dlitt.bsky.social

dlitt.bsky.social

@dlitt.bsky.social

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If you live in a shitty hood like me, one of the things shitty humans do to dogs is that they leave them out on apartment back porches. Walk my dog? Nah, I'll just leave him out there until he rains shit and piss on my downstairs neighbors.

I hate these fucking people. There's this big, laconic husky that's resigned himself to his confinement. When me and my boy go for our late night walk, I toss up some dog-vet-approved jerky & meatballs. That big wolf boy was betrayed by his humans, but he's gonna know he has a friend.

Free Greenland, Free Denmark. Long may Jared and Eric burn in hell. If the Sami ninja warriors need a place to rest in their reign of ninja assassin terror, the underground railroad will welcome them with open arms and warm beds.

Wow, I'm old. I found a little current of punk rock that actually feels legit. Social media is a cultural eraser, but there are tiny little channels that aggregate bands and labels in a way that sounds real. Harakiri Diat is one, and I just found another. Glad the kids still keep it real.

Meta / Facebook is doing a big advertising push with David Bowie's Five Years. Is that fucking Ironic or what? The suits who read the first few lines thought it was about populism. The song is about the end of the world. All those people in the beginning of the song are getting ready to die.

Which is, of course, way the fuck too spot on if we're talking about social media. Zuck and Elon are bringers of death that Oppenheimer could have only imagined. It's fitting that an elegy for our extinction would get unanimous upvotes from those corporate ghouls.

I'm not a cat guy, I don't understand cats, I don't want cats... I have three cats. Dogs are people. Cats are non-human intelligence, like the heptapods from Arrival. Turns out they have huge personalities, like people, and they're actually kind of emotionally needy.

I'm not a cat guy. I don't understand cats, I don't like cats, I don't want cats. I have three cats. Wasn't my idea. They just showed up. The middle boy just demands attention. I spend a lot of time scritching him and talking to him. Apparently, you need to talk to cats.

I'm a dog guy. Dogs are extremely expressive about their wants and feelings. Dogs and dog people make powerful bonds. But I'm finding that cats have strong attitudes, just a more limited vocabulary to express them. And they fucking bite when they're trying to express affection.

But the middle kid, an orange and white cat, jumps up and puts his head in my chest when I'm in the kitchen. He just shoves right in. He has zero subtlety about demanding attention and love. I'm sort of recalibrating my non-cat person thing.

@chrishedges.bsky.social Hey, Chris. Assuming this is actually you, I'm basically ready to kill somebody over my reading group. There are some extremely knowledgeable lefties who simply can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. I want a high school English teacher to high stick these bastards.

Jodi Dean, August H. Nimitz. Dean is just playing a video game of how much she can pad the footnotes. Nimitz simply can't do sentence and paragraph mechanics well enough to say anything explicitly. He has no clue what he's laid open to interpretive Tarot reading at the grammar level.

And yet I'm in debt to both of those fools. They understand both the material and the context deeply in ways that take a lifetime to learn. I'm extremely lucky to be in the audience. But I'm tearing my hair out. I'm gonna be bald and it's their fault. What do, Chris, what do?

The SPR is getting ready to fail. Soon. I'm a leftie prepper. Nothing is ever enough. Got a deep freezer full of meat and fruit. Got years of toiletries and Iaundry. Electric car, pantry of dry goods. It's never enough. My grandma survived the depression, and that's basically what I'm doing.

I want Iran to win. There, I said it. This bullshit war against Iran was never for us working stiffs here in the US. The working class of the US and the people of Iran have a common interest in peace. We're doing what we can over here, but it's a bitch. Love y'all to bits wish us luck.

It's hot as fuck in Texas. At night it gets down to 80 F / 26 C. We had the National Weather Service issue a heat advisory last week; it was only 90-something degrees, but at 86% humidity the heat index was 115 F. The AC died in my apartment. Me and the dog are at a hotel.

Being covered under a blanket or towel is Jimmy's love language. I don't know if it's the Chihuahua or the terrier in him, but he only feels safe when he's snuggled up to his people and under a blanket.

It's hot as fuck in Texas. At night it gets down to 80 F / 26 C. We had the National Weather Service issue a heat advisory last week; it was only 90-something degrees, but at 86% humidity the heat index was 115 F. The AC died in my apartment. Me and the dog are at a hotel.

The maintenance guys are (probably) going to fix the AC tomorrow. The on-call guy replaced a bunch of parts before he admitted defeat and called in the pro HVAC guys. Hopefully the AC will be blowing cold air before I check out in the morning.

I love my dog. Politics is whatever, you people are garbage, and high liberalism is basically indistinguishable from fascism. Corey Booker and Richey Torres love genocide. But my dog gives me kisses when I get home. I love my dog. You people are trash. You pigs get the wall.

You people are trash, you've made a virtue out of injustice and brutalizing the poor, and you're all getting the guillotine. This sweet pup is the Jacobin vanguard. Bella ciao, you're all dead men walking.

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Happy 250th, America. We lost another war, there's a cage match on the White House lawn, Elon's a trillionaire. Midterm maps, bold predictions, supply and demand getting weird, the American left's problem, AI is theft, and solar winning. OTR for 6-16-26. Watch the full video: youtu.be/Nk7SLBAALHw

So I bought an electric car. A 25 Nissan Leaf wasn't my first choice. I wanted a 23 Chevy Bolt, but everybody wants a 23 Chevy Bolt so nobody can get one. The 26 Bolt was like double the fuck of my budget, so I got the Nissan. I don't love it, but I like it a lot.

You have to charge more often than you'd fuel a gas car, and it takes longer and more planning, but if you can handle the planning, it's like free driving. The shit is like pennies on the dollar.

So I bought an electric car. A 25 Nissan Leaf wasn't my first choice. I wanted a 23 Chevy Bolt, but everybody wants a 23 Chevy Bolt so nobody can get one. The 26 Bolt was like double the fuck of my budget, so I got the Nissan. I don't love it, but I like it a lot.

Found the external 120 V electric plug outside the back of the building at work. I live about 3 miles from work. I work nights and weekends when nobody's there. Seriously thinking about trading in for a cheap-ish 2023 Chevy bolt. With level 1 charging alone, I'm getting more free KW than I'm using.

Tomorrow, my landlord shuts off the water to an apartment complex if 13 buildings and roughly 400 apartments. It might just be for 30 minutes. Might be for a couple of days. I don't fucking know.

2/ Got a 100 gallon bladder full of water ready in the bathtub. Laundry and dishes done. Two gallon thing of filtered drinking water in the kitchen. Dog and cat bowls clean and topped off.

I really tried. We're headed for something way the fuck worse than 2008. I cleaned out and prepped my deep freeze. My little deep freeze is meat, stock, and veggies. I'm just trying to keep my mom, my dog, and the cats safe. I have years of stuff ready to keep us alive.

If the world is to be good, America must be destroyed. Spain, y'all good. UK, go fuck yerself, you're the reason we got here in the first place. Portugal, I love you guys. Iceland, I'm gonna hide out on a couch at yer friend's place for a bit, but I'll bring snacks.

Requiem for Menab 168 schoolgirls in the remote southern Iranian town of Menab had their lives snuffed out by American bombs. 15 adult teachers were murdered too. America and Israel are evil, and Iran is the only good faith actor. Only America and Israel target civilians.

The little stray girl I found under a car is going to the shelter on her surrender date because literally every foster in central Texas ghosted me. I called, I emailed, I filled out all the web forms, nobody got back to me. Yes that's you, Jack Jack's pack. Yes that's you Austin Pets Alive. FAYM

She's made great strides at getting semi-housebroken and not biting, but shitty humans set her up for failure. She's a nippy girl and going potty is an ongoing process. She's done pretty good, all things considered.

The little stray girl I found under a car is going to the shelter on her surrender date because literally every foster in central Texas ghosted me. I called, I emailed, I filled out all the web forms, nobody got back to me. Yes that's you, Jack Jack's pack. Yes that's you Austin Pets Alive. FAYM

I'm way, way over the pet limit on my lease because I can't say no to an animal in trouble. I'm taking care of a shitty, elderly parent for the same reason. If my asshole mom hits the floor again, I can't take care of her. Little girl is way the fuck too much dog.

The little stray girl I found under a car is going to the shelter on her surrender date because literally every foster in central Texas ghosted me. I called, I emailed, I filled out all the web forms, nobody got back to me. Yes that's you, Jack Jack's pack. Yes that's you Austin Pets Alive. FAYM

Technically, Austin is a no-kill shelter. But in the same way nobody can afford rent here, dogs in the shelters here get shoved out after a few weeks to Williamson or Llano county shelters where death walks an assembly line.