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June 8th, 1949 is the anniversary of the first publishing of “1984.” A cautionary tale that MAGA has mistaken for an operations manual.
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Tom Homan’s public orgasms when he says anything about intimidation or the use of force are Exhibit A.
Happy Pride Month!
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The headline of the day- Georgia couple arrested for leaving 3-year-old in a backyard shed without electricity or running water
@Bill Jempty: This is horrific! What is wrong with people? Ugh.
@DK: MAGA gonna MAGA—
@DK:
You’re an upright, decent person. These two creatures are degenerate imbeciles.
Post card from Portugal, or, inactive seniors abroad.
Welp, it’s Cascais. We started here and were instantly sold. It’s described as the most luxurious city in Portugal, and it is very nice, very tidy, manageable crowds so far and all the restaurants I could want. Even if most of them you just want to stick to fish of the day. The cuisine is not Italy, France or even Spain, but the wine is pretty good, and cheap. I have been low-key drunk since early afternoon. It’s pleasant.
I’m sitting on the balcony of our room at Villa Italia Cascais, drinking mediocre Bourbon (Beam) out of a bottle and eating digestive biscuits (cookies made of sawdust but inexplicably addictive) and trying to care about the Portugal v. Spain match. A 2 -2 tie, it seems, unsatisfying, I assume. Like getting to second base.
If I were in Vegas would I drive to LA to protest Thug Force MAGA? I’d think about it, but decide dealing with the dogs would be a hassle. I’m thinking less about politics. Maybe it’s the historical perspective afforded by being in a nation which was a player at one point in history, and now is in genteel decline.
There’s a long, slow exhale from not being in Trumpistan. I’m a believer in geo-therapy. It’s always worked for me, and of course for my half-people, the Jews. It’s sort of our thing. Or was.
Do you slack jaws not know how to goose a dead conversation?
Be daring. Fucking try.
What is the thing that you regret doing most in your life?
@de stijl:
Just one? 😀
How about some 90s TV Sci-Fi nostalgia instead:
B5/DS9 Crossover Scene 1:
Major Kira: Ambassador, what do you think of the Prophets?
Ambassador Kosh: Amateurs!
@Kathy:
There is regret in both doing and not doing.
My biggest regret is that I didn’t lean into my creative / artistic self until quite late in life.
I did the responsible thing. The adult thing that is accepted and super basic. The thing everyone tells you to do. I did well.
It was unfulfilling.
I don’t really have a “do” regret. I have a portfolio of “didn’t” regrets.
@de stijl: I have so many things I regret and don’t regret. One was Brett. I should’ve married that man then, but I didn’t. We hooked up again after 30 years, last year, and it was great, but we damaged each other when we were both 19.
I regret not learning the ranch more when I was a child, but I was always informed it was for my brother. I should’ve insisted. That just wasn’t how it was back then.
I don’t regret insisting on running the ranch now. My brother bailed.
@de stijl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1iwQxiHrs
@de stijl: And then there’s Alestorm. 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSm_rikiDp0
I stumbled upon Prefab Sprout like two weeks ago. I know. I should’ve cottoned on decades ago. I missed out.
Bonny is a fine ass song. I’m smitten.
Trying to catch up.
(Think Aztec Camera + The Replacements)
@Jax:
We learn what we should do after we learn how to do it.
I sort of like it. We figure it out as we go in the moment. It accumulates over time.
I wish I was wiser earlier. I wouldn’t have been that basic. I could have had a better life.
Wisdom isn’t guaranteed, btw. I know many fools my age or older (and younger) who are fucking idiots, and stuck in their ways. Couldn’t adapt if their world shifted an ounce, one degree. Complain and wail about it. Ask someone else to fix it. Do nothing to fix it. Complain.
When did so many of us get so lame? Ineffectual? Has it always been so?
@Jax:
Alestorm or Halestorm?