November 2023

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justletmeremember:

omikronsoul:

keatxu:

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don’t wanna lose the rights to them

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don’t want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we’re certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They’re crying about opportunity cost for a product they’re not even selling.

op i know you’re probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company’s out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it’s a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can’t be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go “well op just wants old video games to play” (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

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justletmeremember:

omikronsoul:

keatxu:

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don’t wanna lose the rights to them

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don’t want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we’re certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They’re crying about opportunity cost for a product they’re not even selling.

op i know you’re probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company’s out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it’s a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can’t be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go “well op just wants old video games to play” (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

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spokenforinvaliduser:

dreamweaver.exe has crashed

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tiniestmousegirl:

lezbadeez:

greyplastictransgirl:

lezbadeez:

greyplastictransgirl:

lezbadeez:

tiniestmousegirl:

What animal is called javascript

Youve never seen a javascript before?

What the fuck is a javascript

Ey fellas, shes never seen a javascript!

Show me what a javascript is

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wearenotjustnumbers2:

This mother has lost all of her children at once by Israeli air strikes. She refuses to wash her hands when people tell her to because she doesn’t want to lose the last real thing she has left of them.

“My kids are gone. My kids are gone, people. God take care of them please, I can’t bear this anymore.” Then at the end she asks if all of their bodies have been brought to the hospital, she says: “Did they bring mohammed? Where is he?”

How does a person just go on after this? Demand a ceasefire now. Don’t stay silent, reblog amd repost and do everything you can to make this genocide stop!

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ice-to-orange-blossoms:

goblinparty:

tzifron:

the phrases ‘delighted to report’ and 'victimised by this display’ make me want to scream

This is from February. Remember that none of this started this month, it started decades ago

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idontmindifuforgetme:

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

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hussyknee:

Tweet by eve6 @Eve6 The problem the israeli propaganda campaign is having is they kept repeating "unless you know the history you should sit this one out" expecting that would shame people into deference but a lot of people were like ok i'm gonna look into this 31 Oct 23 2.3M ViewsALT
Reply by Afroposadism Folks after learning the history [image of guy in army uniform yelling "tie me to a missile and fire it at Tel-Aviv. I am ready!"] Sheriff Sully @SheriffSully And lo and behold, after looking into it, it was SO MUCH worse.ALT
reply by lol, Imao @shambrookben Israel: unless you know the history you should sit this one out People looking up the history: oh... This is way worse....ALT
Reply by @RickNothing A lot of people started following Palestinian and Arab related accounts too Reply by King of the Internets Encouraging people to learn the history seems ultimately detrimental to their cause, quite frankly. Reply by Codanon @CodySkinnerFan It's tough that when you look at the history it basically says that the king of England said it was ok to kill Palestinians to make room for Zionist settlers because it would be to uncomfortable to have a lot of Jews in Europe after WW2ALT
Reply by Nondescript Roman Statue [Screenshot of the Tumblr meme "Wait hold on gotta look something up...Ok yeah this is [inserted]ETHNIC CLEANSING"]ALT
Quote Tweet by Nonosbah (@NonosbahM) But this did work for a long time with a lot of ppl. What we're witnessing right now is culmination of years or organising from Palestinians and allies, as well as the impact of recent intensive education on anti-racism and colonialism and its legacies. 2 Nov 23ALT

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn’t Know

Thousands and thousands of years back in three minutes:

But closer to the issue…

The Story of Palestine, Part 2: The Nakba

Palestine and Israel: Mapping an annexation

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

Free Palestine - A Reading List - Pluto Press

LGBT Activist Scott Long’s Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

Palestine - Israel - Google Drive

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

CUCU PalSoc Teach Out Resources

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Films

Sources:

NGOs

Instagram Accounts

Twitter(X) Accounts

Share widely!

(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it’s fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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mostlysignssomeportents:

Red-teaming the SCOTUS code of conduct

The United States Supreme Court building. It has been gilded. The sky above is dark and menacing. Front and center is a cliched hacker-in-a-hoodie image. Image: Senate Democrats (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Supreme_Court_Building,_July_21,_2020.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en ALT

Tomorrow (November 18) at 1PM, I’ll be in Concord, NH at Gibson’s Books, presenting my new novel The Lost Cause, a preapocalyptic tale of hope in the climate emergency.

