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They/them. Agender bi white USAian-Australian. If you're a transphobe or vaccine-questioning, we can't be friends. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. DMs closed bc I don't want to give the Aussie govt my ID, sorry.

Independent Human (Chuck): I loosely supported him only because I wasn't convinced a tattoo was enough to make him invalid and hearing women claim he abused them with no evidence sounds like typical politics. But if this woman has evidence then by all means he needs to drop out. I just wanted a chance to get rid of Collins.
Dahlia: stupid. moby dickgirl: This is very stupid of me, you're right Dahlia: hey. hey. HEY. FUCK YOU!!!! i'm not stupid, you're stupid! STUPID IDIOT Whimsy Miku: Wishing you a good day :3
Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, stands in front of the White House background seal thing, holding what appears to be a printout of a press release about the Trump $250 bill. Bessent looks like he's in a Scott Bessent costume.
a Donald J Trump post from Truth Social with an AI-generated image (with fingertips partly blocking the "lens") of Trump, a bunch of Secret Service agents, a guy in desert camo, and a big-headed grey alien manacled at wrist and ankle. The group is walking across concrete in front of a hangar, with some sand-coloured vehicles in the background. In the far background are a low-slung sand-coloured building and sandy hills. The grey alien is very lean, with cut abs and iliac furrows. Its groin and feet are featureless.
A clip from The Guardian coverage. The headline is "LA teen loses eye after being shot by US agent at No Kings march, lawyer says" and the subhed is "USC student Tucker Collins' attorney accuses homeland security of 'overt act of repression' at Los Angeles protest." The article opens, "A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a 'less-lethal' projective by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No-Kings march, according to his attorney." The article is illustrated by a picture with a bit of the US flag in the foreground, the midpoint of the picture is gas flowing out of a canister and in the background are several helmeted and masked figures in black uniforms. The figures are standing behind a black chainlink fence and some concrete bollards.
A screenshot from The Guardian reading, "The Campbelltown station commuter car park designed by Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, is more than mere infrastructure for cars, the Australian Institute of Architects’ judges concluded. The project, winner of one of three awards in the built outcomes category, is a generous, resilient, and unexpectedly uplifting example of civic design. A little bit of paradise regained. "It’s as if the architects decided that the Campbelltown project was a chance to inject a dose of civic dignity into a structure that, in the usual hierarchy of urban needs, sits somewhere just above a sewage treatment plant." The last half of the last sentence is highlighted.
Crayola “colors of kindness crayons” box
The score from a color-memory game. 45.68/50, with the five test swatches underneath. Comment beneath reading "Tetrachromat or obsessive? Either way, maybe go outside."
On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, led by Bryan Buckley, with Tony Award-winning choreographer Mathew Steffens, the piece honored Renée Good and Alex Pretti. Twenty-two dancers performed, representing the 22 days between Good and Pretti’s deaths. The Lincoln Memorial ResistDance was peaceful. The Kennedy Center performance was shut down within seconds by more officers than dancers (23 vs. 22.) The action coincided with the Federal Bureau of Investigation denying access to information in the Pretti investigation, underscoring the campaign’s call for transparency. #FirstAmendmentTroop #ResistDance Music: We Could Fly and Following the North Star by Rhiannon Giddens. https://www.tiktok.com/@underthedesknews/
a movie poster for the 1962 Kubrick film Lolita. The text across the tope reads "Comment a-t-on osé faire un film de Lolita?" (How dare they make a film of Lolita?). the middle of the poster is an illustration of the face of a young girl, with red heart-shaped sunglasses partway down her nose, revealing her eyebrows and part of her blue-grey eyes. a flat red lollipop is partway between her red lips. written beneath is LOLITA. the cast list is legible below and includes James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon (dans le role de Lolita). in smaller print are credits for Stanley Kubrick, Vladimir Nabokov and James B. Harris.
Willamette Week: Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years. Link to Rachel Saslow piece titled "Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children's Hospital." Accompanying photo: on the left, a young blonde white woman draws her hands down over her face; she is wearing a red bra, and her expression is joyful. Another young blonde white woman, wearing an opalescent white bra, raises her hands over her head in a triumphant gesture. Reply: One of those ladies has more tattoos that (sic) tatas, bless her pea pickin little pair. Laughing face emoji.
K-Y JELLY It's also what makes them staccato, monosyllabic types with that curious tendency to echolalia that runs through the genre. The more they repeat themselves, pause, think, and start over, the more paragraphs you can indent: She's a natural blonde, he thought. A _real_ natural blonde. Was she ever! "Wow," he breathed, as he started at her pussy. There was no mistaking it. No way! "Honey," he said, "you're a real natural blonde." For the same reason, they also interrupt themselves, trail off in the middle of sentences, and drop things: Brad wondered if ... No, no, she couldn't possibly want to be bungholed. And yet ... She knelt down and spread her cheeks. "Margo," he said, "I-" The drink slipped out of his hand and crashed to the floor when he saw the jar she had brought from the bathroom: VASELINE
Fede Galizia's Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1596; two white women stand before a red drapery. The woman in the foreground (Judith) has rosy cheeks , a straight nose, and brown eyes. She wears a dark velvet cap trimmed in pearls over her wavy auburn hair, and two strands of pearls around her neck. Her dress is blue and gold brocade over a translucent white blouse. She holds the head of a bearded man (Holofernes) by the hair. Her older handmaid, supports the head, which is no longer attached to his body, from beneath, using a metal tray. The handmaid, gazing at Judith from the shadows, stands with the first finger of the hand not holding the tray to her lips. I use a closeup of the handmaid for my profile pic.
