macro photography by portland photographer lance reis Congressman Stephen Solarz “Nextdoor is a superb place to search out out what neighbors would flip you in to the secret police when we get far enough down the street to fascism.” –@Ragnell “The whole intention of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to security) by menacing it with an endless collection of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” –H.L. Lore Sjoberg “Bannon’s conviction, with the prospect of jail time, is an apt time for us as a society to contemplate how cruelly punitive our criminal justice system can be. We should consider options and reform. I’m talking about for whoever winds up as his cellmate, in fact.” –Matt Blaze “Remember people, healthcare is just for folks it’s funded for. Healthcare packages only exist if funded. No one cares if you are sick or dying until you’ve got money.” –Asher Wolf “If we lost queer folx, furries, and queer furries, the Internet and much of world infrastructure and finance would crash and burn.” –The Creatively Maladjusted “Honestly, there are a lot of explanation why I’d quite transfer to the EU than Canada, but one in every of them is that I believe it is good truly when Jews emigrate or return to nations that kicked us out. In my heart I relish the prospect of busting into Eastern Europe just like the kool-aid man.” –Amberite “I was always skeptical of animal camouflage till yesterday I tried to sit on a rock and it turned out to be a deer.” –Adriana Porter Felt “I remember thinking that the board sport Pandemic was unrealistic because it involved multiple simultaneous international illness outbreaks. Now I understand that the unrealistic factor is that the world could possibly be saved by a crew of experts from Atlanta.” –Michael Ossmann “Whenever you elevate considerations, criticisms, or alarms about some of the highly effective establishments in media, they will use every device at their disposal to oppose you. That’s their prerogative.” –Erin Overbey “Aliens probably fly previous Earth and lock their doorways.” –@percpoop “Absolutely despise when a recipe tells me to add 2 cups of onion. They do not are available cups. They are available onions.” –David East “”I’m mad that the President isn’t incapacitated” is an incredibly silly take, and a few of you must hit pause on your never-ending random walk for outrage.” –Matt Hodges “Driving home, I saw a retailer with an indication which said ‘BEEF TUBS IN Stock’. I do not perceive, and this may haunt me.” –Hasufin “This may be a heretical opinion in our capitalist dystopia however I do not think influential folks should ostentatiously work when in poor health, thus risking further harm to their instant and lengthy-term health, purely so as to point out how powerful and serious they’re.” –Katie Mack “Any, my artist’s assertion recommendation is that if it reads like you educated a predictive text model on a combination of Baudrillard and the Timecube webpage, you’re on the right track.” –@mycoliza “I didn’t think in the 12 months 2022, America would be coping with each youngster labor and polio.” –Molly Jong-Fast “Best feature of aging is the bottomless black void the place my concern for HN discourse was once.” –Dan McKinley “Web3 guidelines a lot as a result of they’re like ‘Let me show u a world past the limits of what you suppose is bodily and spiritually possible’ after which describe arbitrage for McDonald’s loyalty factors.” –Boosterman “Anything you sweat and bleed as an engineer or designer to create, with the ostensible intention of creating life better, will get abused by people who have zero ethics and wish money and management. You’re normally solely doing a nasty factor once you pretend that these individuals do not exist.” –Lesley Carhart “I’m definitely not one of those annoying individuals who thinks that you need to never change the race of any character, but I will have a really exhausting time believing a black man can be as naive about the federal government and society being a bigoted hot mess as Professor X has been.” –Cheryl Lynn Eaton “Anti gay marriage people are so dumb. They’re at all times saying shit like ‘in Genesis, it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.’ Actually, in Genesis, it was Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford. Get some knowledge, ya hateful twats.” –medus4 “Instructions unclear, having to drive to the ER to get an Arduino removed from an uncomfortable place.” –Foone “I especially love all those stray bullets being shot off at utterly random angles to later strike some random citizen, because the billion dollar robot one way or the other still cannot account for muzzle rebound after the shots. Our tax dollars being put to work, with or without consent.” –Sean Chiplock “The weirdest factor in regards to the pandemic being over is that everybody seems to have covid right now.” –Mr.

The final Synod voted in favour of a motion to begin discussion amongst the seven dioceses to take away the doctrinal clause which stated that marriage was “between a man and a woman”. Technique: Both of you start seated on the bed with legs towards each other, arms again to support yourselves. Jonathan Korman “One of many extra terrifying things about serial killers as a complete is how good they are at identifying which victims police will not care about.” –Abbey Perini “I wish to stress that Kyiv’s off peak frequency whereas being invaded is best than practically all of America’s transit programs during peak. I’m genuinely at a loss of words.” –Hayden Clarkin, on public transit “Last time I’m explaining myself, appreciate the cute cat and shut up.” –@fayemikah “Conservatives are simply essentially the most fragile, pathetic, silly, and violently nihilistic people conceivable.” –Nowhere Girl “Nice individuals made the very best Nazis. My mother grew up subsequent to them. They acquired along, refused to make waves, looked the other approach when issues received ugly and focused on happier things than ‘politics’. They had been lovely individuals who turned their heads as their neighbors have been dragged away. You already know who weren’t nicepeople? Resisters.” –Naomi Shulman “The issue with going through teens as a Defender is they haven’t but conceded to repeatedly lose at life by limiting their gambits to inside the bounds of failure cash has determined have solutions. They search solely outcomes and that is why they’re harmful.” –Swift On Security “Nothing went against plan. This time. That we know.” –@flamefew “Roko’s Basilisk is perhaps the Platonic ideally suited of what a dumb particular person thinks a sensible concept appears like. It’s nice content material for a ”thoughts-blowing thought experiments science can’t show aren’t actual!” Youtube video focused at a certain form of Millennial who did a lot of drugs in 2014.” –Enze Cartassi If you don’t prosecute sedition, it becomes technique.

