Sam

Sam

@semerson.bsky.social

Just a guy.

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The most concerning thing about the current economic shit show is that, contrary to prior ones where the people in power were (competently or not) trying to fix things, the current administration is actively creating and worsening the problem.

So, was anyone going to tell me there was a miniseries about a man-shark monster where Giancarlo Esposito plays a guy named Peniston? Was I meant to just find that out on my lonesome?

Getting kind of tired of Pride Month. When do we get Sloth Month? We could celebrate the sin and the animal at the same time!

Reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. One of those books that is clearly just an excuse to info dump about the writer’s interests. Like we get it, man, you’re a medievalist. (good book tho)

An under appreciated aspect of my and future generations’ inability to ever reasonably retire is that we will finally break the curse of dying tragically one week before retirement.

Welp, off to start my new life as a lighthouse keeper. Probably go mad, maybe start seeing strange visions in the sea mist, begin scrawling eldritch symbols on the walls then go mysteriously missing never to be heard from again. Yknow, normal light house stuff.

The only visitor I ever get to my bird feeder is this same squirrel. One day those suction cups are going to give under the weight of his despicable greed.

Every Republican president in my lifetime has started a war in the Middle East. I’ll give Trump credit for this, though, he waited until his second term to do it.

Apropos of nothing, here’s my Jurassic Park hot take: book Hammond is better than movie Hammond. Sure, movie Hammond is tons more likable, but book Hammond works so much better in terms of plots and themes. Instead of “science playing god” it’s “capitalists are short sighted, cheap dipshits.”

Kind of getting tired of people saying every insane, despicable thing Trump does is just to distract from the Epstein Files. Do you think he wouldn’t be a fascist, hateful, war-mongering, narcissistic wannabe-dictator? All of this is in character for him.

Okay, how the hell did skirts become girl clothes and pants become boy clothes? If anything, the gear (and by gear I mean genitals) each (cis)gender is working with goes better with the other gender’s clothes.

“Money doesn’t buy happiness,” say rich folk as they do everything in their power to push their personal wealth even higher.

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Replying to @hankgreen.bsky.social

In most cases the primary service your speech provides is the capture and retention of attention. Whatever speech is better at capturing and retaining attention is the speech that will be amplified regardless of truth, care, or consequence.

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it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

Edgecrusher@edgecrusherntb.bsky.social

My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade. Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents. #PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis