Fanfiction 💖
(If you have a couple bucks to spare, Standplaats could use it.)
(If you have a couple bucks to spare, Standplaats could use it.)
January 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Fanfiction 💖
(If you have a couple bucks to spare, Standplaats could use it.)
(If you have a couple bucks to spare, Standplaats could use it.)
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goddammit man
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
goddammit man
... is it really a reaction if there's no *action*, implied or stated? Looks more like an essay to me.
Tldr; "People I helped put in power did things that are contrary to the order I swore to uphold, but I'm not personally in danger so 🤷🏻♂️."
(Will dig up alt text in a shortly. JFC.)
Tldr; "People I helped put in power did things that are contrary to the order I swore to uphold, but I'm not personally in danger so 🤷🏻♂️."
(Will dig up alt text in a shortly. JFC.)
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
... is it really a reaction if there's no *action*, implied or stated? Looks more like an essay to me.
Tldr; "People I helped put in power did things that are contrary to the order I swore to uphold, but I'm not personally in danger so 🤷🏻♂️."
(Will dig up alt text in a shortly. JFC.)
Tldr; "People I helped put in power did things that are contrary to the order I swore to uphold, but I'm not personally in danger so 🤷🏻♂️."
(Will dig up alt text in a shortly. JFC.)
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December 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thanks to some incredibly generous donations our winter fund drive is now over halfway to our goal. If we reach it our trans local journalism co-op can survive into 2026.
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We don’t need “good immigrants “ etc stories
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
January 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
We don’t need “good immigrants “ etc stories
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
My "regularly watched Fox until they started feeling complicit, now mostly ignore the news" parents-in-law still watch 60 Minutes. They might have *believed* it from 60 Minutes, or at least looked a little deeper into it.
This is why Weiss’s “it didn’t move the ball forward” excuse is bullshit. Yes, much of this was reported in the NYT and by Frontline.
But 60 Minutes averages 8 million viewers. It would have reached a massive audience that Frontline and the NYT didn’t.
But 60 Minutes averages 8 million viewers. It would have reached a massive audience that Frontline and the NYT didn’t.
Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My "regularly watched Fox until they started feeling complicit, now mostly ignore the news" parents-in-law still watch 60 Minutes. They might have *believed* it from 60 Minutes, or at least looked a little deeper into it.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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In a just world there would be a name instead of ‘off-duty Norfolk police officer’ and the thumbnail for the story would include a photo of that cop’s face for sharing around social media, you know kind of like story thumbnails with mugshots of people who didn’t fucking do anything wrong
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In a just world there would be a name instead of ‘off-duty Norfolk police officer’ and the thumbnail for the story would include a photo of that cop’s face for sharing around social media, you know kind of like story thumbnails with mugshots of people who didn’t fucking do anything wrong
I simply don't believe that this deep into a fucking pandemic, you don't know what an asymptomatic carrier is. Keep your fucking "we'll stay in the other room!" security theater.
The certainty of transmission is the main thing keeping my thumbs out of your eyeballs.
The certainty of transmission is the main thing keeping my thumbs out of your eyeballs.
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I simply don't believe that this deep into a fucking pandemic, you don't know what an asymptomatic carrier is. Keep your fucking "we'll stay in the other room!" security theater.
The certainty of transmission is the main thing keeping my thumbs out of your eyeballs.
The certainty of transmission is the main thing keeping my thumbs out of your eyeballs.
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I don't want to be surrounded by people who share my opinions. I want to be surrounded by people who share my values.
See, it's entirely possible to believe in something and fail to live up to it. And one thing I appreciate, both On Here and irl, is those people who will kindly and firmly check me.
See, it's entirely possible to believe in something and fail to live up to it. And one thing I appreciate, both On Here and irl, is those people who will kindly and firmly check me.
December 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don't want to be surrounded by people who share my opinions. I want to be surrounded by people who share my values.
See, it's entirely possible to believe in something and fail to live up to it. And one thing I appreciate, both On Here and irl, is those people who will kindly and firmly check me.
See, it's entirely possible to believe in something and fail to live up to it. And one thing I appreciate, both On Here and irl, is those people who will kindly and firmly check me.
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Eeekk!!!
The director's cut of Megalopolis will be called 'Megalopolis Unbound' and will have additional footage 🎥 #AdamDriver
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/1...
December 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Eeekk!!!
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In honor of Link, it is fund me Friday: Finals Edition.
Post your mutual aid below and I will try to repost as much as I can.
Given that finals week has started for me, I’m going to be relying on everyone else to help out with reposting as well.
Post your mutual aid below and I will try to repost as much as I can.
Given that finals week has started for me, I’m going to be relying on everyone else to help out with reposting as well.
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In honor of Link, it is fund me Friday: Finals Edition.
Post your mutual aid below and I will try to repost as much as I can.
