messed up.

Yes, stances are ethical. But if we want change, ethical stances must have power. That is political. One can be right and criticize others who aren’t, sure. And that is important. But then what? How do we flourish? We need to help the right thing win, and good people build. Electoral or not

i see you posted a joke. here are the facts

real stupid. it is more likely for the war in Ukraine to end in a half decent negotiated settlement if Ukraine has the largest possible quantity of arms

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control