you train a man to be a killer of his countrymen and then he's basically deported by his country's regime and you import him to a shit hole part of your country, but keep him in a position of sub status, keep him away from his family, keep him away from a job, and yeah he'll go fucking berserk

Story about as old as time, the US trained compradors to do horrific things on their behalf to their national brothers and sisters (who they in many cases already had grudges towards) and then spat on these compradors and they feel betrayed. Turns out they keep those skills to do horrific things.

Learned yesterday that what really makes a burger not just good, but transformative, is: don’t just toast the insides of the buns. Char them. Char the burger AND the buns.

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me when someones like 'i'll drive you'

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

chatGPT is a sanctuary for people who aren't confident in their own writing. i am absolutely begging people to trust themselves.

presenting: Beth's Foolproof Guide to Gift-Giving, applicable year-round for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, &c

You've seen "men would rather dismantle the Federal Government than go to therapy" now get ready for "Men would rather ask ChatGPT what you want for Christmas than just asking you for a list of what you want for Christmas"

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

Proof of end times = autism speaks being on the right side of the statement 🙃

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

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The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids… …is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys. At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org

Re: last few RTs I had a food delivery person steal my order today instead of delivering it. I’m strongly in the school of thought of “If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t”, but also: I’m unemployed. Consider stealing food from a rich person or a corporation instead of me.

I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it. if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.

I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people

I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me. Yes, stole it. I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME. 🖕

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

Pretty disgusting when people interpret history to mean I can’t murder unlimited children

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?

When I read this Schlafly book for @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social and saw her saying how the Republicans were just imitating the Democrats instead of advancing their own vision, I was like well … what does this remind me of …

1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard. 2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap." 3) The CG said it would review policy language. 4) The CG reversed course.

I have two interviews (one with a real person and one where I am answering questions on video to no one) in the next three days, wish me luck, I would love to have a job before end of year

Me getting a spicy carbonated bev: “this is ginger-affirming care”

There is no actual difference, re: which parts of our brains light up in a scan, between enjoying something ironically and enjoying it unironically.

first they came for trans people and i wasn’t quiet, i spoke up, i said “are you really going to die on this hill? there’s an election to win!” because i am not trans.

I’m incredibly sore and fatigued from my covid booster to the point of difficulty moving around, and… well, I don’t want to be one of *those* cat parents, so I’ll say I think there’s a 50% chance that Huckleberry knows something’s off.

Me, ten years ago: "I love technology! It enables such incredible things, and it's only going to create more wonders in the future!" Me, now:

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

gum up the gears!

3 point plan for success: Read. Listen. Try to get it right.

Mother and Child (Madonna), 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24812

turns out a culture of complete elite impunity also bred a staggering degree of sexual depravity (not in the good way), and it sucks to see, actually

Night in the Woods (Multiplatform, 2017)

if your "disability activism" is just yelling at random people who cross your path for imagined ableism then you are not an activist. you are a horsefly. you are poison sumac.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Update on this: new parent hormone is real and thank God for it.

So now that I've heard TCW labeled "Wa-Luigi Coates" I'll never think of him any other way.

Jesus to his disciples:

Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar

And on that note... well, I'm either leaving Bluesky again or I'm seeing if I can finally tweak my follows list enough that I enjoy scrolling. Currently it's all just so horrible. Which, fair. Everything's horrible. But I don't think I can take the volume like I could when I was a Twitter fiend.

DC statehood now