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Holy shit that's so cool

Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience

This is now my favorite photo

Rich Siegel, Jewish resident of Teaneck, NJ, at Township Council meeting

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My name is Rich Siegel. I'm a 25 year homeowner here in Teaneck. I'm Jewish. The reason that I'm telling you that I'm Jewish is because I have a concern about something that's going on in the Jewish community. On march 10th, there is scheduled to be an Israeli real estate sales event at the Keter Torah synagogue. That event violates both domestic law and international law. Violates domestic law because we had a Civil Rights Act in 1965 and a Fair Housing Act in 1968. We don't allow real estate events to be for Whites only, for Jews only, or anybody only. Now, as Jews, we don't get to fly under the radar and break the law and hide it in a synagogue. It violates international law because West Bank settlement homes are going to be available for sale at this real estate event. On the website it lists three different West Bank settlements. Those settlements are in and of themselves illegal by international law. If we allow this sale to go through, we are enabling a local synagogue to violate both domestic anti-discrimination laws and international law. Now, there's other reasons we shouldn't allow it. There's a genocide going on right now. I don't care who that offends. More than 35,000 people have been killed. More than 13,000 children have been killed. People in this community are in deep mourning. People in this community are angry. I'm angry. What this real estate event is going to do is it's gonna fan the flames. If it goes forward, there will be a demonstration. I know there's going to be a demonstration because I'm going to organise it.

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Once you start seeing the results of staying out the way it really becomes addicting

leave your laundry on the floor for them

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.... WE GOT HIM

When people are talking about Catholicism’s positive contributions to human culture they’re referring to BDSM

They should invent a type of life where you don’t have to work to survive

(Oops I accidentally shared this a day early on Tumblr, sorry!! Will be posted across other platforms tomorrow)

Why? I’m from Australia so I don’t know anything about this stuff

Because there should be public transit and trains. It is a ridiculously short flight that is just polluting the world unnecessarily but a lot of people don’t have a better option. There’s so many major cities in that small area that they should have train lines between them all

okay so like, I live in Baltimore. Boston is 8 hours by car away. But! There’s a direct train that goes there so I should take it and-

the train is 8 hours. Okay no big deal at least I’m not driving I can relax and-

the train ticket will run me one way between 100-300 dollars depending on when I buy it from Amtrak.

However, I can get an 80 dollar plane ticket one way on southwest, so I do that instead.

anyway it is beyond frustrating to be in the most used part of the amtrak system and still have train tickets be so goddamn cost prohibitive. 

thats not a policy failure, its seven policy failures duct taped together

@amtrak-official pls esplain

I get given scraps by government budgets because I am expected by conservatives to become profitable which is an impossible goal. This forces prices on the services that are used to be raised

Plus Amtrak is forced to maintain the long, extremely unprofitable lines through various states because the representatives from those states demand it. So the Northeast Corridor subsidizes the rest of the system because there are enough people willing to pay even at the relatively high prices.

It's like with the post office, which is also expected by Republicans to be profitable instead of a subsidized public good. If either Amtrak or the USPS were private companies, they could cut services that are clear losses (rural mail delivery & long distance trains), but they can't because those are essential services for many of the same Republicans' constituencies. But they have to look hard on government spending so they pass laws that underfund both organizations.

Yes, but the long distance routes are incredibly necessary for the Amtrak system

Yeah closing the “unprofitable” lines is NOT the answer, it’s investing in rail infrastructure and treating it as a public utility.

Our cities were destroyed and our railways ripped up to artificially create car dependency for the profit of the oil and automobile industries, the same industries that now get countless billions in subsidies from the government and have all their infrastructure maintained for them.

We need to change this or we are going to go extinct. We talk about how climate change isn’t the fault of individual consumers, and this is true, a huge portion is production and commercial level failures that need to be changed, but most people will need to be living car-free or car-light very, very soon, or there isn’t going to be humanity anymore. We can do it by choice, by radically transforming our cities and transportation (and really, returning to how they used to be before the epidemic of car dependency) or we can be forced when the car infrastructure buckles under its own weight and we have total societal collapse. But it is happening. Either we give up the car and the plane or we give up everything

Remember, the city was not built for the car, it was bulldozed for it

real

decriminalize:

criminalize: 

oh my god

After months of telling people that anti-AI discourse is astroturfed pro-copyright rhetoric so that corporations can have control over artistic styles, ADOBE THEMSELVES said to congress that it needs to start enforcing copyright on artistic styles. ADOBE THE COMPANY THAT CHARGES PEOPLE TO USE CERTAIN COLORS IS FLOATING THE IDEA TO CONGRESS THAT THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO COPYRIGHT STYLES IN AN OBVIOUS PLOY TO GIVE THEM A MONOPOLY OVER AI TOOLS AND ARTISTIC OUTPUT. Im psure i made like multiple posts about how this was the end goal of anti-ai rhetoric lmao.