sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
its pretty cool? i was obsessed with City Trial back in the day and would love a way to scratch that itch
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its pretty cool? i was obsessed with City Trial back in the day and would love a way to scratch that itch
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
What an odd fantasy If you want to get arrested for the cause, you have to actually do something lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah its just 14 words hiding behind the worlds barest bush
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
things should! we should prepare to take care of an aging population with fewer resources to do so now, so we arent scrambling at the last minute. We can make investments in eldercare, healthcare access, housing, etc and then it wont be an issue. we dont need to be forcing ppl to breed, though
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Reply to this with a link to a kind thing you've said on this website this week
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
oh and obviously usa bad so stalin good lmao
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i dont really know how to get people to understand that near-term outcomes are at least as important as general ideological goals, and that a solution that mirrors what you say you want on paper from a distance, if you squint can still be a bad outcome for you
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i see this behavior from lazy leftists a lot in like, every situation. Some real examples ive seen: - joining the military is bad, so banning trans people is good - IP law is bad so AI stealing art from hungry artists is good - nafta/free trade/imf etc are bad so tariffs are good
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey I'm all for it. But I just don't know how in the world you get 2/3 of states on board for, well, anything
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
its a good thought, but the 2nd amendment and resulting jurisprudence is more or less unique. it means the US really can't just emulate most other laws without a major change to our constitution, which is really politically non-viable. i think the best chance is probably red-flag laws more than bans
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
maybe if youre getting these mentions from thousands of accounts, it says more about you than about any of the individual people responding to you also i agree with based professor gayballs
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
oh! lol yeah thats a rodent
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
im only like, passingly interested in any of this but its like maybe the clearest-cut example ive seen on this website all month
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
describing someone as a rodent is like, textbook dehumanization. youre describing a human as a not-human, and moreover as something considered a pest or vermin (which is unfair, rats are dope). check out this handy article and ctrl+f animal if youd like to learn more :)
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
merriam-webster dictionary defines dehumanizing as
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
that's the best part, its like playing russian roulette with your friendships
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
im just having some fun, i know youre dehumanizing councilors lol i didnt realize saying "you sure are an angry person" was trying to steal someones voice, but im nothing if not a lifelong learner so I guess I will take it to heart
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
im friends with furries, youre going to have to be more specific lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i mean if you think you can revoke the 2nd amendment after 250 years of jurisprudence and with the majority of states in the nation being staunchly pro-gun, go right on ahead
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
youre so mad because i pointed out that your buddy is mad a lot. pretty funny stuff
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
"this is a free social media space" and im allowed to be an asshole too lmao
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
3.5 million people a year die in the US. Do you know how many thousands of people you would need, even in an ideal world, to thoroughly search the property of everyone who died? And it's not ideal -- plenty of people who die live 150 miles or more from the nearest city. The budget would be huge
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah yes let's just spin up the federal department of illegal search and seizure to show up when your mom dies and hastily toss through all her things on the off chance she might've had an old .22
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i dunno i do think someone who spends this much time wilding out should probably hear it from somebody
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i am certainly a freak, anyway
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
go read any 10 posts by the person i replied to and tell me if you think anything i, a communist anarchist leftist transgender gay oddball, have to say would result in a productive conversation
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i think you mean "should be very pushed into the ocean depths, never to return"
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
my friend, how is your blood pressure today? Have you considered reducing your salt intake?
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Your anti trans hate is so disgusting and vile that not even the most baseless and virulent accusation of racism will save you. You are scum and I hope you spend the rest of your days alone, unloved, and forgotten by history
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Like on one hand, yes this stance clearly aligns with my priors, but on the other, if it was a random adult human we could probably treat it the same so I don't think I'm being particularly unreasonable
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social)
Call me a radical or a censorious Luddite or whatever but I don't think it's wild, when you hear about the device that drives children to suicide, to want to kill it with hammers
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
theyre complaining about "undetected weapons" in the library, which is so odd? the implement used here was a single box cutter, which is legal as far as i can tell to have in a library. Not to say a stabbing isnt awful, but it's not a situation that will be fixed with their desired overpolicing
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
We don't villainize gen x nearly enough lmao
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
catch me smuggling american street fight footage to europe by balloon like its a letter to my estranged family in west berlin
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
petroyuans looking tastier and tastier i guess
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
back in the day i had like 3 stacked adblockers, 2 of which were just for catching in-line ads, and even then it was like every 3rd or 4th post. horrible, horrible place lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
better than most of the slop on there i'd imagine. i appreciate your updates on how shit it is so whenever i'm missing my meta account i can remember why i closed it lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social)
I will never get over how pathetic the fascist terror towards cities is. A city is a vivacious, beautiful, rich, delight. These people are missing out on the greatest everyday celebration of life because they watched too much propaganda.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Lmao grow up Go walk down the street in any city in the country. You'll be totally fine
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
it literally did happen
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
he cannot win. progressives hate him because he's a soulless hateful freak. conservatives hate him because they watch fox news and want him to be executed. there is no way he can build a coalition broad enough to win.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i believe in some circles this is known as "brunch" :))
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sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
abbott is an abject monster but surely you can be better than this
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh you know the second he does there's going to be a feeding frenzy though. Just the most disgusting and cynical freak show you can imagine
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
every single one of those places has an instagram these days. they probably dont even need new photos
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