On Monday (November 20), I’m at the Simsbury, CT Public Library at 7PM

Last April, Propublica’s Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski dropped a bombshell: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had been showered in high-ticket “gifts” by billionaire ideologue Harlan Crow, who subsequently benefited from Thomas’s rulings in the court:

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

This was just the beginning: in the coming days and weeks, more and more of Thomas’s corruption came to light, everything from the fact that his mother’s home had been bought by Crow, to the fact that Thomas’s adoptive son went to a fancy private school on Crow’s dime:

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

The news was explosive and not merely because of the corruption it revealed in the country’s highest court. The credibility of the court itself was at its lowest ebb in living memory, thanks to the two judges who occupied stolen seats – Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett. One of those judges – Kavanaugh – is a credibly accused rapist. Thomas is also a credibly accused sexual abuser:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/01/30-years-after-her-testimony-anita-hill-still-wants-something-from-joe-biden-514884

Then, this illegitimate court went on to deliver a string of upsets to long-settled law, culminating in the Dobbs decision, which triggered state laws that force small children to bear their rapists’ babies:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/health/abortion-bans-rape-incest.html

That was the context for the Thomas bribery scandal, which was swiftly joined by another bribery scandal, involving Samuel Alito’s improper acceptance of valuable gifts from Paul Singer, another billionaire who brought business before the court:

https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

This string of scandals and outrages naturally prompted public curiosity about the Supreme Court’s ethical standards, and that triggered fresh waves of incredulous outrage when we all found out that the Supreme Court doesn’t have any:

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/why-doesnt-the-supreme-court-have-a-formal-code-of-ethics/

Keep reading

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determinate-negation:

determinate-negation:

yeah it is actually insane that literally millions of people have been murdered by the united states in the name of anticommunism, just for daring to want a socialist society, people are permanently disabled or traumatized, children are born with birth defects from us bombs to this day, many countries are still under crushing economic sanctions or still living in the aftermath of us backed right wing coups, and it really is insignificant to most americans

seeing some tags on here from people whos families have been directly affected by us imperialism and bombing campaigns and then seeing comments from americans on other posts reassuring themselves theyre not a bad person for not knowing this and that a lot of people have no idea how to look things up because american schools are soo bad is exactly whats deeply aggravating about this attitude. please gain some perspective and just start engaging with history instead of endlessly defending why you dont know it

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determinate-negation:

determinate-negation:

yeah it is actually insane that literally millions of people have been murdered by the united states in the name of anticommunism, just for daring to want a socialist society, people are permanently disabled or traumatized, children are born with birth defects from us bombs to this day, many countries are still under crushing economic sanctions or still living in the aftermath of us backed right wing coups, and it really is insignificant to most americans

seeing some tags on here from people whos families have been directly affected by us imperialism and bombing campaigns and then seeing comments from americans on other posts reassuring themselves theyre not a bad person for not knowing this and that a lot of people have no idea how to look things up because american schools are soo bad is exactly whats deeply aggravating about this attitude. please gain some perspective and just start engaging with history instead of endlessly defending why you dont know it

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somelazyassartist:

marlynnofmany:

tooies:

when a pelican bites you there’s no malice in their eyes. they aren’t upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don’t then it’s no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that’s ok it’s a beautiful animal

Okay, see, I knew about the capybara gif:

But I didn’t know that they really are That Dense, All The Time. The same way sharks will bite anything that might be a seal, just in case, these birdbrains will apparently test just about anything for beak size. 

Behold a short list of bad ideas:

Human foot is not food, bird.

That is clearly bigger than your entire body.

…You do know what a bear cub is, right? Right??

That is a BICYCLE SEAT.

That’s it; arrested for bird crimes.

