Plainclothes cops walking the shopping center at Cameron and 290.

#austin #policestate

I swear to Christ the behavior of Apple Music is so fucking horrible it’s hard to believe it wasn’t designed to make people use Spotify.

It would be a lot less infuriating when my cardiologist’s office wants me to sign off on potential financial ruin online if the website actually worked.

However, Weapons does not make this mistake, I am happy to say she is in top form.

Fantastic Four’s greatest sin is the complete waste of Julia Garner, a phenomenal actor whose performance is blunted to the point of complete flatness by the CGI silver coating.

Impossible Pictionary clue: the concept of abstraction.

Make the Stars the Northstars Again

YouTube video by Bobby Pinto Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (Full Version)

If you’re going to talk about replacing dialogue, let’s not ignore the situationist masterpiece “Can Dialectics Break Bricks?”

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Oooh, I loved “I Will Piledrive You…”, I’m looking forward to reading this one.

Um, yeah, that’s freaking cool as hell.

Not sure if any of my followers are in Seattle but this woman seems like a genuine public servant from what I’ve read.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social your recommendation about Mei Semones was dead on, I’m seeing her play in Austin right now and she’s phenomenal.

“Mulder, the amount of ethylene glycol necessary to develop popcorn lung is way higher than he could get in a vape.”

Hearing the most pretentious asshole I know talk about Brasilia, and how “wonderful” it is, when it’s a famous case of a master planned city where no one actually wants to live is rather amusing.

Law enforcement supports second amendment activists because the potential presence of military grade weapons in the hands of non-cops justifies the escalating use of deadly force by cops.

Honestly kind of a missed opportunity that Python didn’t change its name to Pi-thon for version 3.14.

In most countries kids are allowed to do things that involve the risk of injury. Just about every sport has a risk of injury, some more than others. The fact injuries wouldn’t be acceptable in other aspects of life is because they would almost all be intentional.

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all.

This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.

Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

Yeah, the novel’s opening makes it pretty clear that it’s not a romance but that didn’t stop (checks notes) Adrian Lyne and Stanley Kubrick from directing it like one

A great thing about reading @margaret.bsky.social books is that the inner voice I hear when reading is hers.

Thanks for the warning, preemptively blocked him.

Every member of democratic “leadership” makes me think of this.

I was trying to articulate what bothered me about that headline and you nailed it.

The chaplain at my high school told a class one day “you use things and love people. If you love things you will find yourself using people.” People who call vandalism “violence” love things and use people.

This has been true for the last 30 years at least. The tech industry has had one of the most effective lobbies against regulation in history.

I guess I’m not surprised that a company started by avatars of neoliberalism like Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias is a shithole for employees.

Where *are* all the Texans who were losing their shit over “jade helm” now that Abbott is actively planning to use the national guard to intimidate (at best) protestors?

Also how thoroughly these half-wits fail to grasp economics. If you’re going to make up some dumb rules, at least take the time to understand them.

All prisoners are political prisoners.

One benefit of reading over audiobooks is that you can have a soundtrack. Wolves In The Throne Room makes a great thematic supplement to The Sapling Cage.