Keir Hansen

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I’ve decided that I don’t even care how bad TRON:Ares is going to be tonight. I’m in this for the 119-minute NIN video, and hopefully an increased public awareness that TRON:Uprising existed, and is available on Disney+. (Please, if you haven’t, go watch something good.)

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

So let me get this down correctly, because it’s been a good long while since I took pre-algebra in middle school: if you’re anti- the anti-fascists…

The existence of Jolly Ranchers suggests the presence of Surly Ranchers.

And I’d do it again.

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Returning after a long time (daresay a voyage?) away from Morris' "The Vikings" television scores, and it's rekindling my turbulent love for ths programme. Gods, when it was good, it was SO GOOD.

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Frontman and Heavy Metal Icon, Dies at 76 The musician played a star-studded farewell concert in his native England earlier this month

To the stars, Madman.

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It’s always tough to see a friendship start to deteriorate, but when you have no control over the catalyst or voice in any resolution, it’s doubly upsetting.

Oh, no no no. That’s months away. This is just a return home from a work trip. Everyone who has come through this border point before has multiple disaster stories, though. The system is noticeably broken.

Dear Charles deGaulle Aeroporte: you might want to have more than two passport control agents on the clock when 17 U.S.-destined connection flights are leaving in the next 90 minutes. People around me are getting a bit…tetchy.

DELTA-BOT: Please tell use why you’re calling today.

ME: I can’t check in online, and there’s no one at the desk in this airport at 3am.

DELTA-BOT: Due to call volume, your estimated hold time is…one hour, thirty-five minutes.

ME: My international flight is in two hours.

DELTA-BOT: 🎶crap jazz🎶

I’m coming back, Germany…and this time, it’s (finally) for personal holiday 🎲, and absolutely NOT work.

Also, let’s just note, as you rewind to 3:17 over and over: think about that hitting you in your chest, likely even pushing you back on your heels. That’s a ritual experience, for certain.

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Imagine waiting three minutes and twenty seconds of a subtle breezy serenade to get hit with a stage reveal like this.

It’s fascinating watching artists like Sleep Token and Ghost elevate the arena concert experience for their genre to scale with their pop counterparts.

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Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."

“While I’m sorry I’m not the father you deserve, I’m thankful to be the one you have.”

As others go out to celebrate themselves and others, I would have been alone; but this 8yo empath wanted to stay and be my caregiver. The worry on their face as I stagger to a medicine cabinet breaks and galvanizes my dark heart.

I may be paraphrasing Patrick Rothfuss here, but it applies: ⤵️

I want the nerves in my sacroiliac blocked, please. I went two years since the last episode, and nearly forgot how much I hate being laid prone for days. My OCD is raging even as the pain spikes.

But as this threatens to compound my current depression, I have one light: this amazing little kid. ⤵️

Go ahead, conservative pundits. Explain to me exactly how this improves the immigration and citizenship system that clearly wasn’t serving the “bring me your tired, your poor” principles.

I am afraid
Are you afraid?
I want to understand
What it is
To let go
So for now let me serve as a living drama of your pain
If we are to be submerged let us be submerged
Together

The truth is I am due a harsh lesson
In truth itself and how bitter it can be
Will you teach me?
The truth is, I am ugly, I am inadequate, I am lost
I am
No God
The truth is, I want, to want, to live
And so
Do you
I
Just
Can't
Do
This
Any
Longer

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My insecurities surround me like lions in the den
And I feel like I'm losing touch with what I am again
And slowly I remember why I cannot pretend
That I never think of you and all this screaming silence

Look. I appreciate the human form as much as anyone. But with Amazon shoving "From Old Country Bumpkin..." at me *hard*, I look at the wardrobe on our protagonists, and wonder how it was tapped for US redistribution. 😮‍💨

Thankfully, @animefeminist.com gets it. www.animefeminist.com/from-old-cou...

You know what? Here’s the difference between being blissfully ignorant, and being painfully aware. Only one of them is sustainable.

The Brothers McCreary had an absolute blast in Massachusetts tonight. I’m stunned Watchtower wasn’t the closer (you can riff that thing for days), but first to last, Bear was so happy and gracious, it was as much a joy to see as hear.

“Leaves no residue”

And at a philosophical level, is this connected to your perception of humanity as inherently ‘good’ or ‘moral”?

Is your trust withheld and earned, or given and maintained?

Headed to see Bear McCreary in Boston tomorrow, because in deep in my chest, the rhythm my heart keeps will always be the “poundy drums” of BSG circa 2011.

So say we all.