I jump onto the train tracks and stands completely still as a train is coming right at me. Right before it hits, I turn to the horrified people on the platform and tell them "your failure to prevent this train hitting me makes you a bunch of feckless cretins".

Oh shi—

What is wrong with this newspaper

Or, in a sense, not humanities-brained enough! A lot of weird conclusions (like "space colonization is problematic") come from people entirely misreading science fiction. Stories about the evils of Space Imperialism are "actually" about our experience here on earth, because how couldn't they be?

folks like this want to go back to brunch

A woman needs to be twice a debased and amoral and ludicrous for Trump to consider her half as good

People are proposing Trump is firing his female cabinet members first because he is sexist. I propose it is more that some of his most deranged, least qualified, and therefore most doomed-from-the-outset picks happen to have been women—because he is sexist

Agree, but it's worth adding, "powerful forces" aren't just a shadowy group of billionaires or something. A lot of people who view themselves as "working class" or "the 99%" or whatever, personally benefit from cheap labor.

Americans need sharp pain and the most harmless sharp pain is increased prices and shortages.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

sure, but the correct reaction on a microblogging site should be 'huh, am i misreading this?' not 'fuck you, get off this website'? we already have tumblr and reddit for that.

My children will know analog time

This is my favorite part about it though

i’m pretty tired of this website

I deleted a previous version of this bc you could kind read it as making fun of people with mental illness and I didn't feel like litigating it. but yeah there's a small core of misanthropes who seem to consistently try and drive off worthwhile posters/experts

I am convinced there is a sizable percentage of this site that not only can't read, they want to punish people for suggesting they should

This is something not entirely unique to this website but it’s definitely worse here

This is a pretty big misread of Democratic hostility towards the political left, both options are, it only makes sense if you think Matt Yglesias or Ezra Klein are representative (which I don’t think they are, but maybe I’m wrong)

Behold the monstrosity I have grown from the single sprouted tomato seed that was in my burger king whopper

And those people won’t even understand what happened. Zero chance of even being able to say told-ya-so to them

I keep wanting to snarkily QT people on my blogging service which you can’t do and is obviously the bad brain kicking in

You’re British aren’t you

I always wonder if Land Back literalist people come from extremely ethnically homogeneous communities themselves because you just can’t send a lot of us “back” except in pieces

My baby is an excellent walker for 12 months but has suddenly realized that’s not always to his benefit. This morning he’s dramatically staggering around, bent over, looking like he’s been shot (he’s fine, if you pick him up he’s fine)

Cognitively, Candy Land is not very challenging. However stacking the deck in Candy Land requires some planning and pattern recognition skills which is why I let my daughter do it

Anyway, my opinion about Star Trek, which is Good and Correct, is that two things have gone wrong: it is best served by 22 episode seasons, which streaming has killed, and also it is a franchise that needs you to inhabit the worldview of a Centre-Left Army Guy that few in modern US TV do.

My dad spent more than half the weekend daylight hours at my place today and we only got this far

Wrote a little bit about taking my kids to No Kings.

I don’t want AI stuff like this on Bluesky but literally whenever the devs post something I’m down on, the hyperbolic responses negatively polarize me against the userbase instead

One thing I find frustrating in vaccine debates is it’s almost always portrayed as a choice that will kill your kids. In fact, if you choose not to vaccinate your kid will almost certainly survive, will likely even be fine — 400-500 people isn’t, statistically speaking, a lot of people. (cont.)

A lot of praising of moms in the comments, but my point was that moms are not different from other women, or even from men.

I say this gently and with love. The ppl watching the No Kings protests and saying “I have nothing in common with these normies, but I support the wine moms and fleece vest dads” are in denial. You are a middle aged bike commuter with a dog and a mortgage. You are these normies.

I don’t at all understand the belief that any Democrat would’ve won in 2020! *Maybe* we’d have won with another candidate but people talk like it’s obviously true and we all agree

Dying for mainstream media to ask what's going on with the world's richest man.

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

I’m not sure if this pattern is replicating elsewhere but here NoKings doesn’t consolidate in Sacramento; all the nearby suburbs have their own, which I think is good since it makes the protest feel more omnipresent

The Caves Of Steel: https://sameoldstory.micro.blog/2026/03/28/the-caves-of-steel.html

Watched: The Incubus 🍿 Perhaps the most incredible attempt at (what I think is) a Southern accent ever put to film

Booked my eye surgery for next month! Technically I can still turn back but I don’t think I’m going to. Nonetheless I’m semi-shocked I’m really gonna do it

When a man tell you monogamy is racism and a form of ownership... free that man

Proposal: a less-judgemental variant of “terminally online”: “chronically online”. “Terminally online” implies that being online is killing you; “chronically online” just means that you’ll be online until you die.

The fact that “character attacks are not persuasive anymore” is at the heart of our present crisis in this country.

This is a sports brain thing I think. Exact same thinking that makes sports fans incapable of understanding somebody who plays in a professional league is good at the sport.

In general, middle aged people on here are loath to acknowledge it when changing tech has made certain things fundamentally different from when we were in our teens and twenties.

I think the Zoomers’ growing puritanical inclinations are probably a bad omen but I don’t think the largely older people on this site are sympathetic enough to the environment these kids (especially the young women) are coming from