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Acceptance stage begins...

[in the northern hemisphere]
Don Henley, shown as head and shoulders with arms at the side and forearms and hands out of view, wearing a black wool coat and black t-shirt with tousled hair. He's singing (seemingly standing on the back of a flatbed truck, as the tops of buildings and telephone poles and power lines pass into the distance behind him) in the music video for Boys of Summer. The closed caption for the lyrics at the bottom of the image reads, "🎵 The summer's out of reach 🎶."
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Post you from a different era.
A half-facial cropping of a selfie photo.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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(too often, for too many) "We know not what we do."
A horizontal bar chart about percieved difference (by political typology) between values of the two major U.S. political parties in three gradients. [chart title] % who say, when thinking about the Democratic and Republican parties, there is .. KEY: [%] A great deal of difference in what they stand for {%} A fair amount of difference in what they stand for (%) Hardly any difference at all in what they stand for Faith and Flag Conservatives: [82%] {15%} (3%) Committed Conservatives: [80%] {18%} (2%) Populist Right: [81%] {15%} (4%) Ambivalent Right: [30%] {50%} (20%) Stressed Sideliners: [35%] {47%} (16%) Outsider Left: [23%] {50%} (26%) Democratic Mainstays: [72% ] {25%} (2%) Establishment Liberals: [71% ] {26%} (2%) Progressive Left: [72% ] {22%} (5%) General Population: [59% ] {31%} (9%)
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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(too often, for too many) "We know not what we do."
A horizontal bar chart about percieved difference (by political typology) between values of the two major U.S. political parties in three gradients. [chart title] % who say, when thinking about the Democratic and Republican parties, there is .. KEY: [%] A great deal of difference in what they stand for {%} A fair amount of difference in what they stand for (%) Hardly any difference at all in what they stand for Faith and Flag Conservatives: [82%] {15%} (3%) Committed Conservatives: [80%] {18%} (2%) Populist Right: [81%] {15%} (4%) Ambivalent Right: [30%] {50%} (20%) Stressed Sideliners: [35%] {47%} (16%) Outsider Left: [23%] {50%} (26%) Democratic Mainstays: [72% ] {25%} (2%) Establishment Liberals: [71% ] {26%} (2%) Progressive Left: [72% ] {22%} (5%) General Population: [59% ] {31%} (9%)
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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It's the information system, not the leaders.
The Las Vegas Harris presidential campaign rally crowd.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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And meaning.
The narrator (Charles Gray) from Rocky Horror Picture Show with their left hand on the globe as their right hand holds a tome.
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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This woman, specifically.
A still of Helen Andrews from a podcast video.
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Plus, a large library over many decades just ripe for the plucking.
A photo titled "Smoking Boy with Chicken." It does a young boy, maybe 8 or so, sitting in a small chair made for a child, wearing a black high neck shirt, black leggings, and black-colored and buckled shoes. Beside him is a white chicken standing which comes up to his shoulder as he is seated in the chair.
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The common "knowledge" of the Black Panthers that the U.S. government feared vs. the actual Black Panthers that the U.S. government feared in two images.
A group of 8 members of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party exercising their First and Second Amendment rights as they protest a gun control bill in Olympia on the steps of the Washington state Capitol building on February 28th, 1969. Bill Whitfield, member of the Black Panther chapter in Kansas City, serving free breakfast to children before they go to school. (Credit: William P. Straeter/AP Photo)
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is coming across to me as either "'male lonliness' exploitative capitalism" or dating red flag."

