considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
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considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
In Polish when someone provides false or unsubstantiated information with confidence, they are described as having taken it from IDzD. IDzD stands for Instytut Danych z Dupy (the Institute of Out-of-your-Ass Data).
Only pregnant female mosquitoes drink blood, to nourish their eggs. So when you get bit by a mosquito, you are contributing to the miracle of new life!
Tepid take: in-universe, pokemon battles are basically dogfighting
The Pokemon ouevre has so many clunkers that I searched for lists of "dumbest Pokemon" and found a solid Several lists of the 25-30 dumbest Pokemon, with only a scant handful of overlaps.
There’s a Spanish version of "out of the frying pan and into the fire" that puns on the word mala meaning bad and the word peor meaning worse. It goes salir de Guatemala y meterse en Guatepeor, which means “to leave Guate-bad and end up in Guate-worse.”
If you're interested in the well being of men, you should be interested in the well being of prisoners, and their ability to move into honorable lives after they get out
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
maga joining the War On Cancer on the side of cancer
I can’t actually tell people I don’t understand why they hate technology, but I think they’re going down a dark path with it and it personally offends me, but I also hate the people who’ve given people cause to hate my religion (technological progress)
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
I was thinking about the moral atrocity that is Qualified Immunity, and I think the same reasoning applies: If a person has power over others, it should be *easier* to hold them accountable, not harder. With great power should come great accountability.
oh my god they invented a specific "don't change articles just bc of shit trump says that will never be followed up on" wikipedia policy
tired: a man who is not a liberal at nineteen has no heart and a man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
This one is about time travel.
After Illinois Democrats abolished cash bail crime went down significantly. Jail for low level offenses is criminogenic. It CREATES MORE CRIME.
we would have so many fewer problems if everyone would just do the ideal thing and not do the wrong thing
time to open the Bad News app and scroll until I see a cat
Because it's hard to ski into closed doors, of course.
One annoying thing is we have a president who couldn't pass a U.S. citizenship test, where they ask 8th grade level social studies questions
My favourite word for a mobile phone is the Zulu umakhalekhukhwini. It means something along the lines of "the one that wails in your pocket" I should also mention (because I'm currently in Sweden) that in 80s Swedish slang a mobile phone was sometimes known as a yuppienalle, or "yuppie teddy bear"
Hypothetical parody account never precisely specifies what would be the correct necktie. Actual me certainly couldn't possibly say what this hypothetical parody account could have in mind.
Dark parody of Menswear Guy, but the only menswear advice on offer is that Trump & cronies are always wearing 'the wrong necktie'.
How is it that anybody thinks any accent remotely competes in the same league as Irish? Italian, you say? French? PFAUGH, I scoff! Accents for fools!
The overriding goal of the mission -- get Voyager and her crew home safely -- was frequently in opposition to the laws of the Federation and Starfleet regulations, or to human morality.
How else do you explain something like an online cult which finds no higher purpose, no greater collective joy, than goading its members into suicide or mass murder for laughs? And how do you construct a politics or a moral philosophy that deals with that?
Heinlein was fascism curious but also into the idea of someone banging their gender flipped clones and had multiple stories where the main character transitioned He contained multitudes
Tom Clancey's Charlotte's Web
Earnestness and sincerity, now, are the greatest acts of rebellion and your duty is to do them.
Also: You're presumably not sexually attracted to everything you eat. It's entirely possible you're not sexually attracted to *anything* you eat. Why would succubi be any different? I'd even expect *most* succubi to be asexual.
I think about the original meaning of "fish", describing basically anything that lives in the water. Then biology science got invented, & took it upon itself to attach a new definition to "fish", under which a heck of a lot of things called "fish" no longer qualify (jellyfish, starfish, shellfish).
"The Democrats have failed which is why they must turn over the the Black People controller I know they have over to me & my DSA friends."
"Men are disturbed not by events, but by the view that they take of them" Epictetus
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
I propose we become swarms of insects and go to deep into the forest where the dark fairies dwell, and there draw on powers forgotten by the living and even the dead to seek the aid of those who dwell beyond the veil of knowledge and sanity
It’s honestly kind of impressive how MAGA guys bleat about traditional masculinity but then embody none of the actual virtues (courage, discipline, honesty in the face of difficulty, self-control, restraint) that make up traditional Western masculinity.
Just so with the human body: clothing, spectacles, piercings, tattoos, gender/sex transition, are all acts of worship through participation in the act of Creation.
the debate about rural hospital closures' impacts isn't actually about what to do about it, we have no levers for that it's about "who are we going to spend our energy feeling pity for" and the answer is absolutely not people who voted for this to happen (their kids, yes. but that's another topic)
You know what leads to far, far more youth suicides than chatbots ever could?The fact that it’s basically legal for parents to do literally almost anything to children and to teach them even the most regressive values and expectations and there’s no norm even among liberals to do anything about this
Still in Norway enjoying the fjords. Well done, Slartibartfast.
People bragging about being in Mensa is the funniest shit to me. EXCUSE ME SIR I have a certificate to the Society of Smart People
the Nazis had a pretty nasty suicide— well, problem’s the wrong word
my dude literally out there tilting at windmills
When I'm at a Chinese restaurant (or w/e) enjoying another culture's food, & a middle-eastern Muslim (or w/e) family is there also enjoying a different culture's food: warms the very cockles of my heart.
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
The next Democratic administration needs to strip all the gold and icons out of the White House like radical Dutch Calvinists in the 1500s
if you’re willing to throw another population under the bus to save yourself, you’re not actually willing to fight fascism. fascism isn’t a bear, it can’t be escaped by simply outrunning someone slower than you. the only way it can be defeated is through solidarity.
