Smedley Hunkerbunker

Post from @cintra.bsky.social “I think it’s fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They’ll figure it out one way or another if they’re serious.”

I just did too. Here’s the post.

Wow. No.

I narrowly survived a suicide attempt in 1993, long before Chat GPT was a thing, so yes, people will indeed find a way to check out if they are determined. That absolutely does not mean that encouraging them is OK.

“People are gonna drink and drive, might as well legalize it”

excited to see my post about snow tires is gaining traction . folks,,

A dog. A black one. A good one. She’s looking at you. She loves you with the purest love.

Tell me all your thoughts on dog, ‘cause I’d really like to meet her.

A bookstore window with a sign that says "FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI."

The worst thing about my katana advent calendar is that once I've opened one of those cute paper doors, the blade must taste blood before it can be sheathed again.

You have the juice (you have the juice)

Big lump with knobs.

Once again I mistook a barber’s pole for a candy cane haha maybe these jokes we all write are cries for help you don’t know

And Mila Jovovich?

because your freaks, your freaks
squeeze my buttcheeks

A marble gravestone reading “in memory of ourselves”

Cartoon panel: a bearded man in a sleeveless white shirt and brown pants is sitting up against an outside wall, scowling and raising one hand in a dismissive gesture. He says “Civilization— bah!”

These guys do.

Float like a eukaryote, my sting is self-generating

Whap bap in your explanatory gap

I name my fists Milque and Toast

‘Cause one of them is white and pretentious and the other is slathered in butter, and neither of them are particularly memorable

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

YouTube video by Yosha Taylor-Bourgea All I Want For Christmas Is Jews

Little off-key at the end, but still less excruciating than MC’s original. In my defense, I was chemically altered at the time.

Cash existed back then, but the Roberts Court didn’t. Citizens United didn’t.

“The people of the United States” is not a monolith. But everyone knows that. If a woman says “Men are disgusting”, I don’t need to reply “UM NOT ALL MEN”. So yeah, electoral college and blahblahblah, but of course the people of the U.S. are to blame for him. Not like anyone else is.

Just wait until you hear their new single, “A Shitty January”

I’m not completely anticapitalist, I just think capitalism needs to be firmly subordinate to the common welfare and democratic oversight. Which it emphatically is not. Democracy as it exists now functions only when it doesn’t interfere with capitalism.

plums in the box
plums, plums in the box

The system was designed to stop 18th century tyrants (and also to keep 18th century peasants and slaves in their place). It wasn’t and isn’t adequate to protect the democratic process from the influence of unfathomable gobs of cash, or the attendant greed.

Our code is flawed. Trump is a bug.

Well, that’s that sorted then

Just one more year and then you’ll be happy

sofaking 🛋

#jdvance

Mild Sunday. So quiet, so still, this morning, I hear a spoon at the bottom of a cereal bowl in another apartment in another building, ringing. A small bell.