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Congrats
38, he/him, married, bi/pan Facts about me: I like to write, I like making people laugh, I am deeply in love, I have three children I lovingly refer to as gremlins Do not argue scripture with me. I am an atheist because I actually read it.
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Congrats
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Is THIS where we got the word from? Because it's perfect
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Relatable. Although I'm more appreciative of an honest timeline than when you're promised a quick turnaround and the artist promptly vanishes off the face of the earth for half a year. I booked an emergency commission slot with my favorite artist and it's taken months, but at least they were honest
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
They are not exclusive to any one ideology, either. Although they are more common in some than others. There are few universal constants, but it is universally agreed that these people are constantly exhausting
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Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Centrists can't have a movement leader like that, because a false and ever-shifting neutrality based on equal parts self-interest and self-loathing cannot be represented with charisma. That's what you get when your movement has all the sincerity and integrity of a used car salesman on a hot day.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
His behavior is very concerning, and his worldview is rather troubling. I would even say he is unprecedented.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
The hottest new developments in cutting-edge balloon technology
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I promise I only base it on history
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
This would be pure comedy but, I also wouldn't put it past this administration to force their way into the utility offices and seize control of them
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Notable exceptions being Twitter and Tony Stark
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
And good riddance, too. They were never welcome and need to stop fooling themselves.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
They know, they do not care, because that dead kid did not pay them to mention that. The billionaire that owns them, however, has his own shitty agenda he thinks he's entitled to spread.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
They want to. But they haven't. And they're nowhere near close. Being a therapist is incredibly nuanced and contextual, requires confidentiality, and comes with a licensing board that holds you accountable. How is anyone gonna hold a bot accountable?
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
This is incredibly dangerous and unethical. A chatbot is fundamentally incapable of doing this. It's wildly irresponsible to even give that notion the attention of an article! Large language model AI CANNOT be certified, cannot be held accountable, and CANNOT KEEP YOUR SECRETS
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Watch dem leadership release a cartoon of a talking dog rapping. "Yo, my name is Barkus and I'm here to say, tariffs are bad in a MAJOR way!" "....and remember kids, due-process is the bomb-diggity! For shizzle!"
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I've started giving political lectures to my phone about china's suppression of free speech
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
My wife and I often watch stupid tiktok videos together before bed. Several times a month they slide something into my feed that could not possibly have gotten there any other way but eavesdropping. Specific ads based on obscure things we talked about the previous day.
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The Great Banana-Peel Slip Backward
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm pretty sure it wasn't her son she needed to figure out.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Biggest red flag I've ever seen in a therapist: she commented that her adult son refused to see or speak to her, and seemed mildly baffled as to why that is. She implied he was lashing out due to his own struggles. I didn't see her anymore after that.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
And that's way too much meat anyway, there's nothing to balance it out
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
The more I learn, the more I struggle to understand how conservative therapists exist. It's really hard for me to imagine the mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance that is required to enter a profession entirely about empathy, ethics, service, and compassion and then vote a straight red ticket
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Lmao is THIS how I find out 🤣
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
A lazy selfish drunken bastard, that's who
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
There's absolutely no excuse for this, ya know? Even drunk off my ass I'm concerned about not being an asshole. If you can make a mess, you can clean your mess. Furries need to hold each other accountable for their behavior, EVEN IF IT MEANS THEY WON'T FUCK YOU AFTERWARD, y'all know who you are
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
It always amounts to, "I will stubbornly cling to all my biases and assume everything I believe is true, and I will ignore all evidence otherwise; also, I will be super arrogant and shitty about it"
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
