I feel like the level of ritual humiliation they have to go through is both correct and also can only come from a nation that has a 1,500 year history of jesters throwing pies at the nations biggest nerd
(Power sued somebody for calling her a Nazi on Twitter. During discovery she turned over WhatsApp messages, some of which were about her love of Mein Kampf. She also turned out to be using a groyper Twitter alt to hassle people. She is now bankrupt and even cryptofash Compact Mag doesn’t want her.)
Feeling despair at the world and something that no bullshit made me feel a little better was giving ten bucks to support someone’s work on Patreon. Not that it’s a big deal but being able to go “oh I like this, I want more of this in the world” made me feel like I had .00000001% control of things.
You have 300 characters to make a post and yes I expect you to have preemptively addressed every complicated moral issue that could be raised by your post. This one took me 211 characters but I managed to do it.
Worlds going to hell but a ray of sunshine is that the Tories got obliterated in England and there’s going to be so many pictures of little fancy guys in bowties crying that it’s going to make us all feel better
For me it’s not that I’m either ok or not ok with Biden as a candidate it’s that my brain cannot rationalize that the media has so uniformly freaked out about him while remaining comparatively serene about all the other far worse stuff in the past two weeks.
Joe Biden reassuring voters that he’s fit to be President by eating 170 hot dogs on camera. What’s weird is he doesn’t have any water and he’s putting relish on each one
It’s another national Holiday and Jamelle Bouie is spending time telling people with 10 followers to fuck off on Bluesky. I cannot stress how much this man represents our collective posting id
One of the ways you can tell that google is absolutely cooked is that you used to be able to look up “worst July 4th tweets” and get embarrassing memorable tweets from celebrities and brands and now if you do it it’s lbuzzdotgelaffZone tweets like
Neighbor: no u can’t drink beer and fireworks
Me:
Hey welcome to my swamp, got my little stick here, lots of frogs, cave where you meet yourself.
*R2D2 noises*
Well hey there it’s robot Kevin. How the hell you doing man? …*20 uninterrupted seconds of him staring directly ahead* …anyways I can move things with my mind, ain’t that a thing