Xeno's Law of the Instrument: When the only measure you have is "how far away it is," every remaining distance appears to be halfway.

It's fucking bizarro-land that people gonna have kids and then, treat them like a problem to be dispensed with. Charlton Heston: "People! The creatures we decided to create are people!!!"

“If you call us murderers, we will have no choice but to murder you.”

An esperañs a vev an den En dizesper ne vev den ( #Hope feeds everyone. #Despair doesn't feed anyone. Traditional saying in #Breton)

I am the animal born with reason. My birth is proof that my ancestors passed down to me the power to survive. Reason is not powerful, like the trunk of an elephant. It is not inerrant, like the eyes of an eagle.

I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components: 1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction

It only just now crossed my mind how obvious a precursor to the #Addams family, #Gormenghast is.

Old friend of mine used to joke, from time to time, about whether anyone would ever litigate with respect to our 3rd Amendment rights. (He was using it as a way to satirize concern with 1st and 2nd amendment rights.) Is the whole Hilton/ICE debacle going to qualify, finally?

Jeffries and Schumer both—and until we can vote them out, Dems need to remove them from leadership of their respective caucuses. They’ve been playing in our faces for too long.

New Yorker, Manvir Singh, et al: Language. Does. Not. Change. How. People. Think. Anymore than light propagates through ether, vermin spontaneously generate in rotting matter, or the sun revolves around the earth.

$deity. All these people out here deserve so much better than what people my age+/who look like me, have driven us into.

Enough. The moderate position *is* impeachment and removal of every executive officer, and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment removal of every member of Congress who has facilitated any one of either Trump administration’s crimes. Any action short of that is complicity.

What is the word for "forgiveness" that means an explicit, negotiated, two-way street, where, necessarily, there are amends and the person who did harm provides credible reassurances their behavior will change? #forgiveness

Probably the best movie-based meme I've ever generated, not that it's a high bar.

At the bottom of a certain ethical posture is the endless loop: "Do I still think of myself as nice? If yes, other people must be in the wrong."

How many times will you do the thing before: I give up on begging you not to because it hurts me, so you can add this thing to the list of things I "...refuse to communicate about?" It's a whole ass metric.

Sketchy evidence of my prophetic powers.

"We're more of a smash centrists, Christians, and fascists school. We can smash you centrists and fascists without the Christians, and we can smash you Christians and fascists without the centrists, and we can smash you all three, concurrent or consecutive..."

What is even the point of being as teen if you don't incisively expose all the really atrocious things the previous generations did and disavow the F out of them?

CNN: "Four takeaways from President Trump's speech." Four different photographs of a burning trash dumpster. 9_9

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

>>Sometimes people are mad because they think I am wrong but really they're mad that they have a different opinion from me. Vocab for expressing degree of certainty varies by venue and person. Regrettably. 'Opinion' is a degree of certainty by design ambiguously shy of (the incoherence of)...

A rare successful kitchen experiment on my part, codified.

Categorically rejecting "the silent treatment, which is very harmful" is just another gaslit way of denying people their boundaries. It also erases the possibility that people are not emotionally ready to renormalize yet, in the wake of something difficult. Yes, it can resemble manipulative...

For starters: 1. The people trying to survive genocide in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ukraine, etc. 2. Any person who has been targeted/assaulted/disappeared/murdered by ICE. 3. The community members protecting their neighbors from ICE. 4. The Romancelandia GOTV that flipped local races.

Dunking on the OP is unfair. Once TPTB made education a pre-requisite to employment, defunded higher public education, made for-profit education prohibitively expensive, and required post-graduate education for “professional” roles, the dominant driver for educational pursuit became employability.

Real answer: The Constitution and Bill of Rights and I’m putting the sauce on “and domestic” when I recite the oath. Keeping It Real answer: “The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark” by Carl Sagan

Google play eBook up! This will almost certainly get censored, too. This is the price we pay for making art, I guess.

@coyotewallace.bsky.social unleashes eloquently cold rage about the demolition of our medical profession: ...Nurses are the agents of good hearts and decency... no ten souls that ever decided to make a living in the political arena are worth even one of their number... medium.com/@kidether/ba...

Bluesky is moderating anything critical "of protected groups." And including a power & number majority, Christianity, as a protected group. Absurd.

I cackle every time the picture I tweeted like 4 years ago of a page from a Lindy West book that made me scream with laughter, which subsequently exploded on like nineteen different platforms, recirculates past my eyeballs again my brother sent it to me on Instagram once not knowing I took it 😂

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

Surak. Where are you now?

Interesting video going around TikTok in which lady talks about rejecting using "anti-" prefixed terms to describe her #left stance. What she really did was, find way to articulate ideas with more meat. That's always valuable. If you write well you're always going to get your idea across more

im still hating things the world has forgotten

Why don't they just ask somebody whose brains aren't addled by religion? It's a virtue. See how that's a nonissue? The real issue is: "Christian battle grows over whether to admit: 'We're the problem, aren't we?'

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

I named my fists "Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals" and "Tool shed renovation," because they never stop making headlines. ...I'm not doing this right.

I was reminded of the existence of @profanity.accountant

From the other place's thread by @swwlds.bsky.social about what male lawyers should be called: Penisquire. AttornHe. Boy Lawyer Barrister Boy. Brottorney. Solicitsir. Brolicitor. @femiyahtzee.bsky.social

Nobody becomes estranged from their family because it's easy or fun. We do it to save our sanity and very possibly our lives.

What if the tendency to keep going back to turkey in spite of it being terrible, and the tendency to keep going back to the Orange Skull, in spite of him being terrible, are both coming up on a sea change?

Charlie Brown fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw nafeh Charlie Brown R'lyeh waga nagl fhtagn!

Part of the problem with finding a good thesaurus-- especially one that fills me in on how archaic a term is-- is that now I'm going to spend a lot more time second guessing choices between "heyday" and "efflorescence," "scrupulous" and "principled," and so on.

Be warned, Charlie Brown! All that is fantastic leagues against you!

Moonglum sighed. "Charlie Brown, this once? Let us not court the danger."

It is hilarious how long it took me to read the top line or spot the Prime sigil on the clown's forehead. Legend.

Farewell, Charlie Brown. I was a thousand times more evil than thou.

I’ve thought about this a lot and it is not my place to say but I’ve always found these words to be neutered by the “phobic” - hate is not a phobia. Phobia implies something that is out of a person’s control. Hate is evil and insidious and shouldn’t be watered down by mental health implications.