i would encourage people interpreting a range of current events as signs broadcasting the imminent death of CIVILIZATION as we know it to instead consider that these might just be signs broadcasting the imminent death of THE INTERNET as we know it, which would be great because the internet sucks now
i did learn to appreciate charli xcx at some point during or after the collective fervor, but. let me put it in a way straights will understand: if you put brat and e•mo•tion in a cage, no holds barred, we all know which one is coming out alive.
jag bains is simply cracked at reality tv. he has to go on survivor next so he can pick up the cbs competition show version of an egot
if charles darwin were alive today, i would like to take him to a grocery store or maybe a convenience store, to see potato chip in endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful. i think he would like that
i've just seen a dracula, or perhaps some kind of a wizard, walk into a bar. the start of a really good joke i am sure
was not disappointed btw
love going in to watch something starring jesse plemons (a close second for my favorite male actor) like "i can't wait for him to make me so uncomfortable by being just generally a very disconcerting guy"
get john fisher to sell the team & then we can talk 😂 as it is i think we're done with them
i know that the aces DESERVE to win the wnba championship, but i don't WANT them to, because i don't want vegas to have winning sports teams, because they keep taking all of oakland's sports teams; does that make sense?
PLEASE read this short thread
ok, fine, here's my take:
i don't want a civil war actually. i do not believe "my team" would magically come out on top in that situation. i do not think it's good that americans all seem to want to kill each other now. i do not like any of this. very controversial of me. wow
modern republicans are so absurd they will ask for better food safety while gutting the regulatory bodies that perform the checks... but even back when the right wing did care to establish some of those bodies, they couldn't help but do it in the stupidest fucking way. party has never been serious
i'm hoping the radioactive shrimp moment is a good time to talk about how the noaa is under the department of commerce, not the department of the interior, purely because richard nixon was mad at wally hickel (interior secretary at the time) for asking him to listen to public sentiment about vietnam
if there was a pill that made people shoot up a school, don't you think the CIA would be using it?
"actually it IS possible for someone to deserve death because of the circumstances of their birth, but in a cool progressive way that is good when we're the ones saying it" do you... do you guys hear yourselves ever?
obviously these are in order from "annoying" to "insanely dangerous". i see the last one manifest as outright genocidal eugenic monstrosity amongst people who claim to be motivated by compassion, & it's heartbreaking. just because all your peers are saying it doesn't mean it's not evil
common forms of critical thinking failure on the left:
•assuming obvious jokes are real because "poe's law" is easier to say than "oops i'm dumb"
•proliferation of bad data or misinformation just because it sells a narrative
•historical revisionism where reality is inconvenient or uncomfortable
i'm not yet ready to say left-wingers & right-wingers are EQUALLY stupid, but i AM ready to say that the average critical thinking level on the left is SO much fucking lower than people seem willing to admit, & we need to confront this, because unlike some of you sad weirdos, i actually want to win
apocalyptic beef right now making big waves in the sad white lady community. i can act as an ambassador if you want to be looped in
it's weird that i still haven't seen the horny tennis movie written by the potion seller guy, given how much it sounds like it was made just for me, but now one of the whitest kids you know made a horror movie?? i can't keep up. next thing i know liam kyle sullivan will be doing a historical drama
sincerely though, why did they write a whole song like "here's some examples of guys i'm interested in: one, a sad-ass clown. two, the gayest man alive." ...??
the chordettes needed therapy
man goes to see doctor, says "i'm depressed. my life has no meaning"
doctor says "really handsome clown in town, pagliacci; probably most kissable clown i've ever seen."
man says "but doctor, i am pagliacci"
doctor says "i know, & we're all four chordettes in a lab coat. can we get your number?"
deeply curious as to what a "stabbing gone right" looks like to this person
the other day my roommate mentioned a friend of hers who i have met, so i asked how he is doing. she said, "i don't know, he's some kind of a fancy guy." thanks, now i just have more questions; mostly: what does that mean??
putting the basketball game on tv while i have the d&d books open planning my campaign because i contain equal parts nerd/geek and jock/cheerleader in immaculate harmony, like yin and yang, embodying the purity in pursuit of imperfection that comprises the universe
also i think it's very special that he was definitely funny enough for microblogging but stayed smart enough never to do it. we could all learn from this
tom lehrer died in a weird world, but he lived to see a few of those. i think he knew it was going to get better even as it gets weirder 🤍
simply BEGGING indie artists to take ONE community college humanities class
i'm not gonna say the name of the most popular offender here but it's a video game. you know which one. the thing i saw today was an entirely unrelated video game based around a similar visual gimmick. shit's lazy and harmful, and i'm tired of seeing it praised as creative in any way
the reason it matters in this particular case is you can tell the artists involved have no idea, or don't seem to care, that an overwhelming number of the "distinctive charming quirks" of the cartoons they are imitating are flat out racist caricatures
