Uncle Vlad

I go for cashews, deviled eggs, and edamame. YMMV.

Capers are pickled flowers. Think green olives, but a bit more intense. Use them sparingly the first time to see if you like them as depending on how they are prepared, they can turn a dish into a salt lick.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Black Sabbath
Adam and the Ants
Grateful Dead
SRV & Double Trouble
The Runaways

I was much happier when 'Idiocracy' was just a funny movie.

The question is, do we still have the people with the knowledge to do something like that in any meaningful timeframe?

The Man in the High Castle. I found myself in a Nazis-killing-Nazis mood.

I am actually re-binging that series right now.

What's that thing about living by the sword?

OK, that sucks. I have not made it back to BH/DC since before Covid, and it saddens me to hear it has gone that way.

Can you give us some reasons? No shade, just curious.

"The light in the window is a crack in the sky"

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

And we refer to the companies as "future bankruptcy candidates".

A screenshot of Matt Stoller quote-posting me. My post consisted of a quote from a New York Times article “at Meta's offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men's bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men's room and who may have required sanitary pads" Stoller’s response: “Who cares? Are you so easily sucked in by dumb irrelevant stuff like this?”

Who cares that one of the world’s most powerful companies — one that has already facilitated an ethnic cleansing by amplifying dehumanizing rhetoric — is making a show of its contempt for trans people and inviting its users to dehumanize them?

I do.

I think all of Trump's picks openly reflect a Fascist agenda.

That is really subject to interpretation. We have all manner of "death rays" and "heat rays" and "disintegration beams" going back through the black-and-white age of Hollywood.

But not playing well with others is one of the many reasons we love you.

It is part of Project 2025 as well. Authoritarians see everyone, the military included, as tools for their imperial-expansionist or domestic repression/population engineering schemes. If you are a vet, you are no longer of use to these plans.

Four hours until Thanksgiving is over. TSO already queued up.

I literally only care that they wait their turn and don’t skip the line and they wash their hands. Follow those two simple rules and you can use whichever bathroom you like.

Also, sex work is real work. God bless the sex workers of the planet and keep em safe.

Why do you say that as if it is a bad thing?

On 16 May 1944, Roma prisoners of the so-called Zigeunerlager at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, stood up against the Nazi guards armed with only hammers, pickaxes and shovels. As a result of their defiance, no Roma died in the gas chambers that day.

• X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn't get that, you didn't get X-Men. • Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn't get that, you didn't get Black Panther. • Captain America literally fought the Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn't get that, you didn't get Captain America. • The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance is Anti-Fascist. If you didn't get that, you didn't get Star Wars. • The Punisher isn't meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn't get that, you didn't get The Punisher. • Deadpool is queer. He's pansexual. Fact. If you didn't get that you didn't get Deadpool. • Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races, and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women's right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances

I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect

The joys of being owned by a cat: 20 minutes to get him into the carrier, 5 minutes to clean and dress wounds, 5 minutes to dive to the vet, 10 minutes for the appointment, one nanosecond for the cat to teleport to the back of his carrier, 5 minute drive home.

Here's to a quick, speedy, and complete recovery!

I am fairly certian the correct answer to "How many readers does Girl Genius have?" is "All of them."

Apparently I live in an area where selling kolacky is not financially viable. Merde.

Another "how inefficient is the US for-profit medical system" story: I was apperantly overcharged for my portion of my thyroid procedure. My share was approximately $3K all in. I just got a refund check from the hospital. $6.39.