Oh right, it's both.
An insert to convert a Zippo lighter into a screwdriver bit safe/pocket screwdriver. It shows a No. 1 Phillips head bit in the driver socket (where the flint, wick, and sparkwheel would be), and a No. 1 Slotted screwdriver, a star drive bit, and a No. 2 Phillips head bit in the 3-bit storage sockets on the bottom. An insert to convert a Zippo lighter into a screwdriver bit safe/pocket screwdriver. It shows a No. 1 Phillips head bit in the driver socket (where the flint, wick, and sparkwheel would be) and a Zippo lighter case around it.
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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As a small courtesy, image reposted with ALT text, for anyone looking for it.
A post from social media: [account name:] olofahere [title:] Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because - swear to f cking god there is nothing more soul-killing. more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished Source: olofahere 15,684 notes
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The rich white dude pod pundits are showing their whole backsides over the Nazi dude.
A post on X by Jon Lovett of PodSaveAmerica: Only perfect candidates off the harvard law conveyor belt pls, highly disciplined, all boxes checked, well liked and humble, absolutely no spiritual connection to having a physical body except for severe IBS, volunteered at a soup kitchen in high school, signs email "cheers," etc.
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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People full of fear and rage and with mixed motivations and loyalties acting from from a place of deployed power (and too often impunity) from behind a badge are not capable of being stewards of order, nor agents of law.

They are terror squads.

Top: 1968 in Illinois
Bottom: 2025 in Illinois.
[CREDIT: DENNIS BRACK / UT AUSTIN'S BRISCOE CENTER] Policeman with batons and riot helmets in a rough and jagged front line of violence as they advance on people protesting during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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From The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), a placard held by Samuel Egerton, a marcher who later donated it to the Smithsonian.

"We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now!"
A protest placard from the Civil Rights march on a Washington in 1963. It reads: We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now! Additional caption text fom the Smithsonian: “The message after 50 years is still unresolved,” remarks Samuel Egerton, who donated the poster to the Smithsonian after carrying it in protest during the 1963 March on Washington.
October 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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ALT text ADDENDUM: The image mistakenly mentioned in the ALT text of a version with the title cropped out.
[A table of U.S. presidential election results in three columns using emojis. It is (ironically) titled, "Protest Vote" (as a jibe aimed at white Democrats who had been, and still are, chastising and attempting to shame non-voters driven by outrage at the genocide in Palestine.)] [Column header key] 🇺🇸Popular Vote column. 🏛️Electoral College Vote column. ⚪White Vote column. 📅Election Year column. 🔵Democratic candidate for President win result. 🔴Republican candidate for President win result. Identity Politics 🇺🇸|🏛️|⚪| 📅 🔴|🔴|🔴2024 🔵|🔵|🔴2020 🔵|🔴|🔴2016 🔵|🔵|🔴2012 🔵|🔵|🔴2008 🔴|🔴|🔴2004 🔵|🔴|🔴2000 🔵|🔵|🔴1996 🔵|🔵|🔴1992 🔴|🔴|🔴1988 🔴|🔴|🔴1984 🔴|🔴|🔴1980 🔵|🔵|🔴1976 🔴|🔴|🔴1972 🔴|🔴|🔴1968 🔵|🔵|🔵1964 Civil Rights Act 🔵|🔵|🔵1960 🔴|🔴|🔴1956 🔴|🔴|🔴1952 🔵|🔵|🔵1948
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Privilege leads to massive "inadequate sample size" distortion issues.

We white Americans are racist, with an unbroken 237 year long streak of voting for our own hegemony.

