Kris Ripper (ze/zir)

When can we kill the myth that the US was founded on "religious freedom"? No, bro. The US was founded by a bunch of controlling Christian nut jobs who were pissy that they didn't get to call the shots in England, and saw the "New World" as a chance to make a country in their image. #stillrelevant

And to make constant excuses for their entitlement, assholery, and bad behavior, as if they are children and any critique is too harsh, including simply asking, "Why should I be invested in your narrative?"

a woman says " i guess it 's just me then " in front of a blue background Alt: A Black woman says "I guess it 's just me then" in front of a blue background and I think it says #FamilyFeudCanada in the top corner, which, I didn't know that's a thing, but if any game should be localized, it's def Family Feud.

Who else shipped Jo Marsh and her bestie Laurie because they were both so obviously queer and the only happy ending was if they married each other and pursued their own independent lives?

I love them! And there are episodes for every mood!

The commentators just bonded over not being able to do the box stretch, and failing the "President's Fitness" every year. (See Maintenance Phase on how bullshit the President's Physical Fitness Test is lol.)

Ok, American football is a fucked up, and high school football is so bullshit on many levels...

But my kid is in the band, so I'm listening to the game livestream (so I don't get there too early), and honestly it's delightful. The other coach just got a sideline penalty for shouting at officials!

Starbucks is probably the best corporation I've ever worked for...because when I worked there, it *chose* to be fairly decent.

This is why we need unions: treating employees ethically should not be a *choice*. When your locals baristas strike, get your latte somewhere else.

I feel like that but also last Xmas we had no money and got like a Dollar Tree Barbie knock-off so also in the back of my mind is THIS COULD ALL BE GONE IN A SPLIT SECOND DON'T GET USED TO IT.

Just a second! A moment! Anything at all!

Though for real, the subhead of all this is "Despite conventional Democrats' best efforts to sabotage their own party, enough folks in the US managed still to elect some decent politicians yesterday."

a woman wearing a hat and sunglasses is looking good . Alt: Gif from an old film of a white lady (famous actress, obvious movie, like think Breakfast at Tiffany's or something) pulling down an enormous pair of sunglasses with the text LOOKING GOOD

Y'all. America. What is UP? Damn, girl, you're looking so good! Did you cut your hair? Are those new hot pants you're wearing?

It's so wild. The idea of the exclusive monogamous relationship feeling safe to people is...so totally not borne out by the evidence? Making a monogamous commitment to one person doesn't save you from infidelity or dissatisfaction or just naturally growing apart. I find it all super fascinating.

And when do we talk about how much harder it is to sell folks on non-triad stories like TLR? Even traditional publishing is beginning to slowly buy the idea that three people can be equally (exclusively) in love with each other, but anything else is a challenge.

Okay, I don't know what this is, but I'm in good company! (And I think so much about the representation of polyamory in the romance genre that I feel like I should have a degree in it by now.)

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Picture of my adorable puppy lying on his back, white fur, loads of face freckles, Stephen King's It harness, totally passed out... sprawled across my leg.

The thing that most helps get me through this puppy life I'm currently living is the mantra "at least he's not a human baby, at least he's not a human baby". 😂

No shade to human babies or the people who love them! I'm good with babies. I just don't want to cohabitate with one.

Aww, that's a great response!

I think they squeak in a different way for sure. I always remember Hugh Laurie being on a late night talk show talking about how impossible it is to raise girls and bemoaning the lack of manual on how to do so (not in a shitty way, just a flummoxed way). Interesting though.

Oh, good clarification! No, it tends to be about *being* a girl-child, which is why I wonder if it's projection? Like "Oh, the girls are so mean." "All the drama." "They never stop gossiping and backstabbing." But if that's what you experienced as a girl, it makes sense that concerns you!

Screenshot of the results: 79. Mel Gibson

I don't know who needs to know this, but if you look for synonyms for "asshole" on OneLook, the term "Mel Gibson" is number 79. YOU'RE WELCOME.

Okay, who had "on hold at Planned Parenthood and their hold music is muzak Lynyrd Skynyrd" on their bingo card?? Because that's the alternate timeline my Tuesday morning is taking.

Oh, interesting. I've been wondering why some folks seem to be losing their minds in a very intense, outward way.

I'm not happy with how things are going, but it's an extension of how they were already going, not some brand new form of oppression. I had not considered inverted class vulnerability.

It's astonishing how many (white, they have all been white) moms tell me I'm lucky my kid is a boy because boys are so much easier than girls. Like. Is this just projection? Do these people not have brothers or friends who experienced boyhood? It's wild as fuck. Adolescence screws every body.

Oh wow, such great company! Thank you!

Me at the high school football game taking many pictures of my kid, who's playing tonight.

He's in his cute little uniform and shit just like all the other kids.

And yes, he plays tenor sax. 😂 Was there something else going on tonight? <looks around vaguely>

<whispers> Also, it's PIRATES! 🏴‍☠️ <cough cough>

snoop dogg is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying i wanna thank me for believing in me Alt: Snoop giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying, "I wanna thank me for all the hard work. I wanna thank me for believing in me. I wanna thank me for no days off."

That moment when you're agonizing over wtf happens in the last 25% of a novel (and your deadline is in like a couple of weeks), then it occurs to you to read the synopsis you wrote two months ago where, miracle of miracles, you spelled out a fun, exciting, nail-biting last 25%.

danny devito in always sunny in philadelphia saying "you would have to be a real lowlife piece of shit to be proud to be an american"

Which is also why they reacted so strongly to being called ‘weird’.

Whoa, how was I unprepared for dumbass people defending Newsom? I thought we had all seen through his bullshit by now? (Some of us saw through it when he made his name jumping on the gay marriage thing in San Francisco like he was the benevolent giver of rights.)