Given that finals week has started for me, I’m going to be relying on everyone else to help out with reposting as well.
Post your mutual aid below and I will try to repost as much as I can.
Given that finals week has started for me, I’m going to be relying on everyone else to help out with reposting as well.
I keep getting whiffs of my middle school friend's house. I think it's a stress thing: it was not a happy house.
Sometimes I get so mad at someone that I can smell their spit, even in rooms they've been in, so I'm *pretty* sure it's not real. Gotta unpack why it's that smell *now*, though.
Sometimes I get so mad at someone that I can smell their spit, even in rooms they've been in, so I'm *pretty* sure it's not real. Gotta unpack why it's that smell *now*, though.
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I keep getting whiffs of my middle school friend's house. I think it's a stress thing: it was not a happy house.
Sometimes I get so mad at someone that I can smell their spit, even in rooms they've been in, so I'm *pretty* sure it's not real. Gotta unpack why it's that smell *now*, though.
Sometimes I get so mad at someone that I can smell their spit, even in rooms they've been in, so I'm *pretty* sure it's not real. Gotta unpack why it's that smell *now*, though.
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Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically
Delightful.
Looking at the HREL/VDOT interactive long-term traffic impacts map and there's only one thing to say ...
www.vdot.virginia.gov/projects/maj...
www.vdot.virginia.gov/projects/maj...
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Delightful.
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Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.
Also a podcast, if you have more time to listen than read (that's me)! Search for "ProPublica Narrated".
Coproduced by Theater of War, who I would tag but none of them seem to be here!
Coproduced by Theater of War, who I would tag but none of them seem to be here!
15/ The story of Phoebe, Samaritan and the people of Albany is the story of American health care.
Read our 5-part series "Sick in a Hospital Town" here:
Read our 5-part series "Sick in a Hospital Town" here:
Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Also a podcast, if you have more time to listen than read (that's me)! Search for "ProPublica Narrated".
Coproduced by Theater of War, who I would tag but none of them seem to be here!
Coproduced by Theater of War, who I would tag but none of them seem to be here!
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Police seek help identifying suspect in Norfolk mosque vandalism trib.al/TGl2nRp
Police seek public’s help in identifying man suspected of vandalizing a Norfolk mosque
The suspect is described by police as a middle-aged white man with shaggy hair and a beard. He was wearing a tan jacket and blue jeans at the time of the vandalism.
trib.al
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Police seek help identifying suspect in Norfolk mosque vandalism trib.al/TGl2nRp
This is one of those things I can't unsee.
I won't put trauma all over the timeline, but I will say that many of our students come to us expecting to be mistreated in a thousand tiny ways.
Part of being a good person is looking for the racism society put in your heart & killing it.
I won't put trauma all over the timeline, but I will say that many of our students come to us expecting to be mistreated in a thousand tiny ways.
Part of being a good person is looking for the racism society put in your heart & killing it.
One of the ways your racism is manifesting as a white person that you probably don't notice is that you have horrible manners with Black people. You have a terrible attitude when you meet real Black people. You don't say excuse me & can barely look them in the eye. That's over 80% of white people.
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is one of those things I can't unsee.
I won't put trauma all over the timeline, but I will say that many of our students come to us expecting to be mistreated in a thousand tiny ways.
Part of being a good person is looking for the racism society put in your heart & killing it.
I won't put trauma all over the timeline, but I will say that many of our students come to us expecting to be mistreated in a thousand tiny ways.
Part of being a good person is looking for the racism society put in your heart & killing it.
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i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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I dreamed Orson Krennic gave himself argyria. The rest of the dream was very boring.
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I dreamed Orson Krennic gave himself argyria. The rest of the dream was very boring.
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Kids aren't, you know, any different than they ever have been. We're still the same species. Any behaviors manifested by children are a reaction to facts on the ground, to reality. Because they see it for what it is, not what it used to be, not what we pretend it still is.
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Kids aren't, you know, any different than they ever have been. We're still the same species. Any behaviors manifested by children are a reaction to facts on the ground, to reality. Because they see it for what it is, not what it used to be, not what we pretend it still is.
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Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.
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I wouldn’t decrease vocational training per se, but I think we have to bring back the idea that education’s mission is not just to prepare people for jobs but to prepare them for citizenship
Yeah that's why I think Dem policy should focus specifically on expanding the demographics which are most likely to be Dem supporting.
Public education, free CC, subsidies for state 4y degrees, *decreasing* vocational education (or making it meet standard college reqs), enact more loan forgiveness.
Public education, free CC, subsidies for state 4y degrees, *decreasing* vocational education (or making it meet standard college reqs), enact more loan forgiveness.
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I wouldn’t decrease vocational training per se, but I think we have to bring back the idea that education’s mission is not just to prepare people for jobs but to prepare them for citizenship