Inman Grant said the focus of the under-16s ban was “mainstream” social media sites “that a lot of children were using and spending a lot of time and being exposed to addictive design features like opaque algorithms and endless scroll”. “I would consider 4chan one of the darker sites on the web. These are things that we do deal with through both our phase-one and now soon our phase-two codes, but also through our illegal and restricted content scheme, because that’s where a lot of terrible content sits.”
A tweet from DHS with the altered poster and quote-tweeting the original Spectator announcement
A middle-aged brunet white man with glasses stands in the back of a fishing boat. His expression is shocked and a cigarette flops nearly out of his slackened lips. Roy Scheider in Jaws, the moment after the shark has shot up out of the water, startled him, and then disappeared. “Were gonna need a bigger boat.”
A screenshot from Nora Reed’s bit to make up guys. Chelgcruk the Asleep Orc Warlock He/him - Crooked fingers - Would rather be fishing - working on a new destruction magic spell - I want self-discovery
Against a bright pink background, an ink tag of Garfield with big ole titties. Above is written “GARFIES”
tumblr post from nightwrighter Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
a tumblr post from user nitewrighter: Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
I really can't explain the joy of this Zillow listing for 25380 Coral Canyon Rd, Corona, CA, I apologize, but what I meant to emphasize here is that the price has dropped by about 500K, to 589K. Also this picture is shopped in some way that means there is a huge set of shadows from a tree in the front yard, no shadow from a prominent streetlamp, and short shadows from the edge of the house that are from a completely different angle than the tree shadows. None of the shadows are consistent with the pink-and-gold sunset sky behind the house.
A poster with a black-and-white image of a skinhead man in a t-shirt with a swastika. another person is wagging a finger in the skinhead's face. the skinhead's nose and mouth are bloody. the caption reads "TALK TO FASCISTS IN A LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND"
Howard Wolowitz of The Big Bang Theory, grinning. The text below reads "84% match" oh my god I'm a monster
an instagram pic from user Comey, with the caption "Cool shell formation on my beach walk". against white sand, orange shells are arranged into an 8, grey stones and shells into 6, 4, and 7. so overall it reads "86 47".
The Powerpuff Girls , in their usual colour schemes of green, red, blue, are jumping into a field of stars against a pink background; behind them, in half-tone grey, are villains Sedusa, Mojo Jojo and a guy I don't recognise with little round eyes, some kind of horn, and spots (they should have used HIM instead)
tweet from Elon musk: a photo of a male hand holding a badge in a badge wallet. The badge has an eagle with ribbons reading "The Dogefather" "DOGE" "69420" and an interior seal of the US Army eagle. Trust me, it's terrible.
How to describe the nightmare that is Patricia Piccinini's Skywhale? Well, it's an extremely large hot-air balloon with a grey-blue back and rosy-pink underside, with five dangling pink breasts on each side of its torso (about where wings or arms would sit). It has a forked tail with scalloped edges, and its face has two small eyes, with brows, and a large mouth running between. In this picture, Skywhale's basket is still on the ground, in a grassy field next to a white truck and some people; the light is crepuscular. The sky is mostly clear apart from some cloud near the horizon at the left of the picture, and in the background are a few trees.
Headline: Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit (other stuff I should probably just have clipped out, including a foggy picture of three chimpanzees chowing down)
Cian Westmoreland @CianMW If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
a Lemon Twist toy from the 1970s: a piece of grey plastic tubing with a yellow plastic lemon on one end and an ankle loop on the other. The toy is in a clear plastic bag with printed images of children playing with the toy, saying "swing it swirl it" "spin it twirl it" and additional printing reading "Get a ... LEMON TWIST" "hop jump" "skip bump".
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
top: skeet from Ankle Megami Tensei, "Literally arrested for walking while brown" quoting Aura Bogado tellling the story of a US-born citizen who was arrested, handcuffed, thrown into a van, and detained for 10 hours by ICE, then released without paperwork or money. bottom: skeet from Jonathan Peele "The level at which people fundamentally misunderstand LLMs continues to boggle the mind", QTing Carl T. Bergstrom's skeetthread starting "You have to be kidding me" about an NYT story of ChatGPT "showing signs of anxiety when its users share 'traumatic narratives about crime ... the bot's anxiety levels can be brought down, however, with the same mindfulness exercises that have been shown to work in humans." (None of this is true, ChatGPT is not sentient and has no feelings, and it cannot be anxious or mindful; it can, however, present language representing those constructs, plagiarized from very large datasets, in response to prompts.)
