Mike Sweeney

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

Mornin' Cat 👋🏻

only consuming bad news online every day is probably good for your mental health overall

One cool thing tv shows do sometimes is kill off the only likable character to let you know that the show doesn’t mess around and also that you can just do something else now

All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.

wait is it even legal for someone who’s now in the government to clearly target and suspend someone for speech directed at him? am i crazy or isn’t that not legal now theoretically

Looking at other countries that might be good to live in but what I really want is an alternate universe.

Animal Farm was published on this day in 1945. Everything Orwell warned us about is now referred to as Orwellian, in an irony that can only be described as Kafkaesque.

A lighted billboard inside an airport concourse with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the words, “A house divided cannot stand. Civility is in you. Pass it on.”

Hey, thanks, airport. I guess I was unaware that Lincoln preserved the union and ended slavery through the cunning use of [checks notes] “civility.”

I have an idea for a smartphone alarm: the sound of a cat vomiting.

The front page of The Onion newspaper from July 20, 1969, that reads "HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON"

On This Day In History: July 20, 1969

Here's the thing. If a bunch of rich people manage to bully the party into kicking out the *elected candidate* and replace him with literally anyone and we go into the election with a person chosen by a bunch of rich people that nobody had a chance to vote for our democracy is already dead.

Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A critizen who adapt in this way is teaching power what it can do.

Do not obey in advance.

nice blood packet bro did you learn that move hanging out with vince mcmahon?

christ I just want to live in boring times. Just one boring year.

Shot, by heaven!

i picked a hell of a time to give up dissociation

can we please go one week without a decade happening

roombas are like if dogs did the opposite of shedding, but still needed you to ask “what’s in your mouth?” and then need you to forcibly remove the foreign object they’re chewing on, and then also they sometimes rearrange your furniture

pretty strong chyron

imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

Handsome gray tabby portrait - taken in the sun where his whiskers and ear furnishings can be shown off to their finest effect.

The Morning Monty is *magnificent*

Oh, geeze, Microsoft, thanks for re-enabling Copilot in the latest Windows update, after I very intentionally disabled it. I'm going to have to write a script to do this, aren't I. One more obnoxious maintenance task, because you are so disrespectful of our consent.

Dog wearing hat in a room that's not on fire, labeled "Mainstream Media" Second panel: dog says "I miss the fire."

Historically it's wild how fast pop rock music went from "baby I'm nervous and I just wanna hold your hand" (e.g. early Beatles) to "hope you're ready to get this dick" (Led Zeppelin)

Tearful Boston Dynamics Engineer Forced To Drown Unwanted Robot Puppies WALTHAM, MA—Heeding his supervisor’s order to get rid of the excess newborn mechanical quadrupeds, tearful Boston Dynamics engineer Leon Rosoff was forced Monday to drown several unwanted robot puppie...

"Now be good little boys and get in the burlap sack. There’s nothing to be afraid of."

I set up my son’s mini PC and it’s incredible how Windows 11 seems to be built around resentment over the very idea of you owning your files and nothing else.