carolyn chrisman

animator & writer in LA. 36 cis she/her. kitten & puppy foster, future chicken rancher. dyed-in-the-wool weeb. follow for more soft procrastination.

[William Murphy @420GHz]

It is theft in a very real sense: society pays for the creation of knowledge, then private monopolies enclose it, restrict access, and charge the same public rent for what the public helped create. The sickness is a capitalist system that privatizes gains while socializing costs.

[jaykay @warsofhrmone]

israel trying to invade mexico and there’s no articles about it (at least in english) and no one knows this is happening like hello????? and when you search it on twitter obviously nothing comes up

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Because the US government relied on neoliberal economists, who (in service of Wall Street) insisted that all of that cheap money should flow to the most profitable sectors, following the dogma of the "free market".

They said the government can't "pick winners", and instead private investors and corporations would "allocate capital more efficiently" (not by investing in fixed assets, but by juicing their stocks).

Infrastructure has notoriously low return on investment dragged out over long periods of time. Venture capitalists and private equity firms wanted high ROI in short-term cycles of a few years at most. So that's where most of the money went during the ZIRP period.

If you want good Infrastructure, you need state planning and state-directed investment of "patient capital", as Chinese officials call it. This is why China's socialist system -- based on public ownership of most banks and investment firms, with enormous state-owned enterprises in the construction industry -- has excelled in infrastructure development, while US infrastructure has deteriorated and 95% of US corporate earnings have gone to share buybacks and dividends.

Wall Street won. Main Street loss.

[Sammy 'Ace' Rothstein @shortbus_ace]

these pictures should freak everyone out. the fact that this was allowed to happen in 2026 is a complete failure to the highest level and hopefully people face consequences

[BGE @BestestGuyEver]

SAY IT WTH ME NOW

GIMP DOES EVERYTHING PHOTOSHOP CAN DO

BUT BETTER

AND FOR FREEEEEEE 🇺🇸🦅🦅🌟

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon Musk keeps falsely calling Hitler a “socialist” and Grok keeps correcting him that Hitler was a fascist who rejected Marxism.

Grok is going to get suspended again for telling the truth and reprogrammed for exposing the lies of his deceitful creator.

[Doktor Ross Sewage MD @sewage666]

friendly reminder: they never paid the lady who snitched on luigi and she was fired from her job

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The Presbyterian Church (USA) voted 454–15 to recognize Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide, divest from Palantir and GE Aerospace, lobby Congress for an arms embargo, and boycott certain products. They also say that criticism of the Israeli government is not inherently antisemitic.

They're the first major Christian denomination in the USA to formally label Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

This is a huge development and a critical escalation in how mainstream US religious institutions perceive Israel, so where's the news coverage? It happened last week, and I've barely seen anything about it in US mainstream media.

[Ry🍒 @ryloken68]

You’re telling me Sony made this extremely game changing business decision to stop making discs for games, and they didn’t have the foresight to let their business partners and retailers know before hand????

Now Im positive they did this shit off a whim because of GTA6 not having a physical release

[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

Mitch McConnell is actually the best Metaphor for, and representation of, America and our political system. He spent almost a century making the world a better place for only himself and his friends, married an immigrant while working tirelessly against other immigrants, manipulated the system to increase his power only to be usurped & made impotent by someone even more unethical, unscrupulous and power hungry. Then when the system is finally done with him, they keep his dead body on life support just to use him for one more power move until finally allowing him sweet sweet death while his wife flees the country and his children go into hiding. And when it's all said and done, he'll be best remembered for a meme that made him into a turtle. America.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW! Dennis Kucinich exposes a massive Zionist scam.

He reveals Israel pretends to reject the $4B in US aid because this new NDAA merger secretly gives them total control over the Pentagon's entire $1.5 TRILLION budget!

Washington is completely bought and paid for!

[𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓪 🐇🪽 @2dpriestess]

thats an ojousama laugh!!
we're losing the ancient texts...

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

And then you look at the median wealth and everything makes sense.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

People talk about media literacy but I think we need to start talking about moral literacy. Hasan had made a few edgy jokes here and there but Asmongold is daily unironically talking about why killing people is great. There’s no comparison here.

[Pete Oxenham @peteoxenham]

holy crap, it’s beautiful

he deslopped amazon

[Abolish SPD @brian_noname]

It's kind of crazy how much this country hates kids. Hard to argue that this isn't a society that desperately wants to die. The wealthy just don't want kids to exist.*

*except when it comes to raping them, of course

[syren @ligerzerosyren]

I turned 18 in 2011. Rent was $425. After work I’d go to the mall with friends and get a whole new outfit for $40. We’d go out that night, drinks were $3 and whole meals were like $7. Wake up next morning & get brunch WITH DRINKS for less than $15. Life is hell now.

[Reeves Peeler @releepseveer]

There aren’t a ton of data sets out there where the mean and median of the same entity are different by a factor of 10x.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Not to sound craży but I think climate scientists freaking out that our planet is warming faster than expected should be dominating the media cycle.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The data are rock solid. I don't think you'll find a single scientist willing to claim we're not in a rapid minor mass extinction crisis.