Rolling Eddie

lol what’s she gonna advise them on? How to grieve unconvincingly?

Not everything requires a counterpoint.

Please learn this.

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

I LET OUT A CACKLE

Obama Presidential Center Will Open On Juneteenth, Former President Says The long-awaited center in Jackson Park will have a dedication ceremony June 18 followed by its opening to the public on Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in America.

is this the prison camp in andor

I was recently describing my experience of college research to my kids.

-Come up with a question
-Ask librarian for advise
-Find a bunch of books in the stacks (including ones you hadn't originally been looking for)
-Sit and read for HOURS, including tons of stuff that wasn't immediately relevant!

not to mention the layers of
* othering (why should some groups be represented by something that is not an individual human when others get individual humans??)
* visual misrepresentation (an avatar developed to someone else's standards)
* process disingenuousness ("consensus")

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."

A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.

und es ist natürlich auch schlecht fürs geschäfft sich mit arbeiter*innen zu solidarisieren weil man arbeitet ja nicht für die sondern für die die auf dem geld sitzen sobald es nur schon slightely richtung sogenannte hochkultur geht

mein take ist ja immer noch dass kunstschaffende theoretisch working class wären aber weil eh die meisten aus mittel- und oberschicht kontexten stammen haben sie zero klassenbewusstsein i mean wie auch mit geld status und sicherheit im rücken

to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be

Introducing: BUTTASS! the ass that's a butt

walking right up to a random guy at work you've only talked to in passing before and saying, "i've figured you out."

I am contractually obligated to always remind people this was directed by Joey Lawrence’s brother and has all three Lawrence brothers in it and the only times this has happened are in this movie about Kelsey Grammer saying a dude fucked an alligator and then also on the Disney Channel

MONEY PLANE (2020) predicted polymarkets and kalshi

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

a lesson to be taken from the Proton email situation is that Swiss law isn’t a get out of jail free card and the Swiss government is a 5 eyes affiliate

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

Cuba Will Now Allow Trans People to Change Gender Markers Without Bottom Surgery A new law allows trans Cubans to update their identification cards by request without providing proof of genital surgery.

"A new law allows trans Cubans to update their identification cards by request without providing proof of genital surgery."

Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"