Unimpressed Dinosaur Redux

when you frame taxation as Taking Your Own Goddam Money Away you are reinforcing the right’s message that you are a sucker, a patsy, if you believe in civil society

I wish the Pleasant Company, creators of the American Girl Doll brand, made more plastic tubing. Then the packaging could say (Pleasant Company extruded)

it’s gonna be about addiction and have one to three women with long dark hair and blue eyes

Interesting that you think nuclear bombs are particularly bad... I'm sure there were a few bronze age fellows who thought similarly about iron spearheads 😏

It often feels like they got rid of all the jobs I’d be good at

could be a both/and but in my defense they’ve gotten rid of all the jobs I’d be good at

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

I regret that my deep suspicion of "Showing Up for Racial Justice" turned out to be entirely founded

i love this thomas dolby song. so much mood and melancholy just in the arrangement, before you even get to the lyrics www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbhK...

Give her a letter of marque imo

is “the main character” on bluesky ever someone who posted something truly out of pocket, or is it always gonna be an imperfectly worded claim getting spun out into something it isn’t via a million bad faith readings or a repost from Twitter

i want someone to write a hot take essay about which animals technically count as equine so someone else can write a meta-take on the debate and we can have A Horse Is A Horse Discourse Discourse

societies typically talk about human cognition as working similarly to whatever is seen as the latest and greatest technology. that’s why we currently describe the brain as a roguelike deckbuilding game about characters making their way up a spire

the president is doing Being There remixed Vic Berger glitch style. reality is coming at you in saccades and waves all chopped and screwed. you should probably not drive or operate heavy machinery while aware of current events

maine's political makeup is not 'loves nazis': i'd categorize it by right wing northerners and liberal southerners (who oft deeply crave a 'reasonable republican').

you're witnessing a hole created by a party that just doesn't have it in them to go *hard* against nazi shit, hasn't for years.

the way people talk about movies here is annoying and it makes it hard to tell what’s actually good. the secret agent was great though, go see that

a lot of people on this website did kinda act like OBAA was some kind of Statement that it wasn’t (also like it was funny)

the thing is that if you actually think that trans people in sports are a Real Issue, you are dangerously stupid, and I'm not voting for anybody dangerously stupid for any leadership role, ever. that simple.

Similar rise in people calling other people “degenerate” without bothering to think about the history of that turn of phrase

like for as long as you live people will be like mocking you and calling you a misogynist and acting like you committed a war crime at the age of 10 for wanting to watch something that isnt Barbie and Her Animal Friends Brush Their Hair

The snake is the eel of the land and the eel is the snake of the water. There are also water snakes, which are the land eels of the water. Sometimes eels go across land as well, which makes them the water snakes of the land (distinct from water snakes, which are land eels of the water, as mentioned)

Typical Macavity

Semicolons can’t become outdated because a semicolon isn’t a technology the way a VHS tape is. A semicolon is just a convenient notation for a form of grammatical relationship that appears in language when articulating ideas. Eliminating or changing the notation doesn’t obviate the relation.

muting the words “Stephen king” will helpfully automatically eliminate everyone discussing platner who isn’t from Maine because that’s the only thing they know about Maine and they’re all proud of it for some reason

*Slaps roof of Klein bottle* this baby can- hang on

Ideally you shouldn't be making people feel like they want to go live off grid in a desperate attempt to escape what you're doing

when you know a language

why is my stress response to become more and more pedantic? did this help, somehow, in nature?