anotherGenXnihilist

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neuroqueer enby. graphic designer. grey-ace, grey-goth. concentrated.

A large white dog with a brindle mask lies flat on a grey deck looking directly into the camera. The house is stage-left; a white porch-fence behind him separates us from the blue sky and a tree that's already losing its autumn leaves
user gmbencompetnece: According to the song Seasons of Love from RENT, there are 525,600 minutes a year. One line later, there are "525,000 Moments so dear". So, doing the math, we can glean that there are 600 moments which aren't so dear. And I think I just used one of them by walking in on my boss who forgot to lock the bathroom stall. ________ user therothwoman: this post did not even remotely go in the direction I was expecting it to __________ rawr i tell you: note: historically a moment was 90 seconds therefore there are 174,000 regrettable moments, not 600.
a tree stump pretending to be a mountain, with ferns growing from the top, random weeds around the sides, and one white mushroom off to the right. "Jorm" was the name of the mountain in the 70's movie Dunderklumpen. One day I'm going to put a tiny wooden cabin on the side of it, and maybe an itty bitty bicycle.
decline — the average woman needs to have roughly 2.1 kids. In the U.S., total fertility began dipping below that 2.1 threshold decades ago, and then after 2007, fertility rates plunged rapidly to a record low of roughly 1.6. "I don't have a number in mind where if we hit it, I'm going to start freaking out," said Kearney, the economist at the University of Notre Dame. "But I already look around and see so many young people are finding themselves childless, and I worry we're doing something wrong as a society."
Around 40 percent of Americans say they would back Elon Musk if he created a third political party to challenge the Republicans and the Democrats, a new poll has found. According to the survey, conducted by Quantus Insights, 14 percent of voters said they would be "very likely" to support or vote for a political body launched by the Tesla boss, while 26 percent said they would be "somewhat likely." Another 38 percent said they were not likely to support Musk, while 22 percent replied that they were “unsure.” It comes after the world’s richest man claimed he would launch “the America Party” in response to Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which he described as “insane.” A disagreement over the bill between the two men led to an explosive online fallout last month.
STONE by Charles Simic Go inside a stone That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth. I am happy to be a stone. From the outside the stone is a riddle: No one knows how to answer it. Yet within, it must be cool and quiet Even though a cow steps on it full weight, Even though a child throws it in a river, The stone sinks, slow, unperturbed To the river bottom Where the fishes come to knock on it And listen. I have seen sparks fly out When two stones are rubbed. So perhaps it is not dark inside after all; Perhaps there is a moon shining From somewhere, as though behind a hill — Just enough light to make out The strange writings, the star charts On the inner walls.
A big white dog with brindle markings has his face down on the floor, bottom up, playing with a toy. He looks like he's been put together wrong
deciduous trees in the Northeastern US, with a tiny bit of blue sky and clouds peeking through. the sun is almost visible about halfway up the photo.
a giant dog sticks his enormous face into the frame, blocking the visage of the human taking the photo. Human has light skin, pink hair, and glasses -- part of a t-shirt reading "be a good human" is visible. (the part you can see reads BE A G / HUM)
stencil graffiti on Paris sidewalk: DO NOT BE SCARED TO THINK
from CNN: Israeli attack on Iran may trigger a war Trump sought to avoid, Iran analysts say From CNN’s Nadeen Ebrahim Israel’s attack on Iran is unlikely to push Iran toward a weakened position at the negotiating table on nuclear talks, Iran experts said, adding that it is more likely to trigger a war the Trump administration has sought to avoid. “It is difficult to believe that Israel would and could have attacked at this scale without US knowledge and green light,” US foreign policy expert and former US State Department adviser Vali Nasr said on X. US President Donald Trump “may have calculated this will soften Iran’s position, but just as he was wrong that maximum pressure will bring Iran to the table he will (be) proven wrong that Israeli attack could give him a diplomatic win,” he said. Nasr added: “He may end up getting the war that he and the MAGA base have said they don’t want.” Washington has long sought to limit Tehran’s nuclear capacity, with the most recent negotiations in Rome last month ending with no agreement. A sixth round of US-Iran talks had been scheduled for Sunday in Oman — and it’s not clear if it will go ahead. Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute in Washington, DC, said today’s strikes were “not a pre-emptive attack on Iran alone,” but rather Israel “seeking to kill Trump and America’s chance to secure a deal with Iran that prevents” Iran from building nuclear weapons. Ali Vaez, the International Crisis Group’s Iran project director, said that Israel’s attack likely “blew up Trump’s diplomacy with Iran.” “What Trump does next could determine whether his presidency will be consumed by another war in the Middle East or not,” he said. Vaez added that Israel’s strikes have opened the door to further suffering on both sides.
