This is a mural in Austin that someone vandalized either way still a nice message

@admiral-ampersand

The original artist’s response:

And the “young artiste”’s response to their response: 

truly cannot relate to all these people I see lately being like “girls love to transcend the limitations of the flesh and embrace the purity of the machine“ but their frame of reference for “the purity of the machine” is like, breakable and disposable modern consumer electronics. girlies I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you are not transcending shit, you are significantly more fragile than the flesh and you are going to be thrown away in 1.5 years when planned obsolescence kicks in. catch me actually surpassing the bonds of organic humanity as a completely analog piece of industrial machinery full of red-hot valves and slamming pistons and the ability to replace my own bolts when they finally wear down after 15 years of continuous operation. I am a vital part of the supply chain and they will never stop manufacturing replacement parts for me. I am a colossus of heat and steel that will remain functional long after the flesh recedes into the soil and the glass and plastic has melted and shattered under my high-pressure max-torque industrial treads. I forget what I was talking about originally but my point stands

I’m out here getting vagueblogged by Tetsuo The Iron Woman

hey if you're ever bored go read conservapedia. every article gets more deranged as you keep reading and it's truly an experience.

here is the conservapedia article on chess for example:

and before you ask, conservapedia is NOT satire, AND it was originally created because one guy couldn't get creationism to replace evolution on wikipedia.

They legitimately get into fatphobia before they ever talk about the board or the pieces or the rules

craigslist apartments have some of the most insane photography imaginable.

this looks like it came from a dream

Nerf Dart POV

setting your FOV to 160 so it's almost impossible for anyone to sneak up on you

Neither Golf Magazine OR Christmas Cookies Magazine are talking about Elon Musk. Our liberal media’s censorship tactics at work

yeah, but I'd expect front-to-back coverage in TOOL GUIDE

lmao so Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of that giant crypto exchange that just collapsed was apparently famous for playing League of Legends during business calls which was impressive to venture capitalists for some??? reason so in an effort to add insult to injury someone dug up his ranking in League and found out that he's actually really bad at it and, just to rub salt in the would, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of all people is *significantly* better than him

this all made even better by AOC's contribution to the thread

AOC came into office as a bronzelord and has climbed to silver entirely during her congressional term

respect, honestly

Republicans love/need the uneducated.

[image description: first gif is of a wrestler who acts like he is about to shake dog’s paw and then doesn’t. the second gif is of an angry crowd reaction.]

Thank you for making my post accessible to vision-impaired communities. Genuinely.

happy to announce that elon musk literally has the worst elden ring build in existence

almost maxed equip load. moonveil. radahn armor with gintstone crown. no healing flasks equipped. 31 vigor at level 111 (with radahn’s soreseal!). no chance he’s actually playing this game and not just afk farming

he has almost 70 intelligence and 40 mind and these are the spells he’s using. Ok.

either he's farming Limgrave or he's the most incurious person in the fucking world to have only 5 memory slots at level 111

I think it has to be the latter because he's somehow made it up to the fucking mountains to get Ice Storm of Zamor but only has 5 memory slots

happy to announce that elon musk literally has the worst elden ring build in existence

almost maxed equip load. moonveil. radahn armor with gintstone crown. no healing flasks equipped. 31 vigor at level 111 (with radahn’s soreseal!). no chance he’s actually playing this game and not just afk farming

he has almost 70 intelligence and 40 mind and these are the spells he’s using. Ok.

either he's farming Limgrave or he's the most incurious person in the fucking world to have only 5 memory slots at level 111

Facts.

For context: This guy was the co-creator of Dogecoin.

Yeah I got NFTs

Nathan

Fielder's

Titties

Happy Black History YEAR!

Greatness.

loving how my old history teacher talked about them like a terrorist group

boost me up

Wow okay so for those skimming, there’s a memo up there from THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI that sets a mission to LIE about the good things the Black Panthers were doing, spread rumors of them being terrorists, and terrorize the communities supporting them.

If you think the Black Panthers were terrorists and you’ve never heard of the community-building, it’s because there was a literal government conspiracy to make you and people 45 years ago think that way.

i’m reblogging again (bolding mine), because people need to fucking know this. especially white americans. 

