Lava monster

Looking forward to at least five years of cis liberals citing curated clips from this to argue that she’s not hateful, she just wants to protect vulnerable women, and therefore continuing to make HP part of their whole personality is fine, actually.

I usually feel a sense of pride in my willingness to give people the benefit of the doubt, by holy crap some people really do not deserve it. This is a post about pronoun use, among other things.

Hung out with a bunch of Zoomers who were watching 15-year-old YouTube poops and it warms my heart/horrifies me to know that Millennial brainrot culture is still appreciated. Jokes aside, a big reason this stuff gets traction is that everyone can be completely sure that it’s not AI.

Just a few months ago, Tucker said: "The defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated." He hasn't changed. He continues to call attention to "the wrong issues" as he promotes racist conspiracies. It is disgusting that NPR is doing this. bsky.app/profile/brit...

NPR doing a mostly friendly interview with Tucker Carlson where they let him publicly launder his reputation as a white supremacist bigot is almost unforgivable to me. This man was too racist for Fox News, for fuck’s sake.

I’m hanging on right now, but only because the expectations I’ve set for what consists of a satisfying life I can feel proud of have been massively downgraded. Right now I give myself credit for just getting past each workweek.

People like this sort adult humans into three categories: the rich, people who work to make the rich richer, and wastes of oxygen.

Human Instrumentality as a concept is racist, mononormative, and Turkophobic.

My turn to post one of these and dox myself.

this is a common question and the answer is that a lot of companies actually do track piracy numbers when it comes to gauging interest in an IP so if you really want to send the message that Harry Potter is toxic: no, you should not pirate it either

Is there anything more quintessentially American than the fear that somewhere, in some small way, a persecuted minority might have less shitty private health insurance than you?

This is a sadistic level of contempt for Democratic voters and what they clearly want. I swear they get off to this. A ratio like this should inspire a deep crisis of confidence, but it will instead be interpreted as evidence Schiff is willing to make “hard choices”

"Earthers get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, 'Mine.'" -Anderson Dawes (The Expanse)

Seeing people on reddit discourse about height differences in dating gives me yet another reason to be overwhelmingly thankful that I’m not straight.

“I dislike right and left equally for different reasons.” -a hardcore right-winger, every time, without fail, even if they don’t admit it.

Is this why Bluesky is dying? In a couple of years there will only be one generation left here.

I made it until my mid 30s before touching anything by Virginia Woolf and holy cow I just love her prose.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

People like this often sound uber-woke when they’re talking about nonbinary transmasculine people but when they talk about binary trans women they might as well be quoting The Transsexual Empire. It’s literally the same arguments about trans women enforcing gender TERFs were making 45 years ago.

I came up with a joke about Helen, but a younger, hotter comic stole it from me.

Cowards, they should have left it up.

My alma mater is already cutting staff to the bone and reducing student services to make up for a budget shortfall caused by a sudden drop in international enrollment. This will gut both public and private higher education in the US.

Depression is a real shithead sometimes.

You stupid motherfuckers

The dark ritual was successful, I see.

This has been extremely clear since we all saw how "essential workers" got treated in 2020 and 2021 while everyone else got to stay home.

I just saw "I'm staying skeptical because I remember what happened to Emmet Till" over on reddit. And there you have it! The worst possible faux-woke misogynistic (not to mention racist) response to this whole mess. We can pack it in, discourse over.

Predicting it now: McConnell is alive but never going to wake up and they’re hiding it because “see, you can’t replace him, he’s alive” is deeply fucking embarrassing in light of that. Honestly that sort of “akshually we technically can do this” BS is perfectly fitting with his rotten legacy.

“i imagined a world where you got that scholarship instead of me and it was so emotionally devastating i need the government to eradicate all your wretched kind from public life so no real girl will be traumatized by hypotheticals like i was ever again”

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

That’s a sincere hope, by the way. Platner is obviously a dog shit liar with no real moral compass, but there’s a chance a good team will keep him in line. For the sake of American Democracy and the end of the violent imperialism he cheered for, I hope that happens.

On my fucking knees begging “leftists” to not talk about the US left being “stabbed in the back” by international Jewish money. It will surprise no one that this was a discussion about how people need to support a certain senatorial candidate in Maine.

This headline seems hyperbolic but my personal experience both bike commuting and riding recreationally is that a lot of drivers definitely do, even in a deep blue city in a blue state.

Conspiracy theory: there isn’t going to be the jet fuel to run these flights into the US soon anyway, and this saves face for it.

Unfortunately this story has spread to more mainstream outlets and comments are full of “I’m a liberal but people should stop moving here/this is a waste of tax dollars/why do they want special treatment.” As long as liberal cis society maintains this degree of apathy, the crisis will continue.

Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/

Mass Effect isn’t really an endorsement of the existence of extra-judicial super-cops because while playing as one you spend probably half your time cleaning up huge messes created by other extra-judicial super-cops.

A strap on one of my bras broke, which would be only mildly annoying if not for the fact that the dryer tore another one of my bras by twisting it into a super tight knot just a few days ago. Seriously what the heck?

This is the stuff of electoral suicide. You can kill half a million brown people abroad but that won't piss off voters nearly as much as turning up the How Much Stuff Costs dial.

Starting Chapter 18 of The Persephone Effect and I’m reminded that anything I can imagine for Demeter is too good for her. That’s a fun character to hate, in the tradition of Joffrey Baratheon or Immortan Joe.

Got to the start of Chapter 3 of The Persephone Effect and am reminded of why watching Olympic-level (heh) women’s climbing competitions is hot as fuck sometimes.

God damn rock climbing is just unreasonably fun.