Manila Polter
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Amateur artist 🏳️🌈
Big fan of art/fashion/sci-fi/horror/weird shit
Big fan of art/fashion/sci-fi/horror/weird shit
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this couple on my flight is breaking up because the girl wants to celebrate her birthday by buying out a regal screening to melania but the boyfriend wants to do zootopia 2 instead
January 31, 2026 at 2:27 AM
this couple on my flight is breaking up because the girl wants to celebrate her birthday by buying out a regal screening to melania but the boyfriend wants to do zootopia 2 instead
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honestly not in a million years would i have called this
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
January 31, 2026 at 3:46 AM
honestly not in a million years would i have called this
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when i lived in LA one of my favorite restaurants for busted for serving dolphin and whale meat to rich people and i still feel kinda shitty none of the wait staff ever thought to ask me if I wanted any
I’m sorry, what the fuck are you even talking about? Are there other grocery stores sourcing meat from endangered fucking species?
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 AM
when i lived in LA one of my favorite restaurants for busted for serving dolphin and whale meat to rich people and i still feel kinda shitty none of the wait staff ever thought to ask me if I wanted any
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This was after mind you Tom Homan had come up with the brilliant idea of separating families as an enforcement strategy.
Obama awarding his former guy, Tom Homan, and presently the border "czar" under Donald Trump, an award for being so efficient at deporting millions of immigrants in 2015.
January 22, 2026 at 11:43 AM
This was after mind you Tom Homan had come up with the brilliant idea of separating families as an enforcement strategy.
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Dropping my first grader off today filled me with rage. Going to really lean into these feelings.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Dropping my first grader off today filled me with rage. Going to really lean into these feelings.
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“People shouldn’t criticize us while our business model collapses and we barrage paying customers with ads”
January 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM
“People shouldn’t criticize us while our business model collapses and we barrage paying customers with ads”
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hey man could you do everyone a favor and hop into that urn on your kid's mantle now instead of in a few months when you don't show up to vote against some insane trump proposal and they find an oil executive in your office trying to pry his hand out of your rigor mortis grip
Violence only helps Trump & may provide him an excuse to further trample our rights by invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
hey man could you do everyone a favor and hop into that urn on your kid's mantle now instead of in a few months when you don't show up to vote against some insane trump proposal and they find an oil executive in your office trying to pry his hand out of your rigor mortis grip
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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I have some bad news for Samantha about who would've played Anne (and Catherine) in Shakespeare's Henry VIII back in 1613.
Personally if I was Anne Boleyn I’d be far more upset that someone made a musical about my head getting cut off
January 19, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I have some bad news for Samantha about who would've played Anne (and Catherine) in Shakespeare's Henry VIII back in 1613.
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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If enough of us choose to escalate the protests & noncompliance in this moment, I believe this tottering & incompetent regime will collapse under the crushing weight of its miserable & deeply unpopular policies.
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
If enough of us choose to escalate the protests & noncompliance in this moment, I believe this tottering & incompetent regime will collapse under the crushing weight of its miserable & deeply unpopular policies.
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this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
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Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana
Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana
A second man says he was blinded by ICE agents shooting a projectile at a protest in Santa Ana. Britain Rodriguez, 31, a resident of Orange County, said he was standing at the bottom of a set up steps when federal officers above opened fire, hitting him in the eye.
www.latimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana
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agree or disagree with school shootings, you can't help but be in awe of the efficiency of the AR-15
January 5, 2026 at 3:44 AM
agree or disagree with school shootings, you can't help but be in awe of the efficiency of the AR-15
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while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now.
happy new year everyone!
happy new year everyone!
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 AM
while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now.
happy new year everyone!
happy new year everyone!
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My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.
December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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I’m not telling anyone how to live their lives but I was just scrolling and I saw a photo of a polycule of three big buff bears and tbh if that was me, if I was a big buff dude sharing my life with two other big buff dudes I would get into coordinating outfits so we look like a Warriors style gang
December 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’m not telling anyone how to live their lives but I was just scrolling and I saw a photo of a polycule of three big buff bears and tbh if that was me, if I was a big buff dude sharing my life with two other big buff dudes I would get into coordinating outfits so we look like a Warriors style gang
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It feels like too many people have the mindset that "I can act however I like as long as I'm right" and if anyone doesn't listen because you're being too much of a jerk, it's their fault for being too stupid and emotional to look at the substance of your argument
I think a lot of people have this mindset of “well my politics are very clearly correct so me being a jerk all the time reads as this cool little flourish” when in reality that flourish actually makes you look kinda stupid and makes the uninitiated question those politics to begin with
December 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It feels like too many people have the mindset that "I can act however I like as long as I'm right" and if anyone doesn't listen because you're being too much of a jerk, it's their fault for being too stupid and emotional to look at the substance of your argument
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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I think about this a lot
December 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this a lot