abolish debate club and model UN and all such things. they don't teach persuasion or negotiation, they teach that foreign policy is a trolley problem so it's actually very mature and noble to sacrifice 100,000 strangers from a conference room but absolutely unacceptable to talk out of turn

text your representatives and tell them to vote NO on the bill that deletes the whole internet! call your congresscritter! sign this petition! don't forget to write a polite letter to your reps to STOP the Grind Everything You Love To Gritty Paste Act

Please post quietly Phil is dreaming

fundamentally I think it is good to be able to hold all of these ideas simultaneously: - what the bad guys are doing is bad - they are going to do enormous damage - they are not infallible supergeniuses whose every move turns out perfectly as planned

(with barely contained rage) I'm going to have a nice weekend

consider: the music video of Phantom Planet’s “California”, otherwise known as the theme song for The OC the first time I saw this I was like, “wow, this is INCREDIBLY 00s, this is the most 00s thing I’ve ever seen”

there's kind of a stereotyped character assigned to each decade in US history. a hippie for the 60s, disco guy for 70s, Patrick Bateman for 80s, Taco Bell for 90s, not sure what we decided on for 00s, and a horny millennial for the 10s what the HELL is the 2020s caricature going to look like

I don't mute, I don't want people saying stuff in my replies that I don't know about. Block policy is percentage-based: if we've been talking for a while and you say a few annoying things, that's only 1% of our interactions, it's fine. If your opening move is to be annoying, that is 100%, goodbye.

waiting for a response after a job interview (I *think* it went well, but I *feel* I did everything wrong and they hate me) and I can't take it, every time my phone buzzes I jump three feet in the air and then it's some newsletter it's getting towards the end of business hours... maybe tomorrow

a reddit post went "what 3 items would you bring through the checkout to freak out your Walmart cashier" and while most of the answers were pretty standard (rope, gasoline, and disposable gloves! 2 big cucumbers and crisco!) the one I still think about was "1. doughnuts. 2. donut holes. 3. glue"

one of the things that sucks right now is that if you have any kind of lingering personal trauma, from racism to CSA to medical neglect, engaging with current events feels like shoving a thumb into your sorest bruise and twisting real hard

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

I kind of want a "who's cancelled and why" database so I can keep track of these things, I'm so shit at remembering names but I know this would be an incredibly toxic project in every way and deciding who goes on the list would be a full time job for multiple people who would all get death threats

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

i am not willing to compromise on basic human rights to win over mythical shithead voters it is my job to go out in the world and virtue signal my full throated support of marginalized people under attack. you try to come for trans people, you gotta come through me, motherfucker

I love you keep going 🐁🏳️‍⚧️ #arte #traditionalart #miniatures #trans #queerart #transart #hope #art #resist #kunst #mentalhealth #streetart #foundart

Remember to rotate your polycule's safewords every 90 days ensure your firewalls are up to date check that there's no unwanted apps with access to your polycule's discord double-check the sharing settings on your onboarding powerpoints make sure your plex/jellyfin servers are not open to the net

the guy next to me in the doctor's office waiting room was text-to-speeching his plans to blow someone in the bathroom in great and increasing detail and he got so horny he couldn't wait and missed his appointment

my dad yells at football players on TV so loudly and aggressively that I'm always like, you know they can't hear you, right but then I refresh the politics news... at least football ends after a couple hours

Tapping the sign

Input: one million serious articles about nuclear war, one trillion forum posts from armchair generals bloviating "we oughta just glass em all" Output:

i feel like if i killed and raped people, and then gave a speech where i failed to mention the price of eggs, people would still be hung up on the murder and rape? this isn't like political strategizing i just think that it's so fucked how the bodies in the fridge are just priced in

Good night, Bluesky! Deer at sunset on Puget Sound, Washington

Tiny hoppy squirrel tracks in the snow!

today... i paint some cute lil guinea pigs. 😌

rat

Oh my GOD

i don't think i realized how much yelling there is in curling

Yes... ha ha ha... YES

New England weather forecast (latest models)

always like to draw a little guy

Absolute failure of journalism everywhere that not one reporter has put on a sincere concerned face and asked him “Mr President, for Americans out there who don’t understand how great your policy is, can you explain how tariffs work?”

Creatures from the deepest sea

Capybeera. #art #capybara #beer

Hey ok so now I get to show you my newest beer label illustration. This is more colors than have been on all previous Off Color labels combined.

please enjoy this high koala tea post

there is very little outright homophobia on Bluesky but the sheer prevalence of "the bad guys are GAYYY hoo hoo hoo they like DICKS AND BUTTS hooo it's funny because it's just a joke that GAY SEX hoo I said it about someone bad so you can't be mad GAY IS FUNNY BECAUSE ITS YUCKY HOOOO" is exhausting

Now I want to watch a series about the resettlement of Alderaani refugees on a sparsely populated Outer Rim planet

...is Luke Skywalker the king of Naboo?

There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

the drafts folder isn't actually for drafts it's for when you know a post is bad but you have issues around Letting Go

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

watery girl #monstrosilist #ttrpg #bwart

usually I hate waking up early and getting the British news first, because 99% of it is "being transgender, already illegal, made double illegal" but today the news was "man in 'crime is legal' social class finally discovers the limit" 🙂

Crash. (not the respectable one with the car crash perverts, the bad one) I saw it with a class and everyone else was gushing about what a sensitive treatment of race, and I was the lone asshole saying actually it's a bunch of shallow bullshit I was vindicated by critical opinion, eventually

inaccurately reconstructed fossils appreciation post

my tl when it's year of the snake: oh yeah it's lunar new year or whatever, happy new year if you're into that sort of thing my tl when it's year of the horse: HORF