Find soap. Find a weapon (I’m thinking axe). If in Europe/ “Christendom”: Try to avoid convictions for witchcraft & heresy. Consider taking over Iberian peninsula. If in Americas: warn everyone about white ppl (other than me). If in Africa: ditto. Oceania: same. Non-xian Asia: look for math job

Apparently, I had a great great uncle who was a doctor, who also used to eat half a quart of ice cream right out of the container every single day. They would always ask him “Should you really be doing that?” And he would just say “I’m a doctor.”

When I lived in New York, I also used to go to a doctor who I would always see smoking outside of the building, or eating a burger and fries at the Bareburger around the corner. That guy fucking ruled. I miss him. Last time I saw him he told me proudly that he’d stopped smoking and only vaped now.

It's true that race is a social construct and what is considered white changes as in groups and out groups change. That doesn't make it not real, it just means that *every* group that has the potential to become an outgroup also has the potential to be targeted by the state.

This out of context billboard my brother drove past in South Louisiana remains undefeated

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

I'm increasingly coming around to the idea that the answer to the question, "How can you run a reasonably successful democracy in the face of an artificially empowered psychotic reactionary minority?" is: you can't.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

True AND! this is true of most (maybe all??) movies that used skeletons, unless CGI made it cheaper. Real skeletons are easier and MUCH cheaper to obtain and use than fake ones.

Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed by The Terminator, The Xenomorph (Alien) and The Predator

Willy Wonka: It was Wilder’s idea to come out limping and fall into a forward roll when greeting the winners. He told Brooks that by doing so, it it establishes Wonka as someone from which a surprise is always possible

Jeremy Irons on why he was in the Dungeons & Dragons movie from 2000: "Are you kidding? I'd just bought a castle. I had to pay for it somehow.”

I hope Megatron grows to her full potential* and achieves her fully actualized self** *900 feet tall, breathes fire, nuclear proof shell **Destroys washington DC in a sea of hellfire and rage

In the last act of SCREAM, Skeet Ulrich was supposed to have an angry phone conversation and slam the phone down. His hands were covered in fake blood, so the receiver slipped out of his hands and nailed Matthew Lillard in the face. Lillard's "you hit me with the fucking PHONE, dick," is real.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words, which feels a bit passive-aggressive.

About 10 years ago on Twitter, I said that it seemed that all the asshole BMW drivers were now driving Teslas, and a Tesla guy accused me of “spreading hate.” Dude, you drive an $80,000 car, being douchey does not permit you to consider yourself part of an underclass.

If you're unfamiliar with Callisto, what it does and how it does it, I wrote about the org last year. www.moryan.com/sending-up-t... Things are better than back then -- but of course, in this environment, all donations are much appreciated. SUPER appreciate spreading the word about the org too! 💚 🔥

I genuinely don't understand the psychology of sports betting. Gambling is bad enough if you understand statistics, betting on whether five to eleven people are faster/meaner/better than five to eleven other people with deep pixel-peeping granularity feels even worse, look I need to keep my money

Why isn’t this photo everywhere? I am seeing it for the first time today and I have never been more disappointed in the internet. This should be mandatory. Like first you post “hello world,” then by your fifth post you put this photo OR ELSE

cville's business class acts like our unhoused population is some kind of national emergency, meanwhile I'm alone downtown last night when a guy asks for cash, then says "no worries, and by the way your energy is beautiful."

Sotomayor & KBJ quoted a bunch of Trump's racist statements to the DOJ lawyer yesterday like Doesn't this show that the policies are driven by unconstitutional racial animus and dude really said no bc they didnt mention race KBJ was like So it needs an epithet?? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

Unicorns stomp on the food to grind it down

It is also, as some in my replies have noted, a gateway drug into full health woo woo stuff, which is in turn often a pipeline into the far-right, as I wrote for the Guardian a few years back. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.

people have suggested that all the food additives are why Americans tend to be fatter than people from Europe or Asia 1) most food additives are the refined versions of things we've used for sometimes thousands of years, just with a systematic chemical name 2) old cities are built for walking

If by “mob” you mean “diner staff” and if by “kill” you mean “the guy at table six doesn’t want a BLT after all”

The funniest VRA takes are the people who think it’s only going to affect the South, as if black folks (and other minorities) have historically been allowed to set up little peaceful regimes with equal representation and free pop tarts elsewhere

I'm going to be shouting out Black southern fiction you need to read. Because not in this house are we going to be hating on the south neglecting it as a home of Black folks & our culture. I will start with my own debut novel. This posting project continues as I have time & until I run out of steam.

I don't even like cheetos but I may buy some out of spite SPITE CHEETOS is my rapper name. It makes it clear that I'm one of the shitty white* rappers like [REDACTED] who broke out in the 2010s but is somehow famous anyway *I'm white so it's fine

I got blocked by Shaun King before it was cool

(at wedding last weekend) SON: I was talking to a guy named Balthazar. ME: That’s a rare name. What’s he all about? SON: He’s a gargoyle perched on a doorway. ME: I’m glad they invited demons.

"Able bodied seniors" is supposed to be an oxymoron.

sorry I just have a lot of feelings about this processed-food nonsense all of them are angry

idk why "ultraprocessed" foods are on here again but allow me to say: - there is no agreed-upon scientific definition of "ultraprocessed" (or, really, "processed")--and certainly not a useful one. - whatever one you personally like is the one that best suits your prejudices.

salt is a preservative that allows things to have a longer shelf life. ultra processed means NOTHING. Literally nothing.

Contractors filed 60 lawsuits against Trump for stiffing them. At least 200 liens were filed against his businesses by contractors or employees. The Department of Labor cited his businesses dozens of times for failing to pay minimum wage. So yes, he understands their pain because he caused it.

I have chosen violence.

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

SCOTUS: "iT' nOT aBoUt raCe." Louisiana Republicans: "It is now illegal for Black people to hold elected office."

I want congestion pricing in Boston so bad. And I want that money to go to public transit. (Downtown isn't big enough. It's also gotta cover Chinatown and the North End, at least.) I would love to see it in Cambridge as well.

This is good stuff, especially this part. Strong editorial in favor of congestion pricing.

this is a dragon. I am not taking contrary opinions at this time

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

it makes the cows pretty mad and the skin is real tough but it's the best way i can make sure i'm not getting processed foods

They really went off the deep end about that.

I would not have guessed that we didn't reach racial parity in voter registration until *2010*

Why did I think the photo was Kurt Loder at first lol

One of the volunteers today is a bookseller. He spends half his time or less working, and the rest of it scoping out books to buy when the sale opens. He also steals a map of the sale every time. I want to scream at him.