Bo Thompson

Crocodile Dance - An Africanfuturist Animated Film An indie animated thriller where a musician reclaims her voice to face the Mami Wata, a monster goddess threatening her family.

Too cool, stylish animation and Afro-fantasy!
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Every time I hear Mitch McConnell cough in an interview, I take a good, long gulp of water. When that man leaves this earth, I want to be ready with a full bladder to piss on his tombstone.

He's not wrong. I hope they pick a place with a deep water table because having the people who came to urinate on your grave cause a flash flood would be embarrassing.

My friend is worried because he thinks a heating element is getting dangerously hot. He told me he thinks it might be hot enough to give first degree burns. The kindest thing I've done today is not explain to this man that every time it hurts to touch something hot, that's a first degree burn.

Folks will talk about universal basic income, free public transit, and unrestricted public welfare systems like "just because it worked in a tiny town doesn't mean it can work in big cities" as if we don't have decades of studies showing that it actually works there too. There too. Yup, and there. 🙄

Yep, and while I've been successful enough I will likely never be homeless again, I will never forget what it took to get here, how much luck and kindness of others were required, and how much of the system exists to keep you alive but stuck while making sure nobody ever sees your existence.

Me too. I lived with my mother out of a rotating set of hotel/motel suite for about three years during my childhood. Folks don't realize there's a whole industry around the transient, working homeless.

No, he has no money -- He had a house in Baltimore but it had to be auctioned off to help cover his debts. He really is that poor. And he's living out of motels and airbnbs apparently. It's that dire.

One day someone is going to write a book about the things they were instructed to train Grok to say about Elon Musk. It's going to be. New York Times Bestseller.

(2/2) before his current set wears out and so has to keep buying cheap shoes despite it costing more in the long run. So too with housing; if you can't afford first/last/security, and lack friends to stay with, you pay for what shelter you can get despite it costing more in the long run.

(1/2) So, a bit of insight here: Beyond the fact that he likely can't stay geographically locked down if he's having such trouble finding roles, transient folks frequently get stuck in a housing equivalent to the old parable of the cobbler wherein the poor man cannot save enough to buy good shoes

So Oscar Winner Kevin Spacey says he's living from hotel room to hotel room chasing virtually any gig he can get after having over 30 people accuse him in the last decade of sexual harassment and assault. It's good to see even if the courts failed to hold him accountable, he's still paying for it.

I'm not sure where you're lost? If you use science as an emotional support blanket when facing uncertainty, then every topic becomes something that can and should be approached as a scientific problem to be solved, and being told "actually no, some problems can't be solved empirically" upsets folks.

I'm running on fumes but have neither the schedule nor the condition to snatch some more sleep... might as well get this day started and knock out some game dev.

Any time someone insists people "be reasonable," "examine the facts," "be logical,' or that something is "already proven" when discussing complex moral, societal, or economic issues? It's this. That knee jerk refusal to tolerate that complex topics can be inherently ambiguous in a way science isn't.

Every day, like a rubberband being stretched a little farther, we see our democracy tolerate increasingly intolerable trespasses against any sensible standard. Much like that rubberband there are likely only two outcomes for us at the end of this: breaking or an extreme, explosive restorative force.

There's a lot of folks unready and unwilling to unpack that they treat science as an emotional support blanket to navigate an uncertain life and become irrationally upset when any related belief that they hold is challenged, even when that challenge arises through scientific inquiry or sound logic.

I frequently end up providing guidance to adult students about how to succeed. One of the hardest truths for many of them to grasp is that no amount of discussion, drugs, or planning can fix a situation where their life environment undermines their ability to succeed. Nothing either of us can do.🤷🏾‍♂️

When I think about fatphobia and the weird moralization of obesity that people do, I can't help but be struck by how irrational it is. Look at the wealthiest men in the world. They have every resource available to them and skin thinner than a spiderweb and even they struggle to achieve fit figures.

I suspect Collins thinks examining how the sausage is made is a valuable and pertinent critique of forces acting on our lives now, but I just personally don't see the value in engendering fury without a productive direction to channel it into.🤷🏾‍♂️

*laughs in Post-Reconstruction African American History* I guess when it comes to "Americans" and the terms of war, YMMV.🤷🏾‍♂️

I think a lot about how The Hunger Games spent the first series walking us through the decay, fall, and revolution of a 75 year gladiatorial system of oppression, and then every story after that has been spent examining how it was constructed and maintained instead of the shape of what follows.

As I get older and I enjoy the privilege of retirement, more and more I am tempted to take a vow of silence for a year. I'm curious how spending a year without verbalization might change me.

Truly, the speed of light has nothing on the conversion rate of an entitled liberal.

Dear Diary, Today I learned New Liberals think the strongest argument for why we shouldn't be afraid of Muslims is to analyze them like an invasive species and decide their spread rate puts them on a Least Concern list. So good that they didn't have to resort to extermination to quell the problem.

Mmm, I'll avoid forming any strong opinions on the nature of a relationship I don't know. I know folks get strung along, or have layers of deception and gaslighting involved, or who themselves don't see the relationship as serious and have no intention of partnership just because they had sex.

Barf. Skip.

winter hideaway #pixel #pixelart

I'm with you, I think it's valid to judge Mulaney considering he Wife Guy'ed himself up for profit; his ex definitely got the bulk of his fans in the divorce. Do I think he's an irredeemable monster? No, he's just some dude... But I'll definitely remember the next time he talks about his life.