I’ve been feeling this recently. I think a lot of it is that going anywhere and doing anything these days feels like a series of faceless companies with their hands out. It’s all a series of fees that (for me) drains the joy from whatever I make plans for.

No, I mean take a (legal) hacksaw and break those companies up into 50-100 separate entities each.

Antitrust for all!

As an American I feel the same way.

A few years ago a friend of mine commented that Texas even being questionable (this was when Beto ran against Ted Cruz) was good because it meant the GOP had to spend money in Texas rather than using the state like a bank account to fund races in swing states. Texas turning blue is a massive blow to the national GOP.

Of course now we all need to hammer on our reps to move forward on real progressive legislation, like abolishing ICE and instituting universal healthcare and higher education.

Pretty much a certainty.

Everything he does to look better makes him look weirder and worse.

Yeah, if nothing else (and there’s a lot else) she wouldn’t have gutted the pandemic response team at the CDC, and covid may not have gone global if it had been caught a week or two earlier.

Man, just look at that incredibly punchable face. I just want to punch it. With a sledgehammer.

“Then he came back to my window, yelled GUN and pulled me out of the car and slammed me face-first into the pavement.”

God dammit. A full life but this still fucking sucks.

Leonard Nimoy was by all accounts a real one. Just a hell of a mensch.

Edging indicates solidarity with the Lay Down movement that our comrades in China innovated. Lay down and edge yourself, and in doing so reject the idea of “productivity.” When you release we will see you on the barricades.

Funny you assume this would not lead to almost immediate enslavement.