• they might turn into communists, they might burn everything down
• Republicans in the US are already fascists, they are already burning everything down

ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …

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“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

the not ELI5 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

just make sure you’re in the right mindset when you watch Grave of the Fireflies – great movie BUT it is an emotional gut-punch

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/cosponsors

currently sitting at only 86 out of 213 Democrat seats

yep, Columbine, not Uvalde – suicide at 12:08, SWAT entered school 1:09

not that they did anything at Columbine either – police were on site pretty much the whole time, SWAT arrived half an hour later – and they both sat on their thumbs for another hour

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. The world is growing this minute.

—Buenaventura Durruti, interview with Pierre van Paassen (1936-07-24)

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

― Antonio Gramsci (misattributed)

AI slop is the fifth fascist hat

solve your bad breath with a floor cleaner and gonorrhea cure!

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

—Stephen Jay Gould, “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1979)

Haiti paying reparations to France

the consensus from when this article was previously posted was a rather resounding “No”

ED-209 or Ed25519, I’m sure they work the same

a potent turd of lead, dioxins, PFAS, and microplastics

wearing a deerstalker

Espresso, cappuccino lower prostate cancer risk