Efek Rumah Makan

Tak kenal maka tak sayang, tak makan maka tak kenyang.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨HOLY SMOKES: Trump spent weeks calling on Iranians to rise up and overthrow their government.

They didn’t.

Instead 8 million Americans rose up against his.

In 3,000 cities. On the same day.
The regime change he wanted happened in the wrong country’s streets.

Iran’s Foreign Minister said the people being killed are dying because Trump wants to have fun.

8 million Americans said they’re not having fun.

Philadelphia. Atlanta. Dallas. DC. San Francisco. New York. London. Tel Aviv. Scotland. San Diego.

The uprising came home.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I don't even know what to write about this one.

What am I supposed to say? "Hey everybody, they're lying to us about this war"? Everyone already knows that. Even the people who support this war know all the justifications for it are lies.

They know Iran isn't building nukes.

They know Iran poses no threat to the United States.

They know all that bullshit about Iran cutting out women's wombs and murdering tens of thousands of protesters was evidence-free atrocity propaganda.

Nobody needs me to tell them these things. Nobody needs me to tell them that this war is going to kill a whole lot of innocent people and inflict unfathomable amounts of suffering upon our species, both directly during these attacks and indirectly in the chaos and instability ensuing thereafter. Everyone already knows this.

Everyone already knows this, and it's happening anyway. They're just doing whatever evil things they want to do, without the slightest regard for public opinion or consent.

They're just going right ahead with a military operation to topple Tehran, after decades of inertia for fear of the horrific consequences it would unleash.

They're just choking off Cuba using siege warfare, which previous presidents refused to do because it would be a monstrous act of war.

They just kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation, which previous administrations had refused to do because it's plainly against international law.

They just helped Israel turn Gaza into a gravel parking lot and are now building a giant dystopian tech surveillance encampment to imprison the survivors.

They just designated an American company a "supply chain risk to national security" for the first time ever because the AI firm Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its technology to operate autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens — an open admission that the Pentagon plans on using AI to run autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens.

There's an old Frank Zappa quote that's been popping into my head more and more lately:

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

We're seeing a lot more bricks lately.

That's all I can think to say right now.

[POV Husband @pov_husband]

First time making Indonesian food. This entire plate presentation is called a nasi tumpeng (correct me if I'm wrong) and the dishes I made were:

Nasi Kuning - yellow rice
Beef Rendang - beef curry
Telur Balado - spicy eggs
Ayam Goreng - fried chicken
Tempe Orek - tempeh green beans
Sate ayam - chicken sate

[Efek Rumah Makan @renwigs]

@doubtpointv2 X = Occupied Twitter

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

So @EsteeLauder are endorsing the #Trump threat to Greenland.

These are the brands to #Boycott :

Clinique, MAC cosmetics, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Tom Ford Beauty, The Ordinary, Origins, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, Le Labo, Aramis, Killian Paris, Smashbox.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

menstrual products cause bodily harm. toothpaste causes dental issues for women because it was designed for men specifically. Male baldness is studied more than endometriosis....They created a male birth control but pulled it when it was linked to cancer, & acne, hairloss, mood swings...yet women have been living with those same risks for decades. This is more than medicine; it's proof of a system that protects men's comfort while ignoring women's pain.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.

"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

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[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

I keep thinking about the Buddhist monks walking for peace — step by step — from Texas toward Washington, DC.
Everywhere they go, people gather. And many of them cry. Not because the monks are saying anything dramatic, but because they aren’t saying much at all. They’re just

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

READ BANNED BOOKS, THERE'S A REASON WHY THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO READ BANNED BOOKS, JUST ASK I’LL SHARE A LIST

8 Banned Books Every Men Should Read.

1. Animal Farm By George Orwell.

[pipinᵕ̈ @jocoolee]

DUKUN2 INDONESIA PLS THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE i support umkm i support local product i support witchcraft i support black magic PLSSSSSSSS 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Rich Brian @richbrian]

fucked things happening in my country right now:

armored police truck runs over a 21 year old kid to death in the middle of protests, CCTV in protest areas shut off, police throwing tear gas at medic station, water pumps are shut off on purpose to cause floods, the list goes on

[Ravio Patra @raviopatra]

Ini sama dg cara media barat memberitakan genosida Palestina oleh Israel.

“Insiden” “kepergian” ketimbang pembunuhan. Apa penyebab dia meninggal? Siapa pelakunya?

SEBUT NAMANYA. Sama kaya Valak di Conjuring, lu kalah kalau ga berani sebut namanya. Say it.

POLISI PEMBUNUH.

[Dez 🇵🇸 @6ft2fornoreason]

this GOAT really said "ra ko ndi ndi" / "ga dari mana2" after doing this god almighty paringi sehat & sukses to this lady.

[Efek Rumah Makan @renwigs]

Sudah ditindas, lalu dilindas.

[Ravio Patra @raviopatra]

Jurnalis utamanya tapi juga untuk semua: Ayo hentikan pakai ter-[kata kerja] seolah things just happen randomly. Jangan membeo aparat.

Say it as it is.

DITABRAK. Bukan tertabrak.
DILINDAS. Bukan terlindas.
DIINJAK. Bukan terinjak.
DICULIK. Bukan diamankan.

Come on.

[puty @puty]

Masih ada banget kok ada yang merasa sebel sama orang2 yang berisik mengkritisi pemerintah di medsos. I shared this on my IG, fully aware that a lot of friends will skip it and prefer padel related posts.

Share it if you feel like to. No artwork. No credit needed.

[Eka Mustikasari @ekakunjeri]

Hmmm