Luckless pedestrian

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your liver and onions?

Iran recap:
1/ Trump pretended to negotiate with Iran, he betrayed the process & notably the Ambassador from Oman who has worked tirelessly to try to prevent war.
The Iranians offered Trump a better deal than Obama got including access to Iranian oil for IS & foreign oil companies.

A lot of apples and oranges going on in media analysis comparing Iranian drone capabilities with what the Russians are doing to Ukraine.

Russia drone launch sites are not vulnerable to the level of airpower that the US and Israel can exert on Iran.

All the money in the world and all these fucking chuds can do is invent new ways to press a button in an air-conditioned room and murder children.

Americans are the main characters, everyone else on earth just exists to facilitate their hero's journey

Opps, one day to soon! F'ing February. Got another shot tomorrow.

Worst rabbit rabbit result ever.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

"If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable, and sick."
--John Steinbeck
Born February 27, 1902, in Salinas, died December 20, 1968, in NYC.

I’m not saying I’m depressed, but I’m listening to the Smiths as a pick me up.

Somedays I wish I had earlids.

It’s really hard to get people to understand the danger of RFK Jr., but I’ll never stop trying.

Vonnegut's GHQ pieces and board

This game that Kurt Vonnegut designed and failed to sell before becoming an established author is actually pretty great. Surprisingly dynamic and strategic. Plus a great little booklet on the history of the game with plenty of archival materials.

In the NYC subways;
The French Connection (1971)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Death Wish (1974)
The Warriors (1979)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)

no matter what happens, pizza will always be there for you. thick and thin, in crust we trust.

When I say we should unconditionally support trans people and victims/survivors of abuse, people who are trying to introduce conditions for that support are helping the oppressors and abusers whether they want to believe that or not.

If Trump throws a party for himself, it’s caviar and ice sculptures. If Olympians bring home gold, it’s a staged phone call and fast food. This government isn’t serving the people, it’s using them to pretend they aren’t stealing taxpayer money to fund their lifestyles 🇺🇸🥇

If a politician has resisted standing up for trans people or immigrants or women or people of color or the poor or the homeless or victims of genocide, they’ve shown you who they are.

There’s no “wait and see.” We’ve already seen more than enough to know.

We’ve confused “newer” with “better”

I have tears running down my face I am laughing so much.

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration's plan to dismantle a major scientific research center could cause property insurance prices to increase across the country, according to an industry group representing actuaries. The warning adds a new dimension to the potential breakup of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose climate data is used by the insurance industry to help predict financial losses and set rates. "We're incredibly reliant on curated and unbiased data sets available to the public," said Peter Ott, who leads a research committee at the American Academy of Actuaries. The academy said in a recent letter that disrupting the center would "undermine the stability and affordability of insurance." The White House budget office stunned the scientific world when it announced in December that it would break up the federally funded center, which budget director Russell Vought called "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism." The move is among an array of steps taken by the Trump administration to dismantle programs aimed at addressing climate change.

Climate denial is expensive!

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — which the Trump regime calls “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — would lead to higher prices for home insurance and thus for housing itself.

The revanchists in the Iowa legislature are gleefully destroying education, which used to be Iowa's crown jewel. From k-12 through higher ed, one of the country's best educational systems is being gutted by small, scared white men, who don't even comprehend this is no more than a murder-suicide (1/)

The letters arrived today. Not last week, not two weeks ago when it was passed or a week ago after the veto was overridden. They arrived the night before the changes were live so no one could do anything about it, just to rub it in and be able to say they’d given notice.

The Cubans decade long refusal to return Assata Shakur to the US is also part of why they have been punished. Policing is the muscle behind capitalism maintaining a permanent underclass in America. Allowing a Black woman to exist FREE FROM IT after escaping prison is a fuck you to US imperialism

It really does feel like a mere few dozen people are destroying the entirety of the world.

who up using my data against me

The hospital refused to serve me Mountain Dew with my meals, Canadian health care is broken.

it’s called downtown because everyone is sad