ive never seen carrots that look so distinctly like both grubs and human fingers
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sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
nobody does enclosure quite like Big Tobacco
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social)
we were too harsh on vape guys in the 20 teens. If we still had our juicy soldiers blowing the fattest clouds day in and out, maybe they could block out the sun and cool the earth.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
* this list is not exhaustive
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
anyone willing to compromise on: - whether it's ok to assault and rob the unhoused - the rights of gender and sexuality minorities - literal genocide will not only be someone I don't vote for, but someone I try my utmost to undermine at every step and at any cost
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sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
in most cases this probably isnt enough to move the needle, and certainly doesnt change consumer behavior. and the fact that this will probably only get more disparate due to labor costs rising is absolutely true. but when calculating waste theres a lot more involved than purchase cost alone
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
this is true but incomplete. The literal purchase price is only a portion of the total cost of what you are describing. The environmental impact from manufacturing and shipping, disposal costs/environmental impacts of the waste produced by throwing out the thing you are replacing, etc are costs too
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm always floored when I think about the folks in my hometown who won our kneeling buses with their literal bodies on the line, chaining themselves to buses as they pulled up to stops
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Ofc ymmv, I'm neither of those cultures
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
One note, you can get either bags (they're more like beanbags than normal teabags honestly) and that's really popular, but I find the loose...grain? tea to have a fuller flavor as well. Culturally my understanding is that the Japanese tradition is to use bags and Korean tradition is to use loose.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, absolutely, it's often cold brewed. I prefer hot brew and then chill it overnight, because you get a fuller, sharper flavor, but cold brew is quite good itself and very refreshing. I make about a gallon at a time, put it in liter bottles, and leave it in the fridge overnight, usually.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Yay! The world deserves more and so do you lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
I got into it this year and guzzle the stuff
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
More places should serve barley tea. It's so refreshing and healthy and nice
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this anything lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Machines should speak the hymnal tones of binaric like the omnissiah intended
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social)
Trying to work out how to relate to right wingers "It's like if the gender ATF find out you have a high-capacity syringe so they roll up and shoot your penis"
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
They are scared and don't like it, the same thing that makes anything else woke
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tattoos are a soulslike experience for your flesh
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
its not like any other aspect of our transportation system is particularly concerned with preserving human life, to be fair
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i couldve imagined a cis lesbian if pressed but wow
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
wait....SWH was cis men? 🤯
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
you can see this well with economics too. reagan popularized neoliberalism but could never have imagined the successes in austerity implementation that clinton managed, because he did it with a D on his name
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
its an apt metaphor and worth noting that the gloved fist is actually MORE dangerous than a bare one, because it allows you to ultimately punch harder just so, having some plausible deniability means you can get much more dangerous assaults on rights than naked bigotry does.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
But you want to destroy their union? So clearly you at least don't care about their rights. And like, still pretty wild to consign members of the proletariat to that fate even if you do disagree with each other
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay so let me make sure I understand you. Because of your political grievances against random individual voters, you want to completely destroy labor protections and the right to organize to the sole benefit of trillionaire auto companies. Do I have that correct?
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Being propagandized doesn't mean you deserve slavery what the fuck
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry but stealing and destroying the shelters of destitute people is monstrous. there is no excuse. Examine your life and grow a soul.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
For one, his gleeful and murderous physical and legal assaults on his unhoused constituents?
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
My rights arent a purity test you freak. If you want to accept someone being under the bus, throw your own body there
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol I was watching some videos of these NDs the other day, hilarious stuff
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
theres an easy enough alternative here, you know. pick a better candidate who doesnt pander to fascists
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
so tell me what exactly any of this has to do with people accepting gavin newsom 3 years in advance?
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social)
look not to bully some rando but holy shit how boneheaded do you have to be to think the military controlled by the same fascists as ICE would ever be on your side against ICE? liberals man i stfg
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah us dirty little transes should just accept being fed into a woodchipper for the sake of all libs who have to miss brunch
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
ok thats not fair. sometimes it's transphobia!
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social)
every blue no matter who freak spends every waking moment white-knuckling their keyboard until their next opportunity to mask their virulent homophobia by framing it as an insult to trump
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
fellas is it wrong to be from a place?
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
I just don't really see the distinction
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
So then being a sex worker is bad? Idk I guess I don't know why y'all can't just phrase your theories as "trump is beholden to Putin through blackmail" without psychosexual hatred towards marginalized communities being involved lol
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
so like is the joke that being gay is bad? or what are you trying to say here?
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sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
props, get his ass. im across the country but wishing you all the success
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
this isnt rent control. its rent stabilization. they are two wildly different concepts and exist as separate programs in nyc. rent stabilization just sets the rate at which rents can be raised on an existing tenant, rent control sets the maximum price for rent. Come on.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
unrelated to your point but this is my fav part about jeffries opening his little mouth
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
ok bud nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
also if we're going to play this game, jeffries has no room to point fingers nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
i mean if youre asking me i think rent stabilization is far too conservative a proposition and that we should march all landlords into the sea instead. but yeah given this is the world we live in, i dont see anything wrong with someone living in their own home for years.
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
youre right, because it isnt even rent control its rent stabilization
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
How many nyc voters do you think care that someone lives in a rent-stabilized, moderately priced apartment where they've resided for many years
sparkles (@sparkie.bsky.social) reply parent
cringe