And if I'm being honest, it's giving "Live and Let Die" vibes, especially this arrangement with all the strings.

This song has been stuck in my head for days - it's not even my favorite Muse song, but the drop riff going to the "chorus" is epic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S79I...

Nice piece, love the colors and the energy.
But wouldn't "all cops are dogs" be 1314?

And ultimately, Patriarchy, the central load-bearing support for conservatism.

The fact that you know those songs so well means you no longer have to pay close attention to them as the music and lyrics wash over you like a sonic pool you are swimming in. For me personally, I can't have lyrics when I'm trying to concentrate, so for me it's jazz instrumentals from the 60s.

Wondering if the rescheduling of cannabis will make it possible for companies to have access to the banking system in ways that will make it harder to slow the roll towards full nationwide legalization.

This is the energy! 💪 ✊

Never thought of that, lots of fresh water too, and there's already an US airforce base in Keflavik.

Possessor (2020)

logging on

Thems fightin' words! (RE: the bumper sticker, not the post).

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Totally crazy.

It was an old wrestling injury that did him in.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

This is the Antifa 'network' they were talking about.

It's a patch of Pumpkin Kush.

It's so funny that Republicans consistently lay out exactly what the Democrats should do/campaign on doing for the most easily guaranteed wave of victories in history and then the Democrats dutifully refuse to ever even consider it.

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse.

Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

Like, there's nowhere else for this shit to go.

Using the magic beans to fuel a plagiarism machine that gets shit wrong, tells people to kill themselves, and seduces kids, is their last best hope for the magic beans they've literally bet all the money on.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

Wasn't even fired, just "suspended indefinitely", which turned out to be 4 days.
Why? It was The Money™ - backlash was going to hurt the future income stream, and more importantly, the stock price. This whole thing illustrates the danger of extreme media corp consolidation as much as anything else.

A series of four images with black text on a white background, containing a long reflective passage about how authoritarianism and oppression gradually take hold unnoticed. First image: The text explains how small, seemingly inconsequential steps—each justified or regretted—prevent people from recognizing the larger process until it’s too late, comparing it to a farmer not noticing corn growing until it towers overhead.

Second image: A colleague explains how each act is only slightly worse than the last, leading people to wait for a shocking turning point that never comes. Fear, uncertainty, and the desire not to stand alone stop people from resisting. Outsiders seem content, and those who sense danger are dismissed as alarmists.

Third image: The text describes how, eventually, a small personal incident shatters self-deception, revealing that everything has changed—society, spirit, and morality. People accept things once unthinkable. Life feels normal on the surface, but principles have eroded. When realization comes, it’s too late—people are compromised by inaction.

Fourth image: The writer notes how friends drift away, meetings shrink, and isolation grows, weakening resistance further. The long-awaited great occasion for mass opposition never arrives. Instead, oppression progresses step by step, each act numbing people to the next. The example is given of Nazi Germany, where atrocities escalated gradually, making it harder to resist at each stage.

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free"

I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

Looks amazing, and really hard!
Feel like one of those magnifying mirrors would help.

See my pinned post.

David Tennant coded.

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art." 02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art." 03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'. 04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

Hey - fats, protein, carbs, simple sugars...just need some insoluble fiber and vitamins 🙂

The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.