That’s the problem with racist bullshit. They scrape the racism off and peddle it everywhere until it’s widely accepted and not tied to it’s roots anymore.

I agree with literally every point you’ve made (especially the ‘had to be there’ notes, it’s so hard trying to explain that) but one.

Here comes a billion words on how I love Sun and Moon. Feel free to skip them, I’m just trying to add to the conversation.

Sun and Moon is on my list of faves because of the slow island vibes, the sun and moon motif… Oh. Let me take a moment and say, as a grass type trainer, I have gotten absolutely effed with starter choices. I love plants, I love flowers, and… It’s insane how often the grass-type starter is the weakest in design. So let me say when Rowlet hit the scene, I fell in love. This precious little floof who turns his head all the way around to look at me in battle, and then turns into a moody teenager when he becomes Datrix (if you’re petting him after battle, and you touch the feather in front of his face he gets so MAD!), finally turning into the extremely badass Decidueye? Grass/Ghost? Hell. Yes. After watching water and fire get bangers of starters for ages, only occasionally getting a starter that felt like it was “good enough” rarely, finally getting my owl was like a sword-in-the-stone moment.

I hear you on Z-Moves but I do really love the idea of doing a little Hawaiian-style dance with your Pokemon to power them up. It feels more like I’m contributing than pointing a rock at something. I actually enjoy that some of the dances look really stupid because you have to ask yourself, “Do I want to look cool right now, or do I want to look a little silly and absolutely destroy my enemies?” There’s also something excellent in facing a friend in battle, and watching them choose to do a dumb pose with mounting horror. “Hahaha, Chris is doing a dance and the background is pink and oh god no he’s chosen to destroy me.”

I’ve got fucking norovirus.

I wish we had a vaccine for that!

If I ever embrace my fate as a lonely housewife book author, I’m going to have a rough time, because the kind of people who would forever love me for producing my books and sharing them as free (with the option to donate) and the kind of people who buy lonely housewife books are two completely different circles and I wouldn’t be able to spend all the time necessary to ‘market’ myself online to get the books in the hands of people who want them, if I’m trying to spend that time writing.

Maybe what we need is an apparatus. A website where authors can share full-size books, users can vote on them, and if you like them enough you can give money to those writers.

I just don’t know how we’d get that, be able to allow any author to share their book, and still have quality control.

I haven’t looked at or held or otherwise directly perceived a kindle in many years now, but when I did it was insanely easy to just pop any old file into a converter and slip that onto the kindle and pirate and read as you like. Did they put a stop to that with some proprietary nonsense?

Please remember, when the meds are gone and life is still going on, when they’re threatening to put us in camps, remember… once you’re in a camp with other like-minded people who have been wronged, what ‘fun’ we can have together. That’s what will keep me going.

Big same fellow person. Lookin forward to seeing you in the wellness camps, and looking forward to the hell we’re going to raise.

Welcome! We’ve been waiting for you!

And I recognize all you motherfuckers!

I mean, welcome new folks.

This article made me realize something about myself- I had assumed that the insurrection was predominantly white. I mean, the pictures! All the most famous pictures of the insurrectionists that come to mind were exclusively of white people (perhaps with a few demographics sparsely represented in the background.)

“Those charged were overwhelmingly white (659 of 716, 92%) but also included Hispanics (39, 5.4%), Blacks (10, 1.4%), Asians (7.1%, 5 of the 7 were of Vietnamese ancestry) and one Native American.”

(If you add up all non-white persons and subtract them from the whole, these numbers indicate that 620 of those arrested were white, non-hispanic. So 39 people were white, also hispanic. So 86.5% were white, non-hispanic.) (See footnote.)

Those are really telling numbers. But while I was looking, I found something we don’t get enough of lately- good news.

“517 of 716 (72%) were charged as the result of tipsters and informants…”

I’m notoriously anti-snitch, but this gave me some good vibes. That is so many. And-

“35.1% of defendants were identified as going to the Capitol alone…”

I know that’s fewer than I’d like, but I’m choosing to believe that 250ish people had such unpopular ideas that they couldn’t talk anyone into going with them. I wish we had demographic information indicating which races were represented in that group.

(All info obtained here.)

Now… according to census.gov, the US is comprised of people who identify as white alone (non-hispanic) at 75.3%. As you may recall, 86.5% of the rioters were white, non-hispanic.

This means that more-than-general-population amounts of white people were represented at this thing.

I don’t know how to address this, and I myself am white enough that I classify myself as white on forms. So it feels like it’s a conversation we need to be having. I wish I knew how.

Footnote: I’m bad at math and doing my best. I promise I welcome corrections.

Considering that all these models are trained on stolen content, no one should be surprised if this were true.

The failure to scrub the metadata is so insanely on-brand.

Oh my God, eat shit. I will not let anyone try to tell me I shouldn’t care about a nazi salute.

I know it isn’t going to happen, but can we see if Harrison Ford is busy? I can think of nothing I’d enjoy more right now than Indy doing what he does best.

Actually, I think I’ll enjoy it more because he’s old. These nazis are weak.

I am so sad for these people.

I’m judging it because we have better technology and I feel like if this is what someone wants, they should have the ability to get a hologram by now.

Luigi, Luigi, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold onto!
Things can’t stay the way that they were before
It’s time to put some villains up on the wall!

Luigi I got your number!
I think it’s hero time!
Luigi don’t change your number!

Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!

Luigi Luigi you’re the guy for me
Oh, you don’t know me but you make me so happy. I tried to free you but I lost my nerve. I said “nullification” but I got censored

Luigi I got your number. I think it’s hero time. Luigi don’t change your number

Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!
Four six one six two five oh!

I got it (I got it) I got it
Put those assholes on the wall!
I got it (I got it) I got it
For the good of, for the good of us all!

Luigi, Luigi who can we turn to
(Four six one six two five oh)
To know our pain, we can always turn to you. (Four six one six two five oh)

My old ass recipe has heaps of cocoa but the red comes from beet juice.

Always kills.

She wouldn’t let the fisherman look in her wooden box, so they came up with this while story about her being a foreign princess, married for convenience, and took an illicit lover, so they killed her lover and put his head in the box and set her to sea.

That is an insane amount of bananas details for “she has a box and won’t let us see what’s inside.”