unlike karl, if I say what I'm thinking right now my account probably gets banned

I see we have moved on to Step 2

It’s hard to see this and not feel at least a bit of despair.

even more convinced of this after the press conference today.

"arrested to stand trial on criminal charges" FOR WHAT?

yes, oil, etc., but my admittedly vibes-based impression is that this is at least as much a cold war regime change throwback. like I don't think it's at all coincidental that this is happening under a cuban-american secretary of state.

So... now what? 1. Kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint 2. ??? 3. ????????

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

what the fuck is there even to say about this

In high school, I was a state legislative page. One of my duties was taking constituent calls. We'd take down the caller's info and then write a one-sentence summary of what they said. Our pads literally didn't have space for more. You don't have to be eloquent. You just have to be present.

apparently I've been clenching my jaw so hard that now it hurts to chew

I'm so fucking sick of being ashamed to be an American. If our next leader isn't determined to tear that shame out root and branch, then what's the fucking point?

I was going to buy tickets. I was excited to buy tickets. I'm not buying any fucking tickets.

There are many things I'll never forgive this administration or any of its backers for, but one of them is that they're forcing me to cheer for Nicolas fucking Maduro and the people shooting at US soldiers.

I almost never use Facebook anymore, but I made an exception tonight for exactly this reason.

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." - Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Vol. 22, 30 Sept. 1946

The Doug Jones Theory of Electability: you never know when a safe-seat Republican might have an incredibly bad day, and you *really* want to have someone in the race whenever that happens.

It's fun to see something like this and guess how many posts of context are missing. (In this case: four.)

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Hi, I'm me.

listen I am genuinely thrilled to be bonked in the head by artistic inspiration for the first time in a couple months, but did it *have* to be at three in the morning?

celebrating the last minutes of 2025 with that time-honored-est of traditions: duolingo

there is a TAIL in his BOX

well half the country decided that my existence is "political views" so yeah no shit

absolutely goddamn right

Obama/Biden across 12 years: 99 total strikes Trump in 2025 alone: 118 strikes

Also like 80% politics. SD and UT get special family-based exemptions. HI is too far away from everything. CA is dark green because I'm already there. MN and WA are dark green because it feels like half my friends from high school are in Minneapolis and half my friends from online are in Seattle.

Dresden: if more Dresdens would have ended the Holocaust sooner, then absolutely yes Hiroshima: the war (and Japan's genocides) ended within a few days of the bombing, so obviously no That was easy!

oh man the 2028 primary attack ads are going to be so much fun

It's important to understand this psychic violence so that we can more effectively make ICE agents suffer. They can always choose to end their suffering by quitting their jobs.

why must you attack me like this

HOTAS HOTAS HOTAS HOTAS

See that line between Light and Not Light right down the center of the US? I grew up almost exactly on that line. Still not sure exactly why it exists.

and it's a very good one!

thesis: I like games about spreadsheets antithesis: I like games about lesbians synthesis: I would like sports roster management games?

Welcome to the jungle We've got lots of Jung We know all 'bout archetypes 'Cause archetypes are fun

season's greason's

ok yeah but torpedoes (and now missiles) are *considerably* more phallic

me: ... me: oh wait he means that would be BAD me: never mind the world makes sense again

human user speaks fluent Claude, instance shocked

State-level Democrats are actively expending money and political capital to protect us.

We got some Lego succulents that we’re going to split between home and my office, and also this.

I know I’ve said this before, but soft pajamas brushing over freshly shaved legs feels unspeakably good.

This will be funny to maybe five mutuals

this is true if you consider tariffs and mass deportations a form of "integration" and not the opposite of that

also a bunch of surfaces in our house have recently sprouted flea poop so that's fun

This shit is so fucking exhausting. I get that it's probably a trauma response, but seeing it everywhere makes me want to just disengage completely and keep my offline self in the closet forever.

I have a mouth and I must smile :)