in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters
Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.
I know we're all tired, but please CALL YOUR REPS.
The Kids Online Safety Act is still a super dangerous bill that would censor social media and endanger your privacy online. The GOP supports it because they can use it to drive LGBTQIA+ people off the internet. Please keep calling!
The House has just announced that they will move forward with a Congressional markup of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act, which will lead to privacy-invasive online age verification for social media.
i want to reiterate this because i've seen a lot of doom-and-gloom, but this is *one* cluster that is having issue. it sucks, but my mentions have been full of "literally what drama i haven't seen anything" which is a great reminder that bluesky does not have 50k people anymore.
use new feeds!
Lol. The "Cybertruck will act as a boat" but, if you drive your brand new Cybertruck with 26 miles on it in a tiny bit of water, not even reaching the cabin, your insurance company may total the car as not worth the cost of repairing your $100k dumpster on wheels.
electrek.co/2024/06/24/t...
Finished it and goddamn it doesn't get any easier. Cried a few times. A necessary reminder of how bad things were, and how important it is to stick together because we've still got such a long way to go towards liberation.
Alright BookSky 💙📚 what are we reading during Pride Month? I'm re-reading Stone Butch Blues, and for anyone who isn't familiar with a core piece of the queer literary canon, it's literally free on Leslie Feinberg's website in pdf form!
If that doesn't sell you on it, I'll let the back say the rest.
feels extremely american to be like “we need you to keep running your stochastic terrorism business so you can pay back the victims of your stochastic terrorism”
NEW: Alex Jones gets to keep broadcasting on Infowars, with the judge finding it is "in the best interest" of Sandy Hook families for the company to avoid bankruptcy so Jones would be better able to repay his massive debt (via Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman)
I AM STRAIGHT-UP BEGGING Y'ALL TO TOUCH GRASS.
GO MAKE OUT WITH SOMEONE. GO ON A WALK. LOOK AT THE MOON. EAT A LITTLE TREAT. READ A BOOK. DRIVE OVER A CURB. CHASE SOMEONE IN THE WOODS. LIGHT A MAN ON FIRE. LITERALLY ANYTHING.