Gremlin Penny

Nothing more millennial than driving along in your forties and singing "I'm Just a Kid" by Simple Plan.

My first ever computer was an Apple IIgs, one of the few units to be upgraded from an Apple IIe in the old machine's same housing. Few of those still exist from what I've read on the subject.

We must increase bands.

They Might Be Loads of Giants

My record on Palestine speaks for itself. I’m proud of it. One of the strongest in Congress. I throw down for pro-Palestine candidates. Largely unrecognized work. That’s fine. Disagreements are fine, too. But if you want to toss all that for 1 half assed MTG stunt, be my guest. I know where I stand.

It took me years to admit I was disabled

When people found out, they “tolerated” me. Mainly because I could hide my suffering so they wouldn’t be uncomfortable

When I stopped hiding & started advocating for disability rights? They vanished. Almost everyone abandoned me

That’s how bad ableism is

We saw the storm brewing a mile away.

JB Pritzker calls out 'do-nothing' Democrats for failing to push back against Trump Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking at a major Democratic fundraiser in New Hampshire as he continues to build his national profile.

“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” Illinois Gov. Pritzker said.

Before I transitioned, I was a kid in catholic school, too, but very much an atheist. I had to go through the sacrament of confirmation. The confirmation name I picked was Thomas. Not a single person realized I was essentially saying, "You'd have to *prove* this whole 'Jesus' thing to me."

When you guys started talking about Kari Lake, I felt I had to tell you an interesting little fact about her. You guys love to make fun of any piece of history with a tie to Palmer and Palmer Chiropractic College. Lake started her media career at KWQC in Davenport IA, across the street from Palmer.

Does anyone know if Mechwarrior 5 on PS5 is worth it?

I spent way too many hours in Mechwarrior 3 back in the day on my PC and *loved* that game, but I don't know how well the controls will translate over to a console controller.

#ps5
#playstation5
#consolegaming
#videogames

The US once played loud rock music at dictator Manuel Noriega till he surrendered.

I bet continually yelling "No one likes you & there's not enough money in the world to buy you a sense of humor" at Elon would break him

this is how every trans american sounded to every cis american for the last five years, btw

If trans identity "conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life," what does that say about trans teachers? Trans law enforcement? Trans doctors?

This isn't just a travesty, it's a precedent.

you can't simultaneously believe "the cruelty is the point" and "anti trans bigotry is a distraction" btw. those are literally 100% contradictory beliefs. some of y'all seem to not really approach your own political beliefs with any amount of seriousness or intellectual rigor

YouTube video by vlogbrothers This Is Not Normal

This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...

We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next? How to navigate the future without a map.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

A collage of 6 images of a small black munchkin kitten (a breed known for their short legs)

This little guy here is my 5 month old munchkin kitten, Pippin. Named for the LotR series and Peregrin Took.

The trouble is you go from freezing your balls off to freezing your tits off.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have enough."

With a bunch of douchebro loser billionaires in the news every day lately, this story has been on my mind almost daily.

@swordsjew.bsky.social Finished the audiobook of Wild Faith today and made sure to make recommendations of it to friends who genuinely homeschool and fear the evangelical Christian homeschoolers. Thank you for the informative, important read.

Oh they fired me a couple of years ago. I just understand what was meant by this statement. There are a lot of long-term care facilities and medical supply companies for DME that are trying to scam the government out of a lot of money through fraudulent medical claims. I worked there for 5+ yrs.

Thompson was in charge of the Community and State division processing claims for Medicare and Medicaid. Whitty is talking about their efforts to mitigate Fraud, Waste and Abuse of Medicaid and Medicaid dollars. The claims Thompson's division paid were with federal and state money by government rules

The real question to ask is why that state and the federal departments in charge of Medicare and Medicaid are saying that UHC has to deny it. Which will only get worse with the clowns RFK Jr. And Dr. Oz in charge. (Part 2/2)

With a UHC community plan, which is Medicaid, they process the claims for the state, according to the state guidelines. UHC is not acting solely with their own volition, but ad a contracted agent of the state in question. (Part 1/2)

Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false

"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:

A tricolor black capped Pembroke Welsh Corgi dressed in a pink Thundershirt, plays in the snow, and looks up at the camera in a collage of four photos.

My Pembroke Welsh Corgi girl, River, in the snow for her second winter ever.

The Muppet Babies from the flashback in Muppets Take Manhattan, a couple of animation cells from Muppet Babies, and Red and Wembley from Fraggle Rock.

These are more from the Muppet Show itself.

More of the Muppets present in the exhibit. These ones are from Sesame Street.