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Opinion | Blue States are Unaffordable. The Price Will be Political. Americans are fleeing unaffordable blue states — and they’re taking the electoral college with them.

The failure of blue states to build enough housing or take steps to combat displacement is going to continue to lead to population loss that makes winning nationally even harder.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

the reason they are going to ban care for trans kids is because they want to kill trans kids. that is not a bug it is a feature

Turned 36 this weekend, doin ok

Can we get verified blue checkmarks added to this site so I don't look like a fucking loser nobody whenever i post please. Thank you.

Friendly reminder to all my queer and trans people who can't see their families this holiday season that you are amazing and they don't know what they are missing out on.

Cannot fit all the text here (it is available in the linked article.) It begins: Starship Troopers (1997)—“Jean Rasczak” MI: It’s interesting, because I read that book—that’s Robert Heinlein, right?—when I was younger. My grandfather gave it to me. He was a paranoid, right-wing kind of guy. He wrote that whole kind of political, right-wing idea in the book, which was, like, “If you’re not willing to kill for your country, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” And he wrote a citizen’s manual after that, because he was so paranoid of the Communist scourge and anything that wasn’t straight up Republican American at the time. He was also a cross-dresser, I think, if I remember right. At the very least, he wrote a book right after that about this old man who had his brain transplanted into a young woman’s body [I Will Fear No Evil], and the book is just this constant going on and on about fetishes, about the way the nylon feels on his skin and the silk on his ass and all this shit. He was a very strange dude. I knew all this going in because my dad’s father was a member of the original Sci-Fi Club, which was Frank Herbert and a bunch of other writers before they were published. I actually read Dune out of a shoebox, and scrawled across the front of it was… Frank Herbert had written, “John: See if you can find any bugaboos in this. Frank.” It’s still kicking around. I think one of my nephews has it. But, anyway, I knew all this, but I also knew where Paul [Verhoeven] comes from, being a war rat, after the second World War, so I was, like, “Why is he doing this right-wing manifesto piece?” We’d already done Total Recall by this point, so I said to him, “Look, before I sign onto this, Paul, you want to tell me what you’re going to do with the material?” He said, “Are you questioning me?” He’s a very inflexible character… and a friend! So he said that, with his Dutch accent, and I said, “I want to know, because this is a right-wing manifesto!” He said, “All right, I’ll answer y…

Here's the incredible anecdote from Ironside's AV Club Random Roles interview, which is a lot better than I remembered it to be.
www.avclub.com/michael-iron...

My apologies to all the political podcasts I usually have because there’s no way I’m listening to them for a few months but congratulations to all the podcasts where guys review old episodes of TJ Hooker or various menu items at the Cheesecake Factory because you’re in the queue

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚
One movie 🎥
One album 💿
One TV show 📺

Looked cute felt cute. Might start posting on here more. I dunno

Carl Sagan: (reincarnated as smart fridge as punishment for promoting science over religion) Yᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ʟᴏᴡ ᴏɴ ᴍɪʟᴋ

Me: Ugh, these things are so annoying. I wish my fridge didn’t talk

Carl Sagan: (desperately trying to say “It’s me, Carl Sagan! I’m trapped in here!”) Aʟᴇʀᴛ﹕ Mᴜsᴛᴀʀᴅ ᴇxᴘɪʀᴇᴅ

Malifaux is a weird game but it has some phenomenal sculpts!

Voyager scene. Harry Kim is standing on the bridge and smiling like the happy go lucky ensign he is, while a person just off screen holding a phaser is firing it directly into his chest.

These are so cool!! Where did you get the heads?

My take on Blood Angels! I think the dark grey does a nice job of breaking up all that red.

new frontiers in "my grandkids have to like my fb posts"

Hams

Ishmael: Do you ever think about dying. I do and when I do I go on a boat. I woke up with another man’s arm around me and it was nice. So-

Melville: Sorry but I have to interrupt. Does anyone know what whale waterspouts are. I think I figured it out

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation with 2023 eyes and it really looks like they're traveling on the U.S.S. Vaporwave.

Brain worms claims another

I saw this image in an article about dated interior design details and joke's on you pal, I would strangle someone to live in this house with a conversation pit

Orca mothers keep 5-tonne sons out of trouble Post-menopausal killer whales protect their adult sons from fights, research shows.

large adult sons

Alright, youre new here, so lemme tell you how it works. On this site, we are all Blue Mages. We can only use magic stolen from other users. We win arguments by posting lists of our health problems. And we Never. Quote tweet. Doulas

triples is best

Dude in front of me at yoga don't touch my feet while you're stretching on your back challenge (impossible)

age 23, after being on my feet for 9 hours around boiling hot steam ovens: feeling pretty bushed but i think i can still go out tonight

age 34, after sitting at the computer for 3 hours: i am more tired than anyone in human history has ever been tired before