Putting these @ettingermentum.bsky.social posts here mainly because "One day we will get you that free childcare for your children with names from the Titanic manifest and you will deserve it more than anyone has ever deserved anything" is a perfect sentence.
Lumpy MD
@lumpawaroomd.bsky.social
Rash enjoyer Unionize your workplace. Solidarity or death.
sometimes on my laptop I get the intuition that there's a beautiful interesting website I should be visiting but I either can't think of it or it is my mission to find it
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
My great grandfather was the first person in his town to buy a Model T. He sold it after he drove it into a ditch because it wouldn't stop when he said "whoa." So my burning hatred of cars is apparently genetic.
Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
The lab leak theory finds purchase because the alternative is rethinking our relationship with the animal world (and, likely following from that, industrial agriculture) and people really don't want to do that. But Jane Goodall was right www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
Why Jane Goodall says human disregard for nature led to the coronavirus pandemic
“We are all interconnected,” the famed primatologist, and a leading voice in conservation efforts, told the PBS NewsHour. “And if we don’t get that lesson from this pandemic, then maybe we never will....
pbs.org
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
"marco rubio thinks chiang kai shek is a chinese god that grants him wishes" i say to myself, rocking slowly back and forth on the floor
i still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
Why are all the probiotic sodas exclusively marketed towards women? Where's the BugJuice for Boyz sold in cans shaped like toxic waste barrels?
Half of Odysseus's men starve to death when they run afoul of Demeter's wrath on the Isle of Hard to Open Pistachios.
Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters
Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Lmao, I just saw Jimmy Concepts at O'Hare literally minutes after he tweeted this and he looked like a frog on the brink of tears.
at the Dyson service center and this dog just realized it's in Dog Hell
spotted on Reddit: this menu card from a Lufthansa flight explaining the bibimbap being served the Korean text apparently translates to: "You know how to eat bibimbap, right? You are experts. So, please understand that we need more space for English and German instructions."
"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"
absolutely deranged they've got their llm so fucking noided about evals and fictional environments it hears tell of a new version of nvidia drivers and goes "ah this is probably a fake world im living in the matrix and everything is a lie"
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
She has a neck the size of an adult human, legs that are just as long and an unforgettable coat. And she’s missing.
I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."
i will repeat that i think the reflecting pool debacle might actually kill him, he’s losing his mind over it
Guys after 10 years of searching thru my files and hard drives and old computers, I finally found it again; the single best Missed Connections listing I've ever seen