@entguarde

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tinysweetvoid:

like to charge, reblog to cast

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iwilleatyourenglish:

beemovieerotica:

beemovieerotica:

we should be eating jellyfish regularly I’m not even joking

  • jellyfish are over-abundant / invasive species in many ecosystems thanks to human activity, and they undergo “blooms” in which their numbers can drown out other species
  • these blooms are so disruptive they’ve been known to clog hydroelectric dams and cause massive blackouts
  • jellyfish fishing is insanely easy, cost effective, and does not disturb marine substrate/reefs like other types of fishing
  • you can literally dip a net into the water and scoop them up. a child can do this.
  • the limiting factor for jellyfish consumption right now is that westerners just don’t eat them
  • jellyfish are very high in protein, and half of this is in the form of collagen (great for your joints, skin, muscles, and hair) plus low in carbs and fat
  • they are flavorless and have a crisp crunch to them, and will absorb the flavor of whatever they’re marinated in. you can prepare them to taste however you want!!

in conclusion, eat jellyfish

for people who are sensitive to texture, jellyfish can be altered quite a bit. it can be thinly sliced, turned into noodles, made into soup, dehydrated, powdered and added to food, or even made into an ice cream-like dessert.

don’t just go out and eat any jellyfish you find, though, because some are toxic.

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Reblog if your inbox is ALWAYS open for random asks, even if you haven’t reblogged any meme

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catmask:

catmask:

i will be autistic for a moment but living in a world where social expectations and standards are made by others and expected to be followed lest you be seen as a ‘failed’ person somehow when those standards are not based in personal happiness or autonomy or kindness to others makes me feel genuinely insane like daily

'we made up a game and made up all the rules before you got here and btw these things are not even physically or emotionally healthy for you and they don’t actually benefit communication between us and we all don’t even like doing it but if you don’t play and don’t follow them you lose. what do you win? oh nothing you just don’t get socially isolated and treated like a freak of nature. also we grew up doing it so you have to now too it’s only fair. also if you question any of it you will either get treated stupid or like the killer of everything good and sacred’

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maynguenebananas:

maynguenebananas:

my parents sold me to oingo boingo… one direction didn’t want me

i shred on the trumpet. they needed me.

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poisoned-drills39:

i’ve noticed a considerably smaller amount of people still talking about P@lestine in the past few days. it could be due to algorithms suppressing posts about the genocide but I put my bets on people’s attention spans running low.

i understand that the genocide in P@lestine has been happening for over a month now but you CANNOT stop talking about it. you cannot let yourself start viewing dead children, dying mothers, and crying fathers as the P@lestinian people’s “normal.” you cannot start letting yourself think of P@lestinians as people who don’t have any hope or future and give up on them.

the ONE thing that P@lestinians are asking of you is to just. keep. talking. the huge protests around the globe are starting to stress out governments supporting Israel and I believe the one thing they’re counting on, wishing for, is for everyone’s short attention spans to run out and for talk about P@lestine to stop.

one like, one reblog, one share, one post, one email, one call, one protest, these things help the cause. there’s still so many people who have no idea what’s going on.

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nine-thousand-rats:

our-queer-experience:

opposite image

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warriorsofficial:

teathattast:

kauboi:

teathattast:

hamptercatapult:

dongulator:

thanks

He would not fucking eat those. I willn’t tolerate Jerma slander

he would with his new buff doctor bf

Not how I expected to find out his husband transitioned but tbh trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

What

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intersectionalpraxis:

Twitter/X Post states: Police are trampling the candles we brought to honor the 11,200 plus Palestinians that have been killed since October 7th [Image Description: Image of a cop surrounding small, tealit candles that have been stomped on and kicked to the side]. I have provided a video below this this cop doing this, and the person who originally posted on X/Twitter about this, scold the cop for desecrating and destroying a memorial for those who have been killed by the IOF/Israeli military.ALT

this cop also did this to another protestor:

Twitter/X user states in their post: The cop kicking memorial candles for Palestinians is the same one who started pepper spraying Jewish activists. [image description: a person, on the right, was pepper sprayed by the same officer in the video I spoke about, and with whom this X/Twitter user is referring to. He is surrounded by his colleagues, who aren't helping stop this violent act of pepper spraying, and are standing by.]ALT

i remember when Instagram mostly banned me from my account for an entire year after posting about police brutality and its’ links to white supremacy and institutionalized violence -it was during the height of the BLM movement after George Floyd was murdered. i remember calling out ex-co-workers at the time and people on social media i was mutuals with at the time for saying ‘but it’s not all cops, some are good,’ and my response to that, and will always be: policing systems do MORE harm than good in communities. cops get little to zero training and are allowed to bear arms and have a licences to maim, injure, and kill people (most of whom, are NOT threats). and it’s beyond unacceptable. the amount of funding these fucking systems get too when it can be allocated to programs that ACTUALLY do good.

defund the police.

end the occupation and free palestine!

