thou_dog 🟨⬜✡️⬛

@thou-dog.bsky.social

ROUS married to a bookwyrm. Lifelong storyteller gone pro, est. 1984. Parent to strange spawn. Queer, leftisht, unapologetically weird, grey-streaked furry idiot striving to be kind. (any pronouns) ברוך אתה וכו" שנתן לעמו בינה להקים לייזר חללי

I remember the lesson with politicians and public figures is "Watch what they do, not what they say". I will be at best cautiously optimistic that he'll stop dogwhistling (and occasionally foghorning) to both score favor with the electorate and promote certain hatreds. Not especially hopeful.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

I don't know if Ray Bradbury really expected the world as he knew it to have ended by August 4th, 2026 (although of course it was always a possibility), but I wonder if he would be impressed by the degree to which we have managed to not blast ourselves to hell and beyond.

Said of Frank Klepacki wearing a Brotherhood uniform, "Why do the bad guys always have the better uniforms?" I'm not sure they do. If I had to rate images of flag rank officers, one of the highest IMO shows a general in a huddle of officers poring over a chart. He's wearing plain fatigues,

The furry fandom, in its best form, is a giant collaborative storytelling project in which we're using illustrations, language, and other artistic media to tell ourselves and each other stories about who and what we are. That's why, ironically, it's such an affirmation of humanity.

"Abolish capitalism so we can have a cornucopia of cheap, high-quality consumer goods" - I'm sorry, somehow you got lost on the way to Wal-Mart and arrived at the Marxist-Leninist meeting

anti-Semitism inevitably turns every single problem into the world's most boring detective story where it's the same villain every time

"some people are saying, some people are saying" okay, which people? in what context? are they worth taking seriously? do they have any evidence? these are basic questions to ask, especially if you style yourself as a journalist