Martin #509

@martin509.bsky.social

Cars, politics, Homestar Runner. He/him in bio.

Every opinion poll and election adds to the pile of evidence that the conservative/Conservative ecosystem on X, where it is funny to mock members of the cadets and to be celebrated when the US administration joins you, are in a bubble further and further detached from the general national mood

2nd battle of midway, 2028: the entire US Navy, consisting of the USS Donald Trump (CVN-81), USS Donald Trump (BBGN-47), USS Donald Trump (FFG-47), and USS Donald Trump (FFG-48), faces off against several dozen Type-056A Built This Yesterday-class cruisers that fire a salvo of ~900 cruise missiles

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

devil's advocate: I think there is probably something to be examined in society that a *lot* of popular romance/smut basically starts from an assumption of sexual coercion or outright rape kink, and if you're an author writing it you can probably stand to benefit by questioning that assumption

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I really dislike the implication here that reading or writing books without these things is 'unethical.' Look, it's entirely fair to only want to read particular types of romance, and for publishers to advertise that their stories fall within certain limits. Christian romance exists! But ...

The venn diagram of Luigi stans and people who put money into GameStop is a perfect circle. It's all just this idiotic Occupy Wall Street-style thinking that boils down to trying to do a generic leftist revolution without ever acknowledging that, like, fascism or conservatism exists.

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · last mo.

I probably hate Luigi worshippers second only to the fascists, not because I want to defend the private health insurance companies but because they’re cheering on a clearly mentally ill man who destroyed his life for literally nothing. No systemic change will come from this.