This is the single best metaphor I have ever read. I taught Shakespeare for years, and he never came close to this! I need to write this down (with attribution) so I never forget it!
28.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the single best metaphor I have ever read. I taught Shakespeare for years, and he never came close to this! I need to write this down (with attribution) so I never forget it!
28.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m an Eagle Scout too, and Hegseth is garbage.
27.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0God, I forgot about the random number and letter username from Twitter, and always the same insane rambling.
11.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m really excited for a new Backderf comic!!
08.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I went to Sunday School in the Lutheran Church, but I guess I never read the actual 95 theses before.
05.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The interview process for Palantir
27.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I’m not a golfer, but this post made my whole day! Thanks!
22.01.2026 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I agree with you absolutely!
19.01.2026 01:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, Derf! I needed this!
12.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No no no! It’s not been 40 years! No!
10.01.2026 22:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, yadda yadda
27.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
The bootstrap metaphor began in late nineteenth / early twentieth century to indicate impossibility. “A poor man becoming a millionaire? You might as well try to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.”
21.12.2025 23:05 — 👍 47 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0What awful people! And they are the same who hector us about some War on Christmas!
18.12.2025 00:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I totally agree with you! When I was an English teacher, I’d write for my students as examples of what I was asking them to do and share my writing process. Since I retired in June, I start my day writing for myself, but AI never touches my work. I want all my flaws as a writer to be my own.
18.12.2025 00:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not the same energy
07.12.2025 00:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0MTG Welcome to the Resistance?
22.11.2025 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0JHC, I campaigned and voted for this POS!
04.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0When I was a kid, the jazz in Charlie Brown specials depressed me. Now it makes me feel realllll mellow.
01.11.2025 01:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When I was a Boy Scout in the ‘70s, we had red berets, and I hated it with a passion. Sliwa celebrates my childhood trauma
01.11.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well *that’s* the reason everything sounds so familiar.
01.11.2025 01:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe they can dust off the old Facebook poke function?
01.11.2025 00:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Maybe he asked grok?
29.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve had a few non-genetically related uncles and aunts, including a dude a couple years younger than me
28.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even though I never followed Cilizza, I just went and blocked his dumb ass.
25.10.2025 02:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I write a lot of short stories, not to publish or share, just for myself and some friends, but I’d never freaking use AI. I’m not great or even particularly good, but I have too much self-respect to use slop. My flaws are my own. BTW, you are a great writer!
20.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m watching it right now!
19.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“[Randolph] Carter did not wish to meet a bhole.” I mean, should we tell him not to reach around?
16.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh gods, now the bholes are rustling!
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