She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

You…you…you moved to the Middle East and thought you wouldn’t be exposed to geopolitics? 🤨 If you ever need proof that being rich doesn’t necessarily mean also being smart…

Contextless meta post: I think most stuff they say about Bluesky on other sites is bullshit & most talk of “purity tests” is reactionary centrist nonsense. But sometimes? Sometimes they’re dead right to say this place has lost the plot because some folks here have a remarkable lack of pragmatism. 🤦‍♀️

It’s interesting to watch threads like this because the replies are full of folks who are like “oh, like Trump will follow the law” but if you dig deeper on how it would work, they start listing voter suppression tactics, not actually canceling elections. Even they don’t really think he can cancel.

Was there a list of things longer than my arm I should have been doing today other than binging True Blood? Yes, absolutely. Am I gonna I do them? Nope. Burnout is a bitch.

I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage. We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

I’m binge watching True Blood for an Alex Skarsgard fix and am on season 3. I had somehow forgotten about the crush I had on Alcide back in the day until he just popped back up on screen. So now I’m binging to get a Skarsgard and Joe Manganiello fix. 😆

Thundersleet! Midwest weather is a trip. 😆

Woohoo!!! First thunderstorm of the year. The fact that it’s gonna be a wintry mix is less woohoo, but it’s not supposed to stay below freezing for long. Basically the only real cold snap we had all winter was the weekend I moved. (Fuck you too, universe)

They keep insisting that they provide a powerful prediction and news source, but how is averaging the best guesses of a bunch of people with no insights but tons of money to waste any sort of valuable prediction? They’re either tacitly admitting to insider trading or are full of shit. Or both.

I just want to be clear that if I had the money for tariffs, taxes & shipping my apartment would be full of little wooden ghosts. So one of you needs to fill your house with little wooden ghosts on my behalf.

I know that everyone here hates the “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” messaging but “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” is likely the single thing about this nightmare that will most affect the day to day lives of a lot of people in the US

This part. I wish I had the idealism of the folks who think this leads to a secular, democratic Iran, but we have decades upon decades of evidence that this is not what happens when the West forces regime change in the Middle East.

“Why This Was Not A Good Thing Even If Khameni Deserved To Die: A Play In One Act”

Unsurprisingly, the replies are filled with folks insisting “I would just go to jail then” while the most radical thing most of them will ever do is log onto Bluesky & tell some 20 year old poor kid who signed up for the GI Bill he should just go to jail. We’re all fucking heroes on the internet. 🙄

Mystery solved! My aunt had heard about an apartment fire in my neighborhood & wanted to be sure it wasn’t mine. She probably saw it on the 10 o’clock news. So a fair reason to check in late, all things considered.

Got a text out of the blue at 10PM from one of my aunts that just said “Are you okay?” and I can’t decide if she’s been hacked or if something bad happened that I haven’t heard abt yet (lotta family members getting older). Replied wondering what made her ask & kinda freaking out waiting for a reply.

Yeah, I’ve been seeing a lot of “Iranians are celebrating and don’t care what the motivation for the attack was,” and IF that’s true, I’d like to gently suggest they start caring because the history of Western intervention in the Middle East is not exactly a parade of successful democracies.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Nah. We’re in this position because of a bipartisan, multiple administration long failure of governance & accountability, and I’m quite comfortable yelling at the whole lot of them, both parties, until someone gives me a real reason to believe that will ever change.

We’re all going straight to hell. How do you even fix a society like this? Raze it all to the ground & start over. #YourMomentOfDespair

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

There's some Kurt Vonnegut book worthy shit going down, like there is in all wars

Stopped into a local breakfast & lunch place I somehow hadn’t visited yet, and had a lovely omelet and biscuits & gravy. Then I overheard heard the waitress describe the pie offerings, and am now considering if I can manage coconut cream pie on top of it all without making myself sick. I should go 😆

I was a geology grad student at UW at the time. They’d been doing construction on our building & at first I thought the rumbling was a big truck pulling up, until it got louder. Once it ended, we all ran outside excited & laughing like the giddy little geology nerds we were. Rock dorks to the end 😁

I remember saying back in Trump Part 1 when everyone was panicked that North Korea would start WWIII, “no, it’s Israel you have to worry about.” I hate being right.

I read The Fourth Turning a couple years ago and they predicted a historical crisis that would climax somewhere between 2026 and 2031, ending in either world war or some a revolution. And I fucking hate that they seem to have been dead on about everything except the possibility it might end in both.

The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons

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Paleo. Influencer. Bullshit. Someone please take his TikTok account away.

That second bullet point…the headlines…that’s where you know that Mamdani is just better at all this than anyone else. Because that was smart.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that evil requires a mastermind instead of making do with a bunch of useful idiots.

For my sins, I move to a quieter part of the apartment complex only for the people in the house NEXT to the apartment complex to have some jerk over every night who blasts music from his car as loud as possible for the entire time he’s there. Fine, universe. Fuck you too.

Salted Caramel Pretzel Custard Donut. Sounds great right? Except it turns out that the broken pretzel pieces get stale fast from sitting out on in the bakery case. One of those better in theory than execution ideas. 😆

No. Oh, no no no no no.

Haven’t weighed in on the whole BAFTA thing because I really feel like this is more of a listening moment for a white, only mildly neurodivergent, abled lady like me. But I suspect that the reality is that there’s no pat “right” answer here and the internet can’t STAND IT when that happens.

Look at this photograph

Presenting Christianity as a single monolithic reactionary theocratic entity is a specifically right wing American Evangelical project and people need to stop falling for it for no other reason than the simple interest of seeing an enemy clearly

Hmmmm…it’s tempting to blame it all on Trump because then it’ll be over when he’s gone. But the reality is it’s Trump and hundreds of people refusing to enforce the checks & balances built into the Constitution to prevent this from happening. There will be a next guy if we don’t confront that.

Finally finished the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo, all 1240 pages of it. It was good, but I can see why it’s usually abridged.

Blah, blah…the demented old man says crazy shit…have y’all noticed that he’s getting increasingly less orange and more mud colored? It’s like someone convinced him to switch from self tanner to bronzer but he still refuses to learn how to use it. Look, we laugh so we don’t weep, okay?

Discovered that Costco has frozen kimchi pancakes, a folks…this was a good use of my $15. A little greasy, so next time I’ll use a little less oil in the pan. But yum!

Americans have the memory of fucking gnats. I’m not going to tell the story of my aunt and my dad again, but just remind people there are reasons…lifelong disability or death causing reasons…that we vaccinate for polio. 🤬

I feel seen. LOL.

These anti-fat activist screeds always include a blithe acknowledgement that fat activists are correct on the merits. "To be sure, weight and health aren't perfectly correlated, fatphobia is widespread and losing weight is extremely difficult..." Right, but that's the entire thing!

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy. But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

Just like the narratives around trans rights and racial justice, this framing constructs "activists" as unreasonable, radical and holding all the power. "Do you know how mean fat activists are if you lose weight?" Do you know how mean everyone else is if you don't?!

I’m in favor of the ones that don’t make everything they touch shittier. 🤷‍♀️

I distinctly remember people calling me too harsh before I left the Bad Place when I pointed out that, with GenAI, a whole lot of people who insisted they had really great ideas they just couldn’t execute were about to find out the hard way they don’t actually have great ideas. And here we are…

It’s Kobo ebook format, but if you want to get into Discworld and you’re willing to read on an app, this is a fabulous bundle. I bought it last time around so I could have digital copies and it’s completely worth it.