I think it’s cool that democratic messaging relies on “percentages that you agree with” instead of the actual issues that make up those percentages like protecting trans people or not doing genocide or universal health care or childcare. That 10% is the most important stuff and also how you win

cutting an ad campaign for galactic senate. military bonafides will assure conservative coruscantians

This is the one and only movie I ever rented from a gas station back when everyone was dipping toes in VHS rentals. I do not remember a thing about it.

Family members have yelled at me in anger that it’s my Christian duty to support this.

Bright as Yellow might secretly be the best song on the Empire Records soundtrack

We were talking about childhood hobbies and the strength of the obsession I had with UFOs starting in kindergarten was both surprising and endearing to Adri. I kinda got over it for a bit in high school after the X-Files blew up but I’ve never fully shed it.

Either this vape is weak or I’ve had too much coffee and allergy meds today for it to be effective.

It’s a backwards old document, unfit for a modern society

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

I’ve been on a big Spacemen 3 kick lately. Transparent Radiation is great.

Beyond the debate of whether serving in the military is moral or not, a thing I keep chewing on is that the difference between being at sea on a ship and being in a prison is really thin once living conditions deteriorate.

Foundational entry in the “making up a guy to get mad at” genre.

Funny how “I’ve known them from 20 years” from “we were in grade school” to “from college” to “from an old job” and/or “met them on a forum in my youth or young adulthood.”

Details from the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer • Ian McKellen talks to a tennis ball to give him an eyeline • Steve Rogers tells Sam Wilson he can be ‘Black Captain America’ if he wants to keep the job • Shang Chi tells off Scorsese • The Russo Brothers tell off Scorsese

I am Spartacus!

I’m a History major so answering science questions for the kid gave me a headache (she’s pretty cute and has gotten really good at asking questions and even follow up questions)

Holy shit, @marlo.ooo check this guy out

It was just a matter of time before the US did Battleship Potemkin. IIRC, service members are guaranteed a certain number of calories a day when they sign up. Seems bad when the military can’t meet basic contract requirements!

The kid has gotten really good at asking questions so I have been trying to explain germs, volcanoes, helium balloons and space aliens for about 30 minutes.

62 MILLION and they’re out anonymously wandering the streets; in your neighborhoods, workplaces or churches. Absolutely terrifying.

Sounds like Bug Hall might be into some SovCit flavored nonsense on top of the weird, abusive religious extremism.

Clarence Thomas always looks like his clothes are uncomfortable, even in shots where he’s smiling. Like he’s having a good time but also his collar is stiff and itchy. Anyway, fuck that guy. When he dies his rich weirdo patrons will probably study his skull with golden calipers or something.

TMZDC might be fun for a few things but all the real dirt on politicians was cultivated and is hidden by much scarier people than they want to mess with.

Kacey Musgraves is UFOpilled, orbmaxxing on an airplane. I like this.

I thought we were headed out to a watch party at an icehouse tonight but we’re not. I was looking forward to it, but now I’m equally happy about staying in.

DTF St. Louis kinda botched the landing. I enjoyed spending time with all those characters even as the main plot stopped being interesting. Someone get Steven Conrad back on Patriot.

Everyone here is overly familiar with the Nazi bar analogy. If 8 people at the bar are "doing fine" and 2 people are destitute and suffering then you live in a society of destitution and suffering.

I saw a pretty pale guy my age with hair equally salt and peppery as mine but he had it in an Edgar cut. It was kinda weird to see.

Also, at the time when I drank the Four Loco an entire bottle of wine and a whole pot of coffee was sort of the average Thursday night kickoff for the weekend. Who knows?

The only time I drank one my friend and got really excited about building stuff out of lumber and otherwise it was a pretty unremarkable night of drinking. I do suspect that downing it in a room dense with pot smoke might have taken some of the edge off, though.

I’ve taken my chances with tractor diesel from the farm twice.

oh wow it looks like anthropology made a coffee shop.

Those allegations about Katy Perry sound 100% like something she would have done back then.

My daily driver mug. My two best friends in New Mexico have identical mugs.

(Yes, I know the Fremen are Zensunni Wanderers)

Frank Herbert, in 1965:

this was one of the best days on twitter

It is not lost on me that as soon as Trump started looking for an off-ramp in Iran the Epstein drum started beating again. He’s so compromised his handlers have his own wife leveraged against him.

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

The kid’s sleep cycle got wonky so I’ve kept her up and active all day with no nap to try and get it back. One of us is running out of steam, the other one is screaming like a banshee on the slide at McDonalds.

“Went out quiet, like a cowboy” is the killer line for me. It’s like prime-era DadBoner.

Our usual park was closed today so we’re at OP Schnabel and I forgot how cool this one is.

(Just to be clear, the US and our client state Israel are the ones endangering the entire world and must be contained and disarmed.)

No one in this car will take Grandpa’s keys so he is just going to keep mowing down pedestrians while gunning it for the cliff.

RIP Asha Bhosle, legend of music. Long before she was made famous in the west thanks to Cornershop, her honeyed voice lit up Bollywood classics, including this masterclass in sensual poetry: youtu.be/pwsjRraWgdA?...

We took the kid to Disney on Ice. She seemed to enjoy it (its always hard to tell what makes a big impression right away.) The big finale show stopper was Moana 2 and all those songs hit with a thud. Come back Lin-Manuel, we’ll try to be nice.

related: podracing is fucking awesome

I love George Lucas’ insistence that all robots are just some guys, but the background robots are the most just some guys of them all.

A detail of Christina Hendrick’s DJ set that I forget is that the Slowdive track she played was from Pygmalion. Wild!

I successfully handled two kid meltdowns this afternoon, the second of which was an all-timer in a store. I think I handled that one better because she was so happy and cuddly by the time we were in the parking lot.