Joseph L. Selby

Have paying work for the first time in 8 months. Waited to treat myself. Got scammed out of $100. Not the treat I was expecting.

Anyone mourning Dick Cheney was a child in the '00s. No one old enough to have lived through his evil would shed a tear over his passing.

If the dead don't want to be spoken of poorly then they should have been better people in life.

#drybarwisdom: Folks are arguing over whether Trump or Biden was the worst president in US history. I'm sitting over here in my corner, waiting for an opportunity to start talking about Andrew Johnson.

Someone posted a "We live on stolen land" picture to my local NextDoor forum. This elicited the expected partisan responses. One of the silliest was the person who said, "American Indians come from other nations, too!" They migrated 19,000 years before the world's first city much less nation states.

Of course not. It's now just Bezos' personal tabloid.

Is the White House ballroom micro-dick energy? Yes. But I don't get the fervor with which people are upset about it. It's the equivalent of hanging testicles from the hitch of your truck. You laugh at how pathetic the person is and then move on.

Am I missing something?

Who all had to google "skull and crossbones SS tattoo" because you have no idea what skull and crossbones iconography is associated with the SS?

The old white guys that sit at the counter and talk about how democrats burned Portland to the ground are typically all talk. They regurgitate whatever Fox or Newsmax told them the night before. None of them have the gumption to back up their talk.

But now I've met a true insurrectionist.

#dinerwisdom: New nutjob at the counter. He's talking about how the democrats are ruining the world, nothing all that groundbreaking there. Then they start talking about January 6th, and he says, "I should know. I was there."

I am floored.

#dinerwisdom: Two young finance bros have been talking money for the past 2 hours. One of them is arguing that the American dream is creating generational wealth. People hoarding money by any means fulfill that dream. I turned around, and he looks exactly like the douchebag you're imagining.

First we put the person on the pedestal. Then we tear the pedestal down. This was an inevitable outcome for her.

With Schumer convincing Janet Mills to primary challenge Platner, it's time for @aoc.bsky.social to primary Schumer.

So this racist piece of shit made an awful comment on a TikTok. The creator responded by encouraging their followers to reach out to the guy's son's sports sponsor. Can you imagine having your life bulldozed by an online mob because your dad is a piece of shit? Internet justice is scary sometimes.

I swear that the first MF that answers a presidential debate with “your mom” has my vote

The governors of Illinois and Oregon should call up their own guard to repel invaders.

How in the world is Trump calling up guard from California? Newsom is the commander of the guard unless they've been federalized, and the injunctions in place make a strong case against federalization. He should order them to stand down.

Mustaches are within regs. Grooming standards are so he can get rid of black and Sikh servicemen.

The left is only angry online.

Bummer. I'm sorry you missed out.

Isn't that the essence of capitalism?

Did she get the treat?

I'm still looking for work. And I've started to ponder, what if I took that big signing bonus to work for ICE and just ended up being the worst agent ever? Like, "Oh no, he got away again! That keeps happening! These immigrants are so fast!" *counts $50,000*

No one has money. It's that simple. Unemployment is rising. Salaries are falling. The buying power of the dollar is in the toilet. Prices are exploding.

It's like someone wanted to brew a recession potion, and Trump was like, I have that recipe!

Small businesses in my town are really starting to suffer, and even the conservatives among them admit that it's Trump's economic policies that are causing the decline in customers. No one has money to spend. They say they're hoping to weather the storm until a new president reverses course.

Her positions seem more nuanced than a simply is or isn't nimby. She seems against market-rate housing, which isn't necessarily against affordable housing.

Florida doing Florida things.

I've been seeing video and image generation from the latest AI models. All the things that used to be easy tells (like hands and feet) are completely gone. The era of the deepfake has arrived.

Do you think Rob Liefeld is pissed that AI figured out feet before he did?

I lack the context to understand what this means. Is it safe to explain?

I'm a living furnace. Things that keep in body heat destroy me. If it's not a suit, I'll only ever have the one layer on.