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peasant: but reverend! Why do you throw out our icons of venerable saints and our holy relics? Has there been some new revelation from the church?

reverend: kings pope now

peasant: what

reverend, hucking a sack of relics into a well: kings pope now

We all owe George Lucas an apology over the prequels I think.

they all glowed

We are under siege by an army of Paul Blarts that all think they are Judge Dredds

So real. If you had a character in a movie talk like him people would find it silly and too over-the-top to be believable. It's like a parody of a villain given life.

Credit where it's due, Chuck Schumer has made some movement finally, and not one avocado in sight. I'm not terribly hopeful that congressional democrats will actually hold out and take enough action to make gains though. Hoping to be proven wrong.

A lot of mall cop tier running in that crowd huh?

It's been a long day have some kittens. Balm for the soul.

With hurricanes and tropical storms in season, now is as good a time as any to remind people that every time you belittle or mock victims of extreme circumstances just because they live in a Red state, you are making negative progress.

Some days I wish I didn’t know the things I know.

I think if humans could talk to lobsters it would be a real Hatfield vs McCoy situation. Real quick. Just the way of things. You can't reason with a lobster. They're too arrogant

On days like this I like to imagine myself as a Hobbit. Content and blissfully unaware of the evil rising in Middle Earth, growing cabbages in my little garden. That sort of thing.

Dredging up Wounded Knee to own the libs really does encapsulate the whole thing with Kegseth trying to present himself as some kind of edgy, hip (perhaps "heckin' awesome"?) neo-crusader. He's like a 15 year-old's fanfic insert. Beyond parody. It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.

Time for me to post something positive and cleanse the timeline a little.

So I finally got around to picking up Strange Antiquities. Banger follow-up to Strange Horticulture, and an improvement on a lot of what I loved about it too. Absolutely LOVED the added complexity to the puzzles

Evergreen.

Exposing yourself in a public forum to prove that trans people can't be trusted to behave decently. Sane and rational behavior, as ever.

That's the thing about authoritarianism: it *never* stops at your enemies, eventually it comes for you. It doesn't matter if you're an oligarch, a religious leader, a fervent supporter - the beast needs to be fed. When your foes have all gone down its gullet, you're the next meal.

This shit must absolutely bang if you're stupid.

A timeline in which I have to rally behind Jimmy Kimmel.

Dark times, indeed.

Given recent events, it's a good time for my favorite Gandalf quote:
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Really not enjoying having to explain what a groyper is. It's making me realize how painfully online I am

So we're back to ballrooms and flagpoles already, I am told.

Nevermind i take it back

terrible person murders a terrible person and makes him a martyr to a whole bunch of terrible people more news at 11

Very disturbing. I think there are some very dark ripples that will follow this, and there aren't gonna be any winners.

Important to note I'm not complaining about gallows humor. Have your jokes. I just find it a bit disturbing how eager some people are. And going both ways too - across platforms I've seen people frothing at the mouth over who's "next" as much as over what kind of minority the shooter will be.

So I notice a lot of people struggling to recognize that you can hold the both of the opinions that 1) he didn't deserve to be murdered and also 2) he shouldn't be lionized. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Morning in Appalachia can be a helluva thing

My conspiracy theory is that they "haven't found" the guy because he was too hot to be put on the news

Okay I lied I'll quip a little bit. I guess God didn't feel like redirecting bullets into any firefighters today, huh?