The Bad Takes Goblin feeds on your attention. It can only survive as long as it keeps getting fed. Please stop feeding him.
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Husband. Lawyer. Hunter. Fisherman. Swordsman. Warrior poet. Philosopher king. Legend.
Hegseth saw Jack Nicholson's performance in A Few Good Men and thought he was the good guy.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
I’ve spoken about it before, but learning how to actually fight was one of the great humbling experiences of my life. Getting your ass kicked up and down a gym is deflationary to the ego. Or it should be.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · yesterdayI think it's very obvious that this sorta ultra aggro performance is what you do if you aren't actually a big tough guy. I think... like... Jason Mamoa's general affect is more similar to what I've experienced from actually big tough guys irl. Which is odd though cos the latter is just as fakeable?
I think it's finally happened. I'm cancelling my Alamo Drafthouse season pass. I've been a member since their beta test on 2019. I started going to the original when I lived in Austin. But everything about it has gotten So Much Worse this year that I have to call it off.
I should be clear that the architecture of Bluesky makes it the social media place I most like to be. I'm not on social media to be an influencer or instigator; I want to hang out with folks and have an enjoyable time. This place delivers on that. I hope it continues to do so for a long time.
People focus too much on the minutiae of ideology (left versus right) and not enough on the structure of it. Someone who has the authoritarian structure of belief, the conspiracy-theorist-like thinking, the good/bad/black/white division, etc., isn't your political ally.
AR Hanlon@arhanlon.bsky.social · 2d agoGotta tap the sign again
If the free market was so good at resource allocation, why are groceries expensive and beyond the reach of most consumers?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
"hey I hope you had a good weekend, I'm just following up" I am following down, to the bottom of the ocean, please leave me alone
$10 his staff shows him fake stuff and tells him everything is going great.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been”
The right knew about global warming. But the oil execs from the bush era are already dead or dying soon. They hate their children and do not care that they’ve ruined the world. And the rest of them are in an apocalyptic death cult.
Tom Ruffen@contentwriter.bsky.social · 3d agoSpokane is a gem of the city. The downtown waterfalls are thrilling. Global warming is upon us. I've watched the West burn out of control for the last 10 years. Carter put solar panels on the WH. Reagan removed them. Al Gore warned us about climate change, but we elected GW Bush and Big Oil.
I haven’t really spent any time on the couch in my living room since I was sick. For two weeks leading up to my hospitalization I more or less lived on this couch. It’s odd sitting back here. I am actually a little anxious about it.
Well that sucked. Is “Disclosure Day” worth the price of admission?
Actually on reflection I would not. Risking acceleration of the already big and growing antisemitism in the fascism party isn’t worth a laugh at JD looking like a doofus, since he does that plenty without prompting already.
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” should just have been another season of the series. As a movie it has zero reason to exist.
Keep in mind, of course, that the DSA is supposedly anti-genocide. Which makes their cuddling up to the CCP, who is committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslims, all the more disgusting.
Humble Novice@humblenovice.bsky.social · 4d agoHonestly, the DSA aligning with the CCP is why I can never completely trust them at all. It doesn't matter how many times local chapters brush off the national organization's brazen cozying up with China, you just don't sweep something like this under the rug and pretend it's normal.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, let me tell you a sad tale about the Alamo Drafthouse and how far that brand has fallen.
Kateration@kateration.bsky.social · 4d agoThere are certain people who should be banned from movie theaters altogether. If you cannot sit in your seat and shut the fuck up for two hours, you shouldn’t be there. I should not have to look at you and say “Can you fucking not?!?” After the 4th time of you slurping your empty drink loudly.
These people have a stupid stupid stupid stupid idea about what carceral punishment and increased penal enforcement actually do to the problems they describe.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoThe core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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This is absolutely correct and the system the Republicans want to return us to. An American gentry. People think they’re still relitigating the civil war. No. They are loyalists still fighting the revolutionary war.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 4d agoThe Murdaughs of South Carolina who have been prominent AGs and attorneys and politicians and well-connected with multiple SC governors? Southern landed gentry. They absolutely educated their children precisely to amass power and uphold slavery through political means
Vivian Leigh playing Scarlett O'Hara was actually quite fitting for this very reason. Southern plantation owners LOVED fancy British shit A bunch of the colonial slaveholders were loyalists to the crown, because they were the rich fucks who were in with crown-appointed governors like Tryon in NC.