Filbi (they/them)

like yeah there's a 1% chance that bear has ingested an ungodly amount of cocaine and is on a murderous rampage, but the other 99% of the time playing dead is gonna work

not to dredge up old discourse but I'm not a woman and if I were alone in the woods I would much rather encounter a bear than a human of ANY sex

bears are more predictable than humans

burning

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

like a more ambitious Karl Rove

Half these guys really do think Bush did 9/11 and all of them are too stupid to have thought to do it before the invasion!

the Evil Dead movies are a treat if you have the time, and a strong stomach

the epstein files and justice for survivors is also important. more than one thing can be important. everything is not a distraction from the one thing you've decided is the most important.

the war is not a distraction. it's an evil thing in itself.

when ppl say it's a distraction, they are saying, "don't pay attention to the war, pay attention to Epstein."

it's clear why that's bad right? people are dying. wars are horrific. we need more reporting, not less.

imagine Bush doing 9/11 AFTER invading Iraq

Usually the idea of a "false flag" or the conspiracy stuff the FDR let Pearl Harbor happen is fake shit but these guys are all paranoid numbskulls who not only believe in it, they believe it was an effective trick that Liberals used to seize power for themselves

You guys don't think...you don't think they're deliberately trying to encourage a terrorist attack, right?

pulp writers sure loved invisible monsters

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

"Now leave me to do my dark bidding!"

"What are you bidding on?"

"Uh, a table."

This means a 40 year old adult trans man like myself who uses VUMC would not be able to get *top surgery*, a surgery performed on *hundreds of thousands* of cisgender women every year.

A procedure that I had four years ago and which saved my life.

That's just baffling. Why would somebody do that.

Shit like this is the botox and lip filler of photography, taking something wonderful and making it weird and artificial. It's not an improvement, it's not enhancement, it's digital vandalism. And it further erodes trust and melts brains, which is what gen-ai is designed to do.

Oh poop. I shared that photo bc it was a wonderful brief moment where that bird looked like a weird conical boi; bummer that it was manipulated.

The stories of Vietnam Vets coming back and being called child-killers and being spit on are almost entirely false, but maybe they shouldn't have been.

And that's why the military recruitment and training system is designed to weed out and dismantle anyone like that before they get embedded. Or occasionally to let them take a bit of friendly fire so they can maintain the myth of American military purity.

Those who face court martial and jailtime because they refused an illegal order, because they recognized the humanity of their opponents, because they refused to be pawns in a machine that turns human bodies into Lockheed-Martin profits, are the actual heroes.

I saw this bullshit anachronist jingoism right near a thread about how civilians don't realize that service members can't quit without facing consequences, and like...yes, they should face those consequences. That would be actual bravery & sacrifice, not pressing the Incinerate Children button.

The only good thing to come out of Harry Potter

Happy 20 years

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Ha, thought those were clams at first

I think its totally reasonable that if you work for the anti-trans paper, trans people will dislike you. I think that’s a risk you just take honestly.

George Costanza voice:

char aznable goes to animal crossing