really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots

A library regular, an 80+ retired judge who lives in the most Republican district in Alabama, just told me that he can’t stand to watch the news and he prays to “outlive that son of a bitch and every one of his confederates” but he “can see the fissures showing.” The vibes are PULSATING.

The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.

yes. i'm telling you, yes they did. not the majority of trump voters, but a substantial amount believe they have been in a cold war with the left since the mccarthy era and this is their chance. they're making excuses as we speak. Miller believes this

Reconstruction has been a frozen conflict in the United States. It flares up like shingles (labor strife of the 1880s/90s, Red Scare, Civil Rights movement, 2014, 2020 and now) and always will until the White Man's Republic (even in its racially inclusive forms) is finally dislodged.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Pulling up to the war in the dripped out hypebeast fighter

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

As they say, the mark of society is when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit under. The same has always been true about social change. And will be true in the future. Don’t forget.

This man died to protect a woman from government thugs. The self-professed “noblest way to go” of many a reactionary, done in the cause of universal brotherhood and anti-racism. They will claim anything and everything else happened, for they are shamed and humiliated by his courage.

Remember in the 90s when the right got super upset about federal agents shooting a man to death? They don’t give a shit now because the people being shot aren’t child molesting Nazi cultists like the Ruby Ridge guy

Peter Serafinowicz goes to heaven on the strength of Look Around You alone

it’s the security force operations—such as dropping a bomb on a philadelphia neighborhood, and progressively discovering multiple BLM organizers dead in their cars—to crush whole, multiple generations of domestic opposition to their genocidal ambition as the heirs to antebellum slaver rapist society

The gun that shoots The Rentals

Congratulations, we made it to another Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Extremely important 1992 interview with Gene Wolfe wherein he speaks favorably of Pat Buchanan then goes full anti-car mode almost in the same breath, gets menaced by a wasp, and idly drops that he believes pagan gods were/are real but should not be worshiped gwern.net/doc/fiction/...

Remember when The Learning Channel would air raw footage of surgeries

For all the frustrating electoral behavior to be found in this demographic, noncollege workers are the people most likely to work and live alongside migrants. It's their daily experience that they're people just trying to get by like anyone else. ICE abuses activate a basic sense of fairness.

Crime has been nosediving across the globe since the turn of the century because Millennials are the noblest, most moral generation to ever exist.

Say your prayers The Black Keys.

Keep honking, I'm reloading my double-barreled brass lizard hand-blunderbuss

KKKullman strikes again

The Oscar nomination is a good excuse to reiterate my highest possible recommendation for The Alabama Solution. The horrors of ICE are downstream of the plantation caste system that continues to plague my home state, as well as most of this country.

This is patriotism. This is its fruit. To be a patriot, to be a nationalist, is to be evil. It is the worship of an imaginary entity, the subordination of all moral values to a ghost. Every single person who claims the mantle of patriotism is Nazi waiting for their chance.

A 5 year old is practically a baby. He probably can't communicate completely clearly. He very well may need to wear pull-ups at night, he may still be taking naps, he probably needs help getting dressed, and might not be independent in the bathroom yet. It's child abuse, plain and simple

Love this bit on Herodotus: "He is fond of old wives’ tales and digressions, pervaded by charming sentiments, which, however, sometimes obscure the due appreciation of history and its correct and proper character." YEAH, PHOTIUS, THAT'S WHY HE ROCKS!

Ah at last we separate the wheat from the chaff, the regular chud states like Louisiana and Nebraska where Trump is underwater versus the true stinking hog societies of Alabama and Utah

One saving grace of in this Age of Chuds is that they genuinely don't know shit about dick when it comes to anything to the left of Newt Gingrich. This is like trying to get in good at the DSA meeting by saying you're from MoveOn dot org

They had “was the grink there” in 400 BC

Yesterday home from school for MLK Jr Day, she picked out a black floral dress to wear “because Martin Luther King was black.” This girl is militant!

America is a “born on third base and thinks it hit a triple” country. They have no idea what underpins their prosperity. Just completely high on their own propaganda.

Vince Guaraldi pitching Charles Schulz on “Linus and Lucy”: “Imagine ‘Chopsticks’ but it really goes. I’m talking ‘Chopsticks’ that fucks, crazy style.”

Hoosiers! Ha ha ha ha… HOOSIERS!!

Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.

We got the whole cornfed bunch going crazy

Frame it.

HOOSIERS

In Baldur's Gate 3, I like to use Astarion for a medium armor swashbuckler build I call "Durable Astarion," and the stats of this armor work PERFECTLY for it. Gets him up to AC 20 with no penalty to stealth rolls. The downside is that it makes it look like Dave Navarro is on the squad.

With his death his family line is extinguished[1]. No one yet lives that will place offerings to slate his hungry ghost [2][4]. It is thus doomed to forever wander forlorn amongst the empty eternities[1][additional verification needed].

In all my years of watching old 70s and 80s ad blocks this may be the funniest thing I've ever seen. (NYC market, November 26 1978)

A casino is a factory that's been optimized and streamlined by centuries of careful research to turn a raw material - your savings - into a finished product - their profits. The fact that they have to let a few people leave with winnings is less of a feature and more of a marketing expense.

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

"What if Buddy Holly had heard The Who" is the domninant mode in power pop for a good reason, but let us not overlook the incredible bops that were drawing more from classic soul: youtu.be/V4qCybb83Ho?...

With all due respect to Princess Peach's valiant efforts, I don't think ANYTHING can save a theater committed to producing a dozen elaborately staged, effects-heavy shows simultaneously.

God this is dumb. Locke's Carolina Constitution is p close to the rigidly hierarchical slave state MAGA wants; Edmund Burke thought "human rights" was silly French talk; William F. Buckley was a Confederate apologist, an America Firster who resented being ordered around by Jews during his army time,

Shout out the local Piano Tuners #412, whose militancy demanded they engage in an illegal sympathy strike

I called the Herr's Product Quality Concerns line and reached a nice lady. She listened to my whole little saga. She waited, then said, "I bet you believe they're made from real potatoes now!" I may never recover.

It's nice to get confirmation that these people are as clueless as we view them to be. Also love the post-script about Bari just peacing out because, I would assume, the true nature of the project became too obvious for her to be involved and maintain her fake neutrality.

@dancredentials.bsky.social for some reason I couldn't remember your user name and I scrolled back to find it because this made me think of you