I live in Chicagoland and have family friends who are brown and undocumented. It’s not good here.

I want to specify that the US government ICE agents rapelled from Blackhawk helicopters to take over an apartment building, breaking open apartment doors in the middle of the night to drag barely-clad residents from their homes and detain everyone in UHaul trucks with the children zip-tied to each other. Regardless of citizenship.

There was too much traffic today, and an ICE agent deployed a tear gas canister in traffic in response.

This is not normal.

From the very bottom of my heart: what the ACTUAL FUCK

It’s not even near me yet, but where I live there’s lots of brown folks so they’ll come.

This is surreal. We’re being attacked by the United States.

"ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid" - MSN, published October 1st, 2025

Most mainstream media is barely covering it.

I genuinely wish I were surprised by that.

Spread this far and wide - there's no paywall.

thinking about the time a dude with a booth trying to get sign ups (no recollection of what for) approached me and said “Hey! do you know how much a polar bear weighs?” the correct response to this is “i don’t know”, so that the original speaker can say “enough to break the ice!” however, he did not count on Animal Facts Georg saying “i think about 990lbs?” which destroyed any hope for a normal and productive conversation

I disagree with the wording of "cooking is art, baking is science". No, art has far lower stakes than cooking - if you set out to make art, it is simply not possible to fuck up so bad that the end result would not count as art if you're still willing to call it so. It might be ugly as hell and look nothing like what you meant it to be, but art is art nonetheless. However, if you start cooking with the goal of making food to eat, it is entirely possible and actually quite easy to fuck up so bad that the end result does not count as food, as it isn't something you could or should eat.

Cooking is a science: you can, should, and even must fuck around to find out, as even if you end up making something terrible, you have now learned what happens if you do that. You have gained valuable information. And sometimes, you accidentally strike gold and have invented something tasty and awesome.

Baking is religion. You have been told how things must be done, and if you stray from the righteous path that was shown you, you just go to hell. Doesn't matter what it was that you fucked up, you go to hell forever. And if the scriptures that were given to you are somehow incorrect, you go to hell for following them. Fuck you and good luck.

• this is too much text i didn’t read any of these
  
• i’m not american
• i’ve never heard of any of these things
• i don’t main anything in mario kart, i’ve played it maybe one time ever
• i’m older than 16
• i don’t recognise any of these people

Northern White-lipped Python aka D'Albert’s Water Python (Leiopython albertisii), family Pythonidae, found in New Guinea and a few small nearby islands

photograph by Tara Biron

Nazi interrupted a college class and immediately got chased down by all 100-ish students.

Bonus: porn fridays

Usamericans flirting

September is cool and all, but who’s ready for OCTOBER THIRST?

Almost missed reposting this piece of history…

Happy October 3st, friends.

that clips of the nazi at University of Washington who starts throwing seig heils and shouting slurs in a gender studies lecture before getting chased outside by THE ENTIRE LECTURE is the funniest shit ive ever seen because 1. they keep releasing more angles of it 2. this happens in their campus square, which is without exaggeration the single largest flat, paved, vacant area i have ever seen that isn't a parking lot, and 3. it's like 200 people bearing down on one (1) dude. someone posted an aerial shot and it looks like when you fuck up in the scouting phase of an RTS and accidentally pull aggro from the entire enemy home base

he's the one in the light blue shirt at the very top

he even posted his own POV this is truly the gift that keeps on giving