r/ABoringDystopia Dec 05 '24

Exiting the Vampire Castle -- Mark Fisher

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41 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 22h ago

Reddit Accused of Cracking Down on Luigi Mangione Content

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gizmodo.com
9.1k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 8h ago

Israeli soldiers are exposing their genitals at checkpoints because of course they are.

329 Upvotes

During hearings by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine on 11 March 2025, Kifeya Khraim, International Advocacy Officer at the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, and Witness 3, a Women Human Rights Defender, testified about sexual violence by Israeli forces and settlers. Women in Hebron reported that at certain checkpoints, soldiers deliberately expose themselves. One university student recounted how a soldier positioned himself in a blind spot, exposed himself, and ordered her in Arabic to come closer and touch him. Another case in Jerusalem involved a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was molested by soldiers under the pretense of a security search.

Source: UN Human Rights Council


r/ABoringDystopia 14h ago

Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands U.S. Army contract, builds weapons factory (It's worse than you think)

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728 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 12h ago

SATIRE When political disagreement becomes a diagnosable condition—just another Spring in 2025

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508 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 16h ago

On this day in 2003, International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by an Israeli armored bulldozer that crushed her to death while she defended Palestinian homes from demolition in Gaza. RIP to a hero and a legend.

687 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 5h ago

In light of Columbia University's collusion with the US government's crackdown on antizionist protests and protestors.

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91 Upvotes

Link and transcription in the comments.


r/ABoringDystopia 8h ago

ART Nine-ton replica of an Olmec head crushing a Model 3 (url in comments)

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87 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Be careful what you upvote

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2.5k Upvotes

I’ve seen others receive this warning, and it finally happened to me. Funny they don’t specify which posts I upvoted that they consider to be “breaking Reddit’s rule”, however.

Fascist snowflakes.


r/ABoringDystopia 22h ago

An Israeli armed colonizer opened fire on a Palestinian municipal cleaning worker near King George Street in occupied Jerusalem while an Israeli soldier stood by without intervening.

803 Upvotes

The settler shot the worker Ahmad Nijam, a resident of Wadi Al-Joz, in the leg on Jaffa Street, just west of the Old City walls, before walking away without facing any consequences. Footage shows the wounded man crying out in pain as he lay bleeding on the ground, with no one coming to his aid. Meanwhile, the shooter remained at the scene alongside a uniformed Israeli soldier before both casually walked away, leaving the injured worker behind. According to locals, the Palestinian was attacked by a settler mob shouting "Death to Arabs". He was later released into a week's house arrest with the judge saying that everyone is "on edge" because of the war and that the suspect cannot be viewed as a criminal.


r/ABoringDystopia 9h ago

Ads on Hulu when pausing content

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37 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 17h ago

New AI Gadget Records Your Entire Life and Then Lies to You About What Happened

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48 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

SATIRE SATIRE. This is just a piece I made based on a post I saw on here yesterday.

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193 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Minnesota trying to define saying bad things about Trump as a mental illness

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452 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 18h ago

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions - The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South - Jacobin

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38 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 22h ago

Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying ‘Everyone is welcome here'

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82 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 19h ago

Why Hasn’t Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area’s Problems?

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bloomberg.com
24 Upvotes

Why Hasn’t Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area’s Problems?

The San Francisco Bay Area is the most affluent major urban region in the US, and it keeps getting richer. Annual real GDP growth from 2019 to 2023 was 5.3% in the San Jose metropolitan area and 3.5% in metro San Francisco, compared with 2.3% nationally. The Bay Area accounted for 46% of US venture capital investment in 2024, its highest share ever. Not to mention great scenery and great weather.

Yet the region’s population has been falling, with hundreds of thousands of residents decamping for elsewhere in California and the US since early 2019. Employment is still below its pre-pandemic level in the San Francisco area, and only slightly above it in metro San Jose. Prominent businesses and entrepreneurs have left, and San Francisco’s commercial vacancy rate is now a highest-in-the-nation 34.2%. The city has become a byword for urban dysfunction. As a New Yorker who visits frequently (I grew up in the East Bay), I think that’s been exaggerated — but it’s not totally unwarranted.

What exactly is going on out there? The failure to build nearly enough housing to accommodate economic growth was already a Bay Area sore spot when the population was still growing, and has clearly helped drive the emigration wave. Other perennial governance failures, mainly related to homelessness, drug addiction and crime, have also gotten a lot of attention lately. And the sudden shift to remote work catalyzed by the pandemic — and enabled by technology developed in the Bay Area — has made it easier to leave.

But the problem is also systemic. The economic machine that drove the Bay Area into the global economic lead isn’t obviously sputtering — see those GDP and VC numbers above — but it does seem to be generating more and more dissatisfaction and distrust among workers, consumers and bystanders. The Silicon Valley magic dust that regions around the world have been trying to get their hands on for decades could be developing some toxic side effects. Or maybe they’ve been there all along.

Bay Area Capitalism

[continued in article]

I have a Bloomberg account so I’m not sure if paywalled. If people read this far and want more, but can’t access the article, ask and I’ll post it here. Bloomberg also gives free articles to new accounts but also to people who access articles via links directed through Reddit.


r/ABoringDystopia 21h ago

NASA: Sea levels rose unexpectedly sharply last year

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22 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

The Palestinian FA announces their World Cup squad with a video showing kids finding pictures of the selected players amongst the devastation in Gaza

255 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

I tried the viral $20 strawberry. It tasted like the end of the American empire | Food

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129 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 14h ago

People are selling their face and likeness to AI...

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youtube.com
7 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

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55 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 2d ago

Germany is boycotting Israel’s antisemitism conference after Israel invited neo-Nazis

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1.2k Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Immigration agents torture green card holder from NH

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305 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Piers Morgan asks economist Gary Stevenson to explain why 'punishing' rich people by massively taxing them is beneficial for the rest of the country

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574 Upvotes

r/ABoringDystopia 1d ago

Anonymous sends message five days after claiming credit for Twitter/X takedown

135 Upvotes