FedAid A free tool for civil servants to describe their work with clarity and purpose Describe your service. No task is too small. I serve my country by (prompt) Eating cheetos and wiping the dust on my shirt Transformed by FedAid: 1. I foster a relaxed team environment by participating in shared break times 2. I demonstrate authenticity by embracing casual moments with colleagues 3. I build workplace connections through informal social interactions 4. I maintain work-life balance by taking mindful refreshment breaks 5. I contribute to team morale by sharing snacks and lighthearted comments
Jake_Vig (jakevig.bsky.social) Aug 2, 2024: Whomp - and I cannot stress this enough - whomp
"family photo" of politicians at the NATO meeting today. Pete Hegseth is wearing an ultramarine suit with a Stars and Stripes pocket square and brown shoes. All the other guys are wearing black or dark blue suits and black shoes, and their pants have a break and hit at the top of the shoe, where Hegseth's pants have no break and hit above the ankle. He really stands out.
This isn't incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only the president and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process. (Adam Serwer, 2018, The Atlantic)
an entry from the Merriam-Webster dictionary webpage. elect, verb: 1. to select by vote for an office, position, or membership. 2. to make a selection of. 3. to choose (something, such as a course of action) especially by preference.
Younger Donny Trump with his arm around Jeffrey Epstein (I know this isn't descriptive enough for low-vision folks but I don't want to look at them long enough to describe them, I'm sorry)
a very small spider stands on the spine of a paperback. the spider is very pale yellow, with nearly transparent legs ending in black "toes". four of its brown eyes are looking towards the camera.
A poster reading “snitches get stitches”
DEMAND REGRESS BESIEGE
A photo of a grey concrete sidewalk panel with an engraved quotation. The photographer's toes are in frame. The quotation, attributed to famous plagiarist Cassandra Clare, reads, "One must always be careful of books ... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
A B. Kliban cartoon. We see from behind two tabby cats, sitting on a fence under a full moon on a clear night. Their heads are pressed lovingly together. One says to the other, "If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one."
tweet from Holden Shearer 11:06 PM May 22, 2018: Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.
Holden Shearer, May 22, 2018 tweet: Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.
a row of nigh-indistinguishable young white men with short hair are sitting in a stadium and have taken a selfie together
Holden Shearer tweeted, at 11:06PM on May 22, 2018: Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.
The cast of Forever Knight. L to R - Gary Farmer (Capt Joe Stonetree), Deborah Duchene (Janette), standing: Nigel Bennett (Lacroix), seated: Geraint Wyn Davies (the eponymous Det Nicholas Knight), Catherine Disher (Dr Natalie Lambert), John Kapelos (Det Don Schanke)
a meme you have probably encountered before: a blonde young white woman in a pink halter croptop clings to the neck of a disinterested-looking young white man. the woman, whose hair is in a messy updo, is gesturing broadly and yelling directly into the young man's ear.
A two-panel picture from the article showing, on the left, the top of a mostly-hairless white head with a large lump protruding midline; on the right, the same head with a smaller lump
Opisthotonus in a patient suffering from tetanus. Painting by Sir Charles Bell, 1809 - a nude man lying supine but in full spinal hyperextension, with fully flexed arms, clenched fists and curled toes, face in rictus with locked jaw. the man has long brown hair and he lies on, well, arches from, a grey mattress with red tufts and piping. this thing was in my high school history book and let me tell you I keep my tetanus shot UP TO DATE y'all.
text from the FAQ on pringles.com/en-au, e "6. Who invented Pringles®? "Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – a chemist, a researcher and a science fiction author walk into a kitchen… "This isn’t the setup to some joke; it’s actually how Pringles® were created. Over the years, hundreds of people have had a hand in making Pringles® the delicious snack they are today, but credit for their creation goes to three people: Fredric Baur, Alexander Liepa, and Gene Wolfe." (snip) "Gene Wolfe is credited with being the person to invent the machine that makes Pringles® potato crisps. Later on in life he went on to become a science fiction author, publishing more than thirty novels. He also bears a striking resemblance to Julius Pringles®."
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #237,741!
"special rocks for kobold furries" in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo
Holden Shearer (@HoldenShearer) tweet, May 22, 2018: "Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot."
Scene from The Last Airbender. Sokka: My first girlfriend turned into the moon Zuko: That's rough, buddy.
Donald Trump, wearing a MAGA hat and a white polo shirt. he is apparently without makeup - his skin is mottled pink and beige, with purple capillaries on his nose cheeks. he is squinting slightly and his lips are parted to reveal two front teeth. there is some white material on his chin (sunscreen? dry skin?)
Fede Galizia's Judith with the Head of Holofernes. a young, beautiful woman, decked in pearls and smiling slightly, holds a dagger in one hand and the head of Holofernes in the other. an old woman in a mob cap holds a platter under the head and looks on, hand at her chin in an expression of admiring bemusement.