So much of Las Cruces right wing politics (a truly weird and prickly bunch) revolve around the terminally online idle rich and/or retired posting on facebook. If Meta had actual moderation so many of the nations minor gentry and small business tyrants would have very little organizing power.
Catholics famously love gay sorcerers. It’s all our favorite things rolled into one.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 2d agoVice President JD Vance is dressed as Dumbledore — the headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series — for Halloween.
I share this because Halloween is not about who is or is not allowed to get candy. It is about neighbors trusting neighbors and sharing the plenty and wearing absurd outfits. Do not police people coming to your door. Give them candy. It’s the candy giving holiday, my dudes.
Taika hates critics so much that he killed the one in his head that told him how to not suck.
Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 2d agoTaika’s got what I’ve come to think of as Kevin Smith disease: basically owes his career to critics championing his early work, gets the bad reviews his later films deserve, and tries to blame it on critics. It’s not our fault you lost your fucking fastball, dude!
Thinking about Taika Waititi and how Obama 2 and Trump 1 created this legion of vaguely political celebrities frozen at the moment of their cultural relevancy. Like old hippies, but each unique, each assignable to, like, a specific month on Twitter.
They claimed it was all right to persecute the weak and the poor. They offered up all temptations to mankind: “Nothing is true, therefore everything is permitted.” LaVey says something similar. (1971)
In The Magus, John Fowles points out that the Nazi did not come to power because they brought order over chaos, but on the contrary because they imposed chaos.
When the kid gets good and mad her first instinct is to take her shoes off and throw them at the offending party; something her Puerto Rican Mami has NEVER done but something her abuela has done forever. I’m trying to avoid some nature vs. nurture arguments in the ol’ mind palace rn.
I’m a true American Patriot who loves Freedom, Law and Order, and The Constitution. That’s why every election cycle I threaten to do a civil war if it doesn’t go my way
I’m hoping that with a Lula win and a likely huge swing in the US midterms Latin American countries start sending oil tankers to Cuba but immiserating the Cuban people is a bipartisan policy and Lil’ Marco is going to be dangerous like a rabid dog.
I think a new med might be causing some involuntary movements (unnoticeable to anyone else) which isn’t fun but at least my mood seems to be hitting an even keel and work approved my ADA accommodations. Being bipolar isn’t fun but thankfully I’ve got a pretty manageable form of it.
I was just thinking about BERG (British Experimental Rocket Group,) a sort of think tank and artistic collective. They were big on mythic resonance, stuff looking cool in ways that we connect with in inspiring ways. IIRC they did presentations etc in white lab coats like scientist savants
One year the muslim kids from the next street over came at 7:59 uncostumed with shopping bags to say hi. I grew up in a no-halloween house too so I hooked them up with a bucketful. I hope I only put their teeth and not their everlasting souls in danger.
Kenny Logins@kennylogins.bsky.social · last yr.Just found out Kid Rock is doing Christian music now?! Not going to listen to a second of it because my entire review is that if your album is called Halfway 2 Jesus why is the character tiny relative to the Devil and 3/4 of the way to the also tiny cross?
I watch weather reports for the country and then strongly resist the urge to text friends about what to expect for the next week. Daddening so hard.
Michael Hurley and Arthur Russell started hitting the in-store playlists while I was out this weekend and now leaves are falling. I love this season.
This is the apres ski outfit of a specific kind of Texas lady who has a Yellowstone branded bible cover and doesn’t really fuck with the slopes.
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w agoDrake dressed like a yenta
Jack could even end up in a Ludlow Massacre thing, but I feel like that’s kinda been covered plus Bisbee feels more “western” with Mexico, Geronimo’s surrender monument and Tombstone nearby.
It sucks that the only Triple A company out there now that could make a really good game about 20’s-30’s labor struggles is fucking Rockstar. RDR2 has a lot of those pieces. My ideal RDR3 is about Jack Marston getting pulled into a fictionalized Bisbee Deportation.
True Detective/The Lowdown crossover inspired by James Shelby Downard, please
Early voting at my usual spot has been PACKED all week. It took me 30 minutes to get to a booth when it’s usually 15 in and out. Not sure who this is good for but it’s interesting.
It was a matter of time before Steve Earle showed up on The Lowdown.
A funny story I heard the late John Anderson tell about the middle section of his career is opening with Swinging, playing it halfway through and closing with it just so the drunk folks in the audience would stop yelling for it.
A cool thing about this is both former NM governor and current corpse Bill Richardson and Spaceport America tenant Richard Branson are on the Epstein lists.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico sues Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and accountant, accusing them of concealing his sex trafficking operation.
“Yeah, no, you keep it unbuttoned but keep tuck it in to layer. It’s called the Ralph Tuck.” - me, talking about my shirts to a guy who only wears BRCC t-shirts and flat brim ballcaps.