A Bean
@thetoughestbean.bsky.social
Medium sized bean with a love for manga. Unskilled laborer. Nietzschean Last Man
In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h agoYeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.
Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean you have to be listened to, it is entirely within the university’s right to cancel whatever speaker they please
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · 17h agoAs a Member of the Judiciary Committee, I have been absolutely clear that free speech is a Constitutional right that we must all stand up and protect. I have been communicating my concerns about the cancellation of the Hasan Piker event directly to the University... (1/2)
Storm is a fundamentally boring character. Overly perfect, never loses or needs to grow. If she were a man she would be despised
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 19h agoOkay, I'm genuinely throwing this out to people: what are your mildly shit-stirring takes on X-Men comics and characters?
Side take: reading X-Men comics and only X-men comics, eventually makes you an insane person.
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 19h agoOkay, I'm genuinely throwing this out to people: what are your mildly shit-stirring takes on X-Men comics and characters?
Taxing the fuck out of people with two homes is its own reward
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 7d agoPied a terre/empty homes taxes won't do much for housing affordability but they do have other benefits.
Perkins after the sub has gone down is the place for me. Begone, old people, now is the time of losers
Let’s not forget the hidden truth: Wisconsin voters are weird
Fascism Heckler@fascismheckler.bsky.social · 2d agoI think this was unique as even a very trusted WI pollster showed the same results. But that same pollster said WI tends to decide this shit late AND Hong did do two very awkward interviews that led those undecided to go "oh NOT HER!"
It’s the same phenomenon as the whole “Music Producer reacts to game music” thing. Nerds are so, so hungry for validation
Rico Charges@nochorus.bsky.social · 6d agoBook reviewers on YouTube, initially genre fiction people but increasingly Literary channels too, keep succumbing to the temptation of the guaranteed views that come with reading Berserk. There is an inexhaustible thirst for seeing Berserk validated via the blown mind of a Real Books Reader.
I’ve been thinking about milfs lately. But not in a fun, sexy way. These are *serious* thoughts about *serious* milfs
Every person who uses the word “bitchmade” so desperately wants to be cool, it’s pathetic
Kang@kang.bsky.social · 4d agoWhy don’t you say it on a site he’s on so you’re not doing this sad little ‘brrrr let’s be cool guys on our little pirate ship that looks like a microbrew meet up?’ Why do this bitchmade little ‘teehee the bad man said bad words?’
there are a lot of “wait what” moments when you learn about comics but “cathy was a stone cold smokeshow” is up there
this is what young Cathy Guisewite looked like, btw
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 5d ago
Is there a self-help author that isn’t evil?
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5d agoObsessed with this story of a deeply evil lesbian throuple who seemed to be pulling diabolical scams on each other while making millions of dollars in a self-help grift of books and instagram posts with aphorisms like “not knowing you are hungry is a core sign of unresolved trauma.”
I’m not sure Hasan would say that it’s a dumb statement
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoWELKER: Do you disavow those comments that America deserve 9/11? EL-SAYED: Of course. Of course it was a dumb statement. I think Hasan himself would say it was a dumb statement. I want to be held accountable for what I say and do.
Critical support to Sony for making the Marvel Tokon PC port complete ass
If I had a nickel for every Ross uncritically bringing up Nazi theorist Carl Shchmitt this week…
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d agoJust causally referencing Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt, as if it's unremarkable conventional wisdom, the typical basis of a political worldview. And very positive about right-wing populism. And (elsewhere, not in this column) pines for an American Orban. But, you know, not sure where he stands. 9/x
Start demanding the Catholics condemn the Crusades
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 6d agoEveryone is either picking on Muslims to denounce Hamas/9/11 or Jews to denounce Israel. Thinking of becoming a new Type of Gal and harassing Scots and people of Scottish ancestry to denounce border reiving.
Hello I’m the person in front of you in line. I’d like to order… uh… hmm… do you take Starbucks membership? No? Okay I’d like… hmm… do you have smore’s? Not anymore? Then I’d like…. No you can’t go in front of me, I don’t care if you want something quick and easy
Absolutely nobody follows me for my FFXIV takes so I decided to make a thread about my general sense of the FFXIV playerbase based on their in gamerace and gender. Clans will be mentioned if it’s important, otherwise will be left out. #ffxiv
I’ve never heard of a city council that didn’t suck ass
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 6d agothis is fucking crazy: moderates on the city council are trying to torpedo Zohran’s pro-housing appointee and after getting called out for NIMBYism, their reaction is to double down.
![Even City Comptroller Mark Levine tried to level with Council members today. "It would be hard to imagine a more qualified person to lead the BSA than [Mamdani's] nominee, John Mangin," Levine, a former Council member, wrote on
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But the rebukes from housing groups and others may be backfiring. In response to the accusation that they are leaning into NIBMYism, even more Council members now seem bent on blocking Mangin's nomination, according to a person with knowledge of the chamber's internal dynamics who was granted anonymity to discuss them.
"He has basically declared war on the Council and really doesn't support the role that the Council plays in land use," Council Public Housing Committee Chair Chris Banks said of Mangin today, noting that he was urged by Menin's office to contact Playbook to share his perspective. "It would be suicidal for the Council to advance this nominee."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreih3esxavhlrwhsop3uokkz3gysib56f7tkwo3sxezmahmyvdslfbq)
A lot of elderly people in Wisconsin and the rest of the Midwest already do this! They officially live 6 months and a day in Florida or Arizona and I hate them a *lot*
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6d agoWaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”
I’m wearing a mask at work and I forgot how much I hate it
I’ve had the beginnings of a cold (a sore throat) for three fucking days! Three whole days! Just get on with it, body!