Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Oh no. What have they done?
Month: May 2022
Sandy
A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future.
I realized this after Sandy Hook.
Violence begets injury begets death, and any culture debased to vacillating between violent struggle and idle nihilism is shuddering toward its end as a culture of death.
When one side is obsessed with policing words and the other with dispensing violence and subjugation, I can tell you what’s going to happen — and it’s not good.
Real Resistance
Ukraine's response to the New York Times editorial board https://t.co/txxidHnDS2
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 27, 2022
Good for them.
I’ve now stopped reading Ian Welsh altogether since he has become nothing but a Russian propagandist, and their propaganda has become predictable.
One Job
This was well before the pandemic, but thinking about the time we went into a KFC…and they had run out of chicken. Like, shouldn’t that be the thing you make sure you always have? That’s your whole deal. You gotta have chicken when it’s right there in your name.
Peak
Despite my best efforts, I can never create a bicep peak.😑
— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) April 7, 2022
This is mostly genetic. I don’t even think this looks good so who really cares anyway?
Phobias
we need to teach men that it's okay to be vulnerable, specifically so they can just say they have a needle phobia instead of developing elaborate lore on why they shouldn't have to have a shot, for uhhh moral reasons
— Cliff 🦖 Jerrison (@pervocracy) May 23, 2022
Probably 60%+ of male anti-vaxxers are just afraid to admit they are scared of needles. Totally serious about this.
Emilia Jones – Both Sides Now
I love how you can tell she’s nervous (she’s not a professional singer), but still nails it. Not a song I’d ever want to perform live.
Closed Carry
There are zero reasons you need to carry a rifle into the supermarket. I will never ever understand why so many Americans think this gun culture is normal or acceptable https://t.co/9nwpiOFemA
— Tits McGee (@Scientits) May 25, 2022
Unless you are fighting the Russians in Ukraine, there’s zero reason you need to fucking carry a gun anywhere. Too many people in the US are mentally ill.
Telling
now US spring wheat crop taking a huge hit in north dakota due to poor weather. this is getting pretty dire… https://t.co/HnjLBytYQp
— yung🛠walken (@as_a_worker) May 25, 2022
Bought a ten-pound bag of flour recently. Thinking of buying another. Y’all should be prepping. Told you before the pandemic and I’m telling you now.
Wackypants
Covid transmission high in Cuyahoga county, hospitalizations remain quite low.
Vaccines work. pic.twitter.com/P1YYjjTxV8
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) May 25, 2022
It makes me marvel at how f’in crazy the people in the post below this one seem, especially as it becomes clear that much of Long Covid is mostly pandemic and isolation-based trauma.
FN For Real
If you’re attending a conference or convention in the midst of this COVID spike you should expect to come home with the virus and plan ahead of time for that eventuality. Consider also all the people you’ll expose in your travels home from the event. https://t.co/DQVwUy78aK
— Mx. Amadi “unwell anyway” Lovelace (@amaditalks) May 23, 2022
These people are fucking nuts.
Trust Issues
I don’t trust anyone who cares greatly about Long Covid but hasn’t done just as much in the past (and now) to resist obesity and its causes.
Sump
It’s wild that we’ve invented a technology where you can trigger people into a blind rage by typing things like, “America is pretty great,” or “hard work is important for success,” or “space travel is awesome & we should do more of it,” or “men & women are different.”
— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) May 25, 2022
It really is. It’s because when you say those things, people makes all sorts of baseless and out of context assumptions about who you are and what you believe. If you say, “Biology exists,” people assume you want to exterminate all trans people and are anti-feminist. If you say, “Maybe people should be able to date who they want,” people assume that you approve of rampant sexual harassment and lowering the age of consent to 12. Etc.
We’ve built rickety identities around catchphrases and signifiers that actually signify very little most of the time. It’s a terrible way to get anything done or to achieve any goals. But that’s kind of the point of it, really, right? Easier to make money when you can ramp up the rage and hatred. At least for the next quarter or so.
Algo-aligned
Not only that these algorithmically-generated sites take over, but also sites with articles written by people saw them succeeding and pivoted wholesale to this style and voice, so now they a) all sound the same b) are nonsense and there’s no coherent written content anymore https://t.co/YtTg2N8as7
— Casey Johnston (@caseyjohnston) May 23, 2022
We exist to please the algorithm — the way many PMC libs want it.
Just Naw
Inflation may be a lot lower than anyone thinks — even the Fed.
LOL. Bullshit. It’s higher than reported.