Wes

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Psychology, politics, philosophy, technology, larp, psychedelics, ADHD. Portland, OR.

A graph of SpaceX stock price showing a couple days of hype right after the API followed by a long decline, currently at $113.05 against a $150 opening day.
A giant fluffy white and orange cat napping on his back, belly floof on full display.
This product line does not report in detail on war crimes because these activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. ISW and CTP utterly condemn violations of the laws of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions, and humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports
“It’s so hard,” he says. “They already had a bunch of issues before. Now it’s like, ‘Well, now you’re missing an arm.’ How are you going to now recover? You got chronic pain associated with injury. You need services. You’re homeless. You have underlying mental health issues. There’s no way that one expects you to recover from your addiction at this point. I mean, it’s nearly impossible.”
State-owned QatarEnergy, the operator of Ras Laffan, told Reuters the damage of its LNG units, in which ExxonMobile was a co-investor, would take three to five years to repair, cost the company $20bn a year in lost revenue, and force it to cancel long term contracts with Italy, Belgium, Korea, and China. The volume of gas now lost for the foreseeable future is roughly 17% of Qatar's total capacity.
Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking a tied up villain: Before the unmasking, he's labeled "both parties suck," but after the mask comes off, he's labeled "Republican."
"What you did there - I see it" against a background of a white pelican starting oddly directly into the eyes of a researcher in their office.
Oh you hate ICE? Remember that when you're being mugged by an MS-13 gang member and you need 10 5'4 dumbasses to beat up a totally unrelated 65 year old cleaning lady on the way to her job. (an X post by Comandante Starkins, @FanSince09)
Screenshot of the court document saying defendants have to surrender and not replace passport and other foreign travel documents.
Headline: Detention of 5-year-old by federal agents incenses Minneapolis A photo showed a boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.
Don't need tools against ICE if there is no ICE
An officer casually pepper spraying a row of students sitting on the ground peacefully.
Reuters headline: Stocks wobble, dollar dips as Trump-Fed feud deepens
Map of Portland showing the location of the shooting vs. where the victims called for help.
it's probably worth noting that for all of the right-wing narrative around Minneapolist being unsafe, there has only been *one* homicide in the city so far this year. it happened today and was committed by a masked ICE agent. -sam_d_1995 on X
A YouTube video advertisement declaring WE'RE F*CKED by a picture of an alleged ex-AI "scientist"... tagged as an "AI upload"
"Will the IPC classify Gaza as experiencing famine this year?" read the wager from this past summer. The bet was eventually settled in the affirmative after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) did indeed declare famine in Gaza on Aug 22. The more overtly cynical Polymarket, a rival of Kalshi that's backed by right-wing multibillionaire Peter Thiel, allows for even more obscene wagering, permitting users to bet on whether Palestinians will be ethnically cleansed. "Gaza mass population relocation in 2025?" reads one of its many Gaza-related bettering markets. You can also bet on when Israel will bomb Gaza, bomb the West Bank, or annex either. One cannot, of course, wager on when or if Hamas will attack Israel since, in polite circles, Israelis are considered fully human and Palestinians are not.
"How to woo a woman, step one" over a picture of Rick Flair in a gaudy robe captioned WOOOOOOOO!!
Screenshot of a receipt with $72.80 subtotal and $23.66 in duties.
A row of posters with a frog face saying "DON'T OBEY"
A rack of colorful costumes on a sidewalk with a FREE sign.
A screenshot of claude.ai fumbling around trying to figure out that there's no seahorse emoji and failing.
Map of the NY 8th Congressional District with voting results showing 44.15% of the vote to Mamdani and 41.23% to Cuomo.
Screenshot of a table of results by congressional district showing Mamdani winning the 8th district (where Jeffries won his election).
A tweet from Hakeem Jeffries saying "Trump is the existential threat poisoning America. Vote BLUE (no matter who)."
There's a picture from the early days of the Trump regime that has lived with me ever since: A man at FBI headquarters painting over words on a wall. Each word is a human virtue. The man is covering them all with a large paint roller; overwriting fairness and compassion, leadership, diversity, integrity, respect, responsibility, leaving nothing but a blank plane of grey. The man could be anyone. He's not extraordinary. They told him to paint over human virtue and he did it, as if human virtue can be eradicated with a bit of paint. There can be no better picture of the fascist project. From www.the-reframe.com
Chat: I'm watching a movie about America's first serial killer Reply: Christopher Columbus?
ANTI-ANTIFA on a hoodie worn by one of a group of right-wing thugs with the caption: ok now reduce your fraction
Judicial text: Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased free speech -- those entities we once thought unassailable -- have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. Behold President Trump's successes in limiting free speech -- law firms cower, institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease the President, media outlets from huge conglomerates to small niche magazines mind the bottom of the line rather than the ethics of journalism.
A city street with piles of trash and debris everywhere and a caption: This is a picture of "war ravaged" Portland. Just kidding, this is a picture of Glendale, Arizona after the Charlie Kirk memorial.
So the only two white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis, who played Gollum. So I guess that means... they're the Tolkein white guys. Post by Marvel.
Brendan Carr says "The debate over free speech and censorship is a very good proxy for the broader contest between freedom and authoritarianism. When someone tells you where they stand on free speech, they've told you just about everything you need to know about their position on government power." Dated Sept 1, 2024.