Trump has touched the money and corporate elites aren’t calling him illegitimate They’re going to lose money. He’s literally taking their shit and torching global trade. This is not about money. This is religious zealots who want you to be a slave to their evil god.
They hate us for our freedoms
Star-nosed moles are what happens when you do illithid ceremorphosis to a regular mole.
I endorse the Pocket Bard app for this purpose @pocketbard.bsky.social
So I took over GMing for a bit and the adventure hook is that somebody taught all the parrots in this region the verbal component to magic missile.
"Be yourself" = perform a self I find appealing. If I don't find it appealing, it's not your true self. "Don't use focus-group language" = use cliches I find appealing. If I don't find it appealing, it's been focus grouped and is inauthentic.
Biden should have nuked Tiktok from orbit
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
For the non-physics-nerds in the audience, that calories per second is a unit of energy over time means it is technically correct to state the nutritional value of cooking spray in horsepower. The cooking spray in my pantry is labelled 8 dietary calories/second, which works out to ~45 horsepower.
Homer Plessy was in and of himself an example why segregation is nonsense — if somebody's part-white and part-Black, you've gotta pull some King Solomon split-the-baby stuff to really make segregation work at all sensically.
jc without context:
I went a couple decades before I ever saw a wild bunny in the city; now I see them constantly. If this reflects an actual change, I would suspect it has to do with the broad cultural normalization of keeping dogs leashed & cats indoors (both inherently good things too).
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
I fundamentally don't understand sexual infidelity. It seems a lot of effort and tsuris for a complete non-reward.
Yes. But the worst thing about doomerism, as I will never STOP saying, is that it is not TRUE, we are NOT doomed, and "willfully believing things that are not true because they feel good and right to you" is wrong. It's immoral. It is what our enemies do. So stop it.
The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi (imperfections that make a thing better than perfect)
saw a blue salmon swimming upstream to spawn today
I'm pro-abortion in that I think freedom to get an abortion is an individual and societal good. The only sense in which I'm not pro-abortion: I don't think it should ever be forced or coerced. But ultimately I'm just anti-force & anti-coercion, & abortion is irrelevant to that.
cry havoc! and let skitter the spiders of war
It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.
basically *everyone* bet the farm on "we can free ride morally and logistically on blue voters in swing states to prevent this guy from getting back into office" in order to avoid confronting the moral depravity of the massive portion of the electorate who want to do and see evil
In fairness to shoelaces, footwear customization options are limited outside of laces; straight-up buying custom shoes; or, like, gibbets or whatever if you're wearing crocs.
We’re always like “why did Mayan civilization collapse?” Or whatever and based on recent experience I think the answer is that everyone simply became stupid all at once
I'm honestly not sure what to do about the media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents
Remember when Madison Cawthorn was like “I got invited to the congressional Republican sex orgy but I declined because it was a little too weird for me, a guy who had gay sex with his cousin” and his career was nuked from orbit by an oppo dump and you never heard from him again?
went to clearsky for an unrelated reason and just peeked at the blocklists i’m on which range from “shitlib” to “MAGA,” “pro-AI” to “anti-AI” and everything in between lmao don’t believe every list you see, the majority are run by unhinged people with no social skills who also can’t read
the crisis with masculinity is that we don’t let boys have plushies
The wizard is snuggled into his bed, reading a novel about a dragon. The little cat is curled up above his head, on the pillow.
Of note: - a "pepper" is one thing - add "-oni" to the end and it's a second thing (pepperoni: a kind of sausage) - add "-cin-" near the end and it's the first thing again (pepperoncini: a kind of pepper)
the thing about all the "woke" language that people think Democrats should stop using is, it is actually less woke than what people could have been saying. I don't think people understand that the alternative to saying "heteronormative" is saying "bigoted motherfuckers"
wait i'm sorry the ruling to shut down the florida concentration camp was about its environmental impact?????? YIMBYs in shambles
Rewatched D&D: Honor Among Thieves yesterday. This movie *slaps*. Amazingly good, fun movie, but with a heart, and also an accurate and funny representation of a D&D campaign.
A barrel is a ridiculous container to hold crackers. No structure, no protection, FAR too deep, hard round edges. Those things are crumbling to dust immediately. I’m assuming this is what we’re all talking about because anything else would be absurd,,
Here’s my meanest childfree opinion (that I do not think should actually be implemented): aquariums should be treated like museums, not zoos. People should be very quiet and respectful of HOWEVER LONG I need to commune with the jellyfish.
Everything about Texas history is loathsome. That’s the root problem with Texas.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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And when I contradict lore I previously established? I lean very heavily on "nobody IC can ever know anything for certain, and we're just seeing through their eyes".
Folks talk so much about England's half-millennium-long history of conquering everybody else that they forget its several times longer history of being conquered by everybody else.
My "slavery is bad, but..." tshirt is provoking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.
feel like it's very straightforward for state-level dems to loudly proclaim as they pass state-level gerrymanders that congress is explicitly empowered to ban gerrymandering nationwide and should do so if republicans don't like it, and that in fact democrats would enact that outcome if elected
Screw it, be the vernacular you want to see in the world: "hautboy" is now a synonym for "twink".
What if they're against capital letters because they're so against capitalism? Or they're bell hooks or e.e. cummings?
“Advanced learners benefit from thinking of the writer as an artist whose grammatical choices represent different brush strokes made to different effects.” - Ayanna Thompson & Laura Turchi