Angus Johnston

honestly my favorite is hearing a song you have heard a thousand times before, but suddenly it just ZAPS you like electric shock. for a brief moment you are timeless just looking past the curtains. incredible to think these moments are just given to us as a gift. that we just somehow got to exist

“Unless someone commits a felony nobody gets to have an opinion on their behavior” is a principle I suspect you don’t apply equally to all aspects of human endeavor.

If you don’t believe it, say so, at least to yourself If you do, chew on the implications of it. Bye.

Fuck that. He should have behaved differently. “If it’s not literally rape, nobody has any ethical obligations” is the stance of a sociopath. I hope you don’t actually believe it. If you do, go make your case somewhere else.

Is that the question? That’s not a question you’ve raised until now, and not a question I’ve raised ever. So no, I don’t think that’s THE question.

If you disagree with what I’m saying, say how. If you don’t, contemplate why you feel compelled to argue with someone you don’t disagree with.

He should have behaved differently during the date. That’s all I’m saying, all I’ve ever said. If you don’t disagree, why are you still here yammering at me?

She left crying, man.

Read her account. The next thing she says he did after that quote. Just fucking read it.

I’m asking that men not be fucking assholes.

If you’re saying you’d back the fuck off if you heard that, then you and I are saying the same thing. If you’d do what he did by her account—push her head toward your dick—then you’re a fucking asshole.

I didn’t say he did either of those things. But if you don’t know what "I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you” means, stop having sex.

That’s not a joke. That’s not a dunk. I’m serious.

If someone says to you "I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you," she's saying she's scared of being raped. Ansari's partner told him she was scared of being raped. And he didn't stop.

She wanted to have a good date. When the date started, she seems to have been up for sex, even! But then, again, HE BEHAVED LIKE AN ASSHOLE, and she lost interest. And he kept pushing, when she made that clear.

You’re the one who has been beating the “by her own account” drum. By her account, he behaved like an asshole. He doesn’t defend it. You do. You should stop.

You’re the one defending how he acted that night. This isn’t about him anymore, it’s about you. Again: Stop having sex.

She said over and over that she felt like he was pressuring her and he kept pressuring her. And she left in tears. If that’s a “bad sex night” for you, stop having sex.

It wasn’t buyer’s remorse. She expressed her displeasure in the moment and he kept pushing until she left in tears.

This is true. But the power of Trump's presidency, especially now, is less about traditional exercise of control over a bureaucracy and more about lighting the fires of stochastic terrorism.

The GOP's policy has been to crowdsource bigotry. Trump has taken that to extreme heights.

Understanding this dynamic is key to understanding what the endgame is for a whole suite of GOP policies, including the rash of anti-trans attacks.

It's about creating a permission structure for random people to do awful things to disfavoured groups, and less about using state capacity to do so.

The danger is not that Congress will pass a law calling for Democratic Reps to be executed, or that the military will formally carry this out with firing squads. It's that you'll get another assassination by some rando, like what happened to Melissa Hortman--may her memory be a blessing.

🎹🎼🎶 Angus Johnston came to me speaking words of wisdom…

Sorry. I had an edible. Or two.

SWOON

And Paul Giamatti voices who you think he should, too. 😊

Tell me the Groff casting is what I think it is.

ABSOLUTELY A COMPLIMENT!

The vividness with which I can hear their conversation in my head.

Also also: The theme of the conference is Ghosts. #AAA2025

I think it depends on what the ratio of archaeologists there are in the anthro group.

Excellent point.

Depends on the absorptive qualities of said students, height of water table, bedrock and percentage of sand in said soil.