Potempkin Village Idiot

My 9-year-old is playing an SCP Roblox game, and it's great that I can finally give him meaningful advice that helps him in real ways.

"DON'T LOOK AT SCP 096's face!!!"

This is who runs this account.

Alligator clips

When I worked at Radio Shack, the manager used to open up $.99 10-packs of alligator clips and dump them loose in a bowl selling them for $1 each as an impulse buy for stoners.

YouTube video by RockwayBeach Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf

His walk-on music:
youtu.be/lrRmgbchiGY?...

I know that there was one @americananthro.bsky.social conference where they drank all of the beer in the hotel.

I've said this elsewhere, but I sincerely believe their intention is to provoke violence so that they can elevate to a new phase of mobilization (domestically and overseas). But it's not working because they don't understand that violence is not a natural or casual reaction for most people.

American history happens twice as fast now, because we do tragedy and farce simultaneously.

I use Lyft pretty regularly. It has never shown me anyone's full name.

More like NSFW, amiright?

Yeah. Kessler syndrome is just another avoidable greed-driven catastrophe that's pretty much inevitable at this point.

Last night I dreamed that I ran into Gorbachev at a conference, and we switched suits as a goof.

And then somehow I ended up getting stranded in the Ukranian hinterlands trying to find a ride to a train station.

Cosmetic scar tissue

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s.

For a year I taught @ an online college that disproportionately targeted US servicemen/women - lots of Iraq/Afghanistan vets. An absolute shitshow intended to suck up GI bill money. If they really cared about soldiers' education they'd put the admins of Ashford & Phoenix in front of a firing squad.

I can't wait for shit to get better.
This "getting worse" bullshit sucks.

It already happened. The alternative would have been so much worse. You're welcome.

YouTube video by Movieclips Groundhog Day (1993) - Phil's Errands Scene (7/8) | Movieclips

My mom told me that Groundhog Day was one of her favorite movies, because it builds up to a day where Phil is finally able to do everything right. Every action he takes is the right action and everything he does helps someone or fixes something.
She aspired to days like that.

Analysis | The fact that Joe Biden isn't in the Epstein files shows how politically and culturally irrelevant he has become.

As a cultural anthropologist with two decades of social science data collection experience, and as the father of a nine-year-old, and as the carpool driver for three additional middle school students (multiple grades), I can attest to the truth of this.

I vaguely remember watching a bunch of smaller-run indie/foreign films when they came out, but I don't know that I'd consider that to be a flex, since I don't actually remember most of them them, except maybe Run Lola Run and Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.

Like, to cross the road, you mean?

Post a tree that you photographed 📸🌲

Agreed. And when I mentioned it at work, the next day the dishwasher gave me a bootlegged VHS tape of it, and we watched it like 30 more times that week.

Saw Star Wars: ANH in 1977. I was born in 1975. My parents thought it was a good idea to bring a 2-year-old to the movies 🫤. I cried the whole time & don't remember it.
Also:
Princess Bride
Goonies
Showgirls
The Matrix
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
A Scanner Darkly
Howl's Moving Castle

Last night I applied for a job that pays about 1/2 of my current salary range, and it reminded me of how years ago, during a job interview, a potential employer found a very creative way to say they couldn't meet my salary needs:

"We don't want to hire you unless you want us to."

Bad news for @funranium.bsky.social's FMJ Steins.

My 4-year-old calls them his "gutters" which is both mechanically and etymologically correct.

It seems strange to say this, but this very much feels like it was made specifically for me and my two closest friends.

I grew up in a rather complicated family of American Jews, Evangelical Christians, and actual Zionist emigres to Israel. The overriding frame of reference for everyone old enough to remember the '67 War is the '67 War. It eclipses all other understanding.