Feral Cat Lady
@trinityvixen.bsky.social
Childless cat lady. Will bite. It's all there in the name. Also a leftist but the biting thing seemed more important to emphasize.
Don’t write in the paper he got mad, okay? GNU PTerry, I miss you brother. What you would have written about useless fools like this…alas
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7h agoNow please: can everyone stop calling me the dumbest man alive, a monster who despises poor people or, worse, Sir Terry Pratchett? I literally had awful dreams about this last night, in which I was shunned by society for my repudiation of boots theory. I think this is a little out of control.
It does not, in fact, require this. Boots theory is a metaphor. It is a useful shorthand for the very real observation that poverty comes with a cost out of proportion to income. The ability to plan out and afford major expenses ahead of time is a luxury of the financially stable. That’s all it is.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7h agoThe problem with this idea is that it requires that quality/durability of a product grow exponentially with price. E.g.: if you pay $5 for a whatsit, it lasts a year. If you pay $10 for a whatsit, it lasts 3 years. This is an absolute mathematical requirement for the theory to make sense.
it’s more expensive to be poor than rich, thats all the theory is and its not complicated and its obviously true for example buy toilet paper in singles instead of bulk for a year and see how much money you waste
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7h agoSince people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.
BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, reports say 📷 by Robin Buckson, Reuters and Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
Brendan Gleeson is a delight generally but don’t sleep on him in Spider-Noir. He ought to be encouraged a) to only ever use his Irish accent in film and b) to play heavies. He has the grace and gravitas. He’s 15 years older than Nic Cage and still I believe he’d e the bigger physical threat.
My favorite thing is that all the quote posts have gotten more likes than this video. May this trend continue. I will like everyone.
Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · yesterdayMamdani’s grocery delusion
This is what every one of these conversations sounds like
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
The so-called SAVE America Act is a collection of Project 2025 priorities. Been trying to tell you folks that Project 2025 rigs future elections for Republicans. Even Trump has said, Republicans will win for the next 100 years if the SAVE Act is passed. Per usual, saying the quiet part out loud.
Welcome to the background radiation of my life is a CONSTANT refrain in my head about ::waves hands at the world::
Pádraig 🏳️🌈☘️ (he/they)@patmch51.bsky.social · 6d agoReminded me of this old webcomic
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
Not to add to my doom posting but Project 2025 did a lot of this damage and it’s over 50% complete but not nearly close to 75% which ludicrously means we have about as much bad stuff over again coming. Buckle up folks.
Feral Cat Lady@trinityvixen.bsky.social · 7d agoI mean, Ebola has taken out 1000 people or some such in 2 months. The last panic we had about Ebola didn’t see that many until more than half a year and people still wanted to quarantine Africa at that time. We could be looking at Captain Tripps level problems thanks to Trump 2.0 changes.
I mean, Ebola has taken out 1000 people or some such in 2 months. The last panic we had about Ebola didn’t see that many until more than half a year and people still wanted to quarantine Africa at that time. We could be looking at Captain Tripps level problems thanks to Trump 2.0 changes.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d agoIf this were a Greek myth or a bible story we would get a pandemic far worse than Covid this time around and be sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Musk pretends well that deepfakes of himself don’t bother him, so I am sure he will manage. The real question will come when, if this law passes, the challenge is taken to SCOTUS. If anyone has thinner skin than Musk, it is Samuel Alito. Imagine AI lawyers bring in deepfakes of him nude (gag)
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
While we are at it, how about eminent domain-ing golf courses to be parks for all? We need third spaces and golf courses are a major source of water use. I say if they want our infrastructure to such an enormous degree, they need to let us all use it. I am being fully serious.
JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · last wk.All abandoned malls should be turned into community centers and free housing for people who need it.
All abandoned malls should be turned into community centers and free housing for people who need it.
This is the only review of Nolan’s Odyssey that I care about. It was worth the wait. 😎🍿 “An Uncomplicated Man by Emily Wilson”
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Dunno this brand but I do now. And I want more people to know it. Let them be famous for all the wrong reasons and all the right ones.
Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.Unique Vintage, a company that does an annual Pride collection and has always encouraged customers to see them as a queer-friendly vendor, has just announced their Harry Potter collection.
If anyone's belonging is conditional and can be revoked because of WHO THEY ARE, then EVERYONE'S belonging is conditional. The excuses and "reasons" do not hold.
Make the Gate to Women’s Country instead. Same critiques and even more anti-machismo/patriarchy narratives you can hide under hip, cool post-apocalyptic gloss.
Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · last wk.While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
It’s too bad they don’t make time for his beloved earlier voice acting work, like Goliath from Gargoyles, who was a generational crush for folks who, ahem, dig beast-men. Or his turn as the velvet-voiced pimp/pusher in Requiem for a Dream. I can still hear him say “We are GARGOYLES” from the opener.
Anne Billson@annebillson.bsky.social · last wk.I love Keith David.
It’s in the FIRST season of Black Mirror how destructive this is. We aren’t even talking about the later seasons where the digital AI is secretly a clone of your brain, it was just a chip that recorded everything and it was Bad!
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoDefinitionally, these are not “friends.”
This is all bullshit. I’m always glad when someone just SAYS it.
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w agoThoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
Nah, he sees that the fascism and racism he has enabled to become more powerful is meeting its inevitable end (hopefully soon with white people’s effort) and he wants to get a do-over. He must NEVER get one.
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2w agoI don't think anyone should get to "oops, maybe I got carried away" to avoid taking responsibility for all the damage DOGE did.
Elon will post things like “buy this cardboard box full of urine, it will achieve nuclear epic anti-woke self-driving AI sentience by next Thursday” and people are perpetually shocked when the urine leaks out of the box
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w agook
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
