Don't Fret. It Adores You

Dear friends,
Psy-ops are now underway here on Bluesky. There’s a flood of “both parties are the same” and “Dems are beholden to their donors alone” and “Dems are in Israel’s pocket” bots that have dramatically increased.

Report, block, do NOT engage. It just amplifies their messaging.

If it is, I haven't heard of it, but it wouldn't surprise me- it's extremely easy to accidentally say something weird and offensive in Japanese *as a native speaker*.

A more talented writer would, perhaps, be able to write about practitioners of European-flavored Generic Magic fighting *onmyoji*, but given that HP establishes *everyone* does Generic European Magic...

"Mahotokoro" is literally combining the English loanword of "Magic" and, like "place", as in "the most generic way to describe a position in space possible", in Japanese. Just the laziest shit humanly possible.

...This is Standard, now?
That lawsuit had better fucking bankrupt them.

Look at this! This is shit! It's shit! From an ass!

Like, I haven't been a *fan* of cardboard crack in a long time, but this? It's just shit, man. It's not doing anything fun with TMNT itself! It's just lolpizza over and over and *over*!

On seeing the TMNT Secret Lair thing I'm now strongly of the opinion the whole MtG brand should be placed in conservatorship.

I'm just glad that I get to literally, objectively say "North Carolina is the best state in the South" (Virginia doesn't count).

L bozo to Worst Carolina.

Twitter post from @nezrodz. JP text: 本場アメリカのデニーズ 溢れるほどステーキが入ったオムレツと日本人1週間分くらいの砂糖がかかったパンケーキ 日本も全店舗アメリカのメニューにしてほしい

A Japanese Twitter user goes to an American Denny's for the first time & finds them much different than their Japanese namesakes, with "pancakes containing as much sugar as we eat in a week."

Their conclusion? "I wish every Denny's in Japan were an American Denny's."

Because I know people are bad with numbers as well as reading: do this 100 times and you aren't even halfway to a single day's volume.

And to be clear, it's this guy who is doing the bullshit panic spreading.
Oh no, $18 billion! Daily trade is $5 *trillion*. Lake Superior won't burst because the Fed took a wizz in it.

I see people are trying to gin up fear over standing repo.
This "largest use of the facility to provide liquidity since the dot-com bubble" is 1) in nominal terms, not real terms, and 2) a drop in the bucket.
It is 0.36% of a single day of facilities usage.

Squeezing the ultra-rich won't pay for universal health care, but it'd probably give us some bitching arts grants.

People are solidly convinced on this site that this is Trump literally *declaring a war* to "cover up the Epstein Files" and this level of conspiracy-poisoned thinking is just... I'm tired, boss.

Because this site are a pack of illiterates- no, me suggesting that Trump winding up to bomb Iran for a reason besides the Epstein Files is not an endorsement of bombing Iran.

Anyways, anybody who thinks that an air war with Iran is about anything besides "The US and Iran have been enemies for longer than the lifespan of the median user of this site and Trump's brain is weak enough that the hawks can talk him into thinking he can knock the mullahs over now" is a fool.

(Ozzies hate the native population enough they end up nativist by default).

"But what about Canada?"
Canada has a strongly exclusive definition of what being Canadian is that is popular there because whoops, when you define yourself as "not America" and being American and being nativist are in conflict you back yourself up into nativism!

I think it is striking that America, as the only nation of immigrants, might be the only country on Earth where its nationalism is strongly in conflict with nativism.

Of course, this is just motivated by the servile tendencies of this site- many of its users desperately want an absolute monarch, provided they called themselves the First Citizen and said that their power flowed from Karl Marx and not God.

Why is King Charles doing this to Prince Andrew? Because he personally hates him. Any pretense towards justice is an excuse.

The anti-Americanism of users on this site is so intense that it frequently does apologia for a member of the Axis Powers, so why should I be surprised, really?

No, the country with an active monarchy and no codified human rights is not "out-No Kingsing" us. Monarchies have a history of feeding unpopular and insignificant members of the royal family to the mob to preserve the institution.

It's not a matter of anthropocentrism, it's a matter of whether an intelligence is compatible with other intelligences. Unshackled NHPs are explicitly described as barely parsing as *agentic entities* and are barely capable of comprehending the existence of other minds.

It is sophmorically embarrassing.

You should. This isn't me trying to cancel him or whatever, it's me complaining that he's a dick.

Almost too late, but- happy birthday to my gorgeous babygirl Mercuria! You're a bright, gorgeous star shinining in the night sky of the dance floor: