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This handsome gentleman came up to me while I’m waiting, and decided to wait with me. He’s the embodiment of how good today is.

It feels great to feel great.
A ginger cat relaxing near parking lot on a sunny day
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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This idea keeps popping up, but y'all need to look at it from the opposite angle.

Hungary is basically blackmailing both EU and NATO. If expelled, it will be driven towards Serbia - and Russia. Look at the map: you *really* don't want Hungary to become a full-blown Russian satellite.
A screenshot of a map with Hungary in its center, surrounded by (clockwise): Croatia (South-West), Slovenia (West), Austria (North-West), Slovakia (North), Ukraine (North-East), Romania (East, South-East), Serbia (South).
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A screenshot of the article in the quoted tweet: "The sets of ideas that were introduced into the public consciousness during this campaign were divided into 16 main blocks, often turning into one another: 1. Propaganda of great power, empire and imperial idea; the Russian nation is a supernation. 2. Propaganda of proto-fascist-monarchist ... ideas; propaganda of Russification, revival and rehabilitation of Black Hundred myths. 3. Propaganda of social xenophobia: hatred of the "social lower classes", of wage earners ... intimidation by revolution; propaganda of creeping fascism. 4. Propaganda of the idea of "creating a Russian nation" on the basis of xenophobia and nationalism ... recognition of this as the "national idea" of Russia. 5. Proclamation as an "enemy" of Muslims; anti-Muslim ... hysteria; demonization of Chechens (Muslims). 6. Instilling the psychology of a "besieged fortress" ... resuscitation of the idea of a "conspiracy against Russia and the Russian nation.". 7. Revival of the Black Hundred myth about the "world behind the scenes" and about "foreign puppeteers" leading "anti-Russian" political forces in Russia ... 8. Proclamation of terrorists by agents of Western countries ... 9. Demonization of the left and liberals, declaring them "agents of the West" ... 10. Praise for the regime of personal dictatorship and dictators. 11. Planting a cult of Putin's personality; identification of Putin with Russia. 12. Proclamation of the thesis "the state is above society"; glorification of the state machine. 13. Imposing the thesis about the falsity of the left-liberal ... understanding of civil society: there is no civil society ... 14. Introducing the idea of independent public organizations as "enemy agents", a "fifth column" maintained by Western intelligence services. 15. Implantation of Orthodoxy, Orthodox consciousness; imposition of Orthodox, biblical rhetoric and symbols. 16. Stirring up hysteria and apocalyptic attitudes."
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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It's alright, thank you, VPN was enough for this one 😇 It's just that, e.g. ActBlue doesn't work even with a US IP address, its just hangs indefinitely during payment. But they give an honest 503 without it, so probably intentional
A screenshot of an email titled "Your Donation Receipt" from GiveMN
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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@jtommins.bsky.social take a look, looks like a promising way for screening for CFS is in the works
translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A screenshot of a small portion of the Results section of the article: "Test performance evaluation and diagnostic accuracy analysis showed a remarkable sensitivity of 92% and specificity of 98% with overall accuracy of 96% (Table 2). This high diagnostic accuracy underscores the strength of the selected epigenetic markers and the utility of the whole-genome approach in distinguishing ME/CFS from healthy phenotypes."
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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AWS outage in a single picture
A piece of tan paper decorated using classic minimalist Japanese style, with a haiku: "It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS"
October 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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They knew where this is going
The infamous Hushme device advertisement
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Eventually you discover that all seemingly ever-enduring questions, such as "capitalism vs socialism" or "religion vs atheism", are not "unanswerable", they're just poorly framed because we're stupid.

But that one specifically has been adopted as the prime "divide and conquer" of our times.
An excerpt from an article called "The Left Does Not Exist" by Peter Joseph: "This is why capitalism thrives on polarization. The system depends on continual debate about how to distribute wealth, not why wealth takes the form it does; on who should govern, not what governance is for. By framing every question as a matter of degrees between “left and right,” the system ensures its own immunity."
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Another excerpt from Meditations on Moloch: "Like all good mystical experiences, it happened in Vegas. I was standing on top of one of their many tall buildings, looking down at the city below, all lit up in the dark. If you’ve never been to Vegas, it is really impressive. Skyscrapers and lights in every variety strange and beautiful all clustered together. And I had two thoughts, crystal clear: It is glorious that we can create something like this. It is shameful that we did."
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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They knew. They saw through it, all of it, all the way back then.
