Everything around me is an upstream attack now
Posts by Chris Vermilion
just imagine THESE being the shoes that allow the ranking members of the Judiciary Committee to draw on your face with Sharpie because you passed out drunk without taking them off
If you haven’t come across it, he did a very fun podcast semi-seriously investigating whether the CIA wrote a power ballad:
two-thousand-year tradition of special days for your blorbos
I’ve got a mouse
And he hasn’t got a house
I don’t know why I call him Gerald
IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
“It’s Time for the d.” I mean, these just write themselves.
Study finds autistic people don’t pick up the phone
Now I’m imagining “Louisville Needs the d.” yard signs.
Luther Rael LEGO Minifigure
“…I've made my mind a studless space. I share my MOCs with ghosts. I wake up every day to an instruction book I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for illegal building techniques.”
Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture
if you're going to call the pope a dumb bitch i'm going to need you to be out nailing papers to church doors
An "I believe" sticker with various symbols and the accompanying slogans: Black Lives Matter; Science is Real; Love is Love; Women have the Right to Choose; Trans Rights are Human Rights; Diversity Makes Us Stronger; The American body politic must be purged of fascism and reaction with the purifying flames of a Second Reconstruction; Kindness is everything.
Unironically my ideology (apart from a very pedantic philosophy of science point).
2016 election deniers
Microsoft’s dream future: all economic activity flows through Claude. The modal request invokes zero Microsoft services and requires fifteen distinct Office 365 licenses.
lirty dies for a new millennial
Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
Corn Palace mentioned!
I'm sure it's the case that Orban would have lost without JD Vance's help but I still think we can chalk that up as another big L for JD
Bad news After 36 years, the garage fridge finally died. Been through a lot together. Outlasted 3 trucks, 2 wives. Went out quiet, like a cowboy. Must've kept 10,000 beers cold. Thinking about giving it a proper funeral
"Must've kept 10,000 beers cold"
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
My god, that finale.
Regarding Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz's epic profile of Sam Altman in The New Yorker.
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He sends one of yours to Avignon? You send one of his to the morgue!
The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy
Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.
It’s very neat when it works but I’ve found connecting from iOS pretty janky
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I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.
RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students.
Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.
in america, our legislative branch is on vacation right now. that’s not a joke or a euphemism, they’re on spring break. not a single person in america believes that they’ll do anything.