That’s me except “your 30s were going to be pretty rad, then Trump decided to run for national office.”

Good ole Freddie Mercury

Yeah I've blocked like 4 people and they all seem to come up in things like this. Those 4 blocks really counted!

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Holy shit. I’m sorry for your loss.

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

Hell I can’t get away from AI integration even though I don’t want it. It’s like if I came home in 1996 and America Online had installed a dial open modem and gave me a computer that was waiting for me at the desk.

Maybe he will just do the whole George C. Scott speech from Patton.

What a tool.

Be cool about it, though. People (especially women) are harassed in public enough that I try to just not interact with anyone so as to not potentially be a net negative on their day.

Damn doctor is the only one I can afford on my shitty HMO

Everyone is aghast at the guy from Sex Pistols being right wing. It’s totally rational. He is a reactionary and maga and the U.K. equivalent are reactionary.

Speaking of punk, there is an insidious strain of 90s mall punk types that viewed punk rock as anarchist and libertarian. Punk was a big business for the first time then too, combining consumerism with punk. That is a pipeline to right wing bullshit.

You can estimate what season of The Joy of Painting you are watching by how many buttons are unbuttoned on Bob Ross' shirt.

It’s hard to bag an astronaut

I’m sorry man

Or…. bands?

Still a little hesitant to count entirely on the vote

There are a lot of (unfortunate) cuts in that but still pretty remarkable.

Awesome

And they won’t be in any position to understand how to govern the America they inherit.

Chicago Union Station?

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

It’s beyond question at this point. No reasonable person should argue against it. What in the actual fuck.

They were on Greyhound

C’mon now, there is a lot to criticize about him but his voice is spasmodic dysphonia, a legitimate disability.

Remember Kirstjen Nielsen? Fucking simpler times.

Do you remember Kirstjen Nielsen? Fucking quaint.

Ha, I know some Hellermans from Cincinnati.

I started to type a post saying I feel dysregulated thanks to the president

But it is really not dys-regulated

We should not have to deal with this, and being extremely upset by it every day that it happens is actually an appropriate, normal, and rational response