Especially these rich cosplaying revolutionaries

This is the reason every time anyone wonders aloud why the US can’t have transportation/housing/healthcare like Japan a siren goes off at the headquarters of the That Would Never Work Here Foundation

It’s a tough one

The myriad possibilities of wordplay with so many languages using Chinese characters is a trip and was fun to read about on Language Log before I got banned

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蝦佛 is indeed shrimp + Buddha, though I have no idea how to say that in Cantonese

Literally choked up a little here on the rush-hour train

I stopped snickering at Cowboy song and have returned to my earlier (correct) judgment that it is one of the great rock songs. There is more going on in the lyrics than appears. Of course Lynott broke out by selling “musha-ring dumb-a do dumb a da whack for my daddio” like his life was riding on it

I was lucky, we were close and he died out of the blue (not COVID) and I had a great talk with him literally the day before he died. But looking back now it’s like I lost half of my family in one shot with that. My kids have grown up with no relatives and that weighs on me more than anything

I mean ok. Think JUST about the catharsis and closure you get from attending the funeral of a loved one. Now think about what percentage of humanity missed a funeral during covid

Having to watch my dad’s funeral on a shitty livestreaming video alone in my kitchen at 2am was one of those “why am I not more fucked up” things. I feel guilty because I lost him as a middle-aged man but my kids lost the only grandfather they’ll ever have after meeting him only once

Uh oh, New Type of Guy a-coming (aggressively against being on time for things, uses epithets like “punctuality bro”)

These guys’ belief that rural Americans inhabit inaccessible hamlets lets them pretend only they can tell us what the rural voter wants, when in fact rural America is within walking distance from most of the country’s universities and its inhabitants never fucking shut up about what they think

Gotta admit

St Helens Farm Goats Butter 250g

Who ya gonna call

Wedding cake just plain tastes better when no one’s shot it

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. Bring a knife to a gun wedding. When it's time for the gun bride and groom to cut the cake, step forward and graciously offer them your knife. You are now a gun friend. No need to carry knives. All the guns will have your back.

Love Detective by Arab Strap YouTube video by chemikal

There were these pictures of friends and exes, letters, postcards, bills—nothing bad
And then I found some sort of . . . sex diary
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Bluesky affords you the opportunity to be yelled at by people who agree with you but are somehow angry at you about it

We don’t have to worry about the comet, Marge, it’ll burn up in the atmosphere until it’s the size of a chihuahua’s head

The thing is that as many depressed angry doomers as there are, there’s also a contingent of equally uninformed Tom Nichols imitators whose thing is scolding you for saying Orange Man Bad but from the center

@krogerfoot.bsky.social This is what annoys me about "Trump can't declare himself king, you hysteric" takes. The problem how difficult it is to get back the civil society they've gleefully pissed away or sold for parts. We can make the US as bad as an authoritarian dictatorship even without a dictator. We're doing it now w.bsky.social - 1h Than we put the work in to build it back, or you can spread useless and harmful despair. ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social - 1h I guess wagging your finger at insufficiently fierce bluesky posts is a form of putting the work in Not like you're whining on bluesky is doing anything either except demoralizing people @krogerfoot.bsky.social- 40m Tell me two things you're doing besides attempting online dunks and I'll delete my demoralizing comment and go forth and demoralize no more, fellow patriot Voting in November and donating to a campaign, what are you doing? @krogerfoot.bsky.social You and me both. Are we both voting against the party whose stated project has for years been locking out our votes and implementing an authoritarian government? Or is this a figment of my hysterical imagination? Yes all is lost, that's why a near record number of Republicans are retiring instead of running again.

Yes all is lost, that's why a near record number of Republicans are retiring instead of running again. Because they're too scared of winning. @krogerfoot.bsky.social You're trying to argue with someone who thinks all is lost, but I do not think that, and also I did not say that. I'm shoulder to shoulder with you in sneering at the doomer brigade

New Type of Guy alert: The “everything’s going to be fine” troll

Wow 🍾💐

Come to think of it, Sharon Jones does a great job acting in that video. It's fascinating that certain singers are fantastic actors, like it's just another thing they do: Willie Nelson, Joan Jett, Steve Earle. Someone told me Jon Bon Jovi was great in a movie

Lee Fields is great. Great cameo in Sharon Jones's video for "Learned The Hard Way" too ("Damn! Aint that a bitch")

And no argument from me on "Graceland"

Also, "Boys" has no guitar solo but instead an interlude, toward the end, with an odd harmony that sounds perfectly normal in context, a thing I'm a sucker for in pop music—sneaking in something weird right under the listener's nose, like the 7/4 time signature in Peter Gabriel's "Solisbury Hill"

Let me know a song you listen to that you think is perfect.

What I mean is: the lyrics and melody, sure, but also the performance, the arrangement, literally everything about the recording. Like, even if you could you wouldn't have the artist(s) change a thing.

One of mine: Graceland by Paul Simon

In 100% sincerity and not being a wiseguy, "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy. Phil Lynott was somehow both a brilliant songwriter and kind of an airhead but I cannot see how his most successful song can be improved on. There's a reason people still have fun quoting it 50 years later

A VERY good boy