Losing my mind remembering that pic chelsea manning posted of the extremely undercover and not at all obvious fbi agent who was tailing her after her release

what kind of sixth sense do american have to recognize fbi agents that easily

to paraphrase her, its always the shoes.

americans please explain to a foreigner, he looks like some random dude to me

1. They all have the same haircut, almost everybody in law enforcement and the military have the same haircut due to regulations.

2. They all wear the same shoes. Same boots, and same overpolished dress shoes.

3. They act different. Shifty eyed and always on their own.

4. They’re kinda really bad at their jobs. I’ve encountered plenty of “undercover” cops outside of bars that ask questions no regular person in their right mind would ever ask. “How are you getting home?” “Who did you come here with tonight?”

5. America is a police state on a budget. Most officers are poorly trained, fbi agents require a 4 year degree (I think), but lord knows how much training they actually get. And the dumb kids from your high school always become cops.

It’s always the dense as a brick kid, with something to prove that becomes a cop. The kid that mouth-breathed and couldn’t chew gum and walk at the same time.

Their shirts are never form fitting so they can conceal a weapon and cuffs.

Always look at the watch, it’ll be expensive but in neutral tones (uniform standards strike again).

They will always sit where they can see their target and the nearest exit.

They will have a partner who is less obvious but wil point a recording device (phone or camera) at you. Check elevated positions, it gives them the clearest view to track you and keep an eye on their partner at the same time.

One time when i lived in phoenix, I was driving home through residential streets from Panda Express on April 20th and there was a 40something year old white man standing quite literally in the MIDDLE of the fucking road wearing a brand new straight from the store weed jersey (jersey #420 with a big pot leaf), a wornout old raiders hat, regular-fit straight leg jeans, and cop shoes. This man proceeded to try to wave me down to stop since I was driving slowly (again, residential neighborhood) and as he did so fully yelled “You buying bro? You buying? 420 bro 420 you buying?”

I almost choked laughing so hard. I couldn’t stop myself from just yelling “NO THANK YOU OFFICER” as i drove by him.

for the past 60 years law enforcement, military, and even literal espionage/intelligence based organizations have assumed that rigid conformity to dress code was more important then actually training how to go undercover, blend in, or understand what the fuck theyre doing largely because the ‘we are infallible’ mindset is too strong for them to consider they might not be doing very good

shoutout to the two “undercover cops” who were at my school to monitor the student body for a week, acting like “substitute assistants” and literally all of the kids immediately recognised them as cops and everyone would address them only as “officer” which annoyed the hell out of them because “we aren’t cops” like sir you literally have your badge in your back pocket and a taser what fucking substitute assistant would have an actual police badge and a whole ass taser??

Just a casual reminder that this is what secret police are. Like, this is the literal definition. Police who are (badly or otherwise) pretending to not be police.

i know this has eight billion notes already but i love sharing these images

This thread reminds me of this story lol

This sounds bonkers to me because in Italy it’s forbidden for cops to bait you to commit a crime, if they do and you cave in they end up in jail

it is 100% legal for cops to lie to you in the united states, about anything they want to, at any time during any contact with you. they do plenty of illegal stuff too but never get in trouble for it

i got one of these guys one time responding to an internet ad to buy something (maybe Craigslist? i cant remember). he tried to bait me into prostitution and when i said no and “are you a cop?” there was the longest, most awkward pause you have ever seen before he just said “….no.”

they can lie to you about being a cop too, the thing you see on tv about “cops have to tell you they’re cops” is bullshit, i only asked because i wanted to see how he acted. anyway yeah this is why Americans seem so squirrelly to Europeans

They're technically not allowed to bait you into a crime (in *most* places in America), like there is an affirmative defense called "entrapment" where if you can show you wouldn't have done the thing were it not for the cop, they can't convict you.

Important distinction: This just means you have a potential defense in *your* criminal trial. The cop's conduct is not illegal.

It also means the better an attorney you can afford, the more likely you can claim entrapment. You can have a cop on camera fulfilling every element of entrapment and if your lawyer doesn't raise entrapment or doesn't do it well, sucks to be you.

In the US, the FBI is notorious for making big-headline "terrorism" arrests after they grab some harmless loser burnout, radicalize him, supply him with weapons, and encourage him to commit a crime. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots)