Laocoon

They know full well this is a propaganda machine before it is anything else.

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Today can go fuck itself. Not a single good thing happened, and like six terrible things happened in succession, and it can go fuck itself. Fuck.

I made a meme for my lawyer today. Apologies to all adjacent lawyers, I am just going through it.

At this point, I am nearly ready to go pro se. The email I just received is so confused about my case that it absolutely must be for another client.

We need a yelp for lawyers, man, I don't know. There's no way for the average person to know if they've picked a good one, right?

I have made the most delightfully thick wild rice soup and it's such a wonderful dinner with a foamy beer in my father's stein and... some Rick and Morty.

Sue me, I love it.

Trump is using our country to make money for himself and his friends.

I hope there's a hell. I really do. I understand why we invented the thing every time I look at him and realize that he will do whatever he wants, and no one will stop him on this earth.

Big thanks to the online prepper supply that sent me 24 MREs instead of 12 by accident. These are now clocking in at 2$ per meal and that's a fucking steal.

These people are not going to like the endpoint of the logic that liberalism is totalitarianism because it's gonna look a hell of a lot like exactly what they claim not to want.

It doesn't need to make sense. All it needs to do is push the rage button and people will internalize it as truth.

We all know that that's what makes it propaganda and you know who is awesome at propaganda? I hate that "every accusation is a confession" bs but, well, come on.

Not high enough, apparently.

But isn't that one fucking KYOOT kitty?

Saltiness has made me not a perfect invitee to the woman's day parade. I'd prefer my government to stop the reinvention of marriage as a trap.

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No one wants to hear your opinion on national women's day or whatever the fuck, Lao.

Here's a cute kitty instead.

I no longer understand what the word "support" means. People seem to be using it for a million different ideas that are economic, political, social, religious, cultural, and more. It's become a very loose metaphor that seems to be doing a LOT of work but I can't put my finger on what.

I've been in my job for a long time now and this is exactly what's happened to me. I'm totally boiling and just pretending it's normal. Im so glad you saw a positive change!

Not feeling the monday. I would like the monday to retreat, across the horizon and into the distance, far, far away.

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What is the trajectory for THAT? How do you get better?

This "too bad, so sad" shit he's laying on is insulting. That man has never suffered or done a hard thing in his life, has never displayed virtue, and I would like to slap the names of every military service person out of his mouth.

Sorry, I'm so aggravated by his cavalier disregard.

Im tired in a way that no rest seems to help. I think I'm actually afraid of resting because I know it doesn't help and it destroys my little fiction about if I could just get some time, I could recover.

Sad about it.

On god, the ONLY reason I didn't believe it was because of the head covering. This could literally, honestly, and completely be the timeline we are living in.

I was so stunned by the fact that they were even issuing a "peace prize" that I forgot to remember this fact.

I don't know how much I trust this translation, but it's very searchable. Problems of taxonomy are problems of translation as much as problems of evolution and/or reality. Lots to think about.

This sounds interesting. I don't remember seeing thistles a lot on old pharmocopeia, but then I've only read a couple and some not very thoroughly.

Book three of Bald's has five mentions though!

leechbookiii.github.io/search.html

Is it a thistle?

I spend almost every moment of my life in one of these two states (also anger!) so maybe I realize just now that I'm not the person to answer that one.

I mean... I think these work for hurt and sad too sometimes?

Is this old age? It feels like old age. My brain is doing the same thing.

It occurs to me that we may have different understandings of "tough," but for me it's the opposite of freaking out.