“They’re giving transgender surgeries to illegal immigrants in prison.”

*Medicaid

It was a spelling goof, it’s all good. Still reading you loud and clear.

I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can’t be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn’t mine.

Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. Bots on top of bots. It’s just fucking dystopian.

Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It’s just more natural. Instead of a feed, it’s a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

And if I don’t like a server, I can just… leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

They’re not even getting sunlight? And this is the medical specialty detention center?

Fucking hell, why haven’t we ridden in and broken the fucking gates yet???

hehehehe You know, it’s hilarious that you say that. Nobody ever realizes that they’re talking to a starving homeless person on the internet when they meet one, do they? Believe it or not, quite a few of us do have jobs. Not all of us are disabled or addicted. That is the problem with the society we live in. We’re invisible until we talk to you.

Because they keep bombing and blockading hungry children.

That is brilliant. Thank you. I am stealing this.

Me, bottom 10%, making coffee for a paycheck and scavenging my new pair of pants from a dumpster: Yeah, man, you said it.

Oh, hey, we’re up to the Enlightened Monarchs phase of the Enlightenment of the 18th century.

Was a mental health tech at a psych hospital. Ditto this, when it’s the nurse’s word against yours and the Ombudsman is already overworked and overwhelmed, you’re cooked.

I tried to go to bat for my patients so often, but once the nurses and the aides burn out, they stop doing the job because they care and start doing the job because it’s a job. I had nurses who told me to overchart patients so their insurance would pay more and they’d stay longer. Shady, shady shit.

Red Flag laws are used to remove guns from Trans, Latino, and Black people in red states too. It’s not the solution to gun violence that people think it is. It was a good idea, but it ends up falling to paradox of the false positive and even being weaponized against minorities more often than not. It violates due process as well.

More comprehensive care for people with severe mental health issues and arresting and jailing domestic violence offenders their first time is more effective. Unfortunately, we just defunded public mental health, so…

I wish. It would mean that this genocidal freak would feel his sins crawling on his back.

Low-key, the fact that that skit is no longer funny and is nothing but straight facts is absolutely paralyzing.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus was terrifyingly, utterly lucid. That was the straightest skit they ever wrote.

It’s funny because it is, in fact, completely true.

My ancestors beheaded kings. One of the only good things they ever fucking did, imho.

Do you know where the entire idea of left-vs-right even came from?

After the French Revolution, after the people stormed the Bastille and overthrew the monarchy, they were still working out the concept of a government without a king. The National Assembly was split pretty much down the middle; the people who sat with their friends and coconspirators found that muttering ideas to each other was easier when the other side of the room couldn’t hear them. Like any high school lunch room, people found their own assigned spots with their friends.

The Monarchists ended up on the right side of the room, and the Republicans ended up on the left.

My brother in Christ, the GOP was ALWAYS about dragging us back into the dark ages. It’s what Conservatives have wanted for as long as Conservativism has existed as a political orientation. France and the UK still have monarchist hangers-on in the far-right wings of their politics.

People have been shitting on that lizard-faced freak since Facebook’s first flame wars between McCain and Obama supporters.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.

Of course he does, it reminds him of home.

You wonderful human being, thank you.