Amy

Open hearts.
Open minds.
Open legs.

(I'm gonna be excommunicated for that.)

Sad puppy being carried

When you get kicked out of the bar for humping a baby goat

I really hope this goes somewhere

His face makeup is too orange, and his hand makeup is too white. It perplexes me.

I love those words!

Adorable. 😍

If I lived in Kansas I would start a movement where everyone just urinates outdoors until this is resolved. They can’t put everyone in jail for public indecency and it would make it clear how crazy their obsession with bathroom use it. Get over it Kansas!

Sign material for March 28!

I would add, not just drive time. All those farmers sitting on tractors all day listening to AM radio talkers was the precursor to Fox. Poison.

Absolutely. So many hours ripe for brainwashing.

I think people who didn't live in the pre-ACA era have no fucking clue how bad it was and why the ACA was such a massive improvement

"But won't that hurt their business in the long-term, if they lay everyone off??" the progressive Boomers ask me.

"Yes," I reply. "They move fast and break things. They don't care."

I like it.

I very much do not like that we have a SCOTUS to which direct appeals to Christian theology need to be made. But I very much do like it in the sense of an amicus that presents an argument that does not repeat the parties' briefing and provides a useful perspective, given reality.

A useful analogy I’ve heard is between cognitive bias and optical illusions. Squares A & B in the famous Adelson Checkerboard Illusion are exactly the same shade of grey. You can confirm this by cutting them away from or covering the surrounding imagery. BUT YOU STILL SEE THE ILLUSION.

Have you tried taking out your nervous system, blowing on it, and putting it back in again?

RIP to the guy who helped everyone recognize that running + walking = still running

But if enough of us turn out at the polls, their efforts will not work. If we vote by a large enough margin, there will be nothing they can do and any claims of voter fraud will lack legitimacy. Sure, we may need a general strike or millions in the streets protesting, I'm not disputing that...

Now you, too, can die just like Doc Holiday!

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

It's shocking, TBH. And I'm pissed about not being able to use a regular can of diced tomatoes or a chicken breast. I feel like I can't cook anything anymore.

This feels legit.

I always like the 2012 world ending best. I ran the Fargo marathon that day, and the crowd signs and costumes were awesome!

The world did actually end in 2012, but we didn't realize it because we just jumped from universe A to universe B, which is why there's so many cases of the Mandela effect. This is also why everything has felt so unreal for the last 10+ years, because many of us are not in our correct universe.

I also think the end goal for the far right and big tech is to create a state where society lacks basic critical thinking skills and literacy, and has to rely on a technocratic elite to keep society from falling apart

That's the reboot that we need with Jamie Lee Curtis. The Dark Side of Jessica Fletcher. Recreate every single episode ever made of Murder, She Wrote but instead do it from the perspective of Jessica committing the crime and how she got away with it. It would be brilliant.

Low sodium has been the defining topic of our household in the three weeks since my husband's high blood pressure diagnosis.

It even made it into my dreams, where someone took MY blood pressure and it was 55/23.

My subconscience is deeply upset with the low sodium recipes.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

I hate to sound like a broken record, but the tools to correct literally all of this nonsense are sitting in the toolbox just the distance of a couple of spines to uphold a sworn oath away.

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”― Terry Pratchett, in _I Shall Wear Midnight_

This isn’t about purity. It’s about basic human decency.

If someone has proximity to power or has held power and they’re not breaking themselves to use it to protect the most vulnerable, they may not be fascists but they are at best fascist enablers.