We want health care that respects and understands our bodies. Physically challenged sisters must have access to gatherings, actions, happy events, and work. For this, ramps must be added to stairs and we must become readers, signers, and supporting arms. So close, so many, why have we allowed ourselves not to know them? We want an education for children that tells the true story of our women's lives, which describes the earth as our home to be cherished, to be fed as well as harvested. We want to be free from violence in our streets and in our houses. One in every three of us will be raped in her lifetime. The pervasive social power of the masculine ideal and the greed of the pornographer have come together to steal our freedom, so that whole neighborhoods and the life of the evening and night have been taken from us. For too many women, the dark country road and the city alley have concealed the rapist. We want the night returned: the light of the moon, special in the cycle of our female lives, the stars, and the gaiety of the city streets. We want the right to have or not to have children — we do not want gangs of politicians and medical men to say we must be sterilized for the country's good. We know that this technique is the racists' method for controlling populations. Nor do we want to be prevented from having an abortion when we need one. We think this freedom should be available to poor women as it always has been to the rich. We want to be free to love whomever we choose. We will live with women or with men or we will live alone. We will not allow the oppression of lesbians. One sex or one sexual preference must not dominate another. We do not want to be drafted into the army. We do not want our young brothers drafted. We want them to be equal with us. We want to see the pathology of racism ended in our time. It has been the imperial arrogance of white male power that has separated us from the suffering and wisdom of our sisters in Asia, Africa, South America, and in our own country. Many North American women look down on the minority nearest them: the Black, the Hispanic, the Jew, the Native American, the Asian, and the immigrant. Racism has offered them privilege and convenience; they often fail to see that they themselves have bent to the unnatural authority and violence of men in govern? ment, at work, at home. Privilege does not increase knowledge or spirit or understanding. There can be no peace while one race dominates another, one people, one nation, or where one sex despises another. We must not forget the tens of thousands of American women who live much of their lives in cages, away from family, lovers, all the growing-up years of their children. Most of them were born at the intersection of oppressions: people of color, female, poor. Women on the outside have been taught to fear those sisters. We refuse that separation. We need each other's knowledge and anger in our common struggle against the builders of jails and bombs. We want the uranium to be left in the earth and the earth to be given back to the people who tilled it. We want a system of energy that is renewable, that does not take resources out of the earth without returning them. We want those systems to belong to the people and their communities, not to the giant corporations that invariably turn knowledge into weaponry. We want the sham of Atoms for Peace to end, all nuclear plants to be decommissioned, and the construction of new plants stopped. That is another war against the people and the child to be born in 50 years. We want an end to the arms race. No more bombs. No more amazing inventions for death. We understand all is connected. We know the life and work of animals and plants in seeding, reseeding, and simply inhabiting this planet. Their exploitation and the organized destruction of species never to be seen again threaten and bring us sorrow. The earth nourishes us as we with our bodies will eventually feed it. Through us, our mothers connected the human past to the human future. With that sense, that ecological right, we oppose the financial connections between the Pentagon and the multinational corporations and banks that the Pentagon serves. Those connections are made of gold and oil. We are made of blood and bone; we are made of the sweet and finite resource, water. We will not allow these violent games to continue. If we are here in our stubborn thousands today, we will certainly return in the hundreds of thousands in the months and years to come. We know there is a healthy, sensible, loving way to live and we intend to live that way in our neighborhoods and on our farms in these United States, and among our sisters and brothers in all the countries of the world.
September 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Stumbled upon Women's Pentagon Action's Unity Statement. November 16th 1980, twelve days after Reagan won the election. It is incredible, and I do urge you to read it.
