i honestly am kind of endeared to the fact he's still keeping up the "barack hussein obama" bit after all these years. it's like republicans who still bring up benghazi. i could be mad but it's almost quaint and pastoral in a way

i think women are naturally more attractive than men. this is because, unlike nick fuentes and asmongold, i am sexually and romantically attracted to women

so pathetic. an old man trying to grow himself a new liver inside a tiny pig so he can remain on the mortal plane as a billionaire tyrant for a little longer. grasping desperately for more time, trying to hold, trying to keep, scrambling to remain–this is not the behavior of a sound mind

i think i could listen to willie nelson read a recipe book and be happy. that man's songs always sound like a call from an old friend you haven't heard from in too long

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wondering how canada has managed to so far avoid the wave of psychotic transphobia that is actively brainworming america and england rn

just saw a legit currently-teenage '00s scene girl. silent hill hoodie, hello kitty accessories, hot topic fishnets. it was incredible, like finding a dodo

crazy bars. let's go. "anti pedophile bible thumper" is how you win in texas

i mean, is it really so unbelievable to think that god isn't an actual literal man

i rolled a joint this morning to smoke on my walk to the subway after work this afternoon and i'm honestly so excited for it. i may have to do this more often

reread flannery o'connor's "a good man is hard to find" for the first time since they taught it to me in high school. jesus christ. i think it might be a literally perfect short story. not one extraneous word or sentence. incredible economy of style. an ending that left me emotionally desolated

the average person in human history doesn't want to have to think about government or make high minded decisions. the average person in human history wants to send their yearly tribute to the emperor's closest viceroy and then eat their popular local starch and fuck the farmer's daughter next door

a hard pill to swallow about the intelligence level of the average person is realizing that 2 out of every 3 people i've ever tried to explain the difference between normative and descriptive statements to were incapable of grasping the distinction, even after being shown entire video essays

remembering the union dead on this memorial day. america is the actual good guy once a century or so, and this was one of those times. as christ died to make men holy, so they died to make men free

these AI idiots will turn the entire world into a waterless desert trying to create some artificial god that can't ever exist, and that *shouldnt* exist even if it could. between this shit and israel's genocide i feel like i'm living through an old testament parable

as someone who has a fairly strong work ethic by nature, i've had to train myself to stop going above and beyond at work. high performance is rewarded not with more pay, but simply with more work. i don't think a single one of my many promotions has ever come as a result of hard work

the pacific northwest is kind of like if there was a wakanda for homosexuals and east asians

guy who complains about a lack of engagement behind *checks notes* locked fucking mentions lol. some people are so enfolded into their own hyperonline weirdness that all you can do is stand back and gawk, like looking in equal parts disgust and awe at some sort of deformed circus animal

yeah, it's the same reason people came up with private clubs: to keep the jagoffs away. nobody likes them and nobody likes you. time to head back to elonland, hoss

as an american the crazy thing abt israel's colonialism is that it's basically identical to what the US did to native tribes. every video of some zionist settler attacking innocents in the west bank–if you're a white american with ancestry on this continent pre-1900, that behavior is your heritage

vladimir putin is lowkey kind of a bad guy. yeah, i said it

not to engage in ethnic supremacy but i work with people from over a dozen countries as part of my job and i'm becoming more and more convinced that nepalese people are the ideal humans

in unranked order, roughly chronological: i saw her standing there baby's in black ticket to ride i've just seen a face i want to tell you tomorrow never knows strawberry fields forever she's leaving home sexy sadie don't let me down genuinely so hard lol

trans women b like "my name is chloe"

jw. so much better than the first two lol

one of my favorite things to do is sit around on the clock at work without working

unfortunately, one of the biggest changes i've noticed in myself since entering my 30s is my increasing lack of patience for most people. i genuinely would rather read a book or listen to a record than talk to a solid 95% of the people i am forced to interact with. i kinda hate being this way

for the boomer so loved himself that he gave his only begotten children, so that the nasdaq may never perish but have everlasting life

people will ask why millennials arent having kids as if day care for a toddler in a major american city doesn't cost $25k a year

i love the subtitles on old movies because someone will say something like "adios amigo" and the captions will say [spanish] as if it's nigh untranslatable

of all the shit that has never happened, this never happened the most

im not autistic i just have an average of 86 minutes of screen time per day on google street view

having a long discussion with a friend about most famous cartoon animals and we narrowed it down to a top three of mickey mouse, bugs bunny, and snoopy. he wanted to include pikachu but i argued pokemon weren't animals. are there any i'm missing here?

everyone's talking about the right wing manosphere drift toward catholicism and orthodoxy but no one is talking about the trans female drift toward episcopalianism. these days, my family's anglican congregation back in my hometown is half fransican-minded boomer libs and half elder millennial queers

up at zero dark thirty on a goddam weekend to do the quarterly inventory at work and the whole building is locked. i'm about to blow up this whole spot

hating the old man and the sea is such a "i read one book of literary criticism from the 1970s in college and haven't thought about books since" take. one of the finest novellas of all time, a nearly perfect meditation on aging and solitude

the guardian posted a list of the "100 greatest novels of all time" and wow this list is 100% british ass with toni morrison presumably added as an afterthought so their top 10 wouldn't be 100% white

insane parallels between ecclesiastes chapter 3 (written ca 800 bc) and tao te ching chapter 29 (written ca 600 bc). two dudes living 5000 miles apart with no idea of the other's existence, both lighting onto the same fundamental idea. god i love being a library nerd

i feel like, in a (obviously hypothetical) just world, taiwan shouldn't be made to be part of the people's republic of china unless they want to be. and if they want to be that's cool, and if they don't want to be, that should be okay too

america today has far more in common with the british empire we were rebelling against than it has in common with the republic established in 1789

taking my second doo doo of the morning for anyone worried about my GI health. a river runs thru it

what's with the online techie obsession with calling themselves "builders" and talking about "building things"? these people talk about "building" like it an inherently positive activity. atomic bombs are built. private prisons are built. *what* are you building?

if you think a dog can't penetrate a human asshole let me tell you, you clearly haven't been in some of the corners of the internet i've seen

what if you didn’t need to have a take. what if you shut the fuck up.

one of the most immediate signifiers of someone with chuddish undeveloped politics is if they think "porn addiction" is a real problem

god i make such a good quesadilla

this nyt "cultural literacy" quiz is such rich people dogshit oh my god. sorry to post this and send traffic to that rag but my aunt subjected me to this gift link so i'm doing the same to you