I understand most of this list without needing a second look, including Idiocracy by title, but why Brawndo? :D

"How can you justify holding up Germany and South Korea as bastions of Liberal Thought? The two countries that are having HARD conservative pushes right now?" You gotta have some liberal institutions in your society for authoritarians to bother making a hard conservative push. (Also, "the two"?)

Sure, but the Venn diagram of people who hate you despite knowing almost nothing about you, and people who don't know what Zionism is but use it as a slur/insult isn't a perfect circle, but it's pretty damn close.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Hey, uh, @amyklobuchar.com , you're asking some pretty good questions, but Todd Blanche just claimed that the rights outlined in the constitution only apply to citizens, and you didn't touch it at all. Do you agree with that interpretation of the law???

like say what you will about the twitter neo-nazis who are equally obsessed with me - no really, say it - but they actually do have a much closer grasp of who I am (a kind of nerdy liberal who really, really hates nazis)

It doesn't matter what you think of Will or his opinions, this is functionally bait despite its (I think) sincerity. RIP to your notifications, Will.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

If you wish suicide on someone, you're lower than whale shit. I get a lot of the people (that I've seen) posting "kys" are probably miserable and furious about it, but that's not an excuse for viciousness and cruelty. So often I see people want to pass on what they've suffered - fuck that! Be kind!

Lmao wut?

This is a bop. I'd love to hear an extended version if there is one!

I think it's interesting, when I consider the antisemitic harassment I've experienced, that it was overwhelmingly from white people. Only one Black person ever accosted me over it, and his companion knew he was dangerously unhinged to begin with. I was chased by a group of white people with bats,

"murder, kidnapping, and corruption should be illegal, and people who do those things should be punished" is, in fact, the moderate position

Ah, you’re talking about Benatar’s anti-natalist argument, which basically boils down to “love is a battlefield” (I’ll show myself out)

Periodic reminder to be gentle with the animals we find sneaking into our spaces - they are generally not there to make our lives difficult, so it's best to find a way to put them outside gracefully.

I'd add: if you can, if it's realistic, Passports. Travel money (in case you need to get gone, by hook or by crook). If you really don't trust things to stay civilized, portable valuables you can exchange. Tbh I'm not doing much of any of this - we have food in the chest freezer. But the truth of

Coming to you from the Clown School of Electrical Engineering

I reached under the lip of the washing machine to find the safety switch. Found it, depressed it, the machine ran for a moment, then the switch shifted and the machine slammed to a stop. (It really feels like the motor cuts out for a fraction of a second, then locks the rotor - which makes the

I'm not excusing this, but I think it comes from a history of more well-off folks using pit bulls as a stand in for undesirable populations (ethnic minorities, poor white people, and so on) whose presence threatens them. So those one or two guys who bring pitties to the dog park, they have an accent

That reminds me of the briefly popular Honda Iliad. It was an awesome car with just one fatal flaw.

This is spot on - I tend to associate flag-burning with the wilder type of leftists (though not the type who'd kick out Jews for not being anti-Israel enough), but even they're better than sanctimonious would-be fascists. ____ Those kinda leftists are the red-yellow-green-brown alliance, more fash.

"Anti-Jewish bigotry and violence are the fault of the US, UK, and Israel. I am very intelligent." Tiresome. The word you are looking for is "tiresome". We could also sub in "unoriginal", "thoughtless", "heartless", and a few others.

Their loss. Looks like you brightened the day of everyone who wasn't looking to be offended. May your shoes never chafe.

Soul Music took me a bit to get into, but I found when it finally yanked on the hook, I went with it pretty well. I feel like Soul Music is in the same vein of "goofy pop culture references on every page" writing as Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb novels. But I'm a goofy goober, I love that stuff.

Why is that gun mounted that far off the mount's axis of rotation, if it's got that much recoil?

Throughout the past decade of school and post graduation, I have been chronically underemployed while doing advocacy work and running a forum to help artists on my own time, and it has resulted in six figures of debt. I need some help getting to self sustainable levels. gofund.me/3299fe639

Good people in politics already know they will be mocked and their deaths celebrated, at least by the worst kind of people. Makes you wonder why the worst kind of people fear being mocked more. Maybe they know they're being awful, on some level, and feel guilty? Idk though, they don't act like it.

"I Have no Twitter, and I Must Scream," describes probably about 3/4 of bsky users.

For some of us politics is about life and death. (Not everyone who engages this way with politics is threatened in this way - some just care earnestly.) For others, it's about aesthetics. Vibes. Who makes me feel free? Who makes me feel sad? Who gives me permission to hate those I already hate?

In programming, it's called a Race Condition Error. Basically your brain's priority manager thinks every task is equally and critically important, all the time, forever, and none of them actually gets ahead to become "the thing we want/need to do now".

being a mammal is just goop all the way down

If I ever doubt my attractiveness, all I need to do is go outside when the weather's not cold - especially if I am working in the garden - all the biting bugs will come and remind me I'm a snack. Hell, I'm a whole damn buffet. (Ouch.)

"Do we have any regulations that say we can't make approaches at Sacramento Airport?" "No, sir." "I want one on my desk at seven o'clock tomorrow morning." (from a story told by pilot LtCol Maury Rosenberg, about consequences of performing an afterburners-on flyby in an SR-71 at SMF)

"Today I want to talk about the Kursk disaster in greater depth" that's a bit thoughtless sir (...too soon?)

Bluesky again scolds me for making a private list I created to help me remember why I'm blocking people. I think the term "dirtbag leftist" was what triggered the auto-moderation.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

quaker bunches of gametes!

Five writers I've read five books each from? John Scalzi Harry Turtledove Seanan McGuire Mary Roach Queen TERF :( That was a challenge to remember only that many!

[laughs in former resident]

My first thought was "Redwall character", but maybe that's unfair, they could be any medieval- to Renaissance-era archer.

It's striking to me that a couple guys named Morris Katz and Daniel Moraff (okay, I'm guessing there) would endorse a populist with pretty clear antisemitic leanings, but what do I know about antisemitism apart from being a Jew & threatened by antisemites, including once with a knife at my throat?

Noice

What time is it? It's bug time. NB: ant workers take pretty good care of their baby siblings but, as you can tell from the many hundreds of larval and pupal ants piled up like rice, they don't exactly include a personal touch.

I'm willing to bet that people who've been boosting oyster guy for so long have either a) never considered the impact and implications of sexual assault, or b) considered them, and found them, on balance, to be appealing.

There's just no question that they saw Platner as a way to put women, specifically, in their place. You can see it most clearly in Kenny Klips' "Smoothgroin" piece -- real leaders are real men who dominate women, and don't ask too many questions about what dominate means, it means what you think.

Thiiiiiss is both incredibly relatable and the kind of thing I would like to be able to draw, with more practice. (I guess I need to get cracking, don't I.)