And no, I did NOT call her mommy it would have been totally inappropriate. But I did THINK it. Very hard.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I had a rough time putting my dog down last year, we got to the vet the LARGEST farm girl I've ever seen was there to help. She could have folded me like a lawnchair, seriously. But her makeup game was on point and her style was impeccable. I knew we were in good hands. Alt girls are good people.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Now THAT'S good bread
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Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is forever and always living in Obama's shadow. There are other SEAL teams, but the fact that he chose 6 is just him operating with his usual amount of subtlety and insecurity
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Caine: Wow! Everyone REALLY enjoyed today's Secret Serial Killer adventure! I wasn't really watching, because Bubble tricked me into a date with the Moon..... -DREAD- Caine: BUT ANYWAY! I'LL BE SURE TO REMEMBER THIS PREFERENCE FOR FUTURE ADVENTURES! Jax:
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Seems like football is mostly appreciated by guys who hit their heads too much trying to play football but what do I know, I never played football
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
They're dangerous to know, and dangerous to be.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah the SEALS exist for the purpose of cold-blooded murder. Like, that's ALL they're for, and that's who the select for: guys who can be comfortable killing but also generally don't do so without permission That's why so many seals look like somebody's unusually fit dopey dad, like a serial killer
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ICE must be destroyed Moreover, death to tyrants
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"Soory"
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Obviously you should apologize
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Cashier at Kroger was all excited talking about the game coming up and it was all I could do not to immediately squash her enthusiam by reminding her that the cowboys are fucking losers
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Always have been, I see that now. We started as slavers, became covert slavers, then covert everything else masquerading as a nation of equality, freedom, and justice. We are anything but.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
They really do believe we're THIS stupid
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
The selloffs were a reaction TO the tariffs! Ffs
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Vaccine mandates are slavery, but when you ask them about prison labor suddenly it's a different story.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
If this place is heaven I will flip off god and walk backwards into hell
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
One year wiser, one year more mature, one year more refined, one year more dignified(ymmv), and one more year's worth of skills
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
"The humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance" Wow, really hit the nail on the head here
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Give it a year and it will turn out half of these are all just the same third party AI in different hats
St1ka (@st1ka.bsky.social) reposted
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
.....I remain ignorant
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Now that is just toxic behavior Tax! You should be looking around the gym for who you would HELP in a fight
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
And likewise, if you're planning anything an authoritarian government might benefit from knowing about in advance, keep that shit OFF your devices and accounts
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
The sound of mac and cheese being vigorously stirred
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
"Wait, you said the train MISSED the donkey? How does a train miss a stationary animal??" "No, I didn't say MISSED. I said MIST."
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Precious baby!!
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I just call it trans-derangement syndrome
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this popularity or notoriety and, more importantly, do I care about the difference?
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
This is it.... the moment I've been training for
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Game, set, match, 4-D, chessmate
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
1135 more arguments in favor of my long-standing belief that sometimes murder is ethical and morally correct
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
....now let's not be too hasty, here
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
They are addicted to their influential lifestyle. It's all they have. Leaving politics means losing all relevance and being ignored utterly by anyone with power in this country. They spent their whole lives clawing their way to this position and they'd sooner die than leave willingly.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Sir Dorito, I'm happy to inform you that you can vote for this Senator
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh my god they were bros
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
Reset day in #WorldofWarcraft ! And I have been BUSY the past week, believe me. I have healed the new raid on four different classes, DPS'ed through on two, and easily spent over a dozen Coffer Keys in Delves. Thousands of Valor Stones and Crests in the push for 700ilvl, and my main is closing in.
