[kropotkindersurprise]

September 22, 2025 - Italian motorists react to getting stuck in traffic due to the national strike and Palestine solidarity blockades which shut down the country. [video]

[arinzeture]

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

Assata Shakur

[thescaryjokes]

woah dude you hit your head pretty hard. 2025? president donald trump? "labubu"? haha no clue what youre talking about dude its roughly 1pm august 8th 2004 and we're about to take a chicago boat tour and i heard dave matthews band is in town and

[jaegershund]

*sits bolt upright* the natural predator of Vampires is stone circles

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

why 🤨

[jaegershund]

Accross Britain (I can't speak for other countries with stone circles and standing stones) an extremely common rejoiner is that these stones in a circle cannot be counted. In some places that simply means that noone will agree on how many there are, in others it means that anyone who counts them will immediately disappear, to god knows were (some say Avalon. I say to some sort of digestion chamber. Wilder men than me will suggest that's two phrases for one concept).

One thing we know about vampires is they are cursed, as part of the condition, with a deep and fundemantal requirement to count things.

Therefore I posit that, much in the way nematodes in soil are naturally preyed upon by fungi who form little mycellial nooses for worms to snag themselves in, vampires are - by force of random brownian motion (vampires cannot share territory and therefore will force each other apart to ensure a wide spread of biters) to encounter stone circles, whereupon they are forced to count them and henceforth be removed from the board. So to speak.

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

[journeymanfool]

the belted waist and platform heel.... she knows she's serving, and it ain't just what's in the pan

[ot3]

A green anole is a member of the iguana family btw. If you even care.

[markscherz]

It’s not, though. It’s in the infraorder Iguania, but the anole family is now called Anoliidae (formerly Dactyloidae, but Anoliidae was recently discovered to be an older name). And due to the total disaster that is anole taxonomy (because people are lazy and conservative, and have forgotten that higher taxonomy is supposed to be useful), family Anoliidae and the genus Anolis are effectively synonymous.

[vintageandroid]

This is from Animorphs #1: The Invasion, published in 1996, and the character narrating is a 13-year-old boy who was just drafted into an alien war, so maybe it's okay if Jake is a little inaccurate.

[markscherz]

Just reinforces that we should be teaching taxonomic literacy from early education. Understanding the structure and hierarchy of Life is incredibly useful, for everything from medicine to farming. The earlier people get it, the more it can shape how they understand the world around them. And in the context of an alien war, even better to understand how things do or do not fit into the system that we know terrestrial life evolved under.

[madtomedgar]

I cannot take "fraud" talk about benefit programs seriously because I know what can get labeled as fraud. Taking a tupperware of leftovers home from a friend's birthday can be argued to be food stamp fraud. Exchanging SNAP for cash is fraud, that makes sense, except in many cases, people will let someone else use their leftover SNAP at the end of the month (it doesn't roll over) in exchange for cash they need for shampoo, toilet paper, Tylenol, or other essentials not covered by SNAP. Paying the nurse or attendant for the full shift even though you asked them to leave early because you wanted to go to bed is fraud, even though the alternative is either they get less pay for no fault of their own, or they have to hang around while you sleep. Meanwhile, paying someone for the full shift when the jobsite has to shut down early is policy in many workplaces. Giving your attendant or nurse cash to go pick up your medicine and letting them keep the change is fraud. In some states packing your kid lunch if you are on free lunch is fraud. Because of how strictly benefits programs are defined and regulated, for the recipients, basic human acts and impulses are defined as fraud.

If people want to talk about benefits fraud, they should be talking about third party administrators, nursing homes, and farms. That's where big ticket fraud that is malicious, deliberate, and with the aim of ripping off the government happens. It's the province of large scale service providers and contractors, not people who use benefits or the workers directly assisting them. So unless you're explicitly talking about that, shut the fuck up about "oh I'm sure there *is* fraud."

[meaganreallygood]

Lil’ Kim at the 1998 Grammy Awards .

[sexygaywizard]

Things are happening on reddit

[candlesear]

[2022dirt]

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.

[paulthebukkit]

kid, when life gets you down you got three choices

[paulthebukkit]

POV: your insurance claim was denied by United Healthcare

[hellsitegenetics]

Which carbon Is your favorite in Thymine specifically?

[hellsitegenetics]

you cant say anything on here

[hellsitegenetics]

hey can i help you

[right-2-rebel-deactivated202210]

"When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains."

- Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)

[technofeudalism]

seeing a lot of people suggest that healthcare CEOs should go into hiding or employ more private security and i could not possibly disagree more. you can't live the rest of your life in fear. i think it's imperative that they get back to work, in person at least 3 days a week at the headquarters address listed on their company's website.

[txttletale]

everything has political content. sorry. theres some guys who get really really angy when you say this but its true

[txttletale]

oh was it made? by a person who lives within a social system? using time and/or money? oh then its production has a political economy. hope this helps

[maswartz]

Every time I see one of these posts I can’t help but think of someone watching some show made for literal babies or toddlers with a notepad trying to find all the political messages.

[txttletale]

very funny to say the sentence ‘show made for literal babies or toddlers’ and not realize that there are many deeply political aspects to the fact that’s a category you can delineate in the first place!

[omgellendean]

on twitter

[twin-fantasies]

joint custody? i think i can smoke this thing myself

[theoburrsvirginitybalcony]

Men invented dueling so they could shoot hot loads into eachother

[theoburrsvirginitybalcony]

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