Edward Blaylock

Thank you. It forever changed his attitude toward the job. He didn’t like what it became in the years after.

His face! Such a sweetie!

A donut with autumnal sprinkles on it

Me: This is a pretty big donut, maybe I'll just eat half of it

Donut: Motherfucker I did not put on all these sprinkles just to gummed on by a QUITTER

Me: You make a compelling point, donut

I know this is stupid, but the thing about Bathroom Bans I can never get over is that bathrooms are supposedly hot spots for sexual assault because genitals are present, but invisible, at those locations, which is also true of literally any place where people are gathered and wearing clothes

one of the problems with political analysis of all stripes is that it's a bunch of mostly moderately smart people for whom politics is essentially their lives trying to analyze the behavior of mostly slightly dumb people who barely think about it

I needed this snort-laugh.

All of the above.

I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

I support the legal and social equality of trans people, view the ongoing hate campaign against them as evil, and support their autonomy and freedom. I know several young people who grew up with my kids who are trans and I am concerned about their well-being. /1

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

This is our boy Ronald. He came to us before Jorts Merch was a thing, but he’s definitely Jorts Merch anyway.

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

the big bad wolf, writing for the Atlantic: building brick houses might be popular with insular academics afraid of intellectual debate, but in practice they are a stifling barrier to free speech

So Biden's winning independents, doing pretty okay among Dems, and most of the rest of them will come home. And I just don't see how Trump gains a single vote over 2020.

isn't combatants impersonating medics blatantly a war crime

trump pulling 41% of white women is like a death knell for the republican party

What a time to be alive... we *might* have found life on another planet 120ly away.
www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

I truly do agree with this

Trump will refuse to do debates but if Biden called him an asshole on the debate stage I would forgive his many faults

This is proof of two things:
1- police departments are publicly-funded gangs
and
2- police unions should not be considered "labor organizations" so much as "racketeering schemes."

There's a $10,000 hotline reward for tips that help jail a cop killer, and most states automatically impose harsher penalties on those convicted. To say nothing of the fact that of course cops/DAs close these cases.

Blue Lives already mattered MORE than anyone else, but they still threw a tantrum.

You love to see it.

Why Biden's campaign keeps linking Trump to Hitler The Biden campaign warns that Trump’s rhetoric — from "vermin" to "poisoned" blood — could reflect history repeating.

Come ON.

Biden's campaign keeps linking Trump to Hitler *because Trump keeps echoing Hitler.*

The "extraordinary step" here is what Trump is doing, not Biden's response. www.politico.com/news/2023/12...

like I don’t know how effective you think organizing to support a more properly progressive & viable candidate will be when the goon squads with a license to open fire show up at every event

I think I can say with a clean conscience I’m not a shameless biden shill but to me the main reason you vote for him is the opportunity to vote for somebody better in 2028 will not exist if he loses

You two are just too goshdarned gorgeous. Love the photo, love the painting.

Pope says Roman Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples Announcing the change, the Vatican emphasised that it continues to view marriage as between a man and a woman.

This is a good thing (and the AmTrads are [even more] going to Lose Their Shit).

It's a blessing, not a consecration; but it accepts people as they are.

Doctrine does not change overnight.
www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

Who wants to learn about the oldest kaiju story—which doubles as the oldest story we know?

Get comfortable—have a seat, pour yourself a drink, light ‘em if you got ‘em. We’re going back several millennia on this thread.

(Also getting political in the last third of the thread, sorry).

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