codename: Colt 45

Patience Crabstick is the best name in all world literature

[victusinveritas]

[loveboatinsanity]

R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi

[theartofbeingblack]

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

[headinthegrave]

To die with dignity: my young husband’s final wish came with a $65,000 price tag

My husband, Craig, didn’t want to spend his last days in the hospital. His fight with bladder cancer then became a battle to get him hospice

Cancer is such a cruel disease and it is often hideously ugly in ways you can’t imagine until you go through it or you participate in caretaking of someone with advanced cancer. I have cared for patients with fungating tumors requiring 2-3 complex dressing changes per day, patients who are incontinent with skin so excoriated from diarrhea that cleaning and changing them is agonizingly painful, patients whose pain requires a dilaudid drip for them to be remotely comfortable. These people often die in the hospital alone because home hospice doesn’t provide 24/7 medical care, just a nurse a few times a week to check in on them and do a few hours of nursing care. The burden of that care outside of those visits falls to the families who are are not medically trained and not emotionally equipped to deal with such extensive caretaking. Families often don’t want to take that (with good reason) and so dying happens in the hospital where it is harder to ensure someone is at bedside at all times. The dying process can take a long time and families may do their best to trade shifts, stay the night, be present, but tbh there are few places less comfortable and less inviting than a hospital room, and it’s about 50/50 for family being at bedside at the moment of passing in my experience.

People who are dying and their loved ones deserve a better system. We all deserve death with dignity, medically assisted when desired, and for our loved ones to not have to bear the burden of caretaking on their own.

[3liza]

when you are bandying about colorized, smoothed, upscaled and retouched "historical photos", unless someone did it all by hand in Photoshop, those are AI-generated imagery. im not sure why so many people seem to think they are something else. they arent. they are generated using math and likelihoods and fiction like any other AI image. the computer is guessing about what should go under the repaired infill, it is guessing about what color the human hair and skin is, it is guessing about the types of metal in the jewelry, the color of the sky, the color of people's eyes. it is guessing about time of day. its fake pictures. fiction. and it looks ugly. i have been on my hobbyhorse about this for decades and i am only getting more pissed off. its bad when humans colorize historical photos and its bad when it's done by an AI. it's ugly, it inserts false information into historical documents, it fucks up forensics and historical research. and its ugly. i dont want to see it

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[jkottke]

Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has died at age 56. Friends said she “died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”.

[lovejapanese80s]

読売新聞　天安門、死者千数百人に　1989年6月5日

(Xユーザーの宋 馬龍さん: 「僅か37年前に起きた悲劇。 今この時もこの瞬間にも自国民を 大量虐殺しても平然としている 残虐で邪悪な凶暴政権が 14億500万の国民の上に君臨し、 膨張する一方の欲望のままに 自国民を教育(洗脳)し 我が国への攻撃の機会を 狙い続けていることに 警戒を強めなくてはならない。 犠牲者を哀悼する。 https://t.co/nImIThfh1k」 / Xから)

[dailycatsblog]

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[strayknight]

pjackk was resurrected for like 2 hours and they killed him again. what was the point of propping up his dead metal body like that just to throw him in back in the scrapyard ? hasnt he been humiliated enough ?

[lesbx]

I TURN AROUND FOR FIVE SECONDS AND PJACKK KILLS HIMSELF AGAIN

[beatcroc]

i witnessed the 3-hour pjackk alive event

[goodgirl-inc]

[venhediss]

[depsidase]

[wilwheaton]

“According to the report, Tuesday was supposed to mark the start of a productive legislative week, with House members returning from the weekend to pass a slate of bipartisan bills. Instead, the chamber sat nearly empty after Republican leaders postponed the scheduled votes. Johnson’s fractured caucus has repeatedly sabotaged his legislative agenda. Senior House Republicans and aides now openly acknowledge it’s preferable to cancel votes entirely than risk the political fallout from public defeats on the House floor.”

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GOP lawmakers refusing to return for votes until Mike Johnson cleans up his mess: report

Republicans can’t govern. They are incompetent and useless for anything that isn’t protecting pedophiles and other abusers.

There. Are. No. Good. Republicans.

[edwardgoreydaily]

from "The Doubtful Guest" (1957)