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the-haiku-bot:

severevoiddragon:

I wonder how the Haiku Bot happens to find posts with Haikus in?

I wonder how the

Haiku Bot happens to find

posts with Haikus in?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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victorlincolnpine:

animentality:

Lots of people like to say “I never support a genocide”, but they never asked the question, “would I turn a blind eye to a genocide?”

That’s basically what’s happening here. Lots of people not supporting the actual killing, but doing nothing to stop it, not even speaking up.

Until it’s at their door, until it is threatening them, a lot of people in this highly individualistic set of societies do not give a shit if a whole people gets erased from the face of the planet.

They just change the channel and go grill.

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a-goose-in-a-trenchcoat:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

a-goose-in-a-trenchcoat:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

a-goose-in-a-trenchcoat:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

a-goose-in-a-trenchcoat:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

a-goose-in-a-trenchcoat:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

mayhem-moth-deactivated20250415:

ANYONE WANNA SEE A PICTURE OF MY CAT?????? 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

YAAAAYY!!


I HAVE MORE

You fool! I play my trap card, kitty bitty! Forcing you to observe my baby boys!

FOOL! YOU HAVE NOT CONSIDERED THE FACT THAT I LOVE CATS!!

FOOL! YOU DONT EVen know their names they are billy(the one who I have in a chokehold) and teddy(the little shit who bites and bites and oh god why won’t he stop biting)

YOU FOOL! IN AN ATTEMPT TO ACCUSE ME OF BEING A FOOL YOU HAVE GAVE ME THE INFORMATION NECESSARY

I GAVE YHE VITAL INFORMATION NOOOOOOO

HAHAHAHA YOU FOOL!!

*insert emoji evaporation gif here*

This one?

UES THAT ONE

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the-haiku-bot:

severevoiddragon:

I wonder how the Haiku Bot happens to find posts with Haikus in?

I wonder how the

Haiku Bot happens to find

posts with Haikus in?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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victorlincolnpine:

animentality:

Lots of people like to say “I never support a genocide”, but they never asked the question, “would I turn a blind eye to a genocide?”

That’s basically what’s happening here. Lots of people not supporting the actual killing, but doing nothing to stop it, not even speaking up.

Until it’s at their door, until it is threatening them, a lot of people in this highly individualistic set of societies do not give a shit if a whole people gets erased from the face of the planet.

They just change the channel and go grill.

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cringelordofchaos:

♾️ your-fave-is-trainsgender-and-autistic Follow

I like trains kid is trainsgender and autistic!

(requested by @cringelordofchaos)

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blushroom-goddess-deactivated20:

sorry for being hot and insane. can we have problematic sex now?

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intersectionalpraxis:

Twitter/X Post states: Police are trampling the candles we brought to honor the 11,200 plus Palestinians that have been killed since October 7th [Image Description: Image of a cop surrounding small, tealit candles that have been stomped on and kicked to the side]. I have provided a video below this this cop doing this, and the person who originally posted on X/Twitter about this, scold the cop for desecrating and destroying a memorial for those who have been killed by the IOF/Israeli military.ALT

this cop also did this to another protestor:

Twitter/X user states in their post: The cop kicking memorial candles for Palestinians is the same one who started pepper spraying Jewish activists. [image description: a person, on the right, was pepper sprayed by the same officer in the video I spoke about, and with whom this X/Twitter user is referring to. He is surrounded by his colleagues, who aren't helping stop this violent act of pepper spraying, and are standing by.]ALT

i remember when Instagram mostly banned me from my account for an entire year after posting about police brutality and its’ links to white supremacy and institutionalized violence -it was during the height of the BLM movement after George Floyd was murdered. i remember calling out ex-co-workers at the time and people on social media i was mutuals with at the time for saying ‘but it’s not all cops, some are good,’ and my response to that, and will always be: policing systems do MORE harm than good in communities. cops get little to zero training and are allowed to bear arms and have a licences to maim, injure, and kill people (most of whom, are NOT threats). and it’s beyond unacceptable. the amount of funding these fucking systems get too when it can be allocated to programs that ACTUALLY do good.

defund the police.

end the occupation and free palestine!

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islamreflection:

“11,078 and counting have died in Palestine. Never stop talking.

Also this is just the surface, do further research to fully understand the situation.

Also this is just the surface, do further research to fully understand the situation.”

