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Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

One positive thing that's happening is that the "let's meet in the middle" people are looking more and more unhinged in the eyes of regular people. My FedBook page which includes a lot of normies is on fire regularly. Folks are done.

Photo a denim jacket lapel with an actual Hooters Remembers 9/11 commemorative enamel pin with the slogan, “Let Freedom Wing”

literally just occurred to me that this pin is probably what the guy was gesturing at when he complimented my jacket today

if I was still teaching journalism, we'd be opening tomorrow's class with a dissection of how in the fuck they printed this in the first place

A yellow metal lunchbox with an illustration of robots holding laser guns on a planet in the middle of warfare, with a spaceship overhead, next to the words "Battlestar Galactica". There is a matching yellow and white thermos next to it

Day #119: Battlestar Galactica (1978)

It’s actually pathetic to apply to college, get accepted, pay to be there, and then try to stop your professor from teaching you because you’re such a huge fan of authoritarianism. Even more pathetic to record your professor to get them fired.

orange cat with pronounced orange stripes

look at his wonderful perfect amazing little stripes

this really did fall by the wayside and yet it is in fact fuckin nuts

Today’s pupper moment of joy is Wally, exhausted after a long play date with his bestie at the parko. He stopped into my store with his mom and quickly fell asleep on her lap, ears and toe beans tucked.

If you're anti-vaccine, you're anti-science, and you're anti-life. GTF out of the way. You're taking away people's right to protect themselves from death, disease, and sequelae. Your voice has no place in public discourse.

1997: the president was born in 1946
2007: the president was born in 1946
2017: the president was born in 1946
2027: we’ll see

area man beats sandwich crime charge, will not be sub-poenaed

I put this on every single elected official that continues to offer thoughts and prayers while human beings bleed to death from gunshot wounds in churches, schools, concerts, night clubs, community parades, and the list goes on.

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

A children's book by Mo Willems titled "I Really Like Slop!", with an illustration of a pig in a chef's hat holding a bowl of green goop with flies around it and an elephant looking disgusted in the background

aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by

Was gonna write a whole paper on techbros wanting feminized robots and this man just... says it

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I thought my 20s were bad. My 30s have been nothing but trouble since day one.

If I make it to 40, it better be fucking LIT. 🔥

Bank account overdrawn.

Unemployed & constantly ghosted by recruiters.

Mass censorship, conservatism, & satanic panic on the rise.

Climate in shambles.

News always full of misery & violence all over the world.

Why didn’t I [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] when I wanted to at 23. 🙃

And they want to try this in Chicago?

Taking a sub to the chest is nothing compared to catching a 60-pound deep dish pizza.

There's going to be a lot of feds with giant circles punched clean through their stomachs, standing there all confused like Wile E. Coyote.

Coal, a black cat, rests in the top of a cat tree in a darkened room. his eyes are closed and it’s difficult to see any features on his face; he looks like a silhouette.

sometimes you stare into the void and it stares back.

not today, says Coal - he was sleepy (assume he had a long day of running around with his brother) so he closed his eyes.

This black bean & corn salsa just made life worth living tbh

Yes, there are Too Many Screens, but this is worthy of a tombstone with a solar-powered embedded flatscreen that just replays this scene, when, many decades from now, inshallah, this patriot is resting peacefully six feet below.

not sure how many different ways these guys can demonstrate their utter contempt and disrespect to artists

Anxiety is your brain using your ancestral instincts to survive being hunted by a saber-toothed tiger, but applying it with the same sense of urgency to an embarassing thing you once said 15 years ago.

Developing multiple new allergies is not how I wanted or expected to spend my 30s tbh.

Like what do you mean I’m severely allergic to laundry sanitizer and the adhesive on band aids??

an utter lack of curiosity is a defining quality of the worst people u know

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW NOISE COMPLAINT #MildHorror