Maximum Derek!

Isn’t that illegal? Denial of rights for some citizens but not others?

It’s so rare in the guntube world. It’s amazing how you can find someone who is so intelligent and knowledgeable and then something unhinged comes out of their mouths.

Reread Terra Ignota, washed it down with something much lighter, and have moved on to “Inventing the Renaissance.” Really enjoying it so far, but I can’t help but notice a marked decrease in the number of weird sex scenes/conversations with dead philosophers. Assuming it’s a few more chapters in.

You know.

Hellll yes.

It's not even the same optic for christ's sake.

There are a distressing number of tech bros who do not understand dystopian fiction.

There’s an even more distressing number of them who are the billionaires trying to usher those futures in.

Rob-ert… </sophie>

@adapalmer.bsky.social I have to tell you rereading Terra Ignota while watching the veil of neoliberalism being publicly lifted from the world order is kind of a weird ride.

People of Bluesky, read this series. It’s incredible.

"Get in loser" meme from Mean Girls

Get in loser, we're going to put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, to make it stop

@jamieloftus.bsky.social

Don't smoke anymore but goddamn do I want to light up these days.

Do it.

We really did too. I’m still salty about it.

Rey’s saber and Leia’s saber were petty sweet though.

Listening to my favorite podcasters @iwriteok.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social play a role playing game is so much more fun than I’d have thought it would be. It also reminds me how weird parasocial relationships can be. Anyway I really gotta try Pathfinder now.

Magpie some weeks I honestly don’t know how I’d make it through the week without your show. Especially when there’s badass warrior women. Also I badly need to know - please - if you’ve read The Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer? Cause I think you might really dig that shit.

I am pleased to announce that I have recently received the Chuck E Cheese Peace Prize.

Also @margaret.bsky.social I need to know what hive you’d be in. I have my suspicions.

I don’t understand why we’re not all talking about this series constantly.

I’m usually not too concerned with physical versions of things but this is one of those “get a signed copy” things for sure.

Derp. Quadrilogy not trilogy. Still incredible. One of my personal top three.

@margaret.bsky.social just listened to you on btb and you made a comment about an end to political borders. It made me wonder, have you read the Terra Ignota trilogy by @adapalmer.bsky.social ? It’s bonkers in an amazing way. The writing style, the story, all of it bonkers and brilliant.

Sig P320

Oh good I’m not the only xennial here

You know why. Normalize it now so they can really fuck with it in the nationals.

Well to be fair he is a giant piece of shit.

This album and Ani Difranco were on a very solid rotation.

Sitting here months later regularly concealed carry realizing I was completely utterly wrong.

Excepting of course her pretending to be a Nazi in American History X. That doesn’t count.

I hate every word in that sentence but fuck me if you aren’t correct. This sounds a lot like how young me being extremely willing to invest the emotional effort to fix Fairuza Balk, though I’m pretty sure even at my thirstiest her being a Nazi would have been a turnoff.