‘Things are truly scary’: the divided states of America – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/oct/29/the-end-is-near-here-michael-dressel-photographs-from-the-fringes-of-us-society

Why Are Billionaires Tiptoeing Around Trump?

Bill Gates, Jamie Dimon, and Jeff Bezos may think they’re playing it safe staying on the sidelines. But you can't exactly hedge against the former president’s wrath.
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It's fear of what he'll do to them.

#Politics #Trump #Billionaires /Nosanitize

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-billionaires-2024-election

I just noticed someone is no longer a member.

What happened to @LowEndMuse?

"an unhinged genre-defying trip into class conflict and planetary invasion": ancient review of Jang Joon-hwan’s dark sci-fi comedy SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! (JIGUREUL JIKYEORA!, 2003), screening 5.50pm today at NFT1, BFI Southbank with director's Q&A https://projectedfigures.com/2024/10/22/save-the-green-planet-jigureul-jikyeora-2003/

Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes Than Average Person in a Lifetime

"The extreme emissions of the richest, from their luxury lifestyles and even more from their polluting investments, are fueling inequality, hunger, and—make no mistake—threatening lives."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-emissions

@Zevon

"Donki" — technically they're called "Don Quijote" — are not really "grocery stores", they're quite hard to describe. Everything's kind of cheap and weird and an impulse buy, and they're open 24/7.

They're a chain and there are quite a number of them in the bigger cities. They're a hoot.

If you go regularly, you'll end up with sacks of amusing, useless stuff.

FIERCE😡 CARTOON Call Out

This year is the 40th anniversary of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo. There is a fan driven tribute book in the works. They're very close to hitting the goal to take care of the printing. If you can help, it would be appreciated.

https://gofund.me/a7ed9d0a

p.s. I submitted a 2 page story so yes, I have an interest in seeing this succeed.

#usagiyojimbo

I saw two falling stars tonight!

and i was looking for a cluster called Hyades thanks to @POOetryma. Too soon? I saw Pleiades but not Orion yet.

Hey, remember when Elmo bragged about his $50K prefab house?

"Well, THAT was a fucking lie." — Lord of Illusion

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-children-mothers-compound

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New nickname for Elmo: Electric Space Creep!

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oh cool--Bill Amend is on mastodon!

https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@billame[email protected]

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This one goes out to Phase, who is both missed and fondly remembered.

Here's hoping the magic is finding her well, wherever she is. #spooktober

“Never underestimate the vengeful nihilism at the heart of this movement. The glitter-eyed fanatics behind Project 2025 and other such programmes will smash whatever is most precious to you, partly at the behest of commercial interests – but also to enjoy watching the pain it inflicts. They will crush beauty, joy, community and hope precisely because other people value them.“

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/29/donald-trump-greatest-feat-ordinary-americans-capitalism-republican