Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape
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Do you prefer when people pretend to care, or exhibit blatant disregard?
February 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Do you prefer when people pretend to care, or exhibit blatant disregard?
Not caring about sports means that when I see "Tom Wilson" trending, my immediate thought is, "Oh, god, I hope that Biff Tannen didn't die."
Biff's Question Song (Stand-up Comedy)
YouTube video by Tom Wilson
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February 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Not caring about sports means that when I see "Tom Wilson" trending, my immediate thought is, "Oh, god, I hope that Biff Tannen didn't die."
It's incredibly fucked up that a weapons manufacturer can put out retro video game hardware and people will still buy it (while defending the company) when there are other alternatives available.
The Arms Dealer's Nintendo 64 Finally Sees the Light of Day
It's hard to get truly excited about ModRetro's M64 when Palmer Luckey is on board.
gizmodo.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
It's incredibly fucked up that a weapons manufacturer can put out retro video game hardware and people will still buy it (while defending the company) when there are other alternatives available.
Literally nothing makes sense under capitalism. The contradictions are everywhere, and it makes you feel like you're losing your mind.
February 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Literally nothing makes sense under capitalism. The contradictions are everywhere, and it makes you feel like you're losing your mind.
The people in charge of HHS: "We need to get rid of ultra processed foods, vaccines and pasteurization!"
Also the people in charge of HHS: "Here, have some caffeinated milk."
Also the people in charge of HHS: "Here, have some caffeinated milk."
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The people in charge of HHS: "We need to get rid of ultra processed foods, vaccines and pasteurization!"
Also the people in charge of HHS: "Here, have some caffeinated milk."
Also the people in charge of HHS: "Here, have some caffeinated milk."
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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While I'm looking forward to the collapse of AI, I can't really relate to the post, because I can't imagine caring about the financial wellbeing of an employer so much that it makes you physically ill to discover something like this. I'd just be like, "Oh, well, you fuckers wanted to use this." 🤷
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
While I'm looking forward to the collapse of AI, I can't really relate to the post, because I can't imagine caring about the financial wellbeing of an employer so much that it makes you physically ill to discover something like this. I'd just be like, "Oh, well, you fuckers wanted to use this." 🤷
Turns out that billionaires are actually pro-climate change because their goal is to have "mass executions of the elderly and infirm."
Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve "Overpopulation"
Recently spotted emails from 2016 show Jeffrey Epstein suggesting that climate change could be the answer to "overpopulation."
futurism.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Turns out that billionaires are actually pro-climate change because their goal is to have "mass executions of the elderly and infirm."
A bunch of the folks that are upset about ICE and insist that you have to vote for Newsom were the same people who supported the draconian border policies Trump was proposing, used the same tactics as ICE against peaceful anti-genocide protesters, and insisted for years that Biden was healthy.
February 14, 2026 at 11:31 PM
A bunch of the folks that are upset about ICE and insist that you have to vote for Newsom were the same people who supported the draconian border policies Trump was proposing, used the same tactics as ICE against peaceful anti-genocide protesters, and insisted for years that Biden was healthy.
It's the house that Charlie Kirk built. Opportunism, grift, and conspiracy all wrapped up in the politics of bigotry. Of course its self-destructing.
Turning Point USA has recently fired several employees, as a right-wing commentator Candace Owens’s conspiracy theories about founder Charlie Kirk’s death have reportedly begun to take root at the far-right organization. trib.al/Bd9gMWz
TPUSA Is in Shambles Over Conspiracies About Charlie Kirk’s Death
Far-right commentator Candace Owens has claimed that members of Kirk’s own organization had him killed.
trib.al
February 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
It's the house that Charlie Kirk built. Opportunism, grift, and conspiracy all wrapped up in the politics of bigotry. Of course its self-destructing.
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On this day in 1779, Native Hawaiians stabbed British colonizer Captain James Cook in the neck.
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February 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
On this day in 1779, Native Hawaiians stabbed British colonizer Captain James Cook in the neck.
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Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians into displacement camps where 50 people share one bathroom per hour & sewage runs between tents. Now bacterial meningitis is spreading through Gaza's children. An 11-year-old got sick & died within a week. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/a-de...
A deadly meningitis outbreak is threatening Gaza’s children
Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza’s displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the…
mondoweiss.net
February 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians into displacement camps where 50 people share one bathroom per hour & sewage runs between tents. Now bacterial meningitis is spreading through Gaza's children. An 11-year-old got sick & died within a week. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/a-de...
Feels like 2006 all over again, except worse.
More low-income Americans are defaulting on mortgages
While mortgage delinquency rates are historically low, they are rising faster among lower-income households.
www.newsweek.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Feels like 2006 all over again, except worse.
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Nintendo officially tougher on paedophiles than our western justice system
February 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Nintendo officially tougher on paedophiles than our western justice system
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you"
And this is why democrats constantly keep getting trampled over by Maga. Constantly. You have no balls to play by the same rules they do, and its why they continue to crush u all.
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you"
Capitalism is a death cult.
43% of Retirees Say They’d Prefer Death to Running Out of Money — Here’s Why They Are Struggling
For a disturbing number of U.S. retirees, the financial outlook is grim. Here’s what’s causing the most strife.
www.moneytalksnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Capitalism is a death cult.
Has anyone actually fought Facebook and won?
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Has anyone actually fought Facebook and won?
You don't get to call yourself a socialist if you're to the right of FDR, a capitalist. I don't make the rules. Words have meaning.
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
You don't get to call yourself a socialist if you're to the right of FDR, a capitalist. I don't make the rules. Words have meaning.
They keep inventing new terms and similes to explain a very simple concept that's existed for as long as capitalism. They want to make wealth inequality as abstract as possible, so that people don't break out the guillotines.
K-shaped economy looks more like 'jaws of a crocodile,' economist says: What's widening the gap
There are signs that middle-income households have slowed spending. This makes the K-shaped economy look more like the “jaws of a crocodile,” an expert says
www.cnbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
They keep inventing new terms and similes to explain a very simple concept that's existed for as long as capitalism. They want to make wealth inequality as abstract as possible, so that people don't break out the guillotines.
What the fuck...
OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’
Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
What the fuck...
2026 Dems are indistinguishable from 2000s Republicans.
Florida Dems play up midterm candidates with military cred
The party is drafting veterans in an effort to break a string of defeats in the once-battleground state.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 PM
2026 Dems are indistinguishable from 2000s Republicans.
She worked for Obama.
Epstein files: Goldman Sachs top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler to step down after email fallout
Kathryn Ruemmler joins a growing list of people whose professional lives have been rocked by their past associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.cnbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 AM
She worked for Obama.
The rotating villain strategy strikes again!
22 House Democrats (including some surprising ones!) just joined Republicans to vote to allow domestic abusers to buy tasers.
February 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
The rotating villain strategy strikes again!
It says a lot that universities are voluntarily going out of their way to do stuff like this way in advance of being forced to because they want to stay in the good graces of Nazis.
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
It says a lot that universities are voluntarily going out of their way to do stuff like this way in advance of being forced to because they want to stay in the good graces of Nazis.