[reading bell hooks, learning about how men are both guard and inmate in the prison of patriarchy, how we constantly, subtly reward and punish each other's performance of a very specific type of masculinity, how deeply we can wound each other this way] I'm gonna weaponize this against maga chuds

I was out seeing some friends' bands play and talking to some other friends and in my mind I thought "I have to use the restroom but there's probably a line" however what I said out loud was "I'm gonna go see if there's an open hole". other than that I think I did a pretty good job of being normal.

O Dallas, you shine with an evil light Don't you know that God stays up all night?

at my work we salvaged this door on which someone painted a delightful little chickadee

is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?

thinking about all the revolutions and dictatorships I've read about and thinking about how fast 20 years happens in a history book and how long 20 years takes when you're living it

jack daniels can be classified as either bourbon or whiskey, since bourbon and whiskey are simply different names for identical products

bananal? bananal.

when I was a kid in Stewartville MN there was a park at the end of my street; on the other side of the park was the Root River surrounded by a forest where me and my friends spent many days exploring, playing, fishing, biking, building treehouses. real Norman Rockwell shit. it was wonderful.

Trevor Lawrence has the face of a guy who's really good at rollerblading

coming around on the idea that a politician is a type of cop

[doesn’t even blink] two princes by the spin doctors

sorry for madisonposting but I'm standing outside a bar on willy st and just overheard an expensively-dressed young woman as she was walking by say to her friend "no but actually I feel like willy st is actually like lowkey a hidden gem"

🦄 Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1895-1914 [Source]

back in my day we knew how to do nostalgia right. real wistful. not like these damn kids now. hell maybe we just had better things to be nostalgic about.

don’t think i’ll ever stop thinking about jd vance talking about garden state on his livejournal

maybe they don't have the votes to impeach but they could at least talk about it in a way that would severely raise the blood pressure and heart rate of a fragile, ailing old man

one good reason to grow a beard is you can procrastinate trimming it until it looks really scruffy and shitty and then when you finally clean it up you get to look in the mirror and be like wow maybe I'm younger and handsomer than I thought I was

this image appeared to me in a vision the moment I woke up this morning. happy new year.

a lot more crows than usual in my neighborhood today, and they're cawing and flying around more than usual. does anyone know how to tell whether this behavior is due to a turf war, or is it more likely to be some sort of an Omen?

my new year's resolution is to be meaner to people who care about whether the food at a taco shop in the midwest is "authentic"

My senator, @baldwin.senate.gov , rarely makes headlines or appears on the talking head shows. But based on her voting record this year, and her silence on the cruelties committed by the current administration, it's fair to view her as the same type of right wing democrat as Fetterman or Sinema.

I doubt I have any blatant transphobes following me but I suspect there are a few who "just have concerns" about youth sports, bathrooms, gender-affirming care for kids, etc. You've been courteously holding the door open for the violent bigots, and you have blood on your hands just like they do.

once again I'm in Elkhorn and angry about its name

I'm the guy who chooses the font size for the cooking instructions on the frozen pizza label. I make sure the only information you care about is the hardest to find and to read. fuck you.

haven't heard the word "ganked" in a long time. more proof that crime is down despite what the fearmongers would have you believe.

I know nothing about warhammer except it's a game that requires you to handpaint hundreds of tiny figurines. but everyone who posts about it is also a writer and poscaster and has a day job and posts 90 times a day. my question is how did you convince your doctor to prescribe you that much adderall?

my grandmother died 3 years ago. she was the most important person in my life. if I hadn't had her love, guidance, and wisdom as a youngster, I'd be, at best, a much worse person; at worst, dead. I miss her every day. the monsters who are trying to sell this bullshit should be drawn and quartered.

they are inventing machines that ruin everything when they could be inventing a self-cleaning french press

just overheard an old farmer-type guy with a thick wisconsin accent talking on the phone to another old guy and he ended the call by saying "alright buddy, see ya next week, don't take any crypto coin"

soft ICE boys vs the organized resistance infrastructure that's been maintained since the George Floyd protests + the brutal Minnesota winter. Napoleon at least had some good soldiers when he began his invasion of Russia.

yes I'm addicted to cigarettes but more importantly I'm addicted to stopping whatever I'm doing every 1.5-2 hours to go be alone outside for 5-10 minutes

I'm watching The Diplomat and it follows a common pattern that pisses me off every time Season 1: this is a show about interesting characters in extraordinary circumstances Season 3: this is a show about a married couple arguing

my most annoying take is that bad weather is good for us. obviously I don't want anyone to get hurt or have their home destroyed by a hurricane, but a good snowstorm should remind us that, although our insulated, indoor lives give us comfort, we don't have any real power over nature.

does anyone have a solution to the thing where I think I'm in a good band and we make good music and people might like it and then I remember about Nina Simone and I'm like why would you listen to this bullshit when you could be listening to Nina Simone

got too high and used the word "antipodes" in what was until that moment a casual conversation

bars

there's no way to properly describe this with words. but the best open mic performance I ever saw was a couple of guys expertly playing Mr Jones by Counting Crows, one of them singing it with a heavy sarcastic irony bordering on mockery and the other with an almost religious level of sincerity.

I hate being a customer. I hate doing that to someone who's just trying to get through their workday. Makes me feel like a class traitor.

unexpected event (Batman)

tried watching the new ken burns but could only handle 15 minutes of "the genocide of the native people of this continent stands as a stark reminder of the sacrifices made by the oppressed, wealthy slaveowners who would go on to invent the greatest kind of freedom the world has ever known: america"

I'm thinking about whether any nomadic herding cultures ever had cats. I guess probably not very much? But imagine a little cat trotting alongside his people while they move their goats to winter pasture. Or maybe sleeping on a sack of barley in a wagon. That's nice to think about.

Can anyone recommend some good writing about how we (European/American colonizers) talk about "nature" as a separate thing from "civilization"/the human-built world, and the history of that way of thinking? Been reading some stuff that touches on that, now I'd like something that focuses on it.

I got my 2nd best ever Immaculate Grid score while standing in line for the bathroom at the diy punk house show

my friend who is approximately 35 years old recorded a band whose members are all like 23 years old. he's sitting in on guitar with them tonight at a diy house show where I assume everyone else will be 23. I'm going with our friend who is 30, which is already geriatric to a 23 yo. I'm 45.

causing a massive collective eyeroll throughout the local diy punk scene by starting a band called DM For Address

republicans believe poor people deserve to suffer because they're lazy and weak, whereas the democrats have a much lengthier explanation

it's a shame that we never got to see Ryan Hanigan, Joel Hanrahan, and Jack Hannahan on the same team together

hey @doriskgoodwin.bsky.social is Donald Trump the first US president to perform fellatio on another US president?