Art credit: @flyingkikii

Reposted from @frxchix

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kp777-deactivated20241106:

Big Oil’s Big Lies Are Catching Up With Them

By Cassidy Dipaola

Common Dreams

Nov. 17, 2023

The American public believes fossil fuel companies should pay for their deceit. Our job is to make sure they do.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry has misled the public about the climate impacts of its products. Internal documents prove companies like Exxon knew since the 1970s that burning oil and gas drives catastrophic global warming. Yet rather than warn society, they denied the science and obstructed climate action at every turn.

This corporate deception continues today, but the public is catching on in a big way. New polling from Data for Progress reveals 70% of Americans support making Big Oil pay for the climate damages their products have caused. With climate disasters growing in frequency and severity, people are fed up footing the bill for Big Oil’s greed.

Such greed should disgust us all. But outrage alone achieves nothing.

Critically, the American public believes Big Oil should pay for their lies. The new polling reveals that 77% of Americans agree that if oil and gas companies misled the public about climate impacts, they should help cover resulting climate costs. This consensus crosses political divisions. Agreement spans 91% of Democrats, 75% of Independents, and 63% of Republicans—an exceptionally high level of bipartisan agreement.

The poll also shows a sharp rise in support for making polluters pay over time. Similar polls in 2021 and 2019 found roughly 60% and 57% of Americans backed accountability, respectively. In just a few short years, support for accountability has jumped nearly 20 percentage points. Now near three-quarters of Americans are in agreement around the belief that Big Oil should pay for the harms it sowed through decades of deception.

The costs of warming are no longer abstract statistics. They can be seen in the devastation of communities across America. In 2021 alone, extreme weather fueled by climate change inflicted over $165 billion in damages nationwide. Floods, wildfires and storms killed hundreds and displaced countless more. Low income and minority communities suffered most, abandoned by the very corporations who caused this crisis.

At the same time these climate impacts accelerate, the fossil fuel industry is raking in massive profits. Just last quarter, Chevron pocketed $11.2 billion and Exxon secured $19.7 billion. Rather than invest in renewables or pay for the harms they’ve caused, they’re doubling down on fossil fuels, scooping up sister-companies and stoking fears of monopolization in the public and leadership alike.

New lawsuits are seeking damages for Big Oil’s climate deception, and they’re gaining traction.

By misleading the public on climate science for so long, the industry secured decades of unchecked emissions to swell its bottom line. But now, the deadly consequences of its lies are coming to bear. Record heat, drought and near-weekly hurricanes make clear we rapidly must transition from fossil fuels to avert utter climate catastrophe.

Such greed should disgust us all. But outrage alone achieves nothing. Accountability for Big Oil is long overdue – it’s time to Make Them Pay. Politicians for too long have enabled and protected these polluting companies. But new lawsuits are seeking damages for Big Oil’s climate deception, and they’re gaining traction. As you read this, ¼ of Americans are now represented in lawsuits against Big Oil for climate damages and fraud, with California becoming the latest and largest state to file suit.

The public correctly realizes these corporations should pay for the crisis they knowingly fueled. Our leaders must stand up to polluters and enact policies to rein in their abuses. A future free from fossil fuels is possible, and we now have the political will to make it happen.

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copingchaos:

The IDF is counting on people to not have any critical thinking skills at this point

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cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

HOGS will now trade with you

HOGS will now accept you into their guilds

HOGS will no longer be aggressive unless provoked

Reputation Increased!

HOGS will now allow entry into their holy places

HOGS will now honor your pacts

HOGS will now perform their burial rites for you

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catgirlbulge:

this might be my favorite tiktok i have ever seen. absolute gold through and through

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static-testament:

kaible:

pangur-and-grim:

y'all ever just in the mood to mutilate a .jpeg

I got one of the best pictures I ever made out of that urge

H O N S E

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dduane:

odonata523:

odonata523:

Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn’t she a great character?

Everyone: No, she’s one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero’s ego

Male scifi and fantasy writers: You’re never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it’s much harder for us to write women because we are men!

Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*

Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*

Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*

Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VEIW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*

Excellent note by @spiderleggedhorse

Terry’s writer superpower was always Thinking Things Through. All the way through.

