Oh sweet summer child, your dad knows parts of the internet you have barely seen in your dreams.

caught in an economic perfect storm

It's nobody's fault, just economic weather. Just bad luck. Nothing to do with corporate capture of the political process whatsoever.

“Chronic cannabis use makes you stupid, to put it bluntly, and can also cause psychosis,” Thomas Fischbach, president of a German federation of doctors for children and adolescents (BVKJ), told the Die Welt newspaper.

Meanwhile, at Oktoberfest...

The drunken debauchery often leads to fights, aggressive behavior, and bierleichen — so-called "beer corpses," which is what locals call the many passed out drunks lying on the hill behind the tents.

Source

This is just monetising incels, isn't it?

What on earth is going on with that picture? Apparently the main source is this picture here.

Who processed it and why?

Google’s tools for replacing cookies are intended to help the industry meet business goals while respecting consumer privacy, they said.

There isn't light at the end of the tunnel, it's another train coming.

Morning people, in my experience at least, firmly believe that night people are just morning people with insufficient self-discipline.

Silly human, the cat isn't glaring down the camera. It's glaring at whoever he can see on the screen.

Quite rightly.

This could have been an email instead and he knows it.

This isn't about kids and it isn't about abortion it's about limiting people's access to unmediated information. The Democrats have just as much to lose as the Republicans if a third party which is a lesser evil than either emerges. Or, seeing as this is America we're talking about, greater evil.

Whatever. They don't want people being able to just organise themselves as they please online.

And in news that surprised absolutely no one...

I've seen the hexbears at work and don't doubt that they'd class some of my views as woefully liberal but in the main I am enjoying being on a site where the left is so unapologetic, doesn't go for all this centrist bollocks and is unafraid to call out bullshit.

Having seen the Overton window constantly shifted to a narrower aspect ratio and then shifted rightwards on reddit was a very disheartening experience and I think seeing active hexbears on all threads will be useful in stopping the uptight right when they inevitably decide that that the fediverse needs shifting towards their own Volkish views.