so, no, i am not really interested in all of the bleats and pleads about how there are so many great people in the south, i grew up there and now the governor of texas is sending troops to portland to crack skulls, that is a clear enough fucking message from the south.

how do you make a deal with literal oathbreakers YOU FUCKING DON'T

You head out. Tired. Wet. Angry. You're ready to crack some heads. The protesters across the street are wearing big, inflatable animal costumes. Cute ones. You immediately picture what the TikTok of you beating on one of these people would look like. You miss your wife.

The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.

wizard frog is insane

Found the best reply to doomposting.

199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley

Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition. Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back

what. "It's okay if we were shriekingly racist because we warned them a few days in advance!" Note that the same ill treatment was not meted out to German-Americans. GFY, asshole.

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

well if ikea didn't want people to ride their furniture dolly like a longboard maybe they shouldn't have made it so fun! wheeeeeee

This isn't "one bad apple" shit. It never was. This isn't even a collection of rotten apples that has spoiled the other apples. They were never apples. The fruit was always poison. All of it.

*cough* *cough* Ahem. It's winter squash pie season, motherf*ckers!

I was in war-ravaged Portland and I decided to start a MASH unit so I could harass nurses and make arch one-liners.

If you politely mute when you aren't talking, it doesn't even matter if someone is scream meowing in the background of your zoom

I just had the last electrolysis session on my nethers! #thebigyeet

anyone who is trans in a deep blue state and thinks there is no difference between the parties should put their money where their mouth is and swap homes with a trans person in a blood red state who desperately wants the fuck out

The big monocrop export farms are doomed. A bailout is now nothing more than a bribe, and the bulk of the bribe will go to the big farms that don't need it. A bailout today is a bad idea. This is a time when they should live with the results of their own decisions.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

I'm gonna shamelessly cherry-pick this quote: "Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to." That's it right there.

Two "House"-holds, both alike in breakfast sweets, On Jerry's Bluesky, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge, break to new angry skeets, Where syrup drips make civil hands unclean.

“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, 1959 Vonnegut wrote about Dunning-Kruger effect literally 40 years before they proved it in the lab.

Today, I went out and got my Spiro prescription refilled for the last time every. #thebigyeet

Portland will not bend to Trumpism. We will not be shocked into compliance with his overtly racist, and violent attacks on our most vulnerable neighbors. We must get organized and refuse to allow his authoritarianism to be normalized in our city. Use your voice, be smart and safe, and stand strong.

The love shop is a wee auld place whaur We can get the gither Love shop bairn Ta 🎵

This Tom Lehrer filk sucks.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

One week to go #thebigyeet

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? @schumer.senate.gov ?

Why play The Floor is Lava when you could play The Floor is a Non-Newtonian Fluid?

Inside you are two wolves, they are called Following and Discover feed

There has actually been a whole wave of Zoomers making clever little surrealist films like this.

Portland solidarity from Chicago, I love it. www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...

soothing myself by designing aspirational house flags

I know this sounds cruel but the cold hard fact is we need to appeal to more voters if we want to win elections. That’s why I argue that we need to dispense with purity politics and accept candidates who want to ban Ezra Klein from receiving medical care.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

And I think she finds that intolerable. Because people who are ardent about their bigotry don’t see themselves as equal to other humans. They see themselves as superior. The thing about dehumanization is you have to acknowledge someone’s humanity, even tacitly, to take it away.

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

WHO JUST DOES THIS TO SOMEONE 😭 WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM

Still pondering Klein’s earnest and clueless “where is the line??” question on who should be allowed in the democratic tent. It’s a very simple answer: the line is human rights. Nobody is calling for the expulsion of a moderate democrat who believes in a conservative fiscal policy.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Scenes from the warzone #WarRavagedPortland

It's coded feminine and/or gay, and you don't want women and gay people to get their cooties all over your serious manly revolution for unsmiling fellows

A stand-in for this week's fruit pie. Sadly, the fruit season is running down in a hurry and I'm going to have to switch to squash pies (until the squash supply runs out and I have to dig the bags of frozen pie filling out from the basement freezer.)

Those are odd spellings for rogue & civ II ;-)

Monday Morning, 3 A.M.

Remember the golden age when you could just order something online, in those days before every two-bit UI developer got a terminal case of "Only Works On Internet Explorer" ? I do. It was really nice to be able to order pizza without talking to anyone, but, alas, those days are gone.