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ruimtetijd:

feminist-pussycat:

crazy-brazilian:

this is a more succinct political commentary than most of the cartoons today

this is right up there with

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memewhore:

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someguyiguess:

someguyiguess:

i love you USPS I love you NASA i love you taxpayer funded services that actually contribute positively to society i love you libraries i love you public transport

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beesandwasps:

vaspider:

hotleafbeverage-deactivated2024:

joseph-lavode:

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

Tennessee Republican argues federal funds to feed schoolchildren should be performance-tested

A Tennessee Republican state lawmaker is arguing federal funds to feed school children from low-income families should not be accepted unless it can be proven that the program will increase test scores.

GOP Rep. John Ragan, who has a history of targeting school students from low-income households, told the legislature’s Joint Working Group on Federal Education Funding he was concerned about “tying ourselves to the federal government,” and inquired about the amount of “waste” in the federal program, according to a video clip posted by The Tennessee Holler. The Working Group’s purpose is to determine how the State of Tennessee can reject $1.8 billion in federal education funds. […]

I’m not too clued up on US-state politics so I may have missed something, but I don’t understand how that would be politically tenable for him. Surely the people of Tennessee would be immensely pissed off by their own representative turning down extra funding at no additional cost to his constituents? There can’t be any coming back from that.

It… depends. Some people are such single-issue voters, whether that is guns or hating the gays, that these things just… don’t register.

But that’s starting to change, because people don’t like to see their children hungry.

Republicans quite frequently do turn down federal funds when the President or the majority in Congress is Democratic. They turned down Medicaid expansion funds under the ACA, Indiana turned down federal funding to build high-speed rail (so Illinois got it instead, and the resulting high-speed connection between Chicago and St. Louis, taking in the state capital along the way, is just about ready), I know there are many more examples but those are the only ones I can name off the top of my head. Occasionally it makes some of their voters angry, but the single most important thing to remember in order to understand US politics is that Republican voters always vote Republican.

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fallout-lou-begas:

discoasphodel13:

discoasphodel13:

Hey so it’s come to my attention that the Creators of Disco Elysium want you to share the game and not give the company who took over and fired them (illegally)?) any profits off of their ideas and work, and I originally joined tumblr 2 weeks ago when that post was going around about the Steam sale and how you should [Skull and Crossbones flag] it instead.

So.

in light of that.

Check the replies/notes of this post :)

I was informed that posts containing links in them aren’t findable in the search so i’ll just…. drop a link in a seperate reboot :)

first things first though, copy this key:

q4-EJ9G2DV7MYYI-Vs0KdQ

here’s the edited version with the captal YY in the key above!

9.48 GB folder on MEGA

and also the Google drive link :

Disco Elysium ultra compressed.7z

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kira-serialfaggot:

lierdumoa:

fiddleabout:

labelleizzy:

nyxelestia:

stele3:

theselittlefeelings:

firstgrave:

1. The Republican Party turns out for EVERY vote. Primaries, local elections, midterms, you name it. Most dems show up once every four year and then get defeatist when things don’t immediately change. It took the Republicans YEARS to overturn RvW but it has been a long game goal of theirs. YEARS of voting, and you’re gonna opt out after one vote. Okay.

2. Primaries are when you vote for who you want. Elections are when you vote for who you can. If you’re not voting in the primary, you’re letting the moderate centrist do-nothing candidate win.

3. Local elections affect your daily life. That sherif in Texas who is refusing to enforce the abortion ban? Local election. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, so much of this is trickle up from local politics.

4. Call your damn representatives. Even if it feels hopeless. The gun control reform that just passed (as minimal as it is) was bipartisan because people showed their reps that they wanted change. Get vocal as a voter and prove courting your vote matters.

5. If someone in your area is running for office and needs votes, be a signature for them. Not everyone can afford to pay to run. You want to support better candidates, put your name behind them (only in your district and always read what you’re signing first).

6. The two party system is shit. We know that. But the democrats are a big tent housing a lot of different opinions and trying to cater to them all. Republicans are generally united in one mission of dismantling everything and protecting only their own. This is also why Dems don’t have the same type of “super majority” and can’t easily whip the same voting results. And anyone who thinks Obama had a super majority for enough time to codify roe does not understand politics. He had about 18 days of actual in-session time, split into two different sessions.

7. Purity politics isn’t going to get you anywhere. The candidate is a bus stop getting you closer to where you want to be. They’re not the end goal, and a smart voter knows that.

