This really takes me back to the 2000s. They look and sound great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7heL...
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Gregory E. Williams ☭ 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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From South Louisiana. Co-editor of Struggle-La-Lucha https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org Editor of the compilation “Love is the law: Cuba’s queer rights revolution” https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/books/love-is-the-law-cubas-queer-rights-revolution/
For a couple months I’ve been copying and saving all my Livejournal entries from 2003-2012. It’s great to have this kind of record as opposed to more ephemeral social media. I couldn’t have imagined how vividly this would bring things back, including photos I forgot or assumed were lost.
“Every society is three meals away from chaos”
Affordability is a 'defining challenge' for Americans, with food costs leading the way, report finds
Many consumers rely on credit cards to pay for everyday expenses, such as groceries, but some can't make the minimum payment, according to a new report.
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If the "U.S." isn't lying or deceiving that just means it isn't communicating at the moment.
The Intercept@theintercept.com · yesterdayThe Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”
This is objectively good for everyone on the planet.
Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape@breakify.bsky.social · yesterdayThe American century of humiliation, indeed.
🎶Gay wedding school…toiiilets cake/The hot July moon saw everything/My first taste of love, whoa-oh bittersweet And cake on my mind/Like gay wedding school…🎶👈🏼 kind of intrusive thoughts I have nonstop, apologies to Deana Carter, singer of the 1996 country classic, Strawberry Wine
nyckaty132.bsky.social@nyckaty132.bsky.social · 2d agoThat’s bullshit. Hillary and Harris both fell for the ‘gay wedding school Toilets’ cake and watched Trump roll all over them for it. Most people vote for kitchen table items, their security. Not gay wedding cakes.
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Robert Kagan, an architect of the most destructive US foreign policy and co-founder of the neoconservative group that pushed regime change in Iraq, admits 9/11 and even Pearl Harbor were blowback from U.S. policy. An unusually candid statement of the imperial logic he has always defended.
Just another casual reminder that you’re being laughed at by corporates because a) governments facilitate them and b) we don’t push back. Cost of living crisis, for you not for them.
BALTIMORE ! Family of Detained Filipino-American Demand Immediate End to Detainment! Community Rally Thursday August 6 5:30pm McKeldin Plaza, 100 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD
Another person conducting ICE abductions in New Jersey has been identified: Mike Smith of Warrington, PA, described by Jersey Counterinfo as “41 years, is married, is a homeowner, has two children, and is a Disney Adult.” He evidently is a U.S. Marshal: jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/nj-ice-agent...
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with the mineral coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
Painting by Peter Uka ‘Invisible Guardian’ 2017. Oil on canvas. Size 160 x 200 cm.
Don'tcha feel richer now? www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.
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Before the Storm, painting by George Callaghan, Irish artist.
I was at a hospital recently and saw FOX News comedy talk show on TV. This was almost indescribably cringy, but actually can be incapsulated: one of the hosts was the comedian Adam Carolla. Maybe I was out of the loop but I haven’t heard that name since the late 90s whrn hr was on MTV’s “Loveline.”
I think it's hilarious that China's answer is to devalue US corporations by creating open source models that use a fraction of the compute power and destroy the circular funding scheme of Big Tech.
Op-ed: The U.S. lead over China in AI is all but gone
AI debate in recent years has centered on whether the U.S. can develop a strategy capable of preserving an edge over China. The answer isn't looking positive.
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"We did not imagine that merely holding up the flag of a sovereign state recognised by 157 countries (Palestine) would violate any law," the band said in a statement
