You should be able to. There are a lot of shenanigans by both landlords and people passing off non-therapy animals that makes it hard, though.

Dammit, now I want to read a brief that the use of the Bat-Signal by the police would actually make Batman an agent of the state for evidentiary purposes.

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?"

All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

In 1992, I got mugged at gunpoint in broad daylight during my lunch break at work.

Well fuck #survivor50

Ah, Coach is blaming a woman for having to play his "old style" game. God what a fucking asshole. #survivor50

I thought I hated Coach before but apparently I've found new depths of hatred. Fucking hypocritical, bullying moron. #survivor50

Sigh, more Gen X erasure. Though, to be fair, we do kind of suck politically as a generation

A “double sided” ceasefire, god damn what a fucking moron

I may be alone in this but I don't care.

I have my playlist ready for when It Happens. (incl Walking on Sunshine, Dancing in the Streets, Fantastic Baby, Celebration, and Bound for Hell).

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My aunt converted to Catholicism when she got married and it forever remained A THING in my older Protestant family.

It took me years of writing professionally before I felt comfortable actually calling myself a writer. And I still look at others who I believe to be real, great writers and wonder if I'm being too generous with myself.

God bless Chuck Tingle.

Yeah, they are targeting the middle manager class but they are also heavily targeting the class of people who think they should be writers because they have “an idea” or some such. I’m sure I sound snobby but, fuck, an idea is nothing unless you put the work into it.

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!

A hit of ecstasy I dropped on the floor of the bathroom at the Fifth Column nightclub in 1991.

So today I had some great business meetings, wrote up a cool fundraising idea, and found a cake in my freezer I'd forgotten about. Amazing day! Then I heard President Fuckstick is interrupting Survivor to address the nation. Unless IT HAPPENS, this is not a good way to end the day.

Seems like a nice place for him to take a nap.

When I was a young'un in DC, I avidly shared the anti-pork conventional wisdom among good-government activists, et al. Good lord, was I wrong.

2040: “President Ocasio-Cortez is facing fierce criticism for her chaotic withdrawal from Iran.”

The DC Metro

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.

The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Didn’t realize it was a private conversation on a public thread. So sorry to intrude.

Oh for fucks sake, you’re changing topics. If you want to donate to feed people, do that. It’s a great thing to do! If you want to contribute to elect someone who will work to fund and create programs to feed people, do that. It’s a valid use of $$. But they may lose. Elections are funny that way.

Do you believe making a donation guarantees an outcome?

If you think running a meal service, no matter how needed, is a better use of campaign funds than getting your candidate elected to fund meal services, I’m not sure what to tell you. The system needs reform. So people on the left need to win elections. Which means using money to win elections.

What on earth do you think campaign donations are for?