Yo quiero contact tracing

I love niche fandom conventions: where else do you get stories about people making vids of Kirk & Spock eyefucking out of cutting room floor film stips bought at Gene Roddenberry's grarge sale in 1972? (Slight exaggeration, but cue "What I did for Love" and the tech to make Starsky & Hutch vids)

The post-Trump MAGA civil war is going to be fought over whether they hate Muslims more or Jews more.

ICE is hiring violent, mentally ill wife-beaters and handing them guns and badges. But a fast casual dining chain recently sent me a flyer about its “plant-based” menu. I have never felt more politically homeless.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

New cryptid

Did you know there was actually a photoshoot of Susan Collins bathing him as a baby

Rather than judge rich people for their parenting, or give a rich woman grief for doing as little as her husband- I'm just going to point out the joys of skipping the whole thing all together. Can't be a bad parent if you don't he kids.

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

been participating in a two-chapters-a-week Count of Monte Cristo slow roll book club and this week I'm temporarily switching from the penguin to the Project Gutenberg copy which has some truly incredible illustrations

Honest to God, chapter 100 paragraph 38. Herman Melville would have loved the internet.

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

I shall go to my grave exceedingly smug that I am the person who got to explain about hyena genitals to Chuck Palahniuk.

I'm dying at the crumbl cookie drinks. They have so much sugar in them that it's an equivalent of eating like over a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts and people are like "WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS" And I'm like "ITS BECAUSE MORMONS AREN'T ALLOWED TO DO DRUGS"

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

There really is a Noble Savage attitude among some American liberals and leftists towards white red state voters, yeah.

Same vibe

15 minutes later: I have on makeup and second best wig. I have foreword a bra. I am good for the evening.

The curse of online conventions: i feel the burning need for hair/makeup when on camera. Currently, that is not my set up

Sorry, liberals but the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is every bit as platonic and heterosexual as the one between Maverick and Iceman.

The only problem with the movie Network is that I am 3.5 min in and it isnt cynical enough. It wasnt thinking big enough for the world of 24 hour news and cable TV. Sure, sure it was 1975. But still

Terrible air in DC AQI like 225. Wearing sandals, tank top, short shorts and a mask. Its a second tier Kn95, that doesn't fit well enough to stop a virus but is just fine for going house/car/cvs/car/house. Surprised by number of people out in this mess.

I am so very pleased to announce that my story, Takahata-fudo, is now out from Escape Pod! This story is my tribute to some of the less-touristy parts of Tokyo, and it could, if you squint, be considered part of the greater universe of the Shelter Trilogy.

JK Rowling is not only an anti-rights bigot, she's a litigation terrorist, and I can safely say that because the US specifically passed a law to shield its citizens from legal terrorism of the type she engages in

Verdict: dealing with my first UTI: I would rather break my foot again. 100% better experience. Also, decision to nope the fuck out of any sort of pregnancy or giving birth? Best life choice ever, based on my reaction to this alone.

"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"

like was it “bad” when there could only be a dozen rock stars at any one time and the corporate media was fully heinous to whichever young actress had been anointed hollywood’s next golden goose? yes of course. but nobody back then ever tried to make me care about baby xo and jelly roll’s divorce

Air Quality Index on my weather app currently just says "it looks like The French Connection outside."

I am absolutely certain that PINE, Usenet, and the makers of my 2400 band modem are going to contribute mightily to a settlement. I do know a class action attorney. But this sis some sinister shit that seems to be begging maga tinted boys to apply.

i need a future where "i worked for ice" is like saying "i fought for the nazis" in 1947

Trump's Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton sat thuggishly in his confirmation hearing, refusing to answer who won the 2020 election. If Democrats do not immediately confirm him to replace thuggish, election denying Bill Pulte, they will have blood on their hands.

Lindsey Graham to be buried near service entrance of Trump's Virginia golf course.

I may have just suggested that the rest thing for my organization to do was to buy out a competitor. Just give them $$ and takeover the program. I feel sooo corporate

I have what is my first UTI. Took a couple of days to figure out the issue. Holy fuck is this miserable. Instructions talk about having 3 or more in six months. If i get another in the next six years I will murder. I see how this sets off dementia patients. Ugh ugh ugh

The “to die by your side well the pleasure and the privilege is mine” line from There is a Light That Never Goes Out but it’s about getting a Crunchwrap supreme on a BOGO deal for lunch

This guy definitely calls it “the war of northern aggression.”

Doctors say that cyclospora can cause explosive diarrhea. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and brings raccoon penises home for "further study" says that cyclospora cures autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Hill I will die on: It is not -your- non-profit. The goal should not be a revenue stream great enough to allow you to quit your job and work for the start up nonprofit. I dont care about the mission, that's a consulting firm by another name. Non-profit belongs to board, members, public. Not you.

For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Yes, the long calm was departing. A low advancing hum was soon heard

These two are basically the same character. I will not be taking questions.

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The uncanny valley effect here is that since sex bots were the first and most advanced version of mouth opening near humaniod robots? Every single on of these bots is just gonna look like a sexbot, and specialized pornography of the 'hot for robot teacher' variety will exist in seconds.

Anne Rice didn't C&D half the 90s internet for you to smush name. Louis/Lestat or Lestat/Louis. Pick your own fight about topping.

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

I had forgotten Rudy was still alive. At least I am home and have my 4 Seasons Total Landscaping shirt for when he pops his clogs.