Darryl Zero

Yes, the MCU is US Military-Industrial Complex propaganda, but damn if they didn't perfectly adapt Captain America. I really wish they'd have tried to do something similar with Sam Wilson instead of the "no, Black people should be patriotic too!" approach.

Chris Evans playing Steve Rogers as a genuine attempt to personify what this country is and claims to be is a great character arc. "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from" is a perfect summation of a character, and you have to admit that.

Such a great novelization.

Boots Riley said it best: "we can let 'em try to change a flat tire, or we could all all at once retire."
I'm kinda done with people expecting the rank-and-file to be the engine of change while they use their platform to utter slogans.

It's not 1988. We know who owns everything, who runs everything, and who pays for everything. If you want to disrupt things, tear gas the shareholder's meetings, record your next album at Electrical Audio, and napalm a Cop City in the state you play in. You're not an intern making $17 an hour.

It could be that I'm just cynical after watching all the performative Liberal outrage during the WBush Administration lead to Brunch Apathy during the Obama years, but I am completely disengaged from all corporate musicians making any statements at the Grammys. For real, tho; stefu.

@bookshopghost.bsky.social I can't remember--if someone wanted to order a book from y'all in-person, is that something they could do? Or should they just go through bookshop.org?

This country was founded by people that raped the people they owned, and who believed that "the primary responsibility of government is to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." As someone from the 80s, I am not surprised at all.

I think we really need to start talking about how Josh Allen can never bring it home in the playoffs. Dude is 0-fer in OT games, and his team never seems to be able to get over the hump. He's got great legs, but he really feels more like an RB than a QB.

I ordered a shirt, mug, and stickers from Electrical Audio ON MONDAY EVENING, normal shipping, and they arrived fewer than 60 hours later.

This is easily the MOST Portland thing I have ever seen, actually.

The first time a cop pulled a gun on me, I was 18 years old in...Portland, actually, mere months after Amadou Diallo was murdered.

This guy worked for every President from Reagan to Obama, btw.

Nope.

From all the ridiculousness I've read today, one thing is clear: Liberals will keep losing elections to fascists, and they'll refuse to understand why. They can't accept that the Dems created the conditions that led to Trump. You don't end up with a fascist as president when things are going well.

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios UK Chronicle | Official Trailer HD | 2012

SCANNERS is underrated Cronenberg.
CHRONICLE is arguably the best superhero film of all time, and my second-favorite Michael B. Jordan performance!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2D...

the best part is I couldn't tell if you were referencing STRANGER THINGS, SCANNERS, or (my favorite) CHRONICLE.

#TIL you can buy firearms and ammunition on GovDeals and I do not know if there is anything more disgustingly hilariously American than that.

As a 39-year player of M:TG, it pisses me off.

I really hate listening to most contemporary R&B through headphones, because the vocals are inevitably so extensively digitally processed that it just sounds like AI to me. Even songs I enjoy, like Ella Mai's "Shot Clock," just frustrate me.

How would a national intelligence service know more about what goes on within their borders than the US military, though? /s

If you've been walking around without your ID on you at any point over AT LEAST the past 24 years, you're lucky enough that authority doesn't see you as a target, or at the very least that people think you belong where you are.
I've almost never had that luxury.
You get used to it. 11/11

The worst part is knowing that I could have all the verification in the world, and that it wouldn't matter if the person messing with me was having a bad day, or got enough panicked calls from concerned citizens, or just felt like wielding power over someone that day.
But that's every day. 10/

These days, I carry FOUR photo IDs on me at all times--driver's license, two school IDs, and my passport card, because I've ALWAYS needed to have some kind of documentation proving I deserved to be where I was, and the more documentation I had, the better. 9/

I get that, being unambiguously Black, I'm going to get stares being in certain places, but when people look at my faculty ID and don't believe I'm faculty, I'm not panicking at the prospect of having security called; I'm thinking "damn, another Thursday."
And I'm LUCKY. 8/

Having a blonde & blue kid made the act of being in public with my own child terrifying. I'm sure your kids have cried in stores or parks; anyone ever call the cops on you for it?
Ever have a nurse ask what your relationship was to a kid that has the same first, middle, and last name as you? I have.

...the only time police would let me pass after seeing me without some kind of mess-with-you was when I was behind the wheel of a school bus. Off the bus, I took to only using the restroom at the school for which I was also the debate coach, or wearing my district badge on my forehead otherwise. 6/

While my luggage has mostly avoided the random check since then, my person was and remains a hot topic for law enforcement. The TSA grope-down is always a fun experience.
Being Black in Portland in my 20s meant having to carry multiple forms of ID pretty much anywhere. I was used to it... 5/11

...when I flew to-and-from New York City in 2000 for CMJ. After airport agents in PDX messed up my black Flash t-shirt in summer of 2001, I was excited to fly back to NYC in September and have a reprieve from getting racially profiled.
Be careful what you wish for. 4/11

The first time my luggage was "randomly" searched at an airport was when my family was moving back from Hawaii in the mid-1990s. My father's also was, for some reason. Every time I flew between then and 2001 (at least once a year), mine would get searched, with one exception... 3/11

I was 18 the first time a cop pulled a gun on me, and the only reasons I'm alive are that 1) I'd already removed my ID from my wallet before he'd even gotten there, and 2) that my white boss arrived in time to tell him that I did, in fact, belong where I was. This was months after Amadou Diallo.