for those of you who haven't experienced this gem:

every time i encounter aella's unique brand of "phrenology with trans rights characteristics" i can't but be reminded of the old yiddish joke about reading die sturmer bsky.app/profile/isol...

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

this argument is always such a tell that the speaker conceptualizes the US as an extension of Europe, rather than as part of the Americas

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

"The refrain of 'shut up, bitch,' echoed from Andrew Tate videos...carries a simple message....male supremacy [is] an animating feature of the far-right politics dismantling American democracy today." Unsettling glimpse into male supremacist side of some segments of online far-right Christianity:

Marc Andreessen’s “great men of history don’t think they act” shit would be a lot more compelling if his legacy was anything more than having co-authered a primitive web browser 33 years ago that quickly became obsolete

i think it can go to real unpleasant places real fast when it comes to things like cultural identifiers or gender restrictions but *most* modern-day uniform codes account for those things

Look, fuckos, I’m extremely mad Trump killed WFH and also joggers and t shirts as acceptable work wear

i mean, there’s a very reasonable middle ground here that most organizations and people sit within, the codes and standards are what you use to define that middle ground

I don’t have a problem with broad “don’t have your ass hanging out” shit but I do really despise overly prescriptive stuff or really the whole notion that what you wear is reflective of your worth.

I maintain the anti-trans folks have gotten way out over their skis. No matter how many laws they pass, no one wants the world they're trying to build. Castles made of sand

More seriously, I do think stuff like that matters less and less, it's about how much you care about the world and visual presentation is still correlated with that but I think a lot less so even than the recent past

The streamers you hate won't see this but your friends working from home in their pajamas will.

for me it’s (a little) less about sartorial choices and more about how they conduct themselves just generally; how you behave matters, and a lot of popular politics streamers behave in juvenile ways

the purple exiting my hair as i'm exposed to a Tom McDonald song

I will also say this might be my small-c conservatism talking but I don’t think “adult men who refuse to dress like grownups” is a demographic that has been doing a lot of socially productive work of late

Someone at some point in the process needs to be both willing and able to read a book with footnotes

I think the actual tension with streamers is that it’s a medium by and for dumbasses, and it’s simultaneously true that (1) you need to try and prevent the audience-dumbasses from finding worst dumbasses to watch, and (2) it’s bad for a streamer-dumbass to get anywhere close to policy or strategy

stress and a poor schedule can negatively exacerbate dementia. that’s the explanation.

so, for my sins, i went to the original post to see if there was some kind of context in the video that i might have been missing, but, no, it’s this picture of fess parker over the davy crockett theme song for two minutes and change. i’ve got nothing, the president has oatmeal brains.

You know saying all this in front of that golden eagle on the podium is wild!

orange man antichrist

If they truly are Christian, this is blasphemy. But since they aren't...meet the MAGA cult's lord and savior.

Doing this routine literal days before Easter feels particularly noxious

i’m bringing together our strongest allies, gog and magog

I HAVE NOT YET EVEN BEGUN TO HATE THE ANTICHRIST

Hooooooly shit. What did Karl Sad Trombone get popped for this time?

better luck next time, Carl bsky.app/profile/brai...

Energy market so bad we're going to need to rediscover fire.

part of me does think that the whole symbolic language of the film would work better if the parasite were a manifestation of male rage rather than feminine abuse

*hannibal lector voice* Gladys isn’t a real old woman

i have my Theories on the supernatural elements and the nature of the parasite that explains her design, but using the literal to excuse the undertones feels a lot like "no no Buffalo Bill isnt trans we promise" to me

I loved Weapons. Admittedly was not a huge fan of Barbarians, but I really did love Weapons. But I wish my pattern brain would allow me to look away from what looks an awful lot like a facet of misogyny and ageism.

I liked Weapons. A lot, even. I stand by my assessment that Aunt Gladys would have been way more terrifying if she had looked like a normal nice white lady instead of a fucking clown.

Madigan has the chops to bring it. The makeup distracted from the talent.

I say this as they release the news that Aunt Gladys is getting her own prequel, probably in the same way that Pearl did. And this is gonna grate on me.

I need Cregger to stop making the villain women aging and turning our inevitability into a caricature of womanhood. I could probably give a pretty good hour long lecture about how youth obsession manifests in very odd ways and subtle misogyny. He needs another angle. Barbarians did the same thing.

If his next movie does indeed feature his scariest monster being a woman past what he considers her prime, I'm not giving good faith anymore.

One of the things that I appreciated about the original Alien was that a lot of the imagery was yonic and considered terrifying. But it worked because if a bunch of dudes had listened to the woman, they wouldn't be dead. The throughline of terror at the yonic against the heroism of the woman works.

I did it back in 2017 and the theory for us at the time was every picture or whatever we would hang was super bright so the wall wouldn’t distract and that definitely works but that’s not what I see with others. color is technically “agreeable gray” from SW but people also don’t put stuff on walls

I heard it as "Millennial Grey," like a rebellion against Boomer wood tones of the 60s-80s or something. I don't even need the shit to pop, but this grey laminate looks like absolutely nothing. It makes no sense to have caught on. Feels like we're in The Giver.

Trump:

And I watch Jeopardy! every weeknight, so I see a bizarre number of these

Every commercial I see where people intentionally hype replacing deep, gorgeous brown fixtures with fucking *grey* is an affront to God

i know i've 100% seen pop psych woo about how the desaturation of everything is actually totally healthy and good for you and not at all depressing

it's like the hellspawn abomination hybrid of fascist cultural trends and the kinds of woo i associate with (the more politically neutral, or vaguely left-coded) ""Learning Styles"" and shit

how on earth could you be depressed when everything is beige

there's so much less color now, except for the content farm youtube slop which is purposely outright overstimulating for click factor. depressing