King Morgan

In other news of "The bilionaires funding the Republican party are batshit and should be put down like dogs..."

Eddie as a bored shelf stocker/bag boy at the local supermarket because he's trying to save up for a new amp that will actually sound decent at live shows, and his drug supply dried up because Rick's been having to lie low for a while in an attempt to avoid prison. Eddie's been slogging through days of cleaning up broken pickle jars and loose bouncy balls when he notices that Steve Harrington constantly pops in for the weirdest purchases and, like, normally Eddie doesn't pay attention to customers. Normally, he doesn't care even when he does happen to catch sight of a weird combination of shit. But it's hard not to notice Steve Harrington, and seriously... why is he buying 20 lbs of discounted raw meat and several gallons of gasoline?

Not knowing that you have a villain inside you, a hero, and a bystander is a lesson that everyone should learn.

What is the quote from Jingo, by Sir Terry Pratchett, to the effect of "when someone does something terrible, we want it to be one of Them, because if it isn't Them, then it is Us?"

“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”

Jingo. 1997. Pratchett, Terry. NY, London, and Ankh-Morpork: Harper-Collins. p. 205

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....” ― W.H. Auden

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and their petition

and their ig

This is not the first stripper strike in PDX in the last few years. I hope this ends with a union - the owners of this club have made a lot of hay out of their "diverse dancers" while also apparently treating labor like shit.

Imagine having to put Bitter Yuck on your body at work so customers wouldn't fucking lick you because your boss won't provide adequate security.

Gross.

dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

so who’s on first?

That’s right 👍🏻

that’s strange

No, he’s on second.

Well how’s he on second if he’s on first?

No no no, House is on third. Second base is Strange.

Well this whole darn thing is strange but what I’m asking is who’s on first?

Naturally.

Who?

Naturally.

So Naturally is the first baseman?

No. The first baseman is Who.

Well I don’t know that so how’s about you tell me?

House is on Third.

I’m not asking you about third base I’m asking you about first base.

Who’s on first!

This is horrible

Dr Horrible is the pitcher, not first base

That’s not what I’m asking about! No!

Dr No is in the outfield, but let’s not worry about them right now.

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I am a GUEST and I do not DESERVE to use the good normal cups, I may only use the worst cup you have

Counterpoint, I am a guest and I DESIRE to use the WORST possible cup I can find that you have hidden away

Babygirl I will find cups you didnt even know EXISTED in that miserable little cupboard of yours

A friend once pulled out a Strawberry Shortcake glass that I had not seen since 1985 and did not know was in my house. My mom found it, brought it to my place, and just put it in my cabinet without telling me.

My friend goes to get some tea and comes back with this blast from my childhood:

honestly kinda unfortunate that the only spooky library aesthetic is the victorian fancy bookshelves dark academia one bcos like. ok here's some library stories.

u turn the handles to move these around (saves space) and every time you had to go and check the aisles first on the offchance that someone was in there so they wouldn't get u know. Compacted.

but that's just the tip of the iceberg. it keeps going down the side of the bridge, like so:

i got a tour of the stacks while i was there. it's floor after floor of this:

the bookshelves are made of metal & i was treated to the 'fun fact' that the shelves are, bizarrely, load bearing. for this reason they have to be constantly vigilant about fire hazards because even a relatively small fire could cause a bookcase to buckle from the heat, which in turn could cause the whole building to collapse in on itself like a house of cards.

this has haunted me ever since!! thank you.

So report after report emerges that SCOTUS is thoroughly corrupted. Congress (Democrats, anyway) respond that SCOTUS needs to be regulated and subject to ethics rules. So Alito whines about how SCOTUS doesn't need ethics reform and can't be regulated by Congress ... in an interview conducted by a dude WHO IS BRINGING A CASE TO SCOTUS. I mean... wow.

Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

The news is taking the alien thing a little seriously considering that one guy is just randomly alleging there's aliens with no proof

Do I believe that aliens exist? Sure. But they're probably mostly like microbial mats and hydrothermal vent worms and fungus-like networks rather than civilizations that do interstellar travel

He didn't say aliens at all even; he said living material from "non human pilots," which would also encompass well trained rats or cybernetic fish brains.

Bonbonnière [c. 1770] unknown artist The Khalili Collections

anyways (I say this as someone who is deeply critical of the united states government, military, unchecked capitalism, police, etc) I am SICK of people treating america as if it has no cultural value or positives so….. I love u 85 million acres (bigger than italy) of national parks. I love u harlem renaissance. I love u groundhogs day. I love u sweet tea and fried chicken and jambalaya. I love u apple cider donuts and maizes on crisp autumn days. I love u 95k miles of coastlines and new england fisherman and hand knitted sweaters. I love u halloween where millions of people dress up and give candy to strangers and carve jack o’lanterns. I love u small talk and small towns and potlucks and bringing over casseroles to your struggling neighbors. I love u cowboys and ranch hands and arizonian cactus. I love u appalachian trail and dirtbikes and divebars. I love u sparklers and fireflies. I love u mark twain and toni morrison and emily dickinson and henry david thoreau. I love u rock n roll i love u bluegrass and hippies i love u jimi hendrix and nirvana and CCR and janis joplin. I love u victorian houses and jonny appleseed and john henry and mothman and bigfoot. I love u foggy days in the pacific northwest and neon signs and roadside attractions. I love u baseball and 1950s diners and soft serve. I love u native american art and pop art and poptarts. I love u blue jeans and barbecues and jazz musicians 

For y’all in the notes saying “well actually rock n roll and the food here were made by marginalized communities who were discriminated against” I hate to break it to you but you’re like two steps away from saying “well black people and Mexicans aren’t actually American the same way white people are” because whatever the reason, whether it was through oppression or not, BIPOC have influenced American culture an incredible amount and it’s so disrespectful and racist to say they don’t actually count as Americans

There's a theory that we don't form memories of infancy because the memory of being that helpless and confused would haunt us anyway, that a baby's life is so existentially disturbing we evolved to purge it to preserve our sanity. This probably isn't the reason but it is very very funny

i’ve set up a little tray filled with water on a towel for Cat Enrichment. in the water are two plastic bottle caps filled with floating treats. wasabi WILL not touch wet and she WILL do anything for treats and she IS conflicted. she’s circled it for 20 minutes and almost touched the water twice but no further attempts have been made

this is a developing story

update: i slipped on the tray and hit my head

having cats is just a never-ending Wile E Coyote/Roadrunner situation and you never know which one you are until it’s too late

Real talk why does social interaction feel like you’re trying to get a good grade in being a person

Ahhh, glad to see it always comes back to this

If your goal is to normalize gender-nonconformity you’re gonna have to accept that some people will fuck with gender as hard as they can while still being unequivocally, 100% cis and that is okay. There’s no egg to crack or callout to write. This is a good thing actually.

there's been a lot of stories about transmascs dying in horrible ways recently. so i wanna share a quote from Ben Barres, a trans neurobiologist who transitioned in 1997. he wrote this before his death in 2017 at age 63:

Every transmasc, trans boy, and trans man deserves to live a long life on their own terms.

#same