When will we see the first “MANGIONE” knuckle tattoos?

This year alone there have been 55 school shooting deaths and there's been more institutional outrage over 1 healthcare CEO.

FFS, Teams… When I type “:P“ I mean “:P“. I do not mean “😜”.

Is there an account I can follow that will catch me up on the Bluesky asshole of the week? Having a centralized, easy to access source for this information strikes me as much less effort than repeated dives into Lake Chucklefuck to see what all the fuss is about.

I’ll admit I was indulging in any number of espionage fantasies, and as such it was disappointing to see him get narc’d in a chain restaurant by someone making maybe a shade more than minimum wage. So much for class solidarity. Oh well, we’ll always have Syria.

It continues to surprise me how few people realize that their employer doesn’t have someone jump you in the in the parking lot and steal your kidneys because it would be difficult to make money that way, and no other reason.

I will admit that I don’t use the pre-constructed screening lists because I enjoy the little self-righteous rush I get from manually blocking a particular guy. Yeah. That one. Him right there. Fuck that dude. I might see you in hell but I’ll never see you on Bluesky again. Clown.

Anyone else think the United shooter was a pro?

In the inevitable soul-searching following 11/5, it’s likely worth tabling the concept that trying to sway a majority of USians with compassion is a waste of time. Instead talk about how your wages will go up (which is true) because most people are probably too overwhelmed to be helpful.

The first rule of night club Tip your bartenders and no, the DJ will not play Culture Club.

If AI klepware has demonstrated nothing else, it’s that at the intersection of art and business, it’s always the artists that get taken advantage of. People want the results of creativity, but the creative people behind it have always been treated as some kind of inconvenience.

What’s your sign

Your body is a temple My body is a dive bar with a plaque by the door that reads “Dylan Thomas Almost Died Here,” and “worship this” spray-painted on the wall behind the toilet in the appalling, sticker covered bathroom.

Walking through Raleigh last weekend we ended up in front of one of those dudes who might have been talking on the phone, or might have been schizophrenic. Key takeaway from this experience was definitely the phrase “FUCK YOU AND THE BIBLE.”

I do love waking up to a planet-wide tariff-induced panic attack. My internal attempts to rationalize this go back and forth between the man’s ignorance and his capacity for outright malice, both of which are easily the most impressive things about him.

There is literally so much to work with. He says things that are both lame and wrong. He bought one of the most recognized companies in the world and flew it into a mountainside. He looks like a plucked turkey with his shirt off and the best you canned farts can come up with is “Elona??”

Okay, someone explain the Mueller, She Wrote schism to me. Please.

Just watched a bunch of people dressed up in Star Wars costumes trudging through the cold on their way to a Christmas parade taking place before Thanksgiving. That’s a lot to unpack.

The best explanation I can come up with for middle age is looking across a room, thinking you recognize someone and then remembering that they’re dead.

Repost your profile pic Card from a board game I've been working on for longer than I'd care to admit.

Potentially inflammatory but very important question: Are we gonna cut McCarthy any slack because it was a consensual relationship?

docs.bsky.app/blog/block-i... Did a little skimming on blocking. The public-ness of blocking data seems to indicate that blocking a user on one Bluesky server blocks them on all Bluesky servers. Someone able to verify that? On Twitter the creeps can still look in your window…

Lots of Gen Xers say we always get ignored. I think it’s probably more accurate to say that we’re pretty good at not starting shit and minding our own business.

So we don’t know anything about the shooter, but I wonder if it was one of the contractors that Trump stiffed for millions of dollars? Or I wonder if it was one of the people he cheated with one of his “businesses?” Oh oh oh, or maybe Trump raped their daughter?

I know that the people who work the front desk at hotels are trained to ask you why you’re in town because some focus group decided that this is friendly and welcoming, but whenever they do I’m always tempted to answer “none of your fucking business.” I don’t, but I’m tempted.

I had trouble sleeping last night, and one of the times I woke up I realized I’d been dreaming about not being able to sleep. I want my fucking money back.

A brief history of self-regulation

Talked to an old friend tonight who’s about as bad off as you can be and still be alive. I suppose the difference between me and some people is that what this brought to mind wasn’t gratitude that I’m doing better, but concern for how the political landscape might affect him in November.

WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

I got fifty bucks that says the GOP will be claiming that liberals wrote Project 2025 by this time next week.

Can we all agree that “he should step aside” is the new “but her emails”? Let’s go ahead and put this one in the rearview so that Putin’s guys have to puzzle out the next stupid thing to amplify.

When you search for “Bluesky” in the App Store, the first result is (I shit thee not) Truth Social. I’d like to think that Steve Job would be really angry about this but he probably wouldn’t. This is what we get for tolerating billionaires.

I'm amused that my profile picture, which is the artwork from a card on a boardgame that I'm working on, has apparently been flagged as "obscene" by BS's algorithm. I'm assuming because Georgia O'Keeffe.

So I'd love to tell everyone that I bit the head off of a Republican yesterday, but that would be a lie. ...of course that's also what someone who bit the head off of a Republican yesterday would say.