If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

Same to you!

Dorothy Mantooth was a saint!

He is Peter Thiel’s puppet, so they’re not really off the mark.

The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror have entered the chat.

I replied elsewhere but, yes, that’s what they want. Peter Thiel is a proponent of the Network State and absolutely is working towards that end.

They’re working toward the Network State model where they basically get to be tech-enabled neo-feudal lords with near slave populations.

https://thenetworkstate.com/

Good cushions

Grew up in suburban midwest USA. As middle of the country as you can get. It wasn’t until I moved to the Pacific Northwest of the US that, like you, I wasn’t an aberration, I had just grown up around trash people.

You are fucking awesome.

I was born in the USA.

Doldrums

I’m still stuck in Horace! Such a great game.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is an excellent followup to Blind Forest.

But they made so much money stealing PPE last time! Probably some good extortion money, too.

Huge bonus if they get to hold a cure over people’s heads, too.

Mark Hamill is on Bluesky.

Suck it Shatner.

CEO of Walmart went to Trump to tell him the shelves will be empty in 3 months.

Plan accordingly as much as you can.

Being complimented by the urologist on my shaving for a vasectomy.

Judging by what I’ve seen lately: crime and opression to maintain my status because I only understand the world through the lenses of artficial scarcity and zero sum game theory.

merde Well, shit. Thanks for doing the homework.