Unity Statement Women's Pentagon Action We are gathering at the Pentagon on November 16 because we fear for our lives. We fear for the life of this planet, our Earth, and the life of the children who are our human future. We are mostly women who come from the northeastern region of our United States. We are city women who know the wreckage and fear of city streets; we are country women who grieve the loss of the small farm and have lived on the poisoned earth. We are young and older, we are married, single, lesbian. We live in different kinds of households: in groups, families, alone, or as single parents. We work at a variety of jobs. We are students, teachers, factory workers, office workers, lawyers, farmers, doctors, builders, waitresses, weavers, poets, engineers, home workers, electricians, artists, and blacksmiths. We are all daughters and sisters. We have come here to mourn and rage and defy the Pentagon because it is the workplace of the imperial power that threatens us all. Every day while we work, study, and love, the colonels and generals who are planning our annihilation walk calmly in and out of the doors of its five sides. They have accumulated over 30,000 nuclear bombs, at the rate of three to six bombs every day. They are determined to produce the billion- dollar MX missile. They are creating a technology called Stealth — the invisible, unperceivable arsenal. They have revised the cruel old killer, nerve gas. They have proclaimed Directive 59, which asks for "small nuclear wars, prolonged but limited." The Soviet Union has worked hard to keep up with U.S. initiatives. We can destroy each other's cities, towns, schools, and children many times over. The United States has sent "advisors," money, and arms to El Salvador and Guatemala to enable those juntas to massacre their own people. The very same men, the same legislative committees that offer trillions of dollars to the Pentagon have brutally cut day care, children's lunches, and battered women's shelters. The same men have concocted the Family Protection Act, which will mandate the strictly patriarchal family and thrust federal authority into our home life. They have prevented passage of the Equal Rights Amendment's simple statement and supported the Human Life Amendment, which will deprive all women of choice and many women of life itself. We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid. At the same time, our cities are in ruins, bankrupt; they suffer the devastation of war. Hospitals are closed, our schools deprived of books and teachers. Our Black and Latino youth are without decent work. They will be forced, drafted to become the cannon fodder for the very power that oppresses them. Whatever help the poor receive is cut or withdrawn to feed the Pentagon, which needs about $500,000,000 a day for its murderous health. It extracted $157 billion dollars last year from our own tax money, $1,800 from a family of four. With this wealth our scientists are corrupted; over 40% work in government and corporate laboratories that refine the methods for destroying or deforming life. The lands of the Native American people have been turned to radioactive rubble in order to enlarge the nuclear warehouse. The uranium of South Africa, necessary to the nuclear enterprise, enriches the white minority and encourages the vicious system of racist oppression and war. The U.S. president has decided to produce the neutron bomb, which kills people but leaves property (buildings like this one) intact. There is fear among the people, and that fear, created by the industrial militarists, is used as an excuse to accelerate the arms race. "We will protect you...," they say, but we have never been so endangered, so close to the end of human time. We women are gathering because life on the precipice is intolerable. We want to know what anger in these men, what fear, which can only be satisfied by destruction, what coldness of heart and ambition drives their days. We want to know because we do not want that dominance, which is exploitative and murderous in international relations, and so dangerous to women and children at home — and we do not want that sickness transferred by the violent society through the fathers to the sons. What is it that we women need for our ordinary lives, that we want for ourselves and also for our sisters in new nations and old colonies who suffer the white man's exploitation and too often the oppression of their own countrymen? We want enough good food, decent housing, communities with clean air and water, and good care for our children while we work. We want work that is useful to a sensible society. There is a modest technology to minimize drudgery and restore joy to labor. We are determined to use skills and knowledge from which we have been excluded? like plumbing or engineering or physics or composing. We intend to form women's groups or unions that will demand safe workplaces that are free of sexual harassment, and equal pay for work of comparable value. We respect the work women have done in caring for the young, their own and others, in maintaining a physical and spiritual shelter against the greedy and militaristic society. In our old age we expect our experience, our skills, to be honored and used.
September 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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An excerpt from Meditations on Moloch: "A basic principle unites all of the multipolar traps above. In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don’t take it die out. Eventually, everyone’s relative status is about the same as before, but everyone’s absolute status is worse than before. The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse."
September 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We all exist to feed this machine. The god of war. We are literally pawns. We all live and die within the shadow of this colossus. It gave us everything and it takes what it needs. We can't have one without the other. Current wars and genocides are the price we pay as humanity for everything this god provides us with. And the best we can do is to pray that we are not its next sacrifice. And when it's someone's turn to be one, the question is not "why" - but "why me". We all dance to the music of death and destruction - whether we want it or not, or whether we even aware of it or not. We are all mere little children that excitedly greet our fathers coming back from another war - with stories and spoils. Every single day. Even if we don't realize it.
September 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Why does Trump do X, he’s so dumb! Why don’t Democrats do Y, they’re so useless!

We need to stop doing this shit. Not taking into account the context the people we love to yap about are occupying day to day begets so much misplaced effort it’s even scarier than said context itself.
A diagram with a pyramid consisting of three layers, top to bottom: malice, stupidity, incentives. Link to the original Twitter post: https://x.com/harmonylion1/status/1257353800001695744?s=46
August 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM