Why the fuck are Democrats confirming this despot's judges. Why are Democrats giving a single fucking inch on anything, while he is waging war on our country? Be. A. Fucking. Opposition. Party.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

"Just use a VPN" Yeah well, they're coming for that too, now--

I played, at best guess, 12+ hours of Stardew Valley this weekend. Time well spent, for mental health reasons.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Woke up this morning with a sore throat and feeling more bleh than usual. Fingers crossed it's just allergy-related. But I shall be isolating this weekend and taking regular covid tests to be sure.

This week's Friday Night Movie is...the rest of last week's that I never finished.

This is why it's 100% worth the pain and chaos of keeping the govt shut down until the subsidies are reinstated. Dems need to hold the line until everybody realizes this is what's happening.

No lies detected.

Me: I really need to cut back my salt intake. Also me: [hoovers a bag of Fritos as an afternoon snack]

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

An alien fleet appeared in Earth's orbit, and broadcast a message: "Having studied you furtively, we now seek formal contact, and want to meet your greatest thinkers..." A long list followed. "How do we tell them?" world leaders wondered. Topping the list were the names Calvin and Calvin's Dad.

The Xennial ethos is knowing that "Golden Girls-ing It" is a legitimate retirement plan. And by "legitimate" I mean "only remotely viable."

This week's Friday Night Movie is the 1997 classic, Scream 2.

It’s National Coming Out Day Eve. Be sure to leave poppers, the COMPANY! Original Cast Album, a copy of the 1978 Jill Clayburgh vehicle AN UNMARRIED WOMAN and a flattering light jacket that’s perfect for this time of year by the closet door tonight. Oh and a kale salad for the reinqueer.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Finished a book today that frankly annoyed me. It has rave reviews and is highly rated, but it left me really irritated. My biggest beef is that the protagonist has no agency with respect to the plot.

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

This is a long-ish read, but it's worth it to understand what's going on and just how badly BSky's "leadership" is shitting the bed right now.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

The best part of weekends is getting to do the Stay In Bed Until Your Body Decides To Wake Up On Its Own challenge. Which apparently was ~9am both yesterday and today.

Forgot to post last night, but this week's Friday Night Movie was The Naked Gun. (The new, Liam Neeson / Pam Anderson one). Verdict: it did exactly what it was supposed to do - deliver a bunch of really stupid jokes that made me laugh.

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

Pour one* out for a legend. *A nice cup of tea. In the *good* china, Richard. We musn't have people thinking we're lower class.

Yes. This.

Begging literally any Democrat to go on mainstream news and say, "Republicans want to kill poor people."

Listening to Pearl Jam's 1991 album "Ten" for the first time in.... probably ~20 years. Yowza the way this is bringing back all that teen angst I had when it was released and I had the CD on endless repeat in my bedroom while doing my homework.

Happy Pumpkin Pi season! Obligatory annual reminder: magnets of this strip are available at store.foxtrot.com if you're interested…

Yessss! Let's do it!

Nick’s right. It’s abs and speedos vs. cider and donuts. Rise, my layered sisters. Swaddle yourselves in rollneck cardigans. Summon servants to feed you Stilton, apples and walnuts. Swap out the clear liquor for the brown. Watch Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies. The time is ours.

Adding to this: go visit your Local Indie Bookseller next week. There's a very good chance they'll have a Banned Books display set up. There's probably something on that display you'll like. Buy it if you have the means.

Fucken Chuck Schumer is in charge of the body of legislators who could possibly fight to keep me alive, and writing strongly worded letters to a fucking illiterate octogenarian. Meanwhile fucken Brad Lander is out there every day in NYC absolutely daring ICE to kill him on live tv.

Every month I write a vaguely "science"-themed pun on my office door (the door is frosted glass). This month's pun is: Spiders and snakes are a vital part of the EEK-o-system.

Umm, yes, hello. It's spooky lake month! (IYKYK)

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

there is no fear in America that informs policy so profoundly as the terror that we might accidentally afford someone human rights or dignity without first determining that they have earned those things; and, by extension, the idea that those things must be earned.

Is Monday. I started my week by repeatedly mashing the snooze button for nearly three hours. 😬😴

Meanwhile, I'm spending the afternoon chilling and listening to the new Kylie (Live From The Tension Tour).

No such thing as an AI actress, writer, dancer, or any other word referring to people.

I cleaned the filter in my dishwasher today for the first time since it was installed...several years ago. I have now seen things that would make Lovecraft flee in horror. 😬

In tangentially related news, I impulse bought a box of Kirkland brand frozen pepperoni pizzas. No idea if they're any good, but I'm making one for lunch so I'll know soon enough.

What is it about Costco* that causes people's spatial awareness to just vanish? Everybody's just in their own little world, oblivious to anything around to them. *Also applies to grocery stores in general, but it seems especially pronounced at Costco.

Dreamt last night that I could fly. And that I was flying around and amongst office buildings...which were for some reason floating in the sky. Then a manager tried to revoke my flying permission so I quickly dove off the sidewalk before it could be turned off.

This week's Friday Night Movie was Mission Impossible 3. It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected! Certainly not great, but better than 2 was. Curious to see how they write out the wife in the next one. Perhaps the Austin Powers route where she was a Fembot all along?

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

Next dilemma: what do I want for dinner tonight? Thai, Mexican, Indian, pizza, or kebab?