Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence

I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time

Kirk's gonna be a footnote in the story of his own murder and it's hard to call that anything but a fitting tribute tbh.

The viral videos show horrifying events, but do not capture the fact that they were EVERYWHERE and took people from at least 3 separate neighborhoods. This was not a one street, one incident event. It was a military style siege stretching from Calvary cemetery to Skokie.

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.

I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."

No.

ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

Weird take but the only way to make a party Gatsby-themed is to have everyone just stand at the end of some docks staring at a green light in the distance, otherwise you're not really holding a Gatsby Party you're just cosplaying robber barons.

Normalize this reaction
#art #artists

"Weird" should probably be like "ally" – a term that others apply to you, but you don't apply to yourself.

I have the good sense to generally keep my mouth shut about about this but I'm actually a trans TERF Sympathizer, and even I know that none of these points are worth ceding or even based in reality. I relate to the core feeling of Queer Lib cheapening womanhood, but these statements are all bullshit

It’s really funny how everything I’ve ever said that got me called cynical 25 years ago is something backed by empirical evidence now.

Sapkowski is a generally awesome dude. Perennially annoyed that I find his prose a slog and the pacing of the Witcher books painfully slow cause I'm a huge fan of the games which (from what I've heard) are signficiantly more misogynist and "apolitical" than the books.

It's heinously offensive to old school country fans in the exact way that an NYT writer trying to pander to the rural South would do 10/10 no notes.

Mark Cuban: If you eliminate billionaires, the stock market will go, too.”

Finally, a practical, results-oriented political proposal.

POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale

CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

This post-script brought to you by learning the backstory of the "Let The Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Mind" pin I wore to that occasion. My grandfather gave it to me and one of his books features a whole page abt the acid dealer gigolo who gave it to him

Oh Halloween 2020 was actually pretty good. Went to the premier of a film by a Vermin Supreme wannabe in somebody's garage and took mushrooms that a unicorn gave me. It makes for fun memories even tho I hated it as it was happening.

They literally ruin everything they touch

I am Jack’s layered Onion

There was that one year my ex and I put together extravagent outfits and made up characters from a fake YA series to say we were dressed as but then nobody asked us what we were dressed as so it was all moot.

Ah, to feed the algo so they can start to sell ads.

I just want a chronological list of people I follow, whom I followed to see their posts.

Polls, turn off reposts, private accounts, leadership with a modicum of professionalism all seem more urgent and yet…

I haven't had a good Halloween since I went trick or treating as the bailout in '09. Managed to spend my entire 20s without an enjoyable one. I hope next year's different but now that I'm 30 and burnt out on partying I don't even know what could make an enjoyable Halloween.

The system is set up - ESPECIALLY in the United States - such that fraud is the only viable way to actually get approved for benefits, and the only way to survive on them. Which allows the individual institutions and agents the power to *selectively enforce* their policies on fraud, and kick off…

Fuck off fireworks, some of us are trying to record a podcast.

I'm inclined to believe Lepore tho not her extrapolation -- Harvard is infested with incompetant Nepobaby legacy admissions, and those are the students who are keen to act like she describes. Aristocrat entitlement is a worse drug than Tim Leary ever unleashed on that campus.

Did anything else have that level of impact on the US music industry?Smells Like Teen Spirit seems like the one candidate but while it was sonic overhaul of the charts, it didn't change who gets to make what kinds of records like the Beatles did.

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