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First day of undergraduate in 2002, having coffee with my cohort - being asked if me being bisexual meant I wanted to fuck animals, and being expected to give a serious, respectful answer.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”

Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

2/2: One is generally permitted reasonable, proportionate defense of your property. While the exact limits of the self-defence privilege vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, there is NO WAY this turns out well.

People are gonna feel threatened, lash out, and courts won't know what to do.

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that is glorious. did a room party at a hacker con full of like 20 crts hooked up to ~4 cameras, all with saturation all the way off.

creepy as shit watching yourself drink from multiple angles

Laughed my ass off, had a wonderful night at the end of a very long day.

That was the best session of blades in the dark I've ever GM'ed, I pushed my players hard but fairly, they stumped me on an effect hard enough that I had to call a break to think about what would happen, and they destroyed a Vampire+. THEN they went in for extra loot. Money, intel, and.. more.

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

Earlier generations practiced a form of doom scrolling called "channel surfing."

The irony of no bottom. Instead of deporting people with no due process now we have to use this plane to evacuate our own citizens from a war crime scene.

News agency develops staff and skills to publish natively in almost 30 languages but no way to stop Meta’s autotranslate from doing a shoddy attempt.

I see this too with friends who post multiple languages at once; reading the autoslop alongside their intentional translation is bizarre.

move slow and repair things

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

no no no that is very true and necessary

what.

yeah this is unsurprising

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Twenty percent of ppl with measles will end up hospitalized. And we have no treatment for it.

Get vaccinated if you're able. Make sure you've got some immunity if your doctor will run your titers. If you're unsure if you were vaccinated, or have an older vaxx consider getting a booster.

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

oh Jesus that was PARADE?!?!

ahahahahaha

Thread, and a needed reality check about what's going on in NC.

It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

"...so we can have ICE arrest them, detain them until they're near death, and then deport them somewhere they'll be executed."

The strikes murdered over one hundred school girls. And you think people will say “thank god, someone is here to liberate us” rather than support whoever counters that horrifying murder?

nah, Sludgy Wrongpuddin is better imho

I mean I *might* be excited for a firefly that was just River Tam, Simon Tam, Zoe, Kaylee and Inara if it had a completely new writing staff, Joss had zero input and all of his royalties went to women's orgs. But at that point we should just make new cooler stories.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.