a large white dog with brindle markings lies across a light-toned faux-wood floor (in the kitchen-area)
A large white dog with brindle face markings (iorek pupperbjorn) sits among ferns, under green tree cover
Screengrab of Wired headline: airlines don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS
tweet from Jeff BLehar (@EsotericCD) "Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image." embedded image - screenshot of Trump's "Truth Social" page, with his name & username, and underneath: "NO TRUTHS. When this user composes a truth, or ReTruths, you will see it here." 5:54pm 2025-06-05
A jack-in-the-pulpit growing in the woods in north central Massachusetts, US, surrounded by leaf litter and some small green shoots. Tree trunks and greenery are out of focus in the background.
INTRODUCTION 1. In the United States of America, the President does not get to dictate the rules of our elections. 2. The Framers of our federal Constitution foresaw that self-interested and self- aggrandizing leaders might seek to corrupt our democratic system of government to expand and preserve their own power. See The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison) (“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”). 3. They therefore created a decentralized system of elections based upon separated powers divided among the leaders elected by—and closest to—the people. U.S. Const. arts. I, II, III. The Constitution “submit[s] the regulation of elections for the federal government, in the first instance, to the local administrations,” meaning the States. The Federalist No. 59 (Alexander Hamilton). And it preserves for Congress the “power to alter [State] regulations or supplant them altogether.” Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc., 570 U.S. 1, 8 (2013) (“ITCA”). This constitutional system—aided by many critical amendments that have expanded and safeguarded the right to vote—has stood the test of time, preserving American democracy for nearly a quarter millennium. 4. But now the Framers’ deliberate assignment of election-related powers and prerogatives is in peril. On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order— ironically entitled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections”—that asserts..... (image ends here)
abc13.com Homeland Security overhauls its asylum phone app. Now it's for 'self-deportation' ~3 minutes WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has unveiled an overhauled cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum, turning it into a system that allows people living illegally in the U.S. to say they want to leave the country voluntarily. The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is part of the administration's campaign to encourage "self-deportations, " touted as an easy and cost-effective way to nudge along President Donald Trump's push to deport millions of immigrants without legal status. "The app provides illegal aliens in the United States with a straightforward way to declare their intent to voluntarily depart, offering them the chance to leave before facing harsher consequences," Pete Flores, the acting commissioner for U.S Customs and Border Protection, said in a statement. Moments after Trump took office, the earlier version of the app, CBP One, stopped allowing migrants to apply for asylum, and tens of thousands of border appointments were canceled.
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A delivery truck, with a white cab and blue cargo area, painted with a logo that reads "BLUEST*R" - the * is faded and it seems to read "BLUEST R" at first glance
screencap from a youtube video titled "Trump speaks in Oval Office with Fifa president" -- at 2:18, he says outloud "... what happened is they rigged the election and I became president so ..." posted by Fox 5 New York
WPIX New York City, NY Oregon man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails, shooting at Tesla dealership Aimee Plante Thu, March 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM EST (img: a person in a black hooded cape, wearing a black mask, wields a fiery object in their right hand) PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon man accused of trying to destroy property at a Tesla dealership in Salem twice since January has been arraigned on federal charges, according to court documents obtained Nexstar’s KOIN. Adam Matthew Lansky, 41, was arrested Tuesday after authorities linked him to reports that someone had been throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting at the dealership on two separate occasions.
screencap of a cnn headline, showing the front of a Target retail building. The headline reads "A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn't come at a worse time for the company."
The text of page 3 of the novel "Orbital", by Samantha Harvey, which is delightful. An excerpt: "They are the latest six of many, nothing unusual about this anymore, routine astronauts in earth's backyard. Turning head on heel in the slow drift of their hurtle, head on hip on hand on heel, turning and turning with the days. The days rush. They will each be here for nine months or so, nine months of this weightless drifting, nine months of this swollen head, nine months of this sardine living, nine months of this earthward gaping, then back to the patient planet below."
tweet from Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghait) Just a reminder: the US is not Castro's Cuba, Putin's Russia, or Xi's China. At any moment the GOP could unite and oppose Trump and create a crisis for him. Their cowardice has been astounding but they can still act without being put in a Gulag or shot. (5:41pm 2/28/25 446k views)
photo of an above-the-door ad in a London tube train with the caption "HATE DOESN'T SELL. JUST ASK TESLA". The image shows a profit-graph trending sharply downward, with Elon Musk's upraised hand marking the steep decline. The ad shows peeling ad the edges, showing that it was pasted over something else. Below it, next to the edge of the open door are partially shown the "Priority Seating" sign and the top half of the tube map.
wtop news: According to the latest figures from the US Labor Department, 1,780 unemployment claims were filed in the District for the week ending on Feb 8 - a 36% increase from the 1,310 claims filed the previous week. At the same time last year, only 421 claims were recorded in DC. "When you do look at the numbers, it's not just a one week period; we're seeing a general trend up ever since President Trump got into office," said Jeff Cox, the economics editor for CNBC.com.
