Distraction Maintenance

waterbugsanonymous:

hi, this is your gentle reminder and PSA: there are ELECTIONS happening in November 4th. PLEASE GO VOTE. Trump is the most unpopular he has ever been, but does that mean your average independent, or republican will vote for a dem this time around-likely no- they probably will just skip the process entirely if they don’t have a candidate they feel strongly about. this is why i’m asking YOU SPECIFICALLY to make sure to go vote. and i don’t wanna hear any doomerism shit about how voting is a waste of time bc of whatever, guys voting is the last of anything we have it is clear most of these people who represent us do not actually care, HOWEVER trump currently has the house, senate and courts and making it even slightly harder to do anything or having a large enough group to speak out against what he’s doing will help hundreds of thousands of people in the US. now more than ever is it important to make sure that they know that we do not stand for this

afellowofinfinitejest:

turnways:

Unironically obsessed with the people who’s realization that we’re in a fascist country is a late night comedian getting his show canceled and not like, anything before that. Like even in recent history.

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trungles:

trungles:

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Someone reblogged this earlier being like, “I don’t get this level of hatred for AI, and I am very reasonably going to take this on a case by case basis blah blah blah” and I went into Bayonetta Witch Time to block them simply for being annoying

robertreich:

Just 73k jobs were added in July — much lower than what was anticipated. But the big story is that revised numbers from previous months show the U.S. jobs market is experiencing its weakest growth since the onset of the pandemic. Companies are pulling back on hiring — largely due to uncertainty around tariffs and Trump’s handling of the economy. They are finding it impossible to plan investments. Couple this with slowing economic growth, and we’re starting to see some serious strains.

This is what happens when the economy is controlled by the whims of a mad king.

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gifs-of-puppets:

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Happy Labor Daybor!

dduane:

dduane:

BTW, just a reminder…

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…that the annual Summer Reading Sale at the Ebooks Direct store is on now.

Get ebooks even cheaper than usual! More info here. Buy direct from the author and save! (And help her afford a projected upcoming new-novel research trip…*) 🙂

*Got all the currently available books already but think you might want to contribute to this project anyway? Feel free to use the Ko-Fi and tag your contribution as “research trip” so I’ll know what I’m thanking you for. ❤️

…Bumping this for the afternoon/evening crowd…

liberalsarecool:

depsidase:

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Republicans embracing Nazi authoritarian policies in 2025 across all branches of government and conservative culture like legacy media/social/influencer as they finance prisons, defund health care, and destroy tourism is firmly making all things worse for the country.

Targeting critics of the “make everything worse” movement as they coddle the symbol of child rape and exhausting gaslighting, you would think the party of petty grievances could find one grievance with how bad things are going.

supercritter64:

heads up if anyone hasn’t experienced it yet: there are malicious ads here right now that every once in a while will force a browser popup to try and download something from cloudfront without you even clicking anything in the first place. i was just scrolling and it happened out of nowhere.

i have fast hands and closed out before anything could load but it’s happened like 3 times in the span of a week so just be careful