oh shit! i better uh… look into that

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thanks for pointing this out, i missed it!

yes, that’s the new one! it seems like some people didn’t care for it, but i loved it and i thought it was a fitting conclusion to everything that came before.

fair warning the second half is… well, it’s something else. just roll with it if you decide to read it.

Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

huh. that’s the way i have always done it. backwards, apparently.

it was already done at an NFL game. i think? it was already done in Congress, where (if memory serves), right-wingers didn’t feel a moment of silence went far enough and demanded a spoken prayer.

edit - to clarify, done specifically for the newly dead influencer, whose name i don’t care to type atm.

you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

til chitin isn’t just a bug thing, and i am disturbed. somehow eating mushrooms is now akin to eating bugs at this moment. 😩

some agencies have tried to fight back.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/

anyway

be me, sneaking outside at work to vape while my coworker brings a literal gallon of coffee everyday.

nicotine certainly has been demonized in the last few decades.

you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.

also, you’re not helping anything.

i don’t give them money but i’m on their email list. i just saw a request to donate that i dismissed and it went right to the article.

i have never known the intercept to paywall stuff?

honestly, that’s bullshit. i dunno if i’m just taking something too literally here, but no.

except that it suggests bipoc people have value and contribute meaningfully to our country.

why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.

to me, it seems like a good thing if lots of people refuse to cooperate, refuse to be made instruments of this regime. enough people refuse and the regime is disempowered.

maybe, i’m not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.