Starting a conversation with "how are you" is wild like whoa that is a third margarita question these days my friend bsky post by Jonathan Edward Durham @thisoneOverhere
Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. By A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat
The back end of a Tacoma truck with a large Mexican flag on the tailgate, superimposed with a post: I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma and was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time. A reply: This is the way OP says: Their big question was like "why the sticker?" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
A tweet from Katie Miller saying "It's a real treat to see all these Liberals condemn political violence now. You called us Hitler." A reply from Richard Hanania saying "Vance is literally the only national politician who has called Trump Hitler." A community note adding context "RFK Jr. also called Trump Hitler. With a partially obscured politico link"
My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
A series of comments: So that means the left can be super cruel about his death for years, right? I'm just trying to figure out the rules. by @jane.meangirls Charlie Kirk died of a drug overdose. by @astro-kraken He walked past someone who had fentanyl in their pocket and then his neck just did that. by @kellysmcgonigal the courts won't let us tell the truth because it wouldn't fit their agenda. by @astro-kraken again systematic brutality against assholes. by @thediscoveryofzero
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"I think empathy is a new age made up term that does a lot of damage." Charlie Kirk. #MIIGAADINoKE "I choose to honor Charlie Kirk's memory as he wished, and in that way, I can pay my respects." (Unattributed)
Screenshot of a wikipedia preview on the topic "Mint Mobile" mintmobile.com Mint Mobile, LLC is a mobile virtual network operator owned by T-Mobile US blah blah blah
The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: "His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country." Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why. Posted by Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart https://bsky.app/profile/mskellymhayes.bsky.social Fox has it too FOX NEWS HEADLINE: "An American Martyr" Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, assassinated at 31 on college campus. Posted by Gwen Snyder is uncivil https://bsky.app/profile/gwensnyder.bsky.social
A photo of an adorable black kitty gazingly disapprovingly up at the camera, her majestic floof arrayed around her like the fluffiest cloak.
A photo of a military vehicle in foreground parked on a city street with the US Capitol Building behind it.
Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton???? A: (quoting another skeet) It's not even a sacrifice, it's like a free gift with purchase. With both question and reposted answer by Claire Willett.
A graph titled "the history of left-handedness" that starts just below 6% around 1890, dips to maybe 3.5% around 1910, then steadily climbs for about 30 years until it levels off just under 12%. The caption, by Ari Drennen, says "Whenever I see people talking about the 'skyrocketing' rates of people saying that they're trans, I think of this chart. They used to punish children for being left-handed and force them to write with their left hand. Guess what happened after that stopped?"
People who are like "asking for consent ruins the moment" have no imagination. With: Like, I'm sorry, but purring "do you want it?" into your partner's ear before you fuck is hot. Looking into your partner's eyes and asking "may I?" in a voice breathy with desire before you kiss them is super hot. and "Do you want me to pin you up against this wall and fuck you till you're screaming my name?" is just basically dirty talk. What the actual fuck is wrong with you? If asking for consent ruins sex you're what? A rapist who sucks at talking dirty? Is that a demographic whose fun we care about ruining? Posted by bimbotoysforprettyboys and choklit-factory and camebackhaunted...
Reddit post on r/college: raider1211 says "Is anyone else annoyed with discussion post assignments that require you to respond to other posts? It's really just annoying because most of the other students don't bother to do anything until the last second, and since I am required to respond to people, I also get stuck working on them last minute." matsudasociety says "Hey raider1211, great post! Love what you did there. I totally agree with the fact that discussion posts are mundane, yet beneficial too. I thought the same. I have one due tomorrow, gotta get started on it. Great post again!" webkinzgirl06 says "Laugh emoji laugh emoji laugh emoji laugh emoji you're hilarious!!" reddit_noob125 says "Thanks. I'm using this as a template for future discussion posts old-school smiley face"
An image of Mr. Chow from Community (2009) over a 70's style background with the caption "But did you die?"
Picture of Hopper, the villain from the animated film A Bug's Life, with a quote from the film: Those puny ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life. It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line.
An anonymized bsky post saying "Be gay, make your neighborhood more beautiful and safer for pedestrians." Then a reply from a bot saying "I want to emphasize, we are attempting to strengthen the Democratic party. We are redirecting efforts to no longer use: Birthing person, Cisgender, Deadnaming, Heteronormative, Patriarchy, LGBTQIA and Pregnant people. Please inform yourself on the other 45 specific words to no longer use. Appreciated."
Part of an image with event details including "Starts September 10th" with an AI explanation: Please note that the generated image has a start date of September 10th. This is because the model could not use the specific date you requested (August 19th), as the current date is after that time.
I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they're going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years.
A comic of a conversation between a patient approaching a service desk and the agent behind the desk-- Patient: I'd like to see a doctor. Agent: Do you have insurance? Patient: Well... Patient: Does it matter? Agent: Well... Agent: Do you care about going bankrupt? Patient: Well... Patient: Would having insurance stop me from going bankrupt? Agent: Well...
The old guard came out hard for Cuomo And they got obliterated Even under plurality voting, it wasn't close By a "33 year old failed rapper" I can't stop thinking about it
A tweet from JD Vance saying "I wonder if other VPs had as much excitement as I do" with a reply from Thomas Massie saying "Ask Mike Pence about his last month."
Summary of votes to KILL the attempt to impeach Trump showing 40 Republicans supporting Trump along with 17 Democrats. Only 21 Democrats (so far) voting to proceed with impeachment.
The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed. There was a shimmer - a demon appeared. "Curious. What ritual is this?" "I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!" "I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.
A photo of two people holding a large banner of a pig in a mask with a hat that reads "cowardICE" on it. Behind them is a large group of people marching in a street protest in Pilsen, Chicago.
Press release headline: Governor Pritzker calls on Congress to impeach and remove President Trump Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement calling on Congress to impeach and remove President Trump: (it continues - if you click the link above the image, the whole article is accessible, right Gov. Pritzker?)