I love EDC guys, they’ll have a folding knife that costs more than any lamp in their house and talk about how it’s great for their everyday need of opening packages
Big Phone on the precipice of getting the nytimes to do an article called like “Is it the Couch?”
my only problem with cool ceviche on a hot summer day is that it doesn't leap directly out of a stream into my jaws
Winter is for eating like a peasant (torn bread, cheese, questionable pickle), summer is for eating like a bear (pound of blueberries and pikachu shaped goldfish someone was throwing out)
Pan to me, at a chalkboard, writing “I will not touch the lower wheel alignment on a bandsaw” 100 times
Part of your job once you are a socialist is, in fact, to argue for socialism, to anyone who will listen. That is actually a thing political parties are supposed to do, argue for policy, and enact it
Dems see this as letting maha fascists “in the tent” because they themselves never make any demands of the fascists they actively pursue and believe “meeting people where they are” means never attempting to push them to a higher political consciousness
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
I’m pretty convinced (by me, myself) that immortality in the anne rice universe cuts off your ability to make good art bc you lose a fundamental urgency that pushes the ball down the net
how it feels trying to get anything done in suburban america without a car
Seatbelt laws are objectively good but riding in the back of a pickup is also objectively very fun
A lot of the "rural voters" that we worry about are, in fact, recent transplants & white-flighters. They're urbanites who are bringing their day job $$ with them. They have VERY different concerns than people who actually grew up rural & have to deal w rural opportunities.
Should've done this at the height of the discourse, but if you want an RPG about fantastical ancient world journeys, SpeedRune is free, has perfect art by @adegenart.bsky.social, and there are additional adventures, player options, etc. erinking.itch.io/speedrune
SpeedRune by Aaron King
a rules-lite ancient world fantasy RPG
erinking.itch.io
You ever think how different your life would be if someone bought you everything on your ebay watch list
Kids whose parents manipulate them with money start realizing how pointless all their prep school was when a poor has a more comprehensive read on faulkner and some of them never stop wigging out about it
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.right wingers think it's good for the ruling class to get arts and humanities degrees. they understand the value this type of education has for the rulling class. they support vocational education (which is what they consider STEM to be) for other for precisely that reason.
One of the reasons they pushed Biden through primaries and into the presidency. To make sure police were not in fact abolished but paid more.
Now that the season is over, can we give a round of applause for bringing back Ashy Armand to proudly say “using facial recognition software on my ipad,”
After the last round of bagged spinach e. Coli I realized everyone in victorian times probably knew all the flour was cut with chalk but what were you going to do, not eat bread
Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀@dumbmike.bsky.social · 2w agoI used to think it was pretty funny that Upton Sinclair's The Jungle had to teach people way back when that eating ground up rats and dog shit was bad for them. But now I'm dying of a $24 wedge salad. Before tax and tips.
I am from the “stack a bunch of shit precariously” school of Sculpture and I’m worried to apply to yale bc they are really in more of a “put a bunch of shit all over the floor” era atm
Where the good animal accounts at on bluesky. Individual animals. Preferably not in english
Feeling like getting a really big mentally unstable dog will fix everything right now