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    Steve Benen
    Steve Benen

    A thought for those hoping Trump's second term won't be worse than his first:

    It will definitely be worse than his first. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

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    @davidcelis I feel lucky that I played it two weeks back where the message of working to overcome all that was hopeful; now Metaphor itself is its own unreachable utopia.

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    Low Quality Facts
    Low Quality Facts

    "Why did no one tell me that my poor decisions could have consequences?"

    Reddit comment: I (Michigander) voted for Cornel West as a protest vote and I'm starting to regret it. EVERYONE before today said Kamala had this in the bag like how tf is this happening...

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    Alfie Kohn
    Alfie Kohn

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    We feared they would try to subvert the election. It's worse: They didn't need to.

    We asked how, given his obvious unfitness & fascism, the election could be close. But it wasn't even close.

    We deplored the injustice of the electoral college. But he won the popular vote, too.

    We can't say the majority didn't understand who he is. He recklessly boasted about dismantling democracy and persecuting his enemies (which is to say, many of us). And 70 million of our neighbors said, "Let's do it."

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    Vee

    "Remember that
feeling you got when
the second plane hit
the twin towers and
you realized what was
going on?

You should have that
same feeling again
right now."

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    Frontend Dogma
    Frontend Dogma

    You Can Use “text-wrap: balance;” on Icons, by @Edent:

    shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/you-c

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    carith
    carith

    today is apparently National Stress Awareness Day and hoo buddy let me tell you, I am Aware of it

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    Radley Balko

    As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.

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    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor

    Updated (see below)

    Like you, I've been absorbing the news today. As I write this, it looks more and more possible that the American experiment will end in January.

    I'll be back tomorrow, but right now I just want to wait and see.

    PS: To all the journalists who barely deigned to notice the likelihood that the next president would be an outright fascist – and did nothing to stop him – you have my contempt.

    Further thoughts in my newsletter:

    cornerstone.ghost.io/essential

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    Jamie Gaskins
    Jamie Gaskins
    uspol

    How is this country real? How are this many people voting for this asshole?

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    George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
    George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

    As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.

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    Brock
    Brock

    Anyone know what year the @Defcon 3 2 1 rule started and if there was a particularly "smelly" incident that led to it?😂

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    Riker Googling
    Riker Googling

    do you die each time you go through a transporter

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    Bruno J. Navarro
    Bruno J. Navarro

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A video purporting to depict voter fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors” determined to undermine faith in the integrity of next week’s presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.

    FBI links video falsely depict...

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    Fiona Craig
    Fiona Craig

    How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.

    In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.

    news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

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    PDX Dem Socialist 🏳️‍🌈 💖 🇺🇸
    PDX Dem Socialist 🏳️‍🌈 💖 🇺🇸

    #Vote people. It's extremely important that we don't get a dictator in power. This is what happened right before Nazi’s took over Germany. #USpolitics #Trump #VoteKamala

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    Street Art Utopia
    Street Art Utopia

    If you agree, PLEASE REPOST

    In a street, a large advertising board with a face of somebody that could be Elon musk, masked by adhesive tape. And on the right, written in block letters, 
Elon Musk
SHUT
THE 
FUCK
UP

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    Street Art Utopia
    Street Art Utopia

    CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!

    Photograph taken in Alfafar, Valencia, Spain, showing a city street littered with overturned and piled-up cars after massive floods caused by heavy rainfall. The road is covered in mud and debris, and a few people walk through the wreckage amidst buildings that appear largely intact. The scene highlights the extensive destruction and disruption caused by the flooding.

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    Also, Silent Hill 2, I see what you did there. Classic.

    A screenshot from Silent Hill 2 with a convoluted way to arrive at the combination for a safe, the answer to which is 0451 (the classic first combination from System Shock, BioShock, Deus Ex, etc)

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    Apparently I'm opening franchises in hell now? Checks out.

    A screenshot from Silent Hill 2 of a billboard advertising "T's Italian Restaurant"

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    Ian Rose
    Ian Rose

    If someone tells you not to vote, suggests that not voting is a meaningful protest, or posts about the uselessness of voting, they are engaging in voter suppression, and they are not your friend.

    We think of voter suppression as a set of partisan policies, and in large part it is, but it is a very big toolbox, with more in it than that. I've already blocked one person I agree with on a lot of things today, because I won't sit and watch folks do the worst people's work for them.

    #uspol

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    zetta is: anxiety
    zetta is: anxiety

    please vote

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    Chris 🌱 :verified_purple:
    Chris 🌱 :verified_purple:

    Even if you're disillusioned with electoral politics, I implore all people in the US eligible to vote: please vote. You may think things can't get worse if Trump wins again, but they absolutely can - for everyone in the world.

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    Randahl Fink
    Randahl Fink

    In all the dystopian sci-fi movies where the world falls apart, the cause is always something advanced, like a space invasion, or the rise of an evil AI army.

    I have yet to see a sci-fi movie, where the world crumbles because a charlatan wearing thick orange makeup convinces 81 million voters, that mentally ill migrants are coming to eat their pets; and then they vote for him, and he destroys NATO and the international world order while eating chicken out of a bucket and drinking diet coke.

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    Joan Westenberg
    Joan Westenberg

    Someone on reddit pointed out that he’s trying to make an X with his body and it’s the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen

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    CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
    CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

    :cloudcomputing:

    Old style comic of a lady in a blue jacket looking over her shoulder at someone leaving towards the car. There's a thought bubble above her that reads, "That rotten computer ruined both of our evenings."

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    environmental storytelling

    A screenshot from The Lake House DLC for Alan Wake 2 showing a caution wet floor sign in front of a corpse lying in a puddle of its own blood

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    MEActNOW
    MEActNOW

    Elon Musk said he’s going to
    “Need a lot of security”
    When he starts taking away programs that help the poor and middle class
    “Because they aren’t going to like that”
    Remind me again
    What office is Musk running for?

