On this day, 38 years ago, The Sisters of Mercy released their second studio album, the polished classic that is Floodland.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Yep. You don’t have to explain to me what “set sail” refers to. Hours on LimeWire to end up with “Now That’s What I Call Christmas! Volume 37” when I wanted “Head Like A Hole”. Or start the download and go to bed, and the modem disconnected at 3am. I was there, Gandalf, 5000 years ago.

P.S. Speaking of getting algorithmed away, I had to search. YES, Starbucks is still on strike. Do NOT buy your coffee from them!

I’ve noticed talk of the continuing ICE raids has gone dark on here while we are focused on all things Epstein. The Epstein files are critical, but we can’t sit around waiting for the silver bullet to bring Trump down while people are still getting disappeared. This is pretty fucking far from OK.

I know a bunch of you have put ol’ Mayor Pete on a pedestal as a possible savior for the party. 🤣😹🤣😹 Keep looking.

I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

To all the weirdos defending Megyn Kelly: 15 year olds are underage, and that is statutory rape. Pretty simple

I mean, it’s been one atrocity after another but the guy is still in power. All of Washington collectively throwing up their hands saying “What can you do? He’s the prez” for months. You had better believe if numbnutz was a Dem, he would have been out on his ass over any one of these outrages.

I have an elderly IG account. I don't know if anyone bothers to do this, but I went through my liked pages. It's like a map of my changing interests. It was good to do. I found that I've followed problematic accounts over the years, now shuttered accounts, and depressingly, people who are now dead.

"Do you really want us to release the Epstein files?" "Yes." "But there might be Democra--" "Release them." "Bill Clinton could end up in ja--" "RELEASE THEM." "Lol what if a lefty celebrity you like is in ther--?" "DID I FUCKING STUTTER?!"

"Prices are down everywhere." Those damn old fashioned groceries!

Offered without comment other than to say that I do not care who ends up going down for this. If they're involved, they need to pay regardless of political party.

Elon Musk, doing his part to make 1984 and dystopian William Gibson cyberpunk novels a reality. (Well, not actually doing anything, the guy couldn't invent his way out of a cardboard box. Making his minions do it.)

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

Irrelevant post. I was sitting at a long red light reflecting upon the cars passing by. Did car manufacturers get together one day and decide the public abhors bright colors? Anything 2015 or newer dark blue, white, silver, black or burgundy (certainly NOT red.) I drive a lime green ‘06 Scion btw.

I quietly passed 400 followers. That's interesting since there's been about zero feedback lately on my posts, so I'm guessing I've been shadow banned or something. I don't post for clout or followers, only to to shout my frustrations into the void. Thanks for following, hope I'm not too boring.

Tonight was a very bad night.

I know I have agreed to let the Baby Eating Party eat your babies, but they have promised to possibly consider discussing not eating babies in the future so this is a win for us all.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

Glad we’re not going anywhere anytime soon. We can’t because everything has gotten so fucking expensive. Nose to the grindstone and no fun for the foreseeable future so we don’t, you know, lose our house. When vacation hours stop accruing because I haven’t taken any, I take a day off and stay home.

Someone commented about Prince doing Purple Rain at a Super Bowl halftime show. In the actual rain, that the lights were turning purple. Here’s the clip from 2007. youtu.be/lElCzhjiPX8?...

Joyce Carol Oates has always been the GOAT. Musk’s response is akin to “I know you are but what am I?” She needs to be done with Xitter though.

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but.... Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

We have people who can’t feed their families due to the shutdown. Meanwhile, people are getting into fistfights over bear shaped glass cups. Folks wonder why I hate this time of year.

It's not just the Marvel fandom that's a hot toxic mess, male Marvel stars all seem to be shit people. jfc

This photo looks like they're plotting world domination. Kick them. I kicked one of those stupid unmanned floor scrubbers in Sam's once because it wouldn't stop like it's supposed to. I'm not kidding it stopped and completely shut down. No one noticed the incident so I moved on.

He lies his pants off with zero repercussions. This guy's never stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. Nothing is less expensive. What costs have gone up in my family's life? Health, car and home owner's insurance. Property taxes. Utilities. Food. Phone service. What hasn't increased? Our pay.

The mirror suit is nothing short of amazing. I'd love to know how it was made. #FursuitFriday

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Sure, I'll stand with the baristas and continue to not buy burnt bean coffee. "Red Cup Day"? Oh boy, another piece of plastic. I wish Sanrio wasn't partnering with Starbucks, because of course Hello Kitty will send people across the picket lines. They're counting on it.

It’s been nearly a year since I dumped Xitter, but before that I was trying to justify staying and “fighting the good fight”. Nah, it’s fighting with bots, AI and pretty much every bad actor online. Dump it.

So fucking release them.

I know this is sarcasm, but whatever motivates the people. I’m willing to pay more for zero ads but, “Sorry pally, you’re watching a dozen Capital One and Liberty Mutual ads a day no matter what.”

Yet here we are in bunghole USA that dumps propaganda on us daily about how solar is not sustainable. Why? Because we’re bought and paid for by big oil. There should be panels on the roof of every building and parking garage.

Bluesky rn

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

The replies to this when posted on Facebook are all I need to know. "Feed the aliens." "I never vote for tax increases because they never go down." "It's starting kids early down the road to being on welfare." FFS what a shit country we live in. www.cpr.org/2025/10/10/v...

Unpopular opinion: that's how we ended up with Trump 2.0. FFS.

Yeah. Make no mistake, Cheney’s a big reason we are where we are now. Decades later, “Democrats are terrorists” is still a stumping point of the GOP.

Forget all the starving people or the fact that walmart pay is so bad employees need SNAP to survive. The real tragedy is in the shareholder value.

Some things never change. (Oh NO, I’m on some schmuck’s “drama” list.)

Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"