[Uspol] We're finding out the hard way that Congress has had a really bad habit of passing laws that basically say "The government can't do XYZ unless the President says so."

For all the talk AWS and Microsoft and Google have about EU sovereign clouds, those guarantees vanish REAL quickly the moment a madman in DC decides he doesn't like an EU customer.

It's pretty telling when universities crack down on peaceful Palestine protests and do nothing about rape.

It’s my birthday week and all, which is lovely, but I recently sneezed while I was asleep and pulled a muscle

Happy National Coming Out Day It was my first coming out 8 years ago back in 2018 with just a throwaway account on Reddit. Sometimes your first coming out needs to be quietly to yourself. It's okay, you gotta start somewhere.

Nothing quite like waking up to the sound of your dog vomiting under your bed.

Periodic reminder that the absurd price of dram and ssds for computer components basically boil down to an oligopoly of 3 corporations who have a long history of collusion and price fixing whenever they can find a plausible excuse to get away constraining supply and making obscene amounts of profit.

Small doctors offices always have the most sketchy looking online payment websites. I just got an `payments.aspx:5074` site...

Dog watching me as I walk across the room towards her, hands up in the "I'm going to give you pets" position, and she still jumps all startled when I pet her.

Every trans person you know was once a trans kid - even if they didn't know it at the time. There's a reason we'll never stop fighting for our little siblings.

God, is Mar-a-Lago face a gross waste of face for women who looked just fine beforehand.

[cali pol, uspol] 🖼

I know scythes are a staple in fantasy weaponry from the grim reaper etc. But they honestly seem like they'd be a terrible weapon in practice. In pretty much every scenario I can think of, an axe, sword, or polearm would be better.

I feel like you could do this in San Francisco and no one would care In fact you could probably find a few people who would pay $20K to do this

According to The Atlantic the share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has fallen from 42 percent in 1975 to 12 percent in 2026—a 70 percent collapse in a half century: "Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of […]

[Uspol globalpol] A depressing thing is even if every elected and appointed fascist in every government was kicked out of office and locked up, there's still some 40% of people who would gladly and eagerly vote for even more fascists.