    - William Buecker

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    Marcus Hutchins :verified:
    Marcus Hutchins :verified:

    Illegal immigrants have to pay taxes, including social security, which they're never allowed to claim. So they basically end up funding American's retirements for them. Meanwhile Elon Musk is spending taxpayer money aggressively suppressing free speech and being the single largest contributor to climate change in the hope that he can one day go on vacation to another planet. People hate the former and worship the latter. Make it make sense.

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    Derek Powazek 🐐
    Derek Powazek 🐐

    Especially this:

    “But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”

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    Derek Powazek 🐐
    Derek Powazek 🐐

    “Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy.”

    washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

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    Annika Backstrom
    Annika Backstrom

    Jesus. Depending on WordPress anything feels like a liability at this point. Matt Mullenweg looks to be a vindictive asshole all around mastodon.social/@mvsde/1133736

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    Tristan Snell
    Tristan Snell

    Jeff Bezos is worth $204.3 billion -- and even he's afraid of what a Trump dictatorship could bring.

    Money and privilege won't buy you safety from fascism.

    But you can still resist and prevent it, right now.

    VOTE.

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    Mastodon Migration
    Mastodon Migration

    So, thanks Jeff Bezos, now we see it all very clearly if we didn't see it before...

    This election is The Billionaires vs. The People

    And the billionaires are trying to hoodwink, lie, bride, cheat and steal enough votes to get over the line, and then end democracy for good. Screw them. We are not giving them our country.

    @KamalaHarrisWin

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    SwiftOnSecurity
    SwiftOnSecurity

    College grad in 2002 feels left down

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    Jay Kuo
    Jay Kuo

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    Housey
    Housey

    me when i GET you ​:ablobcatbongogoogly:​​:blobcatknife:​​:blobcatknife:​​:ablobcatbongogoogly:​​:blobcat_chew_wire:​

    a small kitten attacking the boots of someone

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    Velocirooster adminensis :bc:
    Velocirooster adminensis :bc:

    Them: We're forcing you to go back into the office because we believe work is more meaningful when employees are together and have a shared sense of comradery.

    Me: So, unionize?

    Them: No, not like that.

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    U.S. Elaine voted for Harris
    U.S. Elaine voted for Harris
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    jwz
    jwz
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Games

  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard
(Playstation)

The Unbound

    3 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • SILENT HILL 2
(Playstation)

Making Peace

    6 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Alan Wake 2
(Playstation)

Looking for Release

    10 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
(Playstation)

Coronation of the King

    11 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Metaphor: ReFantazio- Prologue Demo
(PS5)

    24 days ago

    Metaphor: ReFantazio- Prologue Demo
    (PS5)

  • Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
(Playstation)

How Did It All End?

    25 days ago

    (Playstation)

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
    (PS5)

  • PowerWash Simulator
(PS5)

    about 2 months ago

    PowerWash Simulator
    (PS5)

  • Star Wars Outlaws
(PS5)

    2 months ago

    Star Wars Outlaws
    (PS5)

  • Scorn
(PS5)

    2 months ago

    Scorn
    (PS5)

Books

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

    3 months ago

    This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

    3 months ago

  • Bury Your Gays

    3 months ago

    Bury Your Gays

    3 months ago

  • Camp Damascus

    3 months ago

    Camp Damascus

    3 months ago

  • If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

    3 months ago

    If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

    3 months ago

  • Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham

    4 months ago

    Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham

    4 months ago

  • Uzumaki

    about 1 year ago

    Uzumaki

    about 1 year ago

  • Shiver: Selected Stories

    about 1 year ago

    Shiver: Selected Stories

    about 1 year ago

  • Gyo

    about 1 year ago

    Gyo

    about 1 year ago

Music

  • Sex Gang Children - Beasts

    3 minutes ago

    Sex Gang Children - Beasts

    today

  • Pink Turns Blue - I Coldly Stare Out

    10 minutes ago

    Pink Turns Blue - I Coldly Stare Out

    today

  • Sex Gang Children - The Crack Up

    14 minutes ago

    Sex Gang Children - The Crack Up

    today

  • The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - 2011 Remaster

    20 minutes ago

    The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead - 2011 Remaster

    today

  • Pink Turns Blue - Walking On Both Sides

    24 minutes ago

    Pink Turns Blue - Walking On Both Sides

    today

  • Clan of Xymox - No Words

    about 24 hours ago

    Clan of Xymox - No Words

    today

  • Joy Division - Insight - 2007 Remaster

    about 24 hours ago

    Joy Division - Insight - 2007 Remaster

    today

  • The Damned - Alone Again Or

    about 24 hours ago

    The Damned - Alone Again Or

    today

  • Bauhaus - Double Dare

    about 24 hours ago

    Bauhaus - Double Dare

    yesterday

  • Lebanon Hanover - Sadness Is Rebellion

    about 24 hours ago

    Lebanon Hanover - Sadness Is Rebellion

    yesterday

  • Specimen - Beauty Of Poisin - 12" version

    about 24 hours ago

    Specimen - Beauty Of Poisin - 12" version

    yesterday

  • Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Heaven

    1 day ago

    Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Heaven

    yesterday

  • The Danse Society - We're So Happy

    1 day ago

    The Danse Society - We're So Happy

    yesterday

  • shelovesmolly - raven

    1 day ago

    shelovesmolly - raven

    yesterday

  • Clan of Xymox - Jasmine and Rose

    1 day ago

    Clan of Xymox - Jasmine and Rose

    yesterday

  • Fields of the Nephilim - For Her Light

    1 day ago

    Fields of the Nephilim - For Her Light

    yesterday