Never too early to get ready for the holidays!

Fuck you, jet lag, and fuck you, brain. Also, fuck a normal sleep schedule, I'm gonna take a nap.

Fell asleep at like 8pm to some mindless cable TV. Now wide awake with 6 hours before I gotta be up.. What else to do but paint my toes.

We were so close to being rid of all of the piles of snowcrete ... cc @capitalweather.bsky.social As seen from Gaithersburg

DC, I am in you.

Hair of the dog acquired.

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck.

Punish travelers b/c Trump is vindictive, incompetent, and malicious.

I swear to god this is the first time I've ever been uncomfortably WARM on a flight. I'm used to freezing my ass off, wtf.

Me, concerningly sober after a very large Mai Tai and an entire bottle of wine: I am too sober to be amongst normals rn.

anyways thinking about how elves in lotr aren't good at stuff just through magical luck and talent, but through centuries of practice, which means baby legolas spent like a hundred years mastering the art of sliding down staircases riding on top of random shit, and thranduil HATED EVERY MOMENT OF IT

Back on my (airport) bullshit

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

This is the kind of thing that sounds good when you don't think about it because if you think about it for more than two seconds you realize you now have to justify things like the on base daycare employees as "facilitating lethality".

*checks DC weather for tomorrow* Sigh. *Goes to pay for a second checked bag*

Men would rather hoard Allen keys than go to therapy

Overnight in South Korea the former President who led an insurrection was sentenced to life in prison and in the UK the former prince who was deeply involved with Epstein’s crimes was arrested. Here in America the only person in the world who shares both of those crimes, Trump, remains untouched.

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

Sigh... time to bring out the CENTCOM memes again

I have hit the "my brain is bees" level of overwhelm/overstimulation today. Chat, it's not fun.

It's also a ridiculous discourse because the very simple straightforward answer (that even the fuckin trumpers agree on) is it's a scenario we need to do everything in our power to continue to deter because if it goes down no matter which way it shakes out it's a bad day for everyone

🧵: I'm uniquely qualified to frisk this. From 2010 to 2014 I was the Cultural Advisor to the Commandant & Professor of National Security & Strategy at US Army War College & the Deputy to the Director of the US Army Culture & Foreign Language Directorate. I'll explain what that meant at the end. 1/

Honestly every time I plan a work trip to DC, there is seldom enough time to meet up with everyone I want to see or go to all the places to which I want to go. Also, rude that I have to pack an extra bag because where I live is Not Cold and DC right now is Cold.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Evidently, something was broken with the other link. So, here, I've written about the right-wing attacks on PME and civilian educational institutions. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

This post is … not sarcasm. It’s an accurate summary of the whole thing. It sadly is. This paragraph here? It’s not actually a paragraph. If you read it aloud, each phrase more cursed than the one before it, you’ll summon a Great Old One. And the paragraphs that follow are, somehow, crazier still.

Honey potting is such a wild concept to me, a nation’s only hope for a better future out the window just cause some dude was down bad

Hand is doing much better today - I'd say it's at about 90% functionality. Still tender in spots, but I was able to sweep the entire apartment AND chop up and freeze the last few good onions I had on the counter before they inevitably go bad during the week.

had a spidey sense an account was inauthentic a few days ago but couldn’t find any metadata tells right away, but someone just DM’d me to tell me they were on X spouting DEEPLY disturbing stuff So I just wanted to remind everyone one of the principles of malignant accounts: the 60-40 rule

it's funny in a way, but the rubio speech is an AI-quality imitation of an Obama speech, but with ethnonationalism replacing pluralism. It's as if the prompt were, "write me an obama speech but make it white supremacist." Hasn't been president in a decade but they're still biting

Yes, the stuff used to kill Navalny was a toxin. But the Novichok that nearly killed him before was not a toxin. Not everything that is poisonous is a "toxin"

This is Lil Cat. She’s in Mendocino. A little shy. VERY sweet. 8 years old. And was well loved. Can anyone give her a soft spot to land? That face! If not, can you share? www.mendocinohumane.org#sl_embed&pag...

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

I strongly discourage anyone doing what I did a few hours ago, which is drop a hot pan fresh out of the oven, and reflexively grab it with an ungloved hand. That's how you end up with 3 burned fingers on your dominant hand. 🥲 Luckily I know to run burns under fresh water and have lots of aloe gel.

Non-Minnesotans, be clear on this: the *one and only* thing they do is racial profiling. The *only* thing. Ask anyone here! If you look nonwhite, Latino particularly, ICE will target you. It’s really as simple as that

Anf the twitch stream in case you'd like to watch along www.twitch.tv/blarkytopia

Alright, Team SENSIBLE SHOES is firing up the stream again for Day 2 of Extra Life Overtime in support of the National Immigration Law Center. Join us for the shenanigans! tiltify.com/@blarkytopia...

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Commander Shepard: Do you know why I called you to my office? Tali: No. Commander Shepard: I got a HR complaint from Legion. He said you called him, and I quote, “A bitch ass clanker ChatGPT knockoff.” Tali: First of all, I’m not human and he’s just a resource…

I’m still trying to wade through the idea that the Epstein Files seems to have ended or threatened more careers outside of America than within. Different standards, clearly.

Phil and company are playing Shadows of Brimstone to raise money for the National Immigration Law Center. You know… they want to be tormented for a good cause… and there are good options in the fundraiser for tormenting them!

Some heroes wear backpacks. Yeah. I endorse a little violence.

A wild tank has appeared!

My HARD NIPS excitement was ruled too hardcore for the twitch stream. I think we’ve hit optimum inebriation & competence at the game for silliness. Still happily raising money for the NILC. tiltify.com/@blarkytopia...