TechnicallyOwen

two men standing next to each other with the words be excellent to each other ALT: two men standing next to each other with the words be excellent to each other

A core tenet of my moral philosophy

Airport Noise NIMBYism It would be a mistake to allow the preferences of a vocal but minuscule minority of citizens, however sympathetic their circumstances, to impede much-needed improvements in aviation.

The numbers are really something www.mercatus.org/research/pol... San Fransisco international gets almost a million noise complaints a year but almost all of them come from less than 10k people

The people who move in to an area with an airport or a live music venue and submit tonnes of noise complaints is my go to example of this when people have looked into it it's always 90+% from one or two people obsessively complaining because they have nothing better to do with their time

It's a hard one to follow it's the absolute peak of his writing before the embuggerment struck even with all of the other wonderful books from that period nightwatch is an absolute stand out.

this 3 act story has something for everyone

Just helping him cool down in the heatwave

I wonder if perfect match had any Sapphic Dryad romances to accompany those tacos

Republicans really are such feeble creatures

If it helps I'm a big fan of those titties

Wow big turn out for a TERF demonstration and they even found someone under 40 by the looks of things that's like the Shiny Pokémon of TERFs (and usually they are looking embarrassed after being drag there by their mum)

When I explain the fandom

Technically in the UK nudity is legal as long as it doesn't cause actual alarm or disturbance" but you'll still get arrested and there's a bunch of other stuff they can charge you with like contempt of court en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

Unrelated but that image of VD Jimmy and Lammy looks like a promo picture for an Oscar bait movie about an autistic Savant and his unexpected carer

Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market | CNN Business An island with a renovated fort in Wales, United Kingdom, has recently gone on sale for $4 million.

For all your zombie apocalypse needs www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/b...

Usually the same people they want to be angry and miserable at all times but need everyone else to feel worse.

Wilhoits law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

“A Republican is somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew someone else was hungry.”

~Mary Karr

Yeah this is straight out of little brother which is a great read of your looking at what protest looks like in a near future corporate surveillance state as with most of his works the author city Doctorow has it available free on his site if you want to read it and the excellent sequels.

YouTube video by hipoonios Lemmings Blow

I heard the kid saying this in my head youtu.be/sP7njpTd06I

Damn he looks totally different with brown hair and that jacket is gorgeous

Fun fact: Sue, the largest and most complete T. Rex ever found, is officially non-binary. The field museum exclusively uses they/them pronouns for them.

Unfortunately, the museum had forgotten to run this decision by some.. veryyy important & opinionated people.

(Drawing based on a Twitter thread)

Damn AI taking all the good jobs

Poem title: At the Intersection The poem is divided into two overlapping circles. The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads: the day we went out to have an ice-cream, we said nothing just let our silence melt in the air as we walked across the common our love never tiring at all The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads: we should have talked it over but nothing ever seems to get in your fat head. You are so common that I wish we’d never met at all and I’d married Tim instead In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads: we have nothing in common at all

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

The clogged artery line is also a fantastic choice

LOOOOOONG LOOOOOOOOOOOOG MAAAAAAAYYYYNNNNN!

Heal the country = maintain status quo white supremacist patriachy rather than address the underlying cause of the problem

Me too I was quite confused

It would be a better system to be honest

An escaped background character from one of her novels joins BlueSky to shake their fist at their god

Just following people through the streets violently doing dramatic readings at them