If they'd asked if you liked the Latinx thing, that would have robbed them of future opportunities to oh-so-patiently explain to you that you're a sexist for disliking it.

Pictured: the dude who decided how we were gonna spell the word "pharaoh" in English.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"

Depends on the tomato and mushroom, for me.

Common 21st Century grocery store tomatoes are, like, a crime against food.

Honestly, it actually would kinda work if you wrapped the whole thing up into a burrito.

It would solve my confusion about just eating random tomatoes, on the side of my breakfast plate.

We're probably only a year or two from the whole "everything is in neon green and hot pink" trend coming back.

I hope that gets FULLY in effect again, before the full apocalypse happens.

Because all the scavengers and raiders will look so fucking funny, in that shit.

Back around 1990, I used one of those straps, where you can hang the glasses around your neck. Because it was 1990, mine was neon green.

I would regularly go searching for my glasses, and eventually see them dangling from the day-glo strap, as I looked under shit.

I was the coolest kid in school.

We need some kind of calibrated eyeball wideness scale, for his crazy ass.

"Woman at the Station" by artist Ewa Tudorska. A woman waiting for a train

Morning Bluesky

Tube Top Enthusiast would be an incredible name for a post-punk revival band.

If J.K. Rowling is burned as a public figure for her anti-trans views, then so is Roger Waters, for his pro-Putin views.

As I said at the very start, we have plenty of sane people to argue against Israeli murderers.

But I guess you have fond memories of Dark Side of The Moon.

We all do, bro.

Also, it's pretty galling for you to be calling me out, for shitty rhetorical standards.

You're the one who thinks you can just say "I declare it's not valid for us to discuss this," and it'll fly.

Again, that's not up to you. There's no moderator, here, to validate your terms of the discussion.

Ahh, but I'm anti-Israel.

Doesn't that mean you have to like every dumbass thing I say?

That's how it works for Roger Waters. Why not me?

While we're at it, J.K. Rowling is anti-Israel, too.

You gonna declare her to be rehabilitated, here on Bluesky?

Was all that stuff she said about trans people just a right-wing conspiracy?

Or are you just planning on saying "no talksy boutsies" when someone says she's a bigot?

So you're pro-Putin. Got it.

Good to know.

You won't even say a word against him.

Don't you dare tell me that you've just decided we won't talk about anyone's "other views" when they support that shit.

That child was just as much a person as any Palestinian or American or Jew or anyone else.

Roger Waters is Putin's creature, and that makes him my enemy. Choose your side.

I have an image seared into my fucking brain, of a Ukrainian child with his head blown off, laid out on a train station bench, in his little raincoat.

All his blood was already gone from his body. The neck looked like a piece of ham. Not another mark on his body.

Just an ended life.

Oh, you said "this isn't about his other views."

You just get to say that?

NO, YOU FUCKING DON'T.

Relatively early in the Ukraine war, I clicked a link I shouldn't have. And it made sure I never just let anyone have control of any discussion, in this area.

Exactly. I don't think anyone credible or sincere is actually praising Orban.

I think people are NORMALIZING DEMOCRACY.

Saying "okay, good, Orban isn't committing further crimes; that's good for everyone" isn't praise, in that context.

If you think we shouldn't hold anti-Israel commentators to a high standard, you've absolutely lost me.

It's not just the one article. There's a lot of other similar smoke around him.

And that's still without mentioning him being pro-Putin.

You do NOT just get to say "I'd prefer we ignore that."

I clearly said that I didn't know the politics of that paper.

I definitely have some doubts about the story that I'll have to go look at.

But it's not an isolated incident. Go look up some of the other shit, yourself.

Yeah, I get all that.

But if you are going to approach those themes, maybe don't have instances in your past of calling people racial slurs, in anger, or "as a joke" or whatever.

If it had just been the art, your point would stand.

But it's not. And I think you know it's not.

btw, I'm not British, so I have zero idea what the politics of "The Sunday Times" are.

That article just had a good picture of Herr Waters, in his favorite outfit.

Roger Waters called Pink Floyd agent a ‘f***ing Jew’, producer claims The acclaimed producer of Pink Floyd’s album The Wall today said the band’s co-founder Roger Waters behaves like an antisemite.Bob Ezrin, 74, who is Jewish, dis

Yeah, we don't need to bring Roger Waters into this. There are plenty of sane people who can make the case against Israeli aggression.

And you can say "this isn't about his other views" all you want, I'm not gonna forget he's a Putin puppet. Neither should you.

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If I'm mathing correctly, it takes ALMOST THREE AND A HALF MILLION FUCKING CUSTOMERS, paying for a full year's worth of premium plans (WITH NO DISCOUNTS) just to pay for their so-called "compensation."

Why is that shit not up for debate? Why can't AI do their shit? I bet it IS writing their emails.

Exactly. It is some REAL LIFE CYBERPUNK BULLSHIT.

I mean, I was just doing some of the math, out of curiosity, after I made those posts...

The co-CEOs of Netflix, for example: about a 106 million dollar pay package, between the two of them, right? (cont'd)

I mean, if everyone lays off their employees, so they can have asymptotically-approaching-zero costs on their shit, WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN CUSTOMERS SUPPOSED TO GET MONEY TO SUBSCRIBE TO ALL THE SHIT?

This is not even basic economics. This shit shouldn't have to be explained.

Largely theoretical money.

Even Caligula knew the money had to come from somewhere, when he turned part of his palace into a brothel.

These idiots are setting modern Rome on fire and assuring each other that the flames will pay the bills.

I figure this bastard held widespread adoption of trick-or-treating back quite a few years, in the British Isles.

One motherfucker dressed like this knocks on your door, and you ain't answering that shit next year.

I don't have enough palm for my face.