Steven desJardins

@stdesjardins.bsky.social

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DC native, science fiction fan, COVID-cautious, living in Penn Quarter. I am vegetarian, have ankylosing spondylitis, and am a fan of the Criterion Channel. I spent four months of Budapest in 1986, and am I still trying to learn the language.

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Reply to

Kurt Busiek

There are some things a fella just wants to do in private, unobserved by their enemies.

Not recruiting followers

Does not known where to end a thread, an argument, a running gag, or a skeet

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Steven desJardins

You know it would happen.

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Naomi Kritzer

I spent three weeks in Estonia in summer and the absence of darkness never bothered me, but my hotel had good blackout curtains.

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc

The term "gross" comes from the gladiators who fought using their own poo.

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Cally

I think his claim is that the colonists who achieved independence were still British and still pernicious colonizers, and therefore American independence amounted to telling Britain to fuck off but did not amount to British people fucking off back to their country.

It's easy to figure out who wrote a Beatles song, just pick a Beatle you're sure *didn't* write it and attribute it to them where @jimboggia.bsky.social can hear you.

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Kingfisher & Wombat

It's so lucky that the only reason for wanting to double-check facts is in order to cast doubt on them. It avoids so many misunderstandings and false accusations of bad faith.

Reply to

Kip Williams sort of

Oops, I may have just called him late for dinner.

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Reply to

Nea

"Ordered"? There is literally no mechanism whatsoever for Democratic leaders to order anyone to resign. He had no support in the party because it was obvious an investigation would just drag out the scandal and make it look worse.

Reply to

Estarianne

Exactly. Al Franken was not "railroaded" because the first accusation was the weakest. He was driven from office because he had no good explanation for why so many of the other women accusing him had such similar stories.

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Steven desJardins

I wish to apologise to Sir Keir Starmer for calling him a shaved stoat penis. I was wrong and most humbly beg his pardon. As the evidence below has clearly shown, this was a false allegation and he is not a stoat penis

Given that a stoat penis has a baculum to provide rigidity and Starmer has not displayed any evidence of a backbone whatsoever, that's a bit of a slander on mustelid genitalia.

Reply to

Paul Tobin

For food safety reasons you should generally keep tacos in the refrigerator or freezer, not in the Bible.

Reply to

Kurt Busiek

Who could forget this classic tale from the week I was born? (I don't think I have ever read it.)

Reply to

Jo Walton

Those, plus GEnie and APAs.

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc

"Actually, the doctor wore baby shoes."--the six words everyone remembers from Frankenstein

Reply to

Kurt Busiek

Calorie Queen! All the powers of Matter-Eater Lad *and* she’s super-strong!

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Steven desJardins

I think this is the first person on here to point out that Biden could now "legally" order the IRS to release Trump's tax returns. Good point.

Add "public release of the tax returns of Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, all Trump children and their spouses and any other place that Trump money might be hiding" to the list of official acts that Biden might take here.

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Paul Tobin

No, a sharp karate chop will slice all the way through, to stun rather than decapitate you should use a blunt chop.

The filibuster, duh.

Black licorice is great! I can even imagine thinking a tiny bit of salt would make it better. I can't understand how adding *that much salt* makes anyone like it better.

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Kip Williams sort of

That would only work if there were some way to replace him once he was no longer able to do the job, say if he resigned or a majority of the cabinet said he wasn't fit, but you'd probably need to put something like that in the Constitution.

Chah-kuh-lit

I did not intend to sound as if I were disputing you, I just meant to add a data point regarding how localized it was.

Reply to

rahaeli

I grew up in Columbia, between Baltimore and DC, and I have never heard "going up" used this way.

Reply to

MCMLXI

The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building had a life-size print of that photo on display near their entrance a few years ago.

Reply to

chelsey b. coombs

The Walgreens pictured in the article got rid of shopping baskets. I can’t even imagine a rationale for that.

Reply to

Edward Nirenberg

Does the model assign any economic value to not feeling like shit for several days? (I feel strongly that any cost-benefit analysis that doesn't consider "not feeling like shit" to be a benefit is fundamentally unsound.)

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Steven desJardins

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.