The first ten on today’s playlist:
Day: August 2, 2022, 11:27 PM
Fairly Smart
It's not going to start a war. Xi evidently alarmed by Putin's failure to roll over Ukraine, so much sabre-rattling but no actual conflict—esp. not in a situation that would demand immediate maximum US engagement. Pelosi trip looks daring to media but actually quite safe. https://t.co/9BZFrzDaMm
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) August 2, 2022
Pelosi’s trip is a big nothing. It’s not the imminent threat of nuclear war the libs claim it is. What the fuck is wrong with y’all? If anything, the trip is intended to provoke China into live fire exercises to get a decent intelligence assessment of their capabilities for better planning against their actual inevitable invasion of Taiwan.
Fairly smart to do this now IMO.
Rental
– The northeast's rental vacancy rate is at its lowest since 1982
– The midwest is at its lowest since 1995
– The south is at its lowest since 1983
– The west is at its lowest in history.
If you're a tenant you cannot find decent housing.— Darrell Owens (@IDoTheThinking) August 2, 2022
Covidians probably tryna blame this on Covid too I bet.
Priory
Euphemisms for COVID:
✅Flight cancellations
✅Staff shortages
✅Supply-chain issues— Oni Blackstock (@oni_blackstock) July 18, 2022
Covidian clown stuff. Real reason: we turned off the entire world economy, then had millions of libs say, “It’ll be fine, it’s just like turning off a computer and then turning it back on again.”
Except that it obviously was not and you’re a dumbass if you believe that. And now we’re seeing the results. Clown world. We live in clown world.
Trapped
After Roe, conservatives set their sights on ending no-fault divorce laws.
Add this to the below for more of what the fundies want.
Their Ideal
Banning abortion, replacing sex ed with abstinence-only dogma, banishing books that even hint at sexuality from libraries, urging preteens to carry pregnancies: these are not the accidental results of far-right policies. They’re the goal. https://t.co/fWCd8HPIUF
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) August 1, 2022
Yep. Fundies ideally want to marry girls 14-16 with no life experience, no job prospects, then get and keep them pregnant until they are 40. That’s their ideal.
Clean Sweep
On a business trip, flight arrived very late. Next morning my similar age male colleague told me he’d seriously considered calling my room at midnight to get me to iron his shirt as he didn’t know how 😳. The entitlement!!
— Charlotte 🇦🇺 (@Shallot_B) August 2, 2022
Maybe everyone should be required to join the military because you will learn to iron, you will learn to clean a bathroom, and you will learn to clean just about everything else that can be cleaned — including things you didn’t even think could be cleaned.
By the way, I iron my (woman) partner’s clothes because I am better at it. Thank you, US Army.
No Conc
Hannah Arendt's theory that fascism thrives when people are alienated and atomized really keeps resonating. We can't even have a fucking concert these days, because guns. https://t.co/VanKzsiTlb
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 2, 2022
Hannah knew what was up.
Fight or Flee or Fight Then Flee
One of the shittiest things that resulted from where and how I grew up is how long it took me for my first thought not to be when someone walked up to me in public or just in general is, How am I going to fight this person enough to defeat them, or at least to get away in one piece?
Because I spent so much of my life in North Florida having to think that way. It’s hard to leave behind. That’s no kind of way to grow up.
Wilbur
I’m still getting stronger. It rules not wallowing in loserdom.
WTF Thinking
We need legislative action on TikTok. https://t.co/kdez1hpgJu
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) August 2, 2022
TikTok should be destroyed. It’s never wise letting a geopolitical rival control an extremely effective propaganda platform. What the fuck are we thinking?
Worth a Damn
Georgia’s Gun Laws Are Forcing Atlanta’s Midtown Music Festival to Cancel This Year.
More and more stuff like this is going to get canceled in red states or will just never be under consideration to be held there in the first place. After all, what kind of dipshit would want to travel to a gun- and violence-infested place where you can’t get medically treated properly if you’re a woman, or your woman friends can’t get decent medical care?
No one worth a damn is who. The flight from red states has already begun. It’ll only get worse.
Conventional
How we met: ‘We got chatting at a comic-book convention and it turned into a naughty weekend.’
Also would be considered harassment now.
Lence
Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
Because human noise fucking sucks and is terrible. Isn’t that enough?
No Brain
My girlfriend lost her entire college fund for this semester to a scam.
Sounds like your girlfriend is a huge dumbass and it’s time for a new girlfriend (as is already planned). I could never stand to be with anyone without a whole brain. Just how can people be like this? How?