Mockingbird Nation

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Let's have some fun
Respond with the same actor as a hero and villain.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Doing T2 thumbs up as MAGA guys dump me into volcano

These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes!

crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

May he father 100 000.

Anyway I’ll probably cover this today or tomorrow, just trying to figure out how to do so without just giving them the attention they clearly desperately crave:

That one Joint Chief of Staff dude who told Trump to go fuck himself during the Floyd riots, he wasn’t going to order soldiers to shoot civilians?

That’s the kind of conservative I’m cool with. We’d probably hate each other but he had integrity and moral courage.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

Israeli airstrike on a makeshift café on the coast on al-Rashid Coastal Road, north of Deir al-Balah refugee camp, 31.433275, 34.345817.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.

Remove him from office.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Math is hard!

I can’t physically hold a pen long enough to write a novel in long hand but I’ve typed a bunch of them into existence.

I’ve learned a great deal of narrative technique from things that aren’t ‘books’.

This ‘advice’ is useless in a modern era. Stop idolizing it.

A lot of this is elitist nonsense. He was a rich cis het able bodied white man who had servants. The fetishization of ‘writing by hand’ and is just gate keep creating art.

YUP!

He’s a great creator. Highly recommended follow.

Some of the crescent ones you can lean down from horseback and get to skim almost along the ground on a side arm throw. Expert technique though. Not for the faint of heart.

This is Duncan. He's used to being the biggest dog at the vet. But apparently not today. 14/10 for both (TT: animalimaging)

Oct 27 is the day our pets come back from the underworld to see us for Dia De Muertos.

If, on that day, you see me being followed by three German Shepherds and a little golden chihuahua it’s okay.

That’s just my family in for a visit.

Exceptional film joke, no notes

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Bonus Commentary #10 - Avengers: Age of Ultron

@tgshepherdvan.bsky.social and I ice skate uphill against the court of public opinion.
open.spotify.com/show/4w0Q5bX...

Bonus Commentary #10 - Avengers: Age of Ultron

@tgshepherdvan.bsky.social and I ice skate uphill against the court of public opinion.
open.spotify.com/show/4w0Q5bX...