the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

The kitten is being a menace. Precious does *not* approve.

Do not feed your cats raw food.

We really have to stop imagining these people as the worst movie villains we’ve ever seen, and imagine them instead as being the worst bosses we’ve ever had

CATS: Squirrel TV with our human, yay! SQUIRREL: Oh boy, my favorite show is on, Lady & Cats.

The kitten has learned that he can shake his rattle-mouse toy to get my attention to throw it.

When these ICE agents are inevitably punished, I don’t want them shown any mercy. Not a single one. I don’t care if they have 10 kids and 50 grandchildren and donate 10% of their paycheck to the Red Cross and have ptsd — do not give a fuck.

Among other things, we often contrast in Greek military thought between the personal-excellence 'Achilles' ethos and the clever-tactics 'Odysseus' ethos. Whereas Pete Hegseth recalls the Ajax-the-Lesser ethos of being forgettably bland and unimpressive except for doing a bunch of sexual assault.

For a regime with an end game that hinges on military complicity, they sure are doing everything in their power to make sure the entire military fucking despises them

Did you know you can read my graphic novel The Unfamiliars for free in weekly installments? Theunfamiliars.site

I took an extra strength Tylenol and now my autism is pregnant

Absolutely wild that over two years (!) after I wrote this, my pharmacist is still warning me about adderall shortages potentially delaying my prescription

I am a 40 year old white dude so you can give my musical opinions with exactly as much credit as you feel they deserve but Born to Run slaps and I will go to bat for Bruce any day of the week

They will never stop punishing us for 2020

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

It's beginning to look a lot like Grifting Eeeeverywhere you go Take a look at Capitol Hill You'll see that it's grifting still Corruption's the concern that people shooow

Laser-driven urinals is a tech bro idea that has not yet seen the light of day

Hey white people! All that smoke you had for Disney and ABC and shit? Send that same smoke to the Black folks who lost their jobs for the same damn reason.

While I respect the hell out of The Onion, this is eel calumny and I cannot stand silent.

For no particular reason, this comic has resurfaced in my head a lot lately.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

As with most Trump executive orders, this is bluster masquerading as policy. The President cannot, in fact, unilaterally declare that trespassing is now an act of “domestic terrorism,” a term that continues to have no meaning in federal law. This is theater, written for television.

I will NEVER ever discount the harms the medical profession is responsible for. but can't escape my notice that doctors losing credibility, respect, and trust just HAPPENED to coincide with 45% of docs being poc and 38% being women--a 97% increase since 2004--despite both groups earning less

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

if you work for ICE you’re evil. if you cheer ICE on, you’re evil. ICE has no positive value in this country. it’s just an outlet for people’s worst, most racist and violent impulses.

Well then. I don’t have water, and I can’t figure out why, if I was supposed to be forewarned, and when it will be back. So THAT’S fun.

Behold our local eel-cat

One thing I’ve really absorbed living in the Bay Area is that the tech libertarians are so, so much stupider than the rest of the country understands.

I really wish my early 2010s concerns about the neoreactionaries had been “not worth paying attention to” like people told me at the time.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

*taps sign*

I rarely defend Americans, but we shouldn't forget that American GenZ started the student protests in 2023, were beaten to a pulp by police, got thrown out of school, lost scholarships, had their degrees revoked, etc. An Egyptian friend of mine joked "those kids were Arab Springed" Funny but true.

“hating both parties equally” is also always a lie btw, as evidenced by what he did with his time and his embrace of violence. hating both republicans and democrats is actually a perfectly “normal” rightwing ideology (look at the tea party)

Has to update my phone’s OS (to use my bank’s website)… and now autocorrect is even worse. It has corrected my correct spellings to typos I don’t even MAKE.

Fallen London is such a strange game. I hate the mechanics SO much. But I love the setting in equal measure. I cannot wait for the ttrpg to come out.

I love ermines so much. I want to raise ermine awareness.

The cats are both sitting on me, so have a set of pics in honor of their momentary peaceful coexistence.

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released. Happy Birthday, little guy! 🎂

They've lost the 9yos

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian 14 minutes of Trojan war power metal!

Day 267: werk

it is so cool that teachers are treated like shit generally, especially when it comes to their unions, and not paid nearly enough and yet are expected to live the lives of apolitical, cloistered priests outside of school

My family still says “Let’s go!” In a high pitched voice because of this game. It was absolutely brilliant.

I’m sorry, the message was literally “ANTI-ICE” written in pen?

What about the Black journalists?? Can we have a mass uprising on their behalf?

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

No sense in piling on but the idea that "American global leadership" is even something that still exists in any meaningful way right now is hopelessly naive - and arguing that we have demonstrated unfitness for that role is not de facto "isolationism"

yeah, getting big "Blacks rule" vibes from "anti-ICE" written on one unused bullet still part of a pack with a ball point pen in the rain.