It’s the worst. Even on the state level. People in the state I’m from used to have a positive stereotype about them, so that I felt good about sharing where I grew up in conversation.

That state turned red and they’ve been legislating against anyone who isn’t a white, straight, rich person. If people find out where I’m from, I have to do extra work to make sure people don’t assume I’m a hateful idiot.

So that’s what it’s like, but on the international level now. I wish I had dual citizenship so I could at least travel internationally with a different passport (or relocate altogether). I know Americans have had a reputation of being rude or entitled abroad, but that’s far better than people assuming I’m a Trump-loving, delusional, fascist.

This is the highest-quality, shocked Pikachu I’ve ever seen.

8chan

They wouldn’t regardless. The congressional GOP has his spray-tan dick so far down their throats, they’d rather choke to death than admit the emperor has no clothes.

If we ever had hard proof of insider knowledge, my money is on SCOTUS. Both because it’s easier to buy a branch of government by colluding with five useful idiots, and because there’s a GOAT on the SCOTUS staff who leaks their bullshit to the public.

I’m a non-human who would absolutely love to be building shit while talking during therapy instead of using a fidget toy while avoiding eye contact because looking at someone looking at me and being vulnerable at the same time is NOT IT for me (yet).

Between Two Ferns: Dating Edition

My therapist says she takes a bare minimum of notes because she understands the fear people have of private info getting leaked. Maybe someone worried about that could ask about their notes process during the therapist-finding stage.

It was an awesome rover robot for tinkering and introducing kids to technology! Wish there were more versions of hardware like that.

That’s my first choice, personally, and if she wins the primaries, that’d be awesome.

Otherwise, I could still get pretty hyped about a Walz/AOC ticket, which would pave a more conventional path to a 2032 AOC presidential run.

I saw a video of him sitting down to have an earnest conversation with hardcore Trump farmers and they left liking him a lot. He’s got that “common sense” Midwestern energy on lock and I can see him gaining a lot of ground with the blue collar and rural folks because of it.

If he has pro-hunting gun views like Bernie, he’ll be an amazing pick.

Can’t persecute you for sabotage if it just happens to coincide with proper office protocol.

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

I highly regard their journalism as well.

Looks like a Westworld prototype, designed by a Daft Punk fan.

Just a reminder that 404 media is owned and run by its own journalists.

I’m tired of news that’s been filtered through a billionaire’s best interests.

404media.co

Yes, PLEASE! The rich fucks need to start feeling the consequences of this bullshit where it hurts. It’s the only domestic demographic that can offer enough pressure to motivate this administration to change their behavior.

I got my tubes yeeted the minute I could after Roe was overturned and my state began talking about a 6wk limit. No regrets, just anger for everyone who isn’t in the same position in life as me and still has to worry about unwanted pregnancy.

Wait, so now they’re pretending to be concerned about journalistic integrity?

That’s been their plan this whole time: slowly break the system by defunding important services like USPS and education, etc., and then point to those poorly funded programs and give hot takes about how the government sucks and we need to privatize it.

Ugh, classic whataboutism. You’re probably the commenter in every great lakes thread saying, “bUt whAT AbOuT thE laKE eRiE gHOSt PiRatEs?”

People can care about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie ghost pirates at the same time–this post just isn’t the time and place to center them in the conversation.

I like how this underscores what a joke they think Trump is.