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Jake and Elwood would win. They’ve got God on their side.

It’s 106 miles to chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, empty can of mr. pibb, half a bag of jack links beef jerky, full carton of fat free milk, 3 bags of goldfish, fifty knives, a red wrench, a gay wrench, one really pissed off scorpion, two swords, 1000 loyal soldiers, 10 ounces of cannabis rutica, gut full of flesh, half a picture of gangsta spongebob, half a 2007 honda accord,  an incredible vr experience, burnt cd of poorly compressed weird al songs, handful of loose peanuts, two tickets to paradise, 20th century howitzer cannon, tiao cruz megahits mixtape, a daft punk yaoi keychain, and a cassette to kd lang’s ingenue

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This is your daily reminder to never for the love of god please do not sign up to attend an antifascist protest via a website. Do not fill out a form promising to attend, do not give any personally identifying information like your name, zip code, or address.

A list of potential or actual civic protestors is a fascist's convenient hit list. Even if the protest website is legitimate and not a federal phishing scam, federal agencies can subpoena those records

Do not give your information. Do not sign up.

Just show up.

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I feel like Doechii’s ‘Anxiety’ has left a bad taste in people’s mouths for a few reasons.

1. What I like to call the Raisin Biscuit effect (raisin cookie if you prefer). ‘Anxiety’ samples ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ by Gotye, a song though 14 years old is still very much in the public’s memory. Many famous songs use samples of songs that are old enough or obscure enough to have no prior association for the people listening. Vanilla Ice sampled the bass line of ‘Under Pressure’ by Queen and David Bowie 9 years after it was released, and it was a very popular song, hence ‘Ice Ice Baby’ has a marred reputation. Basically, you’re biting into a song expecting chocolate chip and you’re disappointed.

2. Following on from point 1, ‘Anxiety’ doesn’t alter or edit the sample it uses from ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’. This is because it started as a vocal improvisation that Doechii did on a live stream to the instrumental of Gotye’s song and apparently some fans desired a full length version. This again, strengthens the listener’s connection to the original song. When Gotye sampled ‘Seville’ by Luis Bonfá, he chopped and edited it significantly from the original song. When Mister Ice sampled ‘Under Pressure’, he doubled down and claimed it was a different bass part because a whole one note was added.

3. Because it started life as an improvisation, the lyrics and vocal melody feel very repetitive without developing ideas or evolving over the course of the song.

4. The song has been thoroughly overplayed through heavy use social media, particularly tiktok, to the extent that many people who have never heard of Doechii before are now hearing ‘Anxiety’ as their first exposure to her.

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So my FWB and I both developed mutual feelings for each other and I asked her properly to be my girlfriend as we were driving back to her place one night.

She said; “I hope this isn’t just because I’m letting you put it in my ass now.”

I laughed so hard I almost had to stop the car. I adore this woman.

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Look, you’re allowed to have fond memories of books that you read as a child/teenager. No one is trying to rob you of those memories.

What you should be doing is accepting that you didn’t recognise the existence of the racism, misogyny, classism, orientalism antisemitism and trans-misogyny because you were too young to understand. Once it’s pointed out to you, you can grow as a person and accept the problematic aspects of a text you once enjoyed…

…OR you can remain immature, double down and refuse to see any flaw in these texts because you put them on a pedestal.

bat at hornets nest maybe but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" refers to low income communities needing to choose between survival vs being eco friendly. not you continuing to watch the harry potter movies

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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I imagine ruminating on death when you’re in your 80s and older, must be akin to still being at a party at 1:30 am and thinking to yourself, “Well, it’s been a good time, I’ve done a lot but I’m tired, all my friends have gone and I’d just really like to go to bed.”

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bro is it parasocial to experience art

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Is it halvsies or halfsies?

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Remember: the more difficult you make it for them to realize a report is false, the more useless you make the portal.

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The wind doesn’t hoist the flag and the flag-man doesn’t blow it.

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Leslie Parish’s ‘Killing My Love’ is the best Eurobeat song NOT included in the Initial D anime.

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Screenshot of Pacific Drive (2024). I title it; ‘Plastic Pompeii’

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I took an awesome candid shot of a good friend of mine leaning against a wall at a gig, against some art with the light hitting them perfectly.

I shared it with them and they’re still using it as their profile pic a year later.

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Rob Brydon: I have a friend who’s quite short, and he likes to wear vertical stripes because they make him look taller.

David Mitchell: Only when he’s not standing next to anyone. It’s not, it’s not going to make him look taller than a taller man. It’s all relative. It’ll just, it’ll just say there’s a normal sized man next to an enormous man! And oh thank god he’s taken his striped shirt off, it’s actually a tiny man next to a normal man!

Stephen Fry: I’ve missed your angry logic David.

David Mitchell: ..I think it just alternates, doesn’t it? For ages you think, okay vertical stripes make people look thinner, then you say, oh she’s wearing vertical stripes therefore she must be fatter than she looks. Therefore you start thinking, oh she looks fat cause she’s wearing vertical stripes, and so suddenly horizontal stripes start making you look thin because, oh she must be thin or she’d never dare wear horizontal stripes. Then they go, oh horizontal stripes make you look thinner.. oh she must be fat, she’s wearing horizontal stripes!

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What were Abbott and Costello’s pronouns?

Who/What/I don’t know

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This is millennial parenting and I’m here for it

Parenting Super cut of things I say to our tyrannical 3 yo on the daily:

- “your feelings are valid; your actions are not! Let’s bring it 🎶back to life, back to reality🎶”

- “Oop, I do be making decisions for my own body thank yew!”

- “I’ve asked nice three times! You can either do it by yourself or with help! But you will do it bestie!”

- “I need you to be so for real right now, is this a catastrophe or are you just feeling like it is?”