Laura J

Furthest I've been:

N: Tuktoyaktuk, Northern Territories, Canada
E: Skopje, North Macedonia
S: Key West, Florida, USA
W: Homer, Alaska, USA

There’s part of what is going on that feels like the administration is a less aware Adriano Calentano and just making up words that sound vaguely English but together are nonsense.

Things I've been told are deescalatory by officers:
Pointing a rifle
Pointing a taser
Pointing a 40 mm launcher
Screaming "I'm going to fucking shoot you"
Shooting a taser
Shooting a 40 mm launcher
Punching a suspect in the face
Throwing person to the ground
Throwing a flash bang grenade...

concur

BREAKING NEWS: Former actor Dean Cain to be Luthor, not in a movie or anything.

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Being transgender is not misconduct. These servicemembers have a reliance argument (contract law) that should succeed in court. Otherwise what’s to prevent any admin from just finding arbitrary reason to dismiss military people right before they retire??

I need this!

This!!!!!

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

oh is tourism down across the board in the united states, that’s crazy

our new slogan “we will throw you in a fucking prison camp” doesn’t seem to be gaining traction with the tourism sector

"and smiling big like Leah Brahms just said yes to his friend request on the facebook" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jesus Christ almighty, he really tried a "these are not the droids you see" move with the US constitution

techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

Some union, please make this demand at the next contract bargaining!

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.

Is it possible that the bald-faced Repub hate for the not-rich, their closing off of even the most menial avenues to care (the closing of hospitals and the stopping of vaccines) might actually lead to a ground swell of support for universal healthcare? Or* will it take guillotines to get there?
*And

not everything that's wrong in the U.S. is the direct descendent of chattel slavery, but the resemblance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which paid commissioners $10 for rendering alleged fugitives to the south and $5 if they found the evidence is insufficient, is kind of hard to ignore

One, that's a horrible outfit and unbecoming his office.

Two, why the fuck is an official government agency tweeting out this nonsense?

I hate this timeline. @dieworkwear.bsky.social is a bright spot, at least.

The horse wears jeans better than secdef!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I see we've reached the "The president is walking around on the roof while ranting about crazy bullshit and everyone will pretend this is totally normal" phase of the fall of America.

Never forget and never forgive the people who voted for this demented, tyrannical, confused, cruel, evil, idiot.

I mean, "wagon train to the stars" was basically the selling point...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Omg, Allison, you can't just ask people if they're not rich enough!

Did we ever find out why he was on the roof?

Omg exactly

Currently the daily afternoon concert is going on. At least it is not accompanied by yelling conversations to people at ground level or clouds of smoke from smoking product of choice (forbidden by management but not enforced).