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Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
At first I thought you were being unnecessarily harsh, but I kept waiting for the bass to drop and it just never did.... it was all leadup and no follow through. Just so.... bland. Flavorless. We shouldn't assume this guy's sexuality but he also shouldn't assume he's a DJ
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Before the advent of digital payment, the phrase "You have a point" could be triggered reflexively in Democratic offices by tearing a check out of your checkbook within earshot.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like he got hyperfixated on moving around the frets a specific way and just made it his whole deal. There's worse ways to become a legend I guess lol
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
Charming cowboy vampire with a big bushy mustache Heehee it ~tickles~
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm white, male, cis, and het-passing, and nothing he's done has ever directly harmed me. Only others. They will have to hide his grave to stop me pissing on it.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry but unless spinal cord cancer beat him half to death, shot him in the head, and dumped him in the river, karma did not in fact win
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
This is true because he's literally a nazi and there is only one acceptable way to handle a nazi. I should know; my grandfather got shot in the mouth while he helped to pioneer the nazi-removal technique
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope it happens again, frankly.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
Trump is in the Epstein files and if you let him deport children without due process it is child trafficking. With no proof where they're going or who is recieving them, the only answer is that this pedophile is selling them into sex-slavery. That's the narrative. Challenge them to disprove it.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
The reason they don't want you comparing them to Nazis is because they don't want you to think of THEM when you remember that there is only one surefire way to deal with Nazis.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
Happy Labor Day. Take a moment to remember all the hard working men who the Pinkertons murdered at various strikes and protests, and all the middle management that unionizers beat to within an inch of their lives to convince the rich that civility was actually a top-down proposition
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
I'll be dead in the cold hard ground before I let some banker tell me what I'm allowed to fucking read. Deleting my paypal and venmo accounts today, enough is enough.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, I remember this. BPD was part of my weekly webcomic rotation for YEARS. I really adored these characters, you made them so easy to love
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Not enough crazed laughter, but this does feel like THE definitive Joker. All the experimentation with different aspects of the character has been really interesting, but at some point you have to get back to campy, purple basics
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I know it's important for kids to see adults have conversations and get chances to participate and cut their teeth on more nuanced arguments, but sometimes I really wish kids had a separate internet for everyone's sake. But life has never been like that anywhere really. So that's my problem.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Like I said, she's a dead ringer for Zoe
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean young in the sense that she's younger than me instead of an old woman. Early thirties. Small world, too, it turns out she grew up in the next town over from mine. We might have passed each other in the mall and never known
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Wow this is amazing. They're putting $5 million into canceling medical debt for families. And for every million the movie makes at the box office, another million in medical debt will get paid off!
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh so THAT'S where I got my totally original thought from
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Happened to McConnell twice on camera. They were mostly able to hush that up. If it happens to Trump mid-ramble it's over, he'll look weak.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Only children have such a total lack of nuance, and the fact that any of us have to get on here and contend with a middle-schooler's opinion is a condemnation of the entire internet
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally. I finally have a use for this nsfw meme.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
Thoughts and prayers, but what I'm thinking about and praying for are against the TOS
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
This is one of those things that is just a bit too specific to be staged. My grandmother was this way with dolls and porcelain figures, thousands of them displayed on every flat surface in her home. It was a very "normal" thing for a certain generation. This is the vibe of a widow going to a home
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Those original Navi works you did are some of the best you've ever done in my opinion, and I'm not even a fan of those films at all. Your version is brilliant and I hope you make more art like this
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks, it means a lot that you'd say that.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
If anything wealth produces an addiction, and an inferiority complex demanding continuous performance and productivity. There is never a surplus, people's lifestyles grow to match their income. I want to help people learn how to THINK. Happiness only comes when you truly understand why you lack it.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't believe money actually does anything for mental health besides temporarily alleviating financial stress. There's no denying money can save your life in the US; but we've seen the richest men on earth utterly spiral in public from the mildest criticism. Their money has bought them no peace.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously he's acting like this is his great contribution to all human culture, his magnum opus, when literally nobody asked for Dances with Wolves meets Avatar: The Last Airbender in space. It's entirely derivative and contributes nothing meaningful. I've never heard anyone mention the plot, ever.
Yer Ol' Uncle Dal (@dalstrus.bsky.social)
I want so badly to actually help people. Not just listen and empathize, but actually guide them, help them cope, and help them think in healthy ways and make realistic goals they can follow through with. I'm learning but it's slow. And I feel like I'm a decade late to something I was meant to do.