@warburtonave.bsky.social

Graham Platner sending a text message to his 150,000 volunteers thanking them for being part of his “journey” is laudable, but I thinking attaching a dick pic may come back to haunt him one day if he runs again.

“A History of Rock Music in 500 songs. Episode 414: ‘Long Face’ by The Vampire Lestat. Before we begin, this episode contains mentions of exsanguination, homophobia, addiction, torture, and the end of all human life. … It’s hard to separate truth from myth when it comes to Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett…”

“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.” ^Marx and Engels, YIMBYs

Jjinandtonic@jjinandtonic.bsky.social · last mo.

The best thing you can do to win rurals is to make them not rural anymore (see eg area surrounding Bozeman, 2008-2024 trends)

“so you’re saying balzac is woke and we should cancel barthes and that death of the author should never be used as a means of literary criticism ever is that it?” no I’m saying its FUNNY. you know, “funny”? you don’t? hm, well what DO you know? …ok perfect imagine a point between “angry” and “horny”

BLUE VELVET is a comedy, yet it puts us—or, at least, some of us—in an erotic trance...It must be that Lynch’s use of irrational material works the way it’s supposed to: at some not fully conscious level we read his images. (1986)

I have become a real fan of the Sierra stores, it’s like TJ Maxx but with like grills and outdoor gear in addition to random clothes. I don’t really understand the logic at all but I’ve found Talmage some shorts and a melting dome/lid thing for my grill.

I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign.

One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands

A FedEx missed delivery slip with a tiny drawing of the popeA FedEx missed delivery slip with a larger drawing of the pope

bluesky is down and it's going to stay down. bluesky is gone forever. it's gone forever and you're high. you're high and everyone knows it and you're going to be high forever too

To put it more simply, it’s meaningless to ask “Is this useful?” or “Is this good?” without also asking “Is this useful or good *for whom*?”