8. Voter suppression is huge in America. Help other voters register and get to the polls. It’s not always indifference keeping people from voting. Do something to help disenfranchised voters.

Let me repeat: The two party system is shit. We need to get rid of the electoral college. We need ranked choice voting. We need to get rid of Citizens United. Our country is an oligarchy. Always has been. Not denying that. But Living in these ideals of what we should be without creating any change now isn’t going to get you anywhere. Being defeatist and abstaining from the process is cutting off your own nose to spite your face. Its saying “the other team is scoring too many goals, so instead of playing, I’m just gonna sit on the sidelines. That’ll teach everyone.” No, you’re just gonna keep losing. Maybe, instead, vote in the primaries and choose better teammates.

Y’all kill me with these “hot takes.” They ain’t even half baked.


Now, if you want to talk about the other things we should be doing IN ADDITION TO voting, like general strikes, organizing, etc. Then that’s a different conversation we should also be having.

Also no, there is no such thing as “one more vote.” Vote every time. Vote consistently. Vote national. Vote local. It’s the absolute MINIMAL amount of civil engagement you can do. If you can do more than vote, do more, but at least vote every single time.

A lot of people really think democracy is something they only have to do once. It’s not. It’s something we do constantly - because greedy and power-hungry and malicious people are constantly trying to take advantage of society. Evil never stops, so neither do we.

Evil never stops, so neither do we.

VOTE.

(via @ratherembarrassing)

“Just wash one more dish bro I swear then we won’t have to do dishes anymore bro come on just one more load of laundry bro and then I promise all the clothes will be clean ok just trust me bro the chores will definitely be done okay just sweep the kitchen floor and take out the trash this one last time it’ll work I swear you’ll never have to do chores again I promise.”

Grow the fuck up.

Vote in every election. Over and over again until you die. It’s a chore. That’s how chores work.

It’s important to remember that all American politicians are warmongers. It doesn’t matter if Democrat or Republican gets into office. They’ll both continue the military shit the previous did.

But one side has made it actively clear they want to criminalize queer people out of existence, imprison and separate kids from their families, and wants a puritanical Christian slave state. They’ve made it their goal to block anything they don’t agree with and dismantle everything in place.

You need to vote if we want to have a chance of changing things for the better.

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doctorslippery:

depsidase:

Yep. If history gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling, you aren’t learning history. You’re being indoctrinated.

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gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d:

evergreen-pumpkin:

A snapshot of one morning, on a relaxed day with mild weather. Now imagine this when it’s crowded or when it’s raining or snowing.

StarShip Technologies Delivery Robot $8500

CraftRight Sledge Hammer $40

As a wheelchair user, I’m just saying that there is a hobby waiting to be invented with a low cost of entry… I have no idea what that hobby might be, but it comes with free food.

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chickensgod:

freakoutgirl:

dw if I die I will still haunt the narrative

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vitabreva:

escuerzoresucitado:

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a-real-human-person-not-fake:

ms-demeanor:

palant1r:

palant1r:

the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years

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succumbdeeznuts:

gallows-alligator:

animefacialrecognitionsoftware01:

goldcrescent:

judgejudyofficial:

esoanem:

thebuttkingpost:

arirna:

queer-qunari:

xek-xek:

vonlipvig:

normal-horoscopes:

ghostaquarius:

lifeofcynch:

ofide:

narracharas:

I’m glad ppl on tiktok are doing ok

good lord

YEAH I GOT NOTHING

i don’t understand a single sentence in this and i’m ok with that

I haven’t stopped saying “it’s called quantum jumping, babe”

I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what they’re doing is that they’re projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.

topical :/

WHY IS IT TOPICAL

Me shouting at my rash ointment

great post everyone

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pokemonheritageposts:

inthefallofasparrow:

image

x

“… but you’ll never be able to beat my Servine!

SERVINE: Servine!

ASH: A Servine?

PIKACHU: Pikaa?

SERVINE: Servine.

WHO’S THAT POKEMON?!

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IT’S SERVINE!

SERVINE: Servine!

SERVINE: Servine.

ASH: That’s Servine, it’s gotta be.”

Pokemon Heritage Post

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gotyx:

Took few days, but I got the funny orange sticker from @punkitt-is-here !

I am gaming so hard rn