Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

The S&P (shit & poop) 500

For Americans struggling with high gas prices, remember that you can save money by taking little sips from the gas pump instead of big gulps

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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Wonderful breakdown!!! The scariest part of these misrepresented stats is that they drive they idea that these beliefs are common and normal, which itself makes people more likely to align with them!!! It's a blight on every journalist who reported this uncritically

Collective punishment. Just directly trying to eradicate the civilian residents of Tehran. Ghastly.

See this is why we should have sent George bush to the fucking Hague

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

And this is how we know 100% it was intentional to hit the girl’s school AND it sure as hell wasn’t done by Iran.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

A Palestinian woman stands hand in hand with her three year old daughter amidst ruined buildings and piles of rubble.

This International Women's Day, I want to talk about one of the strongest women I know. Over the past year, Samaa has survived and protected her family against seemingly insurmountable odds. You can help her at chuffed.org/project/157569 @mommunism.bsky.social @merryrobin.bsky.social #SkyHelp #Gaza

Smithers worshipping Mr. Burns in a golden muscle suit

Fox News video of President Trump welcoming home the coffins of fallen soldiers this weekend

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse

So @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social knows they blew up a school and destroyed the refinery and brought flaming boiling oil to the streets of Tehran and now it's RAINING OIL. This guy is a war criminal too. Line him up for trial.

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot

THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him

THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me

YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care

BECAUSE my position is immutable

if you fall for this you should be put in a conservatorship

i genuinely think part of the reason dark woke is thriving is because israel commits genocides and kills children without second thought while simultaneously doing this corporate feminism nonsense

We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.

As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.

has bombing a populace from the outside ever spurred that populace to rise up against their own government or is that just a thing we pretend happens even though it never does

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

A Palestinian woman stands by a section of ruined wall, covering her mouth with her hand.

One more woman I want to talk about this International Women's Day is Heba, who is also surviving in a precipitous situation in Gaza. If you'd like to help her, you can do so here: gofund.me/ef391201 @mommunism.bsky.social @gofund-gaza.bsky.social @merryrobin.bsky.social @fairshare.help #SkyHelp 🍉

Cougar tennis loses 4-3 at Arizona. Losing the doubles point put the Coogs in the hole, but Liza, Valeriia, and Sophie won in singles and ultimately a comeback effort from Chems fell short in a 3rd set.

Things to work on, but by far this program’s best effort on the road since joining the Big 12.

Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed