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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 5 hours ago

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Inside: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/

(This is the last edition of Pluralistic for the year - see you in 2026!)

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The Earth from space. Standing astride it is the Wall Street 'Charging Bull.' The bull has glowing red eyes. It is haloed in a starbust of red radiating light. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · yesterday

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/17/boop-oop-a-doop/

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A collage of images representing creative works entering the public domain on Jan 1, 2026.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

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Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)

Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/

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A picket line; the picketers are holding militant hand-lettered signs. Behind them, in a red halo, is a cigar-chomping boss figure.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 5 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/

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A modified FBI badge. It now reads 'Federal Wallet Investigators.' It is made out to 'Timothy J Shotspotter.' It is held in the three-fingered, gloved grip of a cartoon character. Around its edges, we see a cartoon room from a public domain Betty Boop cartoon.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/

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A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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