There are three things you don’t mess with

Mother nature

Mother in laws

And my mother fucking money

No pay, no work.

I hate most scarves. Mass produced ones are terrible.

Someone knit me a scarf out of merino wool, and it was super duper soft, didn’t fuzz up, and was one big möbius strip.

🎶The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all.

There it is again, that funny feeling.🎵

Gentle(people), it’s been an honor shitposting with you.

“my cat was chased home by other cats and they were waiting to attack if it went back outside, how cute!”

My wife is bad about projecting her own emotions onto our dogs. I’m sure I do it too.

My guess?

Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating

Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating

I mean, after a certain point, yes.

Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says “were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils”

The second frog turns to the first and says “you’re being alarmist, things aren’t that bad.”

This sounds like the second frog.^‡

It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it’s certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life…

You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.

I’m not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, “any day now they’ll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)” and no end of bullshit about how “mentally ill” and “unstable” they supposedly are.

Besides, if my choices are “concentration camp v0.95” and “best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo” then I know which choice I’m making.

You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I’m a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.

^‡(frogs don’t actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)

My state surprised me during covid.

It’s not surprising me now…

In a similar vein, by one of my favorite music-ish channel:

How rap sounds to non English speakers: https://youtu.be/BdOtR2A5agc

The only good authoritarianism is their authoritarianism.

I got banned for “abusing the report function” from one instance.

Then I watched a mod war as several mods started banning/unbanning over the course of a few days.

I just made a new account on a different instance.

I guess reporting obvious transphobia was a hot topic about two years ago to some mods.

I’ll take a doodle snake with angry eyebrows over the most complex fantasy diorama you can churn out any day of the week.

You’re still more patient Than I.

It’s great that they’re rational enough to change their views in the face of evidence, even if it takes more evidence than it usual.

bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship

I’m so glad my wife is basically no contact with her parents, because I never have to play nice with them.

“EU considers following modern Nazi policy”

Oh what a coincidence, I just concluded tests for the teleportation bomb! It’s an explosive that’s totally untraceable and teleports to it’s target, so it’s a 100% completely guaranteed anonymous strike on your target.

Source: trust me bro

Oh, it’s definitely a thing. Especially with Lower Decks being animated, and therefore easily replicated in style.

… Not that I’d know anything about such things.

Infinite realities means infinite possibilities, so somewhere in the multiverse there’s a starfleet absolutely filled with cock monsters.

The question is, do they seek out new life for exploration?

Or is it for cocks…

I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.

Google is a company.

Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

My favorite experience with this was when I worked at a sporting goods store, we had a district wide meeting an hour away at 7am, planned in under 24 hours which changed everyone’s weekend plans, and it was mandatory.

The district manager comes out and does this, but to only a handful of good mornings, and the second time was met with dead silence.

He awkwardly tried to use our lack of enthusiasm as an example of “employee bases theft from the company” because if we aren’t faking being super happy and perky the second we’re at work, the company loses sales.

They handed out some shopping bags with some kind of peach smelling candy and some hand sanitizer. When the meeting was over, I didn’t see a single person take the bag with them, and everyone basically sprinted to their cars in under a minute.

Productivity was just a word the next morning. It took two days to unload a truck that normally gets done in 6-8 hours.

I don’t think anyone organized some kind of slow down and forgot to tell me, I think we just all felt the same way “fuck this place, I work hard and they call it lazy so let’s see how they like it when I AM lazy”

Captain Picard always had a way with words.

Tries to find a peaceful solution, but doesn’t hesitate to throw hands when it’s necessary.