Erin Grievances

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

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Fun to think about the decisions we’re locking in now

quite the opposite--anyone who raised the most recent podcast appearance and saying "this seems like another red flag" was getting downvoted to oblivion

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

The top portion of a wall calendar for February. It is a still image from the Empire strikes back of Luke Skywalker in a bacta tank in his skivvies.

Truly unfair to assign this photo to the shortest month of the year. Goodbye February 1981.

Sorry it was extra wild for a while on here, ao3 was down.

I love that we both found very niche reasons to hate this guy.

My high school had signs on the water fountains in the late 90s noting that you shouldn't drink the water if you were on a restricted sodium diet. No one had any idea why they were there but they made us wonder if we *should* be worried about our sodium levels. (No one worried too hard.)

This is some unexpected #NutmegSky content.

sorry that's the private school i grew up down the street from so this is a very niche reason i now have to hate him

As a townie, I now feel even more righteous in saying fuck that guy

HE WENT TO FUCKING HOTCHKISS ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Who was it who coined the term smol bean fascism? This seems like a different variety of smol bean, honestly.

I don't know that I'd ever seen something best described as "dickriding" before.

Either he doesn't know what's going on or he doesn't know what's going on (Mike Johnson version) and neither one is good.

It's reached the point where the excuses are making it seem like the antisemitism is a feature, not a bug, for some supporters.

I just popped into the Maine subreddit and, uh, yikes.

(An emeritus prof could be a spicy alternative to a NTT author)

Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

The top portion of a wall calendar for February. It is a still image from the Empire strikes back of Luke Skywalker in a bacta tank in his skivvies.

Truly unfair to assign this photo to the shortest month of the year. Goodbye February 1981.

DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, with caption: and the only explanation I can find

DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, leaning in, with caption: is that our leaders have simply gone insane.

The real millennial participation trophy ⬇️

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

A church bell down the street has been tolling for five minutes and it's getting pretty ominous.

Well I have definitely learned that voice-to-text really wants us to be bombing Ron.

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it