democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus
Lorelei
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A Lorelei V, she/they. Voice actor (w/ home studio). Artist. Scientist. Smart cookie. https://alorelei.com
I was honestly kinda disappointed by the latest "Otherwords." like, you're really gonna tell us the planets are named after gods… and English days of the week are named after gods… and so are the days of the week in Romance languages… but not draw any lines between the three?!
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
Truthout@truthout.org · 3d agoRep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
finally watching SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN, on the recommendation of @dresdencodak.com weird to think I was very close to Lain's age at the time it first aired in 1998
watched HALLOWEEN for the first time tonight, and my prevailing thought was: high school babysitters, in 1978? that's my mom. Jamie Lee Curtis is just a few years older than my mom
I'm reconfiguring my music library and Flotow's MARTHA is next in the queue and I'm tempted to pop off on WILLIE THE OPERATIC WHALE again
thinking of THE SWAN PRINCESS in part b/c I watched a video of one of the songs with very obviously computer-generated subtitles most egregiously "Derek and Odette" rendered as "dairy candle debt" but also amused by "love" being so unintelligible it leaned onto the choir with "my idea of LORD"
recalling a fond childhood memory: my brothers and I were flipping through TV channels for something we could agree on to watch. it was the turn of the hour, so we had a shot of catching something from the start, when we stumbled upon a black screen, just beginning a familiar slow golden scrawl
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
even more this re: Annie Andrews
Lorelei@alorelei.com · 4w agothe bullies came at Kaptur with "you're a [slur]-lover" and she really answered with "I'm not a [slur]-lover! I hate [slur]s! I'll help you beat up the [slur]s!" (plus the gall of "Don't let them change the subject" as if that isn't EXACTLY what she just did)
movies watched this week include COOL WORLD and AMERICAN PSYCHO fun fact: both feature a David Bowie song over the end credits
UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 8!!! Why are Queer cartoon characters censored?! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation
phlebotomist had to draw from the back of my hand for the first time today the double-whammy of feminizing HRT: you require more blood tests, but your veins become harder to locate I used to bleed so well
woke up to a note reading FAST BLOOD stuck to my tablet (a reminder to myself not to eat anything until after I've had labs drawn)
and yet: suffered a few more kernel panics today, with one fairly catastrophic. I'm back to using the external drive, and so shall it be for the foreseeable future
Lorelei@alorelei.com · 3w agoupdate: I installed and (mostly) configured my programs on the external boot drive today, so then I decided to shut down, unplug, and try one more time to get the internal drive working, just for fun folks… it worked
update: I installed and (mostly) configured my programs on the external boot drive today, so then I decided to shut down, unplug, and try one more time to get the internal drive working, just for fun folks… it worked
Over The Garden Wall: Ain't That Just The Way
Alt: animated gif of Greg in "Over the Garden Wall" saying "ain't that just the way"
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Lorelei@alorelei.com · 3w agoso the internal drive is some kinda fried, but I got an external drive to boot from today. got the OS installed and my backed-up files transferred (all safe). still work to do setting up programs and preferences, but my computer is a computer again, crisis averted
so the internal drive is some kinda fried, but I got an external drive to boot from today. got the OS installed and my backed-up files transferred (all safe). still work to do setting up programs and preferences, but my computer is a computer again, crisis averted
Lorelei@alorelei.com · 3w agooh, my computer *crashed* crashed. like, have-to-erase-the-hard-drive-and-reinstall-from-scratch crashed fortunately, I have automatic backups!! gonna be a busy day recovering, but no files should be lost
that "best tv shows" list almost totally excludes animation and all-ages programming (the one exception I notice at a glance is BOJACK HORSEMAN) no AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, no SCAVENGERS REIGN, nothing unserious conversation also as always fuck the new york times
For 10 years, being a singer was my job. Then I went on gender-affirming Testosterone and lost my voice. Now I’m training it back up — please enjoy this video where both of me are singing together. 💚 youtu.be/xJ9txYOHAXc?...
Panic in Two Voices
YouTube video by The Doubleclicks
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my Bible recall kicked in before I thought this one through "dogs licking the king's blood, that was… Ahab, right? … ohhhhhh"
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?
suddenly realizing Bova on SPACE CASES may have been so humorless, not just because of all the "Uranus" jokes, but also because of a lifetime of "Bova deez nuts" jokes
oh, my computer *crashed* crashed. like, have-to-erase-the-hard-drive-and-reinstall-from-scratch crashed fortunately, I have automatic backups!! gonna be a busy day recovering, but no files should be lost
ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together
Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft—Thunder and Lightning (The Main-top-sail yard.—Tashtego passing new lashings around it.) "Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4w agoWe don’t want thunder; we want rum
If you would like to read a fairly lengthy diary comic on this topic (and others), you’re in luck, I just wrote and published one today! www.instagram.com/p/Ddh8ig-nAk...
Mike Dawson@mikedawson.bsky.social · 4w agoBelieve me, I wish this were true, but that's what it is, wishful thinking. Freddie Mercury was never open about his sexuality* or his ethnicity. To me that makes the image political, but more in the sad "reflection of its time" kind of way. However there's another important aspect to this photo...
The Muppet Show once did this great bit where they had Kermit sing and dance to "Happy Feet" the gag was, we only ever got the standard torso-up view of Kermit, we never saw his feet they later doubled down, including the song on a soundtrack album www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OP...
The Muppet Show - 209: Madeline Kahn - “Happy Feet” (1977)
YouTube video by The Muppet Show Vault
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I went into tonight's movie knowing Soylent Green was people, but I didn't know women were furniture
we need to bring America together. both sides, together. the ones who would harm, and the ones whom they would harm. put the abusers in a room together with their victims. give the victims no escape. offer the abusers no challenge. this is what healing looks like
the bullies came at Kaptur with "you're a [slur]-lover" and she really answered with "I'm not a [slur]-lover! I hate [slur]s! I'll help you beat up the [slur]s!" (plus the gall of "Don't let them change the subject" as if that isn't EXACTLY what she just did)
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4w agoHoly shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.