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Too old, too tired and too stressed. Somewhere in NY

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[reading-writing-revolution]

[kittydealer]

u/Fine-Dog-9874

[jfny]

@kittybroker

[kittybroker]

The black hole absorbing all that meets it’s path! Not even the market is safe from it’s overpowering reach! Get sucked into this kitty for exactly 0 dollars today!

[my-dailydreams]

[bobbymoynihans]

[mrsfallontimberlake-deactivated]

Ive been counting down the days until I could reblog this

[trynot-moved]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

[gastronauticsyd]

The Screenshot (2014)

[fredersen]

The Reblog (2014)

[toratiger-deactivated20211204]

Bahahahaha love this

[processintegrated]

The Unnecessary Comment (2014)

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The Delayed Reblogging (2026)

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[ruinedchildhood]

What if what Aladdin meant by a whole new world, he was just gonna get Jasmine high as shit to see the world from a stoner’s point of view?

[bobbyboy11-deactivated20150207]

sometimes i randomly think about how much this post sucks and start laughing really hard

[allthingseurope]

Tuscany, Italy

[memeuplift]

[depsidase]

[wilwheaton]

“A French lawmaker torched President Donald Trump and his top officials in a scathing indictment of his second term in the White House. Senator Claude Malhuret, who was described last year by the New York Times as “Trump’s European nemesis,” linked the Iran war to the U.S. president’s appearance in the Jeffrey Epstein files and shamed American legislators for failing to impeach him for clearly unconstitutional conduct. “A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump’s presidency to Nero’s Court,” Malhuret began. “I was wrong – it’s the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as minister of health [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], a climate skeptic minister of economy [Scott Bessent], an alcoholic TV anchor, minister of the armed forces [Pete Hegseth], an old Qatar agent, minister of justice [Pam Bondi], a groupie of Putin, minister of national security [Tulsi Gabbard].” “A Turkish proverb says, ‘When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus,” Malhuret continued. “This great team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term.” “Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction,” he added. “Bomb more to win more.””

— Trump just got ‘the most magnificently savage dismantling’ in France’s parliament

[darkwood-sleddog]

I am still trying to formulate my thoughts after what happened in Vermont a few towns over from me on Wednesday.

If you're unaware, on Wednesday, ICE agents surrounded a house near an elementary school without a warrant and the community took action. Our contact chain to get people to the scene worked. Really well. Protestors formed a human chain, blocking ICE from the house and getting a toddler to a safe location. Protestors held for six hours straight, requesting that a warrant be produced, until our city and state police assisted ICE by teargassing and brutalizing protestors and eventually entering the home. They arrested protestors and three immigrants. NONE were the individual ICE had a warrant for, he wasn't even in the house. The people taken into custody were here seeking legal asylum.

Vermont is one of the whitest states in the country and has some of the lowest % of immigrants. Just throwing that out there for reasons...

I don't know what's going to happen over the next few days. I'm trying to formulate my anger at what happened and the pride i feel for how effective our community response was together. Just know that VT is small, but takes this shit so seriously. They don't call us the Brave Little State for nothing. We threw JD Vance out in like a day in 2025. We should be boiling sap right now. But we have time for this too.

"We owe no allegiance, we bow to no throne, Our ruler is law and the law is our own; Our leaders themselves are our own fellow-men, Who can handle the sword, or the scythe, or the pen." - The Song of the Vermonters, 1779.

[rostekhorn]

The fact that these stories always end with "and then the cops came and assaulted the protesters because all that talk about how much cops hate ICE was always bullshit." Even though ICE refused for six hours to produce a warrant, meaning the only lawful reason for the police to be there should have been to tell them to disperse.

Police departments in blue cities and states are literally red state armies of occupation. They have been for several decades, but most blues still refuse to wake up to it.

[ultrafacts]

“Umarell” is an Italian folk term that refers specifically to elderly men, usually retired, who spend their time watching construction sites, often with their hands clasped behind their backs. The term originates from the Bologna dialect and has gained popularity across Italy.

These men are sometimes known for offering unsolicited advice to workers, despite having no professional expertise in construction. The word has even been used humorously in public policies, with some cities designating special areas for umarells to observe construction projects.

[the-big-mood]

In 1997, local television in Kharkiv accidentally filmed one of the most iconic rave moments in history.

[ruinedchildhood]

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[marlynnofmany]

And it's gonna getcha

[shamebats]

"Because I Love You" by Lex Marie.

[shamebats]

She spent hours upon hours just beating the canvas with a belt...

[gay-milton-quotes]

when you look at the finished painting, you can almost see letters - but there aren't any. It's all noise. a lot of adults process this sort of beating by insisting there is a lesson in it. with the title and artist statement in mind, it's like they're trying to read a message of love written in that chaotic canvas.