WesternContender

Amateur at everything

[Nuelxx @nuel_szy]

Neurotypicals:
“I do a little bit every day.” 

ADHDers:
I do absolutely nothing for 11 days, then complete everything in one terrifying 9-hour burst that scares the dog.

[🇰🇵단일성 Commie on the Rez 단일성 🇰🇵 @patriach2051]

Imagine the world we could live in

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The total failure of our healthcare system is not a feel good story.

[. @Omgemeraldddd]

YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.

[jessie⚢ @MaryJaneWAPson]

Why is the title theme to Robocop on the gb lowkey the best music in any videogame

[Count Penguin 🎃 @Crime_Penguin]

OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

If only someone had written a book about how the competitive logic of capitalism traps the ruling class into suicidal policies that override any agency on their part .

[AirBuddDwyer @AirBuddDwyer]

Carl - Crossroads (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony cover)

[Comrade Adil ☭ @ComradeAdil_]

Doesn’t that kind of prove the point? Criticizing the well-established fact that Steinem worked for the CIA isn’t a condemnation of feminism, but rather demonstrates her role in advancing an observably weaker feminist movement that was incapable of securing lasting wins for women

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA and called its members “enlightened,” “liberal,” and “honorable.” She never apologized and instead said she “would do it again.” The CIA overthrew governments, propped up dictators, murdered opponents, and aligned itself with the most oppressive forces on the planet. Its interventions led to severe and systematic repression of women in countries around the world. Some of its agents used sexual abuse as a technique of coercion. Workplace sexual abuse was common within its own ranks. And the agency itself systematically discriminated against women.“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater?”

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

The most consistent theme of conservatism is being completely unable/unwilling to understand how a thing is bad until it happens to you.

[DecebalStalin 🇷🇴 @DecebalStalin]

This message is brought to you by: Parents who told their kids they're not allowed outside while destroying parks and any other interesting place a kid may want to have fun in.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇮🇱 Israeli commander says he is “not sorry” for ordering strike that killed 7 World Central Kitchen aid workers

Col. Nochi Mendel, who ordered three Israeli drone strikes on the WCK convoy in Gaza in April 2024, defended his decision to Australia’s ABC after being removed from his post over serious failures and breaches of procedure.

Mendel claimed WCK had “ties to Hamas” and was “not really… innocent,” although he acknowledged he did not know of those alleged links when he ordered the attack.

Israel last week declined to pursue a criminal investigation against the commander.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Medicare for All would save Americans as much as $40 trillion over ten years if it was implemented well.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Private prisons making $1.4 billion charging corrupt ICE bureaucracy $307,000 “per bed” as top 15 cops in San Francisco make average of $700,000 is why shifting resources from systems of incarceration to systems of care is one of the most popular policies in 40 years of polling.

[Brad LaPlante @bradlapgov]

Yale University researchers who analyzed how much “Medicare for All” would cost:

“A universal healthcare system in the U.S. would not require the country to spend more on healthcare. It would require it to spend less.”

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Mothers in Gaza played Ms Rachel videos to distract their children during amputations because there was no anesthesia.