Punky Queerster

@omgsidewalks Late-stage capitalism

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL DEPRESSED BUT ALL YOU WANNA DO IS BE IN YOUR BED ??

A country that has been bombed by America knows what America is. A country that has been sanctioned into poverty by America knows what America is. A country whose elected government was overthrown by American intelligence knows what America is. Only American citizens, sitting inside the country that did all of this, remain genuinely uncertain about what America is. This is not a coincidence. This is the one information environment on earth that was designed, resourced, and sustained specifically to prevent that knowledge from becoming normal. Hollywood. Textbooks. The nightly news. The "national interest" frame that converts every act of imperial violence into a defensive response to external threat. The most sophisticated propaganda operation in history was never aimed at the enemy. It was aimed at home.

93 percent is the number. But the number that actually explains the psychology is this: 0.4 percent. That is approximately the percentage of the American population currently serving in the military. 0.4 percent fight the wars. 99.6 percent watch the flyovers. This ratio, a tiny professional military drawn disproportionately from poor and rural communities, fighting continuous wars on behalf of a population that has almost no personal contact with the human cost, is what makes perpetual war psychologically sustainable. The draft ended in 1973 because Vietnam proved that a conscript army brings the war home in ways that are politically unmanageable. When every family has someone in the war, the war becomes everyone's business. When 0.4 percent fight and 99.6 percent attend football games, the war is an abstraction. An abstraction you can support indefinitely. An abstraction you can fund without feeling it. An abstraction that doesn't interrupt dinner or election campaigns or quarterly earnings reports. The professional military did not just change how America fights. It changed who the war belongs to. And wars that don't belong to the people paying for them can run forever.

If you’re a woman, you don’t hate Palantir enough In 2026, Karp stated that AI will systematically reduce the economic & political power of female voters In 2009, Thiel wrote that the "extension of the [voting] franchise to women" was undesirable

Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it. RT

🔴 Vous vous êtes indignés pour Hiroshima, les tours jumelles, le bataclan. Mais pour GAZA ! l'indifférence, le silence ! Ce que l'armée israélienne à fait à GAZA, c'est 150.000 tonnes de bombes déversées, soient 12 fois la bombe atomique Hiroshima !

@chaiaddict4 open.spotify.com/playlist/1tVRg…

Oomfs pls share Ur fav wlw songs (in any language) ok trying to make a playlist while reading my ao3 n wattpad wlw stories

The 11 disappearing scientists and their field of research: 1. Amy Eskridge - anti gravity propulsion and electrostatic propulsion systems 2. Michael Hicks - Earth space observation systems 3. Frank Maywald - planetary robotic systems 4. Anthony Chavez - research classified, clearance at Los Alamos National Lab 5. Monica Reza - orbital communication systems 6. Melissa Casias - research classified, high security clearance at Los Alamos National Lab 7. Steven Garcia - nuclear weapons engineer 8. Jason Thomas - chemical biology and experimental drug development 9. Nuno Loureiro - plasma physics and fusion science 10. Carl Grillmair - exoplanets, stellar streams and near earth objects 11. William McCasland - Director of Air Force Research Lab, hypersonics, directive energy systems, and advanced propulsion tech

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

@beyoumf My dogs.

who saved you at your lowest?

@realmfberlin Guilt

Do suicidal people stay because of hope?

@omgsidewalks Absolutely! There are so many resources available through public libraries, both in-person and online.

How many people actually have library cards as adults ??😎

@TheViewUpHere26 @Gunblaze1969 The only correct answer.

@Gunblaze1969 I'm Rick James, b%$#@!

Handsome guy needs a name

You’re scared a woman might “trap” you with a baby? Vasectomy’s free, reversible, and 99% effective. Trap yourself.

@eclipsescythe @JohnWat59766564 @soigomaa I did. Please note that I didn’t mention the R academy. I still believe that 62 million page views on a porn site with 20,000 videos of “ sleep content” is vile and says a lot about how men prefer women without agency. That is part of R-culture.

@PunkyQueerster @JohnWat59766564 @soigomaa 63 million visits to a porn site. Not people participating in a rape academy. You guys should actually read before using that.

Feminists actually respect men more than pick me tradwives' do. Tradwives reduce you to a paycheck and a bodyguard. They want a tool, not a partner. Feminists demand more from you because they know you're capable of more. They want emotional intelligence, shared responsibilities, and an authentic human being, not a 'provider' robot. Stop confusing 'submissiveness' with respect. Feminism is actually the one wanting to share the weight of the world with you. Let that sink in.

Eat the rich Burn their warehouses Make the predatory class afraid again!

Her name is Meenu Batra. Her parents were killed in India because of their Sikh religion. She fled to the U.S. as a teenager. She was granted legal status to live and work here. She spent 20+ years as a certified federal court interpreter — her Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu skills requested in courtrooms nationwide. Her youngest son just joined the U.S. Army. On March 17, ICE arrested Meenu Batra, 53, at the airport while she was heading to a work trip. She’s been in a detention facility near the Mexican border ever since. Her immigration status means she can’t be sent back to India. So the government could deport her to a third country she has never lived in. Her son said: “I thought I would serve my country and serve my people. I didn’t know the people was everyone except my mom.” DHS called her an “illegal alien.” She helped interpret justice for decades. Now she can’t sleep at night because she doesn’t know where she’ll wake up. Tell me — what exactly is it she did wrong? #DemsUnited

@realmfberlin Thai and Korean

TWO languages you wish you could speak fluently??

@agNavya Ah, the age-old question of every student who didn’t finish their assigned reading the day before a test.

Is it humanly possible to read 200 pages in a single day?