Carter Wickstrom

Chickens, too. Murderous little cannibalistic bastards. They don't deserve factory farming, but they'd cheerfully eat us if they could.

see also Maggi Seasoning and Golden Mountain Sauce

my family thinks that I am because I like stuff like Bún Bò Huế.

struggling a bit to come up with something where I think that... 🤔

mmmm tripe

labeling it "for veterinary use only" somehow makes it much worse

this is the way

clearly you don't spend much time in Portland

yeah, target drones were a thing!

Housing-first programs are both cheaper overall and yield better, more durable positive outcomes.

he's like Waldo, but for alt-right bugaboos

*To quote a guy on Mastodon:

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

this is largely analogous to how I feel about humanists. 🫠

...and somehow coast on a shitload of favorable Supreme Court decisions.

Which is more likely than I'm personally comfortable with. 😬

oh, I'm sorry that I'm insufficiently deferential to your fever swamp dream while possibly seeing some very modest uses for it.

jesus christ, what a fucking shitshow.

bsky.app/profile/cart...

love to be on both the AI Brainworms list and the AI Racists list.

Like... fuck both y'all.

no.

what, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

heh. yes, but even more so.

it mostly stayed that way through the 80s. started to change in the 90s, but the flip side is there are all kinds of additional new communities there now largely b/c of the UMass Medical Center.

no joke. my sister, her family, and their Ridiculous Mortgage are on the North Shore.

Yeah, it's where I went to high school, back when it was a lot rougher, and my folks are still in the area.

My dad's family was Worcester Swedes collide with Blackstone Valley/Woonsocket Quebecois.

I'll still wear a WooSox cap with pride, even if I grew up with them as PawSox. 🙂

probably a good instinct

probably makes Orson harder to get deflated by a crossbow bolt, too (which happened around the same time as someone spray painting a merkin onto them, iirc)

Worcester, man...

The biggest problem with this analogy is that it's gonna be a latter-day Crispus Attucks with the Glock and the 3d-printed switch instead of the snowball, while Dawes and Revere are hashtag-no-kings Insta influencers.

I personally aspire to a life wherein I count as something more than "mathematically indistinguishable."

the bright spot (such as it is) for 2026 is that _all_ of the House needs to be seated, and the Speaker effectively doesn't exist until after they're seated.

an injury to one is an injury to all

no shit. TIL.