Dalassa

@dalassa.bsky.social

Accidental Pharisee defender. Thinks hedgehogs are cute.

Oh no, a Brit wandered into a thread on an American primary to announce that Dems are center-right by “normal standards” and isn’t taking the pushback well.

Important for all Democrats to unite around the simple truth that it it’s important for Abdul El-Sayed to win his election to help make Chuck Schumer the most powerful Democrat in the country

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

The other thing about "boots theory" is that Vimes is talking about boots that phyiscally fall apart - as in the leather seams collapse completely, which was *Very common* until plastics and the spread of goodyear welts iirc...and doesn't happen much anymore!

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

Yeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY

as someone with hardwearing feet who has worn through a lot of cheap shoes and boots, but has also seen what "worn through" boots from the 18th, 19th and 20th century looks like...the quality of the "bad" shoe has gone up

American Jews have every right to advocate for policies they want. We have every right to safety from antisemitic violence and discrimination, even those of us who have shitty opinions. What we don't have is the right to be free of disagreement with our emotional-support ethnostate.

My thoughts on the cheap shoddy goods revealing consumer preferences: I have the money now to buy higher quality items, but I can’t find them. They just don’t make high quality fat women’s clothes. There are many pieces that can’t even be tailored now.

In the United States, on January 20, 2025, the air, the food, the medicine, the water were all as clean and pure and safe as they have ever been in this country. Yeah, sure, there were and are real problems, and our army of nerds in lab coats devoted to solving them was the envy of the world.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.