You reside a blessed existence, do not look anything up.” –@fasterthanlime “The truth is never context-free.” –Jacques Valle’ “Giddyup. Giddydown. Giddy-all around.” –Arcus “I started this plant from seed in June. In June 2011, an Ifop poll discovered that 63% of respondents were in favour of same-intercourse marriage. 23 April: The Supreme Court of Mexico unanimously found the identical-sex marriage ban in the southern state of Oaxaca unconstitutional. In 2019, the North Gauteng High Court reversed the choice, ruling that whereas religious organizations have the religious freedom to outline marriage the 2016 determination was not made in accordance with the church’s personal proper course of. Support among the many member states who joined in 2004 was around 28%, meaning that 53% of residents in the 28-member EU supported legalizing similar-intercourse marriage. Dave Wiskus “When the federal government outlaws what morality calls for of us, each of us should make a selection as to whether or not we will likely be legislation abiding citizens or whether or not we will likely be ethical human beings.” –Rabbi Daniel Bogard “`git commit –permit-empty` is the one true universal rerun CI button.” –@mitsuhiko “Hold the X key whereas beginning: The right way to replace your OLPC’s firmware OR tips on how to unlock a secret character in the Playstation version of Mortal Kombat.” –Foone “These aren’t people who are ‘incapable of telling right from wrong’ – they don’t agree with you and me about what ‘proper’ and ‘mistaken’ mean. These are usually not folks incapable of understanding that their actions are unlawful – they celebrate that they will be seen as martyr heroes.” –@quatoria “In case your polycule isn’t organized like you’re planning a heist, then I’m not involved.” –Foone “LaTeX is an ideal demonstration of the butterfly effect. You take away a comma on web page 1 and a paragraph is moved on web page 10. It’s painfully lovely!” –Mohammad Shahrad “In nuclear they’ve something called a ‘dose monkey’: A low-stage contractor payed a lump sum to work till they max out their allowed yearly radiation dose. Sometimes that is months. Sometimes it is a day. Consider: ‘To what extent am I a dose monkey for stress?’ Dose monkeys are fungible. You throw ’em at a problem and after they expire you get extra. However, not less than the dose monkeys are assured a set revenue and a metered total dose regardless of how long they final. Stress monkeys higher hope they’ve saved some cash by the time they burn out.” –@MasterTimBlais “Folktales are a human universal as a result of they generally educate essential things, whereas evopsych folktales often finish in a rant about age of consent laws.” –@pookleblinky “The hole in the data is knowledge itself.” –Que Mikko’s Law: If it is good, it’s vulnerable.

Although the Rottweiler does not usually chunk with out provocation, even being cornered and held by one of those canines is a very unnerving experience for meter males, delivery persons or neighbors wandering into the yard whereas the owner is absent. That’s their framework.” –@MsKellyMHayes “Advice to the hackers of tomorrow: No one will ever let you have what you want. Binder “If it makes somebody happy and I do not must take part, whatever.” –Andrew C. Dingman “People can pay all kinds of premiums in the event that they’re framed as punishment for someone else.” –Tressie McMillan Cottom “It may definitely be frustrating when someone says, ”I don’t know if they will do that or not,” and yet they never chose to just ask the person.” –Aaron Lee “The Challenger accident in January 1986 followed by Chernobyl in April had an unlimited impact on fifth-grade me. I began to suspect that most grown-ups had no thought what the fuck they had been doing. I’ve performed fairly properly in life by not overestimating folks in energy.” –Dr. It’s hard to both have fun and be vigilant, so in case your life is outlined by the necessity for near constant vigilance it does not depart a lot room.” –Kaeli Swift, Ph.D “Cool Hacks are often about placing apart what something is FOR and as a substitute taking a look at what it could possibly do.” –Foone “You can’t appease a mad man to preserve the peace – it solely delays the slaughter.” –David Hogg “Nothing is vital to fashionable individuals until it is made simple to do and most significantly, is marketable.” –@CipherS7N “The ‘metaverse’ sucks now as a result of most people parroting this buzzword are in business fits, not folks in fursuits.” –@TehVulpez “White racists will claim anything is sacred so as to claim a Black individual has befouled it, however nothing is actually sacred to these people.