Trashcan Max Headroom

minimum wage millennial | he/him/his | white cis | asocial *not* antisocial | ACAB | black lives matter | to hell with landlords and rent-seekers

[☭Solidarity is Power ⚒︎ @Now_we_Revolt]

Personal property is things like your house, your underwear, your car. We want you to have personal property under communism

Private property is things like factories, utility companies, natural resources, the means of production; and those things should be owned by all

[Robin Tran 🏳️‍⚧️ @robintran04]

As a trans woman, I’m against trans women in sports because I’d dominate in every sport against any cis woman because I’m better than all cis women in every single way and I’m glad we are protecting cis women because they are weak and can’t do anything, the poor babies 😢

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

The problem with the world is that the oppressed are constantly asked to explain their pain in ways that make the comfortable feel comfortable.

[Trashcan Max Headroom @TrashMaxHead]

Out of respect, she's not dead. She's undead.

[Trashcan Max Headroom @TrashMaxHead]

While I like the idea, I must admit that "suicide capsule" made me think of a pill, not a fancy space coffin.

https://t.co/Wru8SiMM3T

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

A fifteen year-old just shot and killed 4 people with a gun his own parents gave him!

HO HO HO HO Meeeeerrrrry Christmas!

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

“You should hire a plumber!” - plumber I hired looking at the burst pipe I asked him to fix

[Trashcan Max Headroom @TrashMaxHead]

It reminded me a bit of the ending of King and Queen of the Universe by Kurt Vonnegut, which is similarly about inter-generational expectations. One of my favourite short stories ever.

[Trashcan Max Headroom @TrashMaxHead]

I have never cried harder watching Star Trek than I did just now watching DS9's season four episode, "The Visitor." Wow, that was incredible. Open male vulnerability, generational love and expectations, shattered hopes and second chances. It was wonderful. Need more tissues.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD: Yesterday, the New York Times published a headline it knew was false. The implications of this are dangerous for everyone who cares about an informed public. Here���s what happened:

[Abbie Richards @abbieasr]

Conspiracy theories are everywhere and people don't understand how harmful they are.

I made the original Conspiracy Chart over a year ago. An update was long overdue. This is the 2021 version.

[Trashcan Max Headroom @TrashMaxHead]

If Picard is space-Frasier, then Bashir is space-Niles.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Just being real: every day it feels more and more dangerous coming to work.

Not only do these members fuel violence. Now they’re actively recruiting someone whose sole qualification is killing people standing up for Black lives and getting away with it.

They must be expelled.

[Yvie Belle Yvie @AdamantxYves]

Vote.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

There is a lot of speculation about what could happen it people like Kyle Rittenhouse are allowed to get away with murder. But, as usual, it's never "if" but "when"

A brief history of white vigilantes at Black protests.

A thread.

[Jeff Yang 🫶 FOLLOW ME @ORIGINALSPIN ON THREADS/IG @originalspin]

Somehow feeling like the wideness of this berth has a lot to do with the whiteness of your birth