After 1964, the white power party switched "from ass to elephant" and the bulk of the campaign dogwhistle collection with it.
An engine temp style dial showing the span of time 1619 to 2024 with 'American Slavery' occupying 1619 to 1865 in 'danger' red, Segregation covering 1866 to 1954 in 'warning' yellow, and unlabeled 1955 to 2024 in 'ok' green. [A table of U.S. presidential election results in three columns using emojis. It is (ironically) titled, "Protest Vote" (as a jibe aimed at white Democrats who had been, and still are, chastising and attempting to shame non-voters driven by outrage at the genocide in Palestine.)] [Column header key] 🇺🇸Popular Vote column. 🏛️Electoral College Vote column. ⚪White Vote column. 📅Election Year column. 🔵Democratic candidate for President win result. 🔴Republican candidate for President win result. Identity Politics 🇺🇸|🏛️|⚪| 📅 🔴|🔴|🔴2024 🔵|🔵|🔴2020 🔵|🔴|🔴2016 🔵|🔵|🔴2012 🔵|🔵|🔴2008 🔴|🔴|🔴2004 🔵|🔴|🔴2000 🔵|🔵|🔴1996 🔵|🔵|🔴1992 🔴|🔴|🔴1988 🔴|🔴|🔴1984 🔴|🔴|🔴1980 🔵|🔵|🔴1976 🔴|🔴|🔴1972 🔴|🔴|🔴1968 🔵|🔵|🔵1964 Civil Rights Act 🔵|🔵|🔵1960 🔴|🔴|🔴1956 🔴|🔴|🔴1952 🔵|🔵|🔵1948
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Image reposted with ALT text, as a small courtesy for anyone looking for it.
What's the reason for this silence? As usual, I believe, it's the mainstream media's fear of appearing to sympathize or identify with those who oppose Trump. I often complain about the syndrome known as "both-sidesing" -- in which unequal sides are given equal treatment in the press. But this failure of coverage is worse than that. Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary, whom I admire, has written about a nation that's been traumatized by Trump's anti-democratic fervor. He wrote recently about the deep anxiety, even depression, that so many feel, and argued that it is "a rational response to a nation that's becoming ever more disordered." "Many of us now feel powerless and afraid. We don't recognize our nation. We're disoriented, vulnerable, anxious." If millions of Americans are feeling that - and I agree that they are shouldn't it get some news coverage? If that feeling is driving them out to protest next Saturday, that seems like a pretty good story, too.
October 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Harry Nilsson from the cover of the album Nilsson Schmilsson. He is standing in his kitchen in a robe, holding a small smoking pipe for marijuana.
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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White voters have voted for white supremacy in an unbroken streak.

Fellow white Americans, the fascism is coming from "inside [our] house."
A rough visual shown as two labeled rows, using emojis, above a timeline of presidential election years (1964-2024) being used to illustrate the Popular Vote for President v. The white vote for President during the years 1964 to 2024. Above the visual are the words/post comment, "White politics are identity politics." Below the visual is the footnote ¹ attached to the year 1964 in the row label that reads, 'Popular vote for President, 1964¹-2024': "¹'64-'65, LBJ signs the Civil & Voting Rights Acts." Key 🔵: Democratic candidate won the vote for the given category. 🔴: Republican candidate won the vote for the given category. P: The popular vote winner. W: The white vote winner. [Visual] 1964: 🔵 P | 🔵 W 1968: 🔴P | 🔴 W 1972: 🔴P | 🔴 W 1976: 🔵P | 🔴 W 1980: 🔴P | 🔴 W 1984: 🔴P | 🔴 W 1988: 🔴P | 🔴 W 1992: 🔵P | 🔴 W 1996: 🔵P | 🔴 W 2000: 🔵P | 🔴 W 2004: 🔴P | 🔴 W 2008: 🔵P | 🔴 W 2012: 🔵P | 🔴 W 2016: 🔵P | 🔴 W 2020: 🔵P | 🔴 W 2024: 🔴P | 🔴 W
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Promises were made.
The Jetson's cartoon showing Future Night Football with robots.
October 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Come for Elvis, stay for "Di and Charles."
Two actors playing Lady Diana, Princess of Wales and Charles, the Prince of Wales. Diana is shown from behind her right ear and the rest of the frame is from over her right shoulder. 1 of 2 images. The back and back right side of Diana's head with her trademark hair style is seen, along with her right hand wearing a boxing glove. Charles and the wall of the room behind him is taking up the rest of the frame as he wears a tuxedo and presents her with a single pink blush colored rose. Two actors playing Lady Diana, Princess of Wales and Charles, the Prince of Wales. Diana is shown from behind her right ear and the rest of the frame is from over her right shoulder. 2 of 2 images. The back and back right side of Diana's head is seen, with her right hand and arm extended and with her right hand in a boxing glove. Charles has now taken a punch to the nose and is falling backwards in a tuxedo holding a single (now rejected) pink blush color rose, as a gift offering to Diana.
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"Dear [Moderator(s)], we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong..."
"The Breakfast Club" from the movie of the same name. John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock.
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Photo manipulation cropped away in this version.
Four images of Robert O'Neill, a retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. The top two are as himself, one from FOXNews TV and the other from an online FOXNews article, then two more; a "former Antifa" (and in another Jesse Watters segment) as "former gang member."
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🥹 We feel honored, and awwwww-ed.
October 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM