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go easy, step lightly, stay free

[Bri @wordsandsense]

My good friend Ursula K. Le Guin has some thoughts on this

[Hügo Krüger @hkrugertjie]

What about the Palestinians?

[smile2jannah @smile2jannah]

People like this know after they’ve made that comment they will not only lose their job, but they will be blacklisted from the industry. So videos like this are an exemplification of true heroism and selflessness. An honour to see.

[Huthaifa | حذيفة @Shack_Rat]

Everyone praising Mark Carney’s speech as “bold,” “brave,” or “eloquent,” and treating it as evidence that the West can still rescue itself, is still misunderstanding the nature of the crisis.

The “rules-based international order” didn’t erode gradually or mysteriously; it collapsed the moment Western governments showed that the rules don’t apply when the violator is an ally. Gaza didn’t expose a weakness in the system that could be patched or repaired; it revealed what the system actually is.

For two years, the Western world didn’t merely fail to restrain Israel; it funded it, armed it, vetoed accountability, rewrote legal standards in real time, and criminalized dissent at home. International law was selectively suspended, not overwhelmed like some people want to say, and once legality becomes conditional, the concept itself ceases to exist.

That was the real point of no return in 2023. Not because Donald Trump violating the sovereignty of Greenland broke the order, but because the precedent was set in full view of the world: mass killing can be lawful if it’s committed by the right state, against the right people, with the right patrons. After that, no appeal to “norms” or “institutions” can be taken seriously again.

Don’t gaslight yourselves into thinking that Carney is offering a path to renewal here; he’s delivering a sophisticated obituary. You can’t rebuild credibility with speeches after showing that the law is optional. Anyone treating this as a hopeful turning point is as delusional as a person watching their house burn and believing better fire alarms will restore the structure.

It’s already over. And as the Western order fractures under the weight of its own contradictions, Gaza won’t be a footnote to its collapse. It’ll be remembered as the moment the world finally understood that the system had died long before anyone admitted it.

[Trey the Explainer @Trey_Explainer]

Bro we literally got actual dire wolves before we got Winds of Winter

[Economic Freedom Fighters @EFFSouthAfrica]

EFF Statement On Elon Musk’s Call For CIC, Julius Malema To Be Declared An International Criminal.

The EFF will not be cowed into submission, retreat nor capitulation from its principled and unwavering commitment to confront imperialism and its surrogates like Elon Musk anywhere and everywhere it rises its ugly head.

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

“There’s a genocide against white people in South Africa”

White people in South Africa:

[outstar 🧛 professional vampire simp @outstarwalker]

peak masculinity is when my husband walked into my room when I was mid playing marvel rivals, curled his tall self in my lap crying, and through the weeping uttered "they killed my horse in red dead redemption 2"

[bonky @shesbonky]

alpha bros be having podcasts where they coach other men to be hyper-masculine controlling red-flag assholes meanwhile every woman i know is completely horny for this 40 sec clip of tom holland in drag shaking his little ass to a feminist anthem

[Nateinthewild | Nate Luebbe @nateinthewild]

I hope whoever invented this gets hit by a bus

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Being the richest guy on earth and serving as a kind of shadow president and still feeling the need to fake that you’re the world’s best player at your favorite video game is just a rare, rare window into a particularly loathsome personality type

[officialhambly she/they @officialhambly]

A few years back in Yosemite there was a problem with bears getting into trash cans and ppl said ‘why not make the cans more complex?’ And a ranger said ‘bc there is significant overlap between the smartest bear and dumbest human’ and this election feels like that quote to me

[Cerebral Vigilante @Delisketo]

Coolest submission of the year!

90s Pancrase vibes

[Emily @writerofscratch]

Now seems like a funny moment to point out that Quidditch is a mixed-sex full-contact sport.

[Angela. @AngelaArts_]

grrm will literally become a tree before finishing winds of winter -

[. @christianswrld]

marcus was doing a whole side quest and his only responsibility was making bread. he did this shit during rush hour i understand carmy😭😭

[lemun @pragunwastaken]

LGBTQ (let’s get biryani tonight queen)

[videosyncrasy @gapingmaws]

Kojima (trying not to laugh): they’re called the homo demons
Press: this man’s the greatest auteur of our time