Microplastics Spookmelier

“kevin bacon? you mean the guitarist from the bacon brothers band?”

A grey cat named Zoey sitting in a kitchen windowsill. She looks calm and inquisitive.

A grey cat named Zoey sitting in a kitchen windowsill. She has her mouth open in a fearsome expression, mid-meow

i can be your angle…or yuor devil

half the time, it works 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 time

we had hulu's jeopardy on while doing things around the house this afternoon and didn't expect to hear ken's 21-year-old call for an uprising of the proletariat

based ken jennings

he's catturd1

this is from last december (not that it's where they should've been back then either)

yeah. there may be more to it but idk.

i haven’t been following this stuff closely. the team’s stance seems at least defensible (whether or not you agree) but they’re being oddly antagonistic towards core community members.

all i saw attached to it was a post where he observed that jay seems to have followed jon chait recently

Łink, for one

where's the flared base? remember: without a base, without a trace

Blippi drinking bottle

cursed object

Trump with Yankees

Yankees fans

Fix your hearts or die

“kevin bacon? you mean the guitarist from the bacon brothers band?”

Thomas Robb, current national director of the KKK, told Slate earlier this year that "diversity is not our strength. Diversity will kill us." Here's Robb at a cross-burning rally in Texas: Thomas Robb speaks at a KKK cross-burning rally in Hico, Texas. GREGORY SMITH VIA GETTY IMAGES

Brad Griffin, also known as Hunter Wallace, a leader of a white nationalist group based in Alabama, tweeted "diversity ISN'T our strength" last month. Griffin organized a "White Lives Matter" rally in Tennessee recently, which featured neo-Confederate, southern secessionist, and neo-Nazi participants. In 2011, writer Peter Brimelow, the white nationalist behind the racist site VDARE, told CNN that "Diversity is not strength." He uttered the phrase previously in 2004, while praising a book by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin that defended the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II.

"Diversity is not our strength" has been seen On white nationalist fliers in Pennsylvania. There's also a whole thread called "Diversity is not our strength" on the popular white supremacist hate site Stormfront. And variations of the phrase appear most commonly today on alt-right Twitter accounts, often paired with cherry-picked news stories of non-white people committing crimes.

Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which monitors hate groups, says she's heard white supremacists say the "diversity is not our strength" expression since at least 1999, when she joined the SPLC.

the worst of the gutter racists have been trying to slip that phrase out there for a decade. in 2017 it was enough to trigger a scandal. they’ve moved the window to the point where it doesn’t register for people now.

www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-...

e pluribus whatever

More like “I object to da art” imo

great thread that makes seriously the point i feinted at flippantly

president fox news grandpa

now that’s what i call posting

it’s literally just a funny marketing idea

the best defense for being a creep is “he appreciates beautiful women.” can’t get mad at me now. i just appreciate how beautiful they are.

A little wire sculpture with a random pattern

A spiky ball on a post

A clock with no hands and a little geometric vase between two anonymous plants

lowkey obsessed with soulless objet d'art that people put in common spaces. look at this shit. what is this shit?

💯

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked - if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D. And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in — your nation, your people— is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way." - Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

he's trying to make a distinction between "trump is a fascist" and "the u.s. is fascist now" and there's something to that, but you'll never see a bright line in real life (and plenty of fascist stuff is happening, just w/ insufficient state capacity) so it's not a particularly worthwhile argument

first, they came for dozens of kinds of people, but i said nothing, because it might sound alarmist

best case: he had some kind of hormone thing

worst case: he’s putting magnets on his balls

it’s also, assuming this is basically accurate, *good* that the non-evil half of the political spectrum is unified in their basic goals for society?