Angry Old Coot

Translation: Democrats want to govern, Republicans want to rule

Me: Kinda sad today

Brain: Hmmm. Buy something?

Me: Nah

Brain: Buy something nice?

Me: No thanks

Brain: Buy something nice then feel guilty?

Me: I'm listening...

I invite all of the weird email lists I am on to send me something this morning because I am in the mood where I crave the satisfaction of gleefully clicking the unsubscribe link instead of just archiving

After nearly 500 hours playing Elden Ring, decided I should actually learn how to beat Malenia solo. It’s going as well as you’d expect.

@davidjroth.bsky.social somehow important to say I’m watching Reacher. It’s like if Sherlock was sentient meat that also had intense military training and drew investigative conclusions based on where a dart landed when thrown at a horoscope written in a language he doesn’t read. Quite enjoying it.

**very Don Henley voice**
“You can check out any time you like, but you can NEVER leeeve”

It’s these bigoted assholes taking the fact that *they* don’t know or understand something and extrapolating that feeling to the people who *do* know and understand, because they can’t conceive of a scenario that is both true and beyond the scope of their limited comprehension

The aliens silenced them

To be abundantly clear, the @nytimes.com has decided to platform anti-trans bigots, not to present both sides of a debate (because whether trans people exist and have human rights is not a valid point of debate - they do. The end.), but because they think those bigots are correct.

I love it when the NY Fucking Times questions the validity of my son’s existence pretty much every fucking day. And this has stopped being part of their weird commitment to platforming both sides of issues where one side is true and the other is not. They just want trans people to die.

But thank you, nevertheless, for diving into the muck and writing this

Once upon a time, someone decided that calling a thing “most awarded” should mean it has RECEIVED the most awards instead of being the most received AS an award, and that is when civilization’s decline became irreversible.

In the future, universal guaranteed income will become reality through the settlement of thousands of annual class action suits against tech companies

If you aren’t aware of this bit of horror, know it’s just the latest in a slew of attacks on trans people’s right to exist. It’s a crisis that cis folks (of which I am one) are too ignorant and too quiet about, and we all need to do better so our trans brethren aren’t fighting for their lives alone

Just to alleviate any confusion, Capitalism is the system where you can spend your twenties getting a terminal degree in the arts in exchange for having a daily reason to say “tech debt” in your fifties

Hey, everyone, can we stop freaking the fuck out about the small number of young humans who are getting the medical care they urgently need to be both physically and mentally healthy? That would be great, tyvm.

Obvious Conclusion: When you concoct a scenario where a racial slur must be used to save lives, you don’t care about saving lives, you just like using slurs.

I am at an age where I get excited to open a new box of Biofreeze patches

Ooops, we are at DEFCON Cappuccino

I’m extremely tired and at about 60% capacity, which I can probably maintain for the day. Or, I could go get a coffee and get to, like, 80% capacity for an hour or so, and then crash to 30% until I lose consciousness. I will now ruminate on this problem until I realize I’m already driving home.

Plane turns back to JFK after horse escapes on board | CNN A Boeing 747 en route from New York JFK to Liege, Belgium, was forced to turn around on November 9 after a horse got loose in the cargo hold.

Looks like the AI running our simulation has resorted to riffing off of John Mulaney bits

www.cnn.com/travel/horse...

If your kid says “When am I ever going to use algebra in real life?” just remind them they need it to open a combo lock in Alan Wake II.

Every time you post this I think of some basic-ass grey interior suburban house where Alexa won’t stop blasting Leonard Skynard

I guess I deserve this?

Just because your Air Pods make it possible for you to have a phone conversation while standing at a urinal doesn’t mean you should

Reminder that the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress

The king in Royal Match has no security detail and only knows Bond villains

The Murderbot books are wonderful. Cannot recommend them highly enough.

"You Betrayed Us, Azeen" Parents of Trans Youth Reeling After Speaking to an NYT Reporter — Assign... A story on the allegations of former St. Louis gender clinic staffer Jamie Reed left parents who spoke with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi crushed.

The parent of a trans girl in MO described bizarre behavior by NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi in her reporting for a recent story. At one point Ghorayshi followed her and her husband to their car and stood in the door so it couldn't close.

Say what you will about the current state of our nation, but the U.S. would never tolerate this sort of behavior from anyone not running for President