Tonk
@brittonk.bsky.social
Only punch to the right. gay! | leftist! | nerd! | lawyer 😑 nyc (optimistic) | he/him | 🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌻
Hitting this vape like an inhaler
big Kent eday update is nuts for Abdul, good sign
The ballad of an anonymous millennial: Cold Open. Gen X Punditocracy. Bioterrorism. Welp, Bork. Steampunk. Snark. ASD; ADHD: Incognito Mode. Wake-and-Bake; Jack Into Virtual Reality, Degenderized. Food Coma, Final Girl. Point-of-Sale Physician-Assisted Suicide.
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*sucks teeth* No sorry that wasn’t what we were looking for, and please do remember to phrase your response in the form of a question (like “how can I do better?”)
This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.
I’m just gonna say this here because idk where else to say it but we can tell each apart from neurotypicals in the wild & we are fully aware neurotypicals are ready to throw us under the bus
It was never going to stop at trans people.
We laugh but there is already a traceable web of people of who hate one another’s guts reposting or replying to this like “this explains everyone who disagreed with me today” and they aren’t actually kidding
Well, this explains a lot of your behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
I remain neurodivergent and unsurprised slash tired of being right too early
It was never going to stop at trans people.
The way I scream-laughed reading and relating to this
(I actually was hospitalized because of this but I was raised not to complain too much. 🙄)
Not saying this to criticize Kat but you know how every time there’s graphic media of violent atrocities going around, we gently remind each other that we don’t need to inflict psychic damage by sharing or bearing witness? I’m beginning to unironically feel that way about Will Stancil takes, too.
I have never seen someone so flummoxed by the concept of feeding people lmao
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
When you mock or fail to understand someone who would choose the 50k in hand, on average, you are mocking someone for having a personal experience of deprivation or poverty. Congratulations, quants. You sure showed ‘em.
Experiences of deprivation and want cause people, on average, to shift their priorities towards the gratification and rewards they can see and obtain immediately, as their life experiences have shown them that those promised greater rewards are usually illusory or untrustworthy.
If this horrific police execution video crosses your timeline consider: - we don’t have to physically witness a murder to know it’s horrific - people who are subject to this type of violence do not have to be repeatedly traumatized by it - you do not have to push violence into people’s timelines
*turn off autoplay on your videos right now*
ZA/UM is to my passion for video games as SpaceX is to my passion for space exploration
The way Zero Parades exists culturally not as a video game but as a signifier of specific industry practices and drama and is engaged with exclusively through that lens is incredibly disheartening to me.
I became a lawyer because I imagined there would be Sages and then I found it was Yirmeyas the whole way down
OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT
Never ever ever post: this is where it gets you
Apologies but I think you’ve confused me with someone who threatened to blow up a Walmart and didn’t vote for Kamala
Lindsey Graham’s Christofascist, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and (yes!) homophobic legacy is a perfectly appropriate subject of conversation at all times, including upon the occasion of his passing. If you cannot agree with this, you need to reflect on what it means to be part of the problem.
Good for you, I’ll be remembering Lindsey Graham for his litany of bad deeds, each of which I found extremely disagreeable
What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Graham Platner embodies a concept that in 2016 we didn’t have words for so “Bernie Bro” made the most sense. It had nothing to do with Bernie but was an attempt to describe a man who outwardly espouses progressive values but hates women more than he cares about anything else.
I’m not tapping this sign to say “I told you so,” I’m tapping it to say “you need to learn from this”
These people are saying “I think it’s fine for my Senator to have been empty-headed enough to have innocently gotten a Nazi tattoo and innocently kept it for decades despite a purported interest in military history” We’ve been trained to have no standards or expectations and it’s evident these days
I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.
Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
meditationsinanemergency.com
This is the thing: if your job is political commentary and you made it past the tattoo (to say nothing of everything else), our country may desperately depend on you internalizing this “I told you so”; it is not in bad faith to hold commentators to a standard
if you didn’t dump his ass over the nazi tattoo congratulations you are dumber than a high school junior at a hardcore show. a child with moshpit CTE is dogwalking you morally
I hope that Mr. Ali resolves to do better in future to avoid being misled by obviously bad people
The GOP operative that the NYT used as a source despite admitting her allegations were uncorroborated. Also, she worked with right-wing groups to advance Kavanaugh. You can dislike and not vote Platner; that's fine, but why are you falling for an obvious right-wing hit job by the worst people?
Indefinite moratorium on takes from people who didn’t draw the line at racism, homophobia, Blackwater, Abu Ghraib, and the Nazi tattoo, among other things, all of which we knew about from jump (thanks in large part to the laundering gleefully undertaken by @podsaveamerica.crooked.com for free)
i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
politico.com
Not many Americans know what a cleat to the Achilles feels like (or can look like) and it shows