Conspiracy theory: there isn’t going to be the jet fuel to run these flights into the US soon anyway, and this saves face for it.

Unfortunately this story has spread to more mainstream outlets and comments are full of “I’m a liberal but people should stop moving here/this is a waste of tax dollars/why do they want special treatment.” As long as liberal cis society maintains this degree of apathy, the crisis will continue.

Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/

Mass Effect isn’t really an endorsement of the existence of extra-judicial super-cops because while playing as one you spend probably half your time cleaning up huge messes created by other extra-judicial super-cops.

A strap on one of my bras broke, which would be only mildly annoying if not for the fact that the dryer tore another one of my bras by twisting it into a super tight knot just a few days ago. Seriously what the heck?

This is the stuff of electoral suicide. You can kill half a million brown people abroad but that won't piss off voters nearly as much as turning up the How Much Stuff Costs dial.

I did a stint of political phone polling during Trump’s first term and unfortunately heard stuff like this on the regular. One guy once told me he opposed solar power decisions because he was worried about depleting the sun’s energy.

Starting Chapter 18 of The Persephone Effect and I’m reminded that anything I can imagine for Demeter is too good for her. That’s a fun character to hate, in the tradition of Joffrey Baratheon or Immortan Joe.

Got to the start of Chapter 3 of The Persephone Effect and am reminded of why watching Olympic-level (heh) women’s climbing competitions is hot as fuck sometimes.

God damn rock climbing is just unreasonably fun.

What a great surprise to come across my feed!

So much terrible fucking news and suffering, but damn it this is unambiguously cool as all hell and no one can convince me otherwise. I can scarcely imagine what that view must look like in person.

One Angry Man

Just finished Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns and wow, what an incredible piece of narrative nonfiction. I learned a lot -and- it made me cry at the end. That’s a precious combo, right there.

Everyone remembers that.

Misread the room.

I don't think trans people should be imprisoned for 5 years because they have to pee

It is somewhat darkly funny how Trump has bumbled into destroying fossil fuels as the world's main energy source and empowered China through its renewables manufacturing.

Oops I just pulled an all-nighter. Got a lot done, but gonna regret that later for sure. Someday I'll learn how to wrangle my ADHD so that I can hyperfocus like this when the sun is not on the other side of the planet. Someday.

Liberal politicians now in a flat-out race to become right-wing caricatures of liberalism and promise free stuff at absolutely zero cost to the vast majority of their voters. Promises that this is revenue neutral are about as believable as when Republicans claim the same about their tax cuts.

I genuinely think I was inoculated against this by 90’s era Star Trek, where competency, empathy, and decency were repeatedly shown to go hand in hand. Why be a Dr. House when you could be a Dax?

If this happened lots of them would absolutely end up with the neck of Kirk’s bust vandalized.

Oh they might bring back the draft? *laughs in tranny*

I performed on stage with Shania Twain when I was about 13 years old.

I had a liberal Boomer coworker tell me “Operation Epstein Fury” is working because “you’re not talking about the Epstein files anymore” and I damn near bit through my tongue.

Texas saw Kansas trying to claim the crown for “most clearly evil state government with respect to trans people” and couldn’t let that slide, apparently.

What kind of residents, HuffPost, or can you just not bring yourself to say “trans” in your headline? I fear the logic is “if people see the story is about trans people getting fucked over, they won’t give a shit and won’t click the link.”

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Normally my reaction to an old beloved franchise like Eva getting some kind of reboot is an eyeroll because the results are bad like 90% of the time, but I can’t lie, Yoko Taro at the helm has my attention.

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

I accidentally ended up on the Discover tab and over there there are still liberals suggesting that Trump is doing everything he’s doing at Putin’s behest. I can’t even.

Fuck that’s about one block away from a spot I used to hang out at all the time.

Only the most extreme reasons (e.g. active war, pandemic) should be allowed to halt free movement of people. It ought to be the default right of human beings.

The extortion of Zelensky that got Trump impeached in 2019 honestly pales in comparison to the threats he’s currently leveling over Greenland. We are miles past guardrails that still existed only two years’ worth of Trump presidency ago.

Least Hitlerite Republican group chat.

Going to time travel to 1940 and tell FDR that the US is so insane the world including Canada France and UK is cheering Germany sending forces to Greenland - and watch him personally castrate Fred Trump

Executive dysfunction sure is a fuck sometimes.

Even in the fictional scenario where an ICE agent is facing a car determined to run them over, shooting straight through the windshield does nothing to stop the car (it accelerated when Good slumped onto the gas!). Even their attempted justification makes no sense.

Sometimes it’s really a detriment to my happiness that I don’t believe that hell exists.

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

I’m struck by the choice of “adapts,” implying that a rapidly increasing wealth gap is an inevitability with no alternative.

Just finished Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. Overall excellent and challenging in a good way. I see why it gets as much praise as it does. My one complaint is the tragically common “holy crap the female characters are all so one-dimensional.”

The most plausible version for events WRT Epstein’s death has always been “you know this only gets worse for you from here, the world’s most notorious pedophile now in federal prison, so we’re gonna make sure you’re unguarded and then you do what you know you need to do.”

makes you wonder the extent to which the loser behavior of a lot of Democratic electeds is just downstream of the loser behavior of apparently a bunch of Democratic voters

I have been blissfully unaware of Jimmy Dore for at least a year but apparently these days he’s basically indistinguishable from Nick Fuentes in terms of how he talks about “Zionists.” Absolutely disgusting.

“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?” Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...

FUNKO IS DYING RETWEET TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER

It is the stage of autumn when the hunt for coziness leads me to upgrade from one blanket to two blankets.