A photo of a person's legs (prone on a motel bedspread) encased in giant baggy black denim pants, rolled at the cuffs. Their feet, in colorful slippers with two velcro straps going across, look tiny from both forced-perspective and the giantness of the pants, which truly are far too big but i love them so much.
A very large dog (iorek pupperbjorn, heir to the throne) sits in a space historically used as a horse stall. There are old wooden floors, wooden slat walls, and wire-mesh covers one open wall next to the now-doorless entry
An image of a child dressed in a red hat, coat, and pants, standing outside in the snow. They've turned around to face their own footprints; their feet are buried in snow.
A tweet from Donald Trump: "He who saves his County does not violate any Law."
The problem of ghost guns came back into stark view in December, when a disgruntled 26-year-old man allegedly used one to execute UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a street in New York City. That attack apparently was the first time a ghost gun was used for a high-profile assassination.
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On the left, a stack of four cooling racks with chocolate cupcakes (in white paper wrappers and pink silicone flower-petal-edged holders) and tiny cakes (in red and white-polka dot papers), sitting on a white towel covering a brown wooden table. On the right, a clear glass bowl with (failed) chocolate frosting. In the background, a blurred bookcase and upholstered dining chair. That frosting ended up back in the mixer with a shocking amount of confectioners sugar before adorning the cakes.
an old-school image of Clippy, the ms-word helper, with text box options: "It looks like you're searching for meaning in an uncaring universe. Would you like help?" Options: - Embrace nihilism (Nietzsche) - Define your own purpose and meaning (Frankl) - DON'T
vaspider 1d ago I got a notification from the State Department at 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today. I was already really grateful to whoever worked to get these processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded? They're my fucking hero. --- vaspider 22h ago I heard from a friend of 20+ years who works for the State Department who confirmed that, without specifics, that "all of the suppositions you have made here are true." So... yep. Passport folx at the State Department really did work incredibly long hours this week just... shoveling every passport out the door (and prioritizing the ones that might be A Problem come Monday) and yes, they did On Purpose make sure that all of them weren't just DONE but MAILED and in the hands of the USPS so that they can't be told to pull them back and deny/destroy them. This also means they got the OK for the mountains of overtime from the Biden admin to get that done. This is what I mean when I say the Good Work is often not glamorous and we have to prioritize things which actively and immediately better the lives of our siblings. The State Department worker still in the office last night at midnight Pacific time stuffing my passport into an Express Mail envelope and making sure that it was in the hands of USPS has done more liberatory work for the trans movement than 100 people endlessly auditing the language others use to describe their lives ever will. These next years are gonna be real hard. Find something tangible to do for yourself and others, however small, and do it as hard as you can.
screenshot of chat-window: person 1: Who's Gaiman? person 2: Neil Gaiman was an amazing and almost mythologized human being until he turned out to be the sort of person who needs to hire an attorney that represented Danny Masterson and Prince Andrew
A black cat stares directly at the camera. She lies on a small green plush carpet; a soft rainbow house is beside her. Behind her are a multi-colored metal chicken, a small white metal tree with LEDs, and another soft cat-house -- white with a unicorn horn, sitting on a pastel pink/blue/white carpet, with a water bowl in front of it. All of this is sitting on top of a very large dog crate. Burgundy curtains are behind everything, with an out-of-focus bookshelf next to them.
user: allie (@theholyghost) life is too short not to customize your appearance like we're video game characters so if you want fangs and to wear devil horns in public just do it
A giant puppy-head -- grey around his nose, white up between his eyes, and a brindle mask that includes his ears -- is in the foreground. He is prone on a grey sofa. A tiny chihuahua wearing a grey sweater with a grey/red/white plaid hood is lying atop him with her face snuggled into his ruff.
user crumbler: NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: https://www.platformer.news/meta-new-trans-guidelines-hate-speech/ quoted text: And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram: "There's no such thing as trans children." "God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing." "This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy." "A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man." "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it." These seem like strange allowances for a policy that begins: “We believe that people use their voice and connect more freely when they don’t feel attacked on the basis of who they are,” and later states flatly, “we remove dehumanizing speech.” It is hard to imagine speech more dehumanizing than to tell someone that they have no gender and are an “it.”