I’ve only seen Brand New Day once so far, but I have that Tame Impala song stuck in my head because every video about the movie is using it
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
This should be a lesson to every non-white cop, though they also never learn anything when one of their colleagues shoots an off-duty officer for being black and not in uniform.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
Missouri voters defeated the bid by Republicans to kill direct democracy in a blowout — 80% rejected the measure, with huge turnout for a primary boltsmag.org/missouri-rej...
Missourians Reject Measure That Threatened to Kill Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives - Bolts
Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against a measure to restrict direct democracy, while state officials are trying to block even more citizen-led reforms from the November ballot.
boltsmag.org
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
🚨💔 Ahmed is fighting for his life. Today, he was moved back to the ICU and relies on machines to breathe. The virus is spreading through his tiny body, painful spots cover him, and his condition worsens every hour. Please don’t let my boy be lost. Help save Ahmed. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1905...
I'm weirdly upset by Stevens's gracious concession, because it makes her lie from just a few days ago that AES harbors personal animus against Jewish ppl all the more transparent. We should discourage lying to inflame tensions against two targeted religious minorities for personal political gain imo
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Processing stool samples was the worst part of my job when I was working in a hospital in grad school. It was like a horror movie every time I had to open one of those containers.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 11h agoSamples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.” on.wsj.com/4fAqfu0
In your article, you mentioned a graphic "Only You Can Prevent Data Centers"- that you thought was made by AI. It wasn't, it was made by me, an artist that is very much against AI. In fact, I turned it into a shirt and raised money for a local arts education nonprofit in Chicago.
Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 22h agoSpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
“Do you know why we’re meeting today?”
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This man might go to prison for allegedly wiping his phone before DHS officials could search it. No warrant for the phone, no specific claim of what 'evidence' might be on it. But he used a duress/wipe password, leading to the charge Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmik...
NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
404media.co
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
UFC Parent Company Lost $30M on White House Fight ground.news/article/trum...
UFC Parent Company Lost $30M on White House Fight
An executive from TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of the UFC, said Monday the firm lost roughly $30 million from its June event at the White House. “With regards to UFC Freedom 250, we incurred...
ground.news
Earning a living when we are already alive is CRAZY.
Sbooks@bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · yesterdayWe are paying to live on a rock that was made for FREE!
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
One of my favorite things about the X-Men is how they treat the Avengers like Uncle Toms
hahahahaha "The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger has scheduled the trial for March 2027. The scheduling matters a lot to Paramount, which will begin paying Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million a day on Sept. 30 until the deal is complete."
Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial for March 2027
The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has issued a preliminary scheduling order, with a trial set to start in March 2027 -- considerably lat...
variety.com
And let's remember 6-year-old Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, who also faced rabid white supremacists when they desegregated another New Orleans school at the same time. www.wdsu.com/article/new-...
New Orleans Four remembered for their historic impact to American history
More than 60 years ago, four young Black girls in Louisiana, known as the New Orleans Four, made history by integrating schools in New Orleans.
wdsu.com
can anyone help us eat for the first time 2day 💜
angel 🏳️⚧️ $40/158 motel@freakingangel.bsky.social · 2w agothx for helping us eat for the first time in a couple days, heres sum ass n legs from our spot in the parking lot pls help us stay fed n housed if u can, we r homeless n disabled linktr.ee/angelxtasy
One last call and response for the primary. You know the drill. 🗣️
20 years from now there's gonna be an entire section in Barnes & Noble for the tell-all books written by the children of MAGA politicians and influencers about what giant pieces of shit their parents were. The Ted Cruz book is gonna be wild.
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2y agochecking on one of the key thinkers of the female new right she's currently bitching about how she thinks someone with a 1450 SAT score should be in UCLA lmfao
As they support Trump’s camps for immigrants
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2d agoThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
You gotta make that woman eat. You gon go up to that woman and ask her what she ate and she gon be like "Ice."
Obama Why
ALT: Obama Why
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honestly can't stress enough, as a former family law attorney, how depressingly common Max Miller's behavior and words are, right down to the petty fixation on custody procedure and rules when faced with allegations of shocking violence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."