Albert Burneko

@albertburneko.bsky.social

Defector dot com

when i first became a cop, i was trained to stop "shitty looking cars" bc it's easy to find a reason to stop & "those people" always have warrants. Turns out those warrants were always tickets they couldn't pay. Too poor to fix the car, too poor to pay the tickets. lather, rinse, repeat. it's a scam

You do not get to do the whole "baseball is ruined" thing because the Dodgers gave up two serious prospects, one of whom is 100 years old, for a two-month rental. On this particular thing, your team literally could have done it if they wanted

There’s something that actually feels very right about the answers to the core mysteries of A Song of Ice and Fire being revealed not in books and not in the tv adaptation but in a West End show, and being relayed to the world through garbled forum posts.

Four points for everyone responding to posts about gov’t assistance with shit like “or maybe just don’t have kids”: 1. Fuck you. 2. Reproductive freedom is a basic human right. 3. Punishing poor people for having kids—and even more, punishing kids for having poor parents—is evil. 4. Fuck you.

I’m really glad I have Bluesky to keep me informed about what Matt Yglesias is saying. I have him blocked for being a dumbass nobody centrist shill with nothing to say and I don’t use X, but thankfully all the nothing he says gets screenshotted and reposted here. Wouldn’t want to miss it!

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him