People need to stop giving fucking Nazis the benefit of the doubt.

Me: It's finally cool enough and not-raining enough to open the windows! Elsewhere:

There is no such thing as redemption. You can't undo the past, wipe the slate clean. You can become a better person, or seek forgiveness or restoration, but you've done what you've done, and nothing can erase your mistakes or misdeeds. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

...The Aristocrats!

- Fish and chips were a) based on "fish fried Jewish fashion" and b) first sold together by a European Jewish immigrant - Pies are ancient Egyptian - Pasties are Cornish - Scones are Scottish - Nothing in a full "English" breakfast is uniquely English. Even black pudding is also Irish.

In this culture of effectively useless and conflict-avoiding protest resignations, resigning without even a protest is the kind of laser focus on personal annoyance as the only meaningful standard that I've come to expect from mainstream media. 🧐

This will be meaningless to anyone other than me, but if my brain fixes itself and I can write again... 1) rust and broken concrete 2) cinnamon and antiseptic 3) dew on milkweed and the dust of butterfly wings 4) hydrogen and time

I just saw a since-deleted post saying we can't fix things unless we abolish the presidency, and I wish I could communicate to these people how harmful it is to say to a large following, "We are completely and forever doomed unless we all make magical unicorns burst from our foreheads like Athena."

Did Immortan Joe write this? 🧐 "Citizens! Do not become addicted to coffee! It will take hold of you, and you will resent the tariffs which bring about its absence! It has no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes!"

This is hilarious, but I just want to point out that vanilla is used in many meat dishes worldwide. Just not like a cup of extract dumped over your hamburger. 🧐🤢

I still remember my childhood phone number. And if I weren't already living amongst the piles of mummies in the museum basement, I would be headed there now.

There are many, but the correct replacement is Indigenous Peoples' Day. I'm Italian, and very uncomfortable with the idea of replacing Columbus (🤮) Day with a day honoring someone from the community which has fought to preserve that evil legacy. We've fucked up. We don't get to keep this one.

Good thread, and this part is particularly amusing to me because this poster hung in my high school art classroom until a "concerned parent" had a fit and the teacher had to take it down. (Or that's what I heard happened to it, I did not perform a full investigation to confirm the details.)

Alan Turing was a gay man the British government tortured until he died by suicide. I've never heard anyone claim he invented the computer before this article. History is not a zero-sum game, you don't have to tear down one person to honor another, and I'm skeptical of anyone who thinks you do.

She asked ChatGPT, "is he using you right now to figure out how to respond to me?" and it finked on him. (Obviously if she had really done that it would have said no, then when she asked if it were sure it would have apologized and provided a recipe for blueberry cobbler with ammonia and bleach.)

Not exactly *from* anywhere, but I've lived in Coeur d'Alene ("pronounce it just like it looks"), which was near Spokane and not too far from Puyallup and Boise. Also Frederick, near Baltimore. And you'd be surprised how many people manage to mangle Miami. 🤷‍♂️

-- RECOVERED EMAIL -- June 29, 1937 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Buzz the fish! You saw those dolphins today, right? Jumping up and doing flips? Cheeky beggars. You should buzz them tomorrow! I could take pictures! Come on! Buzz the fish! Buzz! The! Fish!

It's interesting that if a vegetation starts speaking openly about their reasons for being vegetarian, they're often called militant and yelled at, but if a meat eater starts speaking openly and proudly about not just food but specifically killing animals, they're often praised. Interesting. 🧐

Why I don't donate to NPR any more, Exhibit 3,794,813. 🧐

Holy crap, they can't even keep their lies straight.

This is rank antisemitism, even as a pretext. You can't (claim to) suspend a Jewish person for accurately describing Evangelical eschatology! Even if everyone knows it's retaliation for disagreeing with the increasingly unreliable CEO, obfuscating with "I'm not petulant I'm antisemitic" is worse.

The number of people espousing a belief has no bearing on the validity of that belief. Fifty thousand Frenchmen can be wrong. See also, Captain America, "no, you move." Pinsker's a fuckwit, though.

People generally know what is good and what is bad. Almost every time and place I know of that has had slavery has had abolitionists and pro-slavery "thinkers" absolutely desperate to twist logic to support what they knew to be insupportable. Slavery is evil, and every enslaver has always known it.

This is true... And it's why the Democrats have such low approval. People who are not motivated by jealousy and hate actually do want to give free health care without checking first to see where someone was born.

It's super extra smart to turn books into allergens, right? 🧐

Parents are letting little kids drink asbestos and lead paint smoothies. Are they wrong?

OK, but why did they choose two dogs who don't look alike? 🧐

I'm Italian-American. My traditional values are that pasta is good, we should hug our loved ones more, and it's OK for friends and family to yell at each other as long as everyone forgets what they were upset about five minutes later.

I'm ready for the push to eat more tofu! Or, dare I suggest: Patriot Curd!

This fucking vile state government...

I'm watching A Fish Called Wanda with the folks, and there's a scene in which Kevin Kline rolls backward out of lotus position into an hilariously overblown ready stance, and I just snorted my coffee because in my misspent youth I had a friend who would do exactly that, but seriously.

I know this isn't exactly important at this moment, but GBBO is proving the US needs to slightly recolonize Britain. Just enough that "flapjack" means the same thing there as it does here. Those oat bars or whatever don't even flap. 🧐

Millie is sad because she thinks she's being punished, because her humans force her to do things she dislikes so they can laugh at her. Giving your pet a good life doesn't stop at food and toys, you have to treat them like living beings, not inanimate playthings.

This is going to sound strange, but: Good. At least to the second part. So many terrible things have been allowed to go unremarked because of institutional trust. Our institutions should have to prove they are trustworthy, and put in some serious work to become so.

Okay, but how would one even go about fjimmykimmelcking ABC?

Big surprise, the guy who ruffled Trump's hair is now afraid to ruffle his feathers. 🧐

I wish people posting that it's all over, democracy is dead, we're doomed, would ask themselves two simple questions: 1) Is this helpful? 2) Is this even true? The answer to both is "no." Now go sit with a favorite book or TV show and a glass of wine or tea and give yourself time to decompress.

Yes, that wealthy people need to have their money taken away and ethically redistributed for the common good. Also that mental health care, like all health care, should be free and accessible with no stigma attached.

Worth noting yet again: the one who is fighting is still getting attention and doing good, the one who resigned and wrote a strongly worded letter to the Times has been forgotten. Protest resignations only work in settings where the people in power care about protest resignations.

While I appreciate it that Windows has weather alerts, it would be nice if there were some difference in intensity between, "There is a whirling funnel cloud of death headed directly for your house, onlookers report it screaming your name," and, "Rain will be ending soon."

Something playing out yet again that I've never understood: Newspaper: *increasingly white supremacist fascist* Journalist: *works there without apparent moral qualm* Newspaper: *fires journalist for doing their job* Journalist: *moves to Nazi website* Everyone: *praises journalist's courage*

If you call it a blunder and suggest it was just some poor sod at ICE who just lacked the necessary education, you are both protecting the regime and suggesting this was acceptable treatment accidentally applied to the wrong people. They all knew exactly what they were doing: hurting immigrants.

Fascist regimes, especially theocratic, rely on enforced ideological purity and identity control. Trans people by their mere existence are a rebellion against such regimes and an expression of freedom of self that cannot be ignored or denied. That kind of freedom is an existential threat to fascism.

In a healthy news ecosystem, the bare minimum acceptable reporting would require asking how once engraves a bullet with "transgender ideology." 🧐

Just had to stop following a writer I've followed since fairly early days on Twitter because they think it's a good idea to use website preview cards to get around the graphic media filters and retraumatize people with a horrible photo because it's an anniversary of a terror attack.

In 1988 my entire high school was evacuated in a surprise "fire drill." We later found out a student had brought a pistol to school. It wasn't even loaded. Obviously, bringing guns to school has never been encouraged.

Three things I have been arguing for decades: 1) Everyone should be cutting with Ockham's Razor, 2) Every problem has a simple solution that can be reached with 30 seconds of rational thought, and 3) More than one thing can be true. This article hits points 1 and 2 but misses on 3...

I am done, done, done with anyone who says it's all over and there's no way back. That shit's pro-fascist propaganda. I don't care how you mean it, you're working for fascism. Bloody hell, if you people had been in charge we wouldn't merely have lost WWII, there would never have been a war!

I keep seeing writers I follow pleading for more subscriptions to their Substack newsletters, and, just... What the hell? 🤷‍♂️ You can't *not* know it's a Nazi website, not after years of coverage, so why are you surprised people don't want to subscribe and thus tithe to Nazis?

I think we're still slightly diminishing books, so: The Assistant Manager of the Rings