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Owned by cats. Horror movie lover. Liberal or leftist, whichever annoys you more. Fuck AI and Silicon Valley. (she/they)

Listen, folks, the goo is our future. The goo is our god and will replace silly things like art, reading, and humanity. We won’t need any of that stuff once the goo reaches its terrible, beautiful final form.
George W Bush being told a second plane just struck the world trade center.
Post from Madeline Odent reading "the cognitive dissonance required to threaten to sue Amnesty International out of existence and still think of yourself as a good person is incredible" paired with a shot from Succession of Tom asking Greg "you're going to sue Greenpeace?"
A teenage boy raising his eyebrows at a book titled "how to cope with what the fuck I just saw."
Garrett in Superstore asking "what's 9/11?"
A very suave man in a suit says "I think the issue here, sir, is that everyone fucking hates you."
Quiz results showing a closest match of Zohran Mamdani.
A tabby cat trying desperately to get someone's grilled cheese sandwich.
A knitting work in progress made of hot pink yarn.
A grumpy looking orange cat glaring at the camera.
A tabby cat curled up on someone's lap, mostly napping. Purring cannot be physically seen in the image but is still being conveyed.
Tweet from Audrey Farnsworth on October 1, 2015. "We asked 500 men what they look for in a woman and then set them adrift on a raft screaming, because who cares."
Nathan Lane walking weird in The Birdcage.
An image of a Prozac capsule with the caption "COME AND TAKE IT" in all caps.
A foot wearing a red knitted sock that took up a full week of the wearer's life.
A Graham Platner tweet from 5/4/26. He says "I sat down with a Republican who voted for Trump three times. We had a lot more in common than you would think."
A tabby cat leaning over the edge of a bathtub.
A tabby cat with no sense of boundaries, breathing directly up the nose of a very patient human.
A tabby cat up close, with her head upside down and her eyes boring into your soul. She wanted some of her human's food.
Rachel and Joey from Friends. Rachel is hugging Joey's head and saying "You wanna put the book in the freezer?"
Book cover for Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover.
A tabby cat with enormous green eyes, looking up above her head.
Tweet by @GrantTanaka [jogging] brain: let's talk shall we me: ok brain: are we being chased me: no brain: are we chasing something me: no brain: so wtf are we doing then heart & lungs: we also have questions.
"AI is a fascist project" in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo.
A tabby cat curled up asleep on the lap of a person with black pants and a blue sweater.
A person wearing a blue top and a red knitted hat with a braid coming from the top.
"I did not say cocaine, " the man in the blue suit and the gold-rimmed glasses said. "I said Keflex." That's what I *thought* you said, Katz almost told this crazy momser, and then decided that might provoke him. He had heard of drugstores getting held up for speed, for Bennies, for half a dozen other things (including Mrs Rathbun's precious Valium), but he thought this might be the first penicillin robbery in history.
A man in a striped shirt is in a kitchen holding a brown paper bag. Caption reads "I don't know what I expected."
A tabby cat with enormous eyes, with a red hat on her head. The hat is still in the process of being knitted.
Aerial map of Atlanta Airport. Dozens of planes are overlapping and trying to land at the same time. People are stuck in the planes on the tarmac for hours.
A tabby cat making a derpy face.
A corporate business type guy in a suit says "we are letting all of you go."
Image of a woman using a power tool. Text says "wants to be equal to men, refuses to commit 96% of violent crime."
An advertisement for a world without men. Slogan reads "you've had to deal with your last man."
More than a decade ago, before their marriage, Abdellatif hired attorney Earl Seth David to file naturalization paperwork. David failed to notify him of a scheduled immigration court hearing. When Abdellatif did not appear, a deportation order was issued in absentia. David was later convicted in federal court for running a large immigration fraud scheme and sentenced to five years in prison. Unaware of the missed court date, Abdellatif continued renewing work authorization and later filed a Form I-130 — Petition for Alien Relative — after marrying Sandra. Because the prior deportation order remained active, ICE later moved to enforce it.
A cartoon alligator wearing a suit and top hat. Caption says "fuck about and learn what for."
A black cat sitting on the arm of a couch. The top of an anti-SAD light can barely be seen over her back.
A tabby cat shoving her face in front of the book that the photographer is trying to read.
Brad Pitt in Inglourious Bastards.
A tabby cat with no manners is shoving her face underneath a yellow scarf in the process of being knitted.
“[Patients] should be making the decisions on what the risks are of disease, what the risks are of vaccines, which is different for each person, what the family history is, and then make a decision from there, as opposed to what was sort of more of a heavy-handed, authoritarian thought of the vaccine schedule that led to mandates that if you didn’t have this set of vaccines exactly how they were prescribed, then you didn’t get in school,” he said.
Other strategies for human flourishing were proposed and debated. Mr. Fisher, the researcher and engineer, spoke of highly personalized A.I. agents that could potentially work to match compatible people when they walked into a bar by “amplifying her laugh” from across the room or “slightly brightening the light above him when she looked his way.”
Screenshot of a text reminder to pick up prescriptions. It shows an amount due of $277.02.
A still of a video. A woman with a black shirt, cross necklace, and a supercilious look on her face is giving a speech I do not want to hear.
Instead, she alleged, “He was silenced by politics, by publicity, by people who were more interested in headlines than humanity.”
Republicans, on the other hand, were always the evil-doers. They were on a decades-long march to undermine democracy; forever striving to win office without the popular vote; refusing to regulate gun ownership (even for crazy people) as kids continued getting murdered at school; denying the country’s systematically racist past (see: race-based exclusions to citizenship); using false electors to steal the election for Trump; embracing antisemitism to win votes from neo-Nazis; and pushing the “we’re being invaded by criminal immigrants” narrative to distract from unpopular positions.
Cover of The Cincinnati Inquirer with the headline "Suburban grandmas take on ICE in red Ohio." Image of a bunch of older white adults holding anti ICE signs.
An animated crab thing saying "I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die."
Image of a woman working with power tools. Text says "wants to be equal to men. Refuses to commit 96% of violent crime."
An orange cat laid back against a person's hand, looking at the camera with calm disdain.
A cartoon of someone saying "AI will change everything, just give me a shitload of money" and running away when asked how will it change everything.
Guillermo del Toro waving as he leaves a stage. He is saying "thank you very much, and fuck AI."
A man standing outside of a door saying "please, just let us purge."
A person wearing a cloth mask made of Power Rangers-print fabric.
Tweet reading "I do not support app women. Some of you bitches are very dumb!!!"
But what if we just didn’t accept that these programs must infiltrate every part of our lives? Or at least not the products currently being sold to us, literally sold to us so megacorporations can make more money, but also metaphorically sold to us as inevitable.
A tabby cat lying high on a person's chest and nuzzling their nose.
A scene from Succession. Greg says a bunch of things about Logan and then panics when he sees the reporter taking notes. The reporter says "look, Greg, if you want this to be anonymous, you have to say that from the outset."
Two panel meme. Two hands are pulling a sword (maybe a katana) from a sheath. In the first panel, the revealed blade says "no." In the second, it says "not only is it funny, he had it coming."
Old Popehat tweet reading "it continues to vex me that society is being destroyed by the dumbest fucking people God ever made."