Rowley @Rowley@social.cleverlibre.org

The power of the terminal

I'm a lot like Henry II but less in the sense that I've created a cross-channel Anglo-Frankish land empire and more in the sense that everyone who loves me wants me dead.

"When cis people try to understand what it is to be trans, I think they often try to imagine what it would feel like to want to be 'the opposite sex'. What they should be trying to imagine, instead, is how it would feel to wake up and find that the whole world insists they *are* the opposite sex. That would be a much closer scenario to how it feels to be trans." Sage

(Alt Text: Picture of Sage's feet in the water. Text as above)

#Trans #NonBinary #LGBTQI

Me: *texting* I'm sorry but I need to feel a connection.

Autocorrect: I'm sorry but I need to feel a cinnabon.

Me:

Autocorrect:

Me: *send*

For #WorldOceanDay - a recommendation:

I've been reading this book by @al_humphreys with my kids and it's not only a pretty engaging read, by turns funny, informative, serious and gripping, it also deals very sensibly with the massive issues facing the ocean, though with a light touch.
Pollution, plastics, overfishing, marine biology are all covered but never preachily*.

Highly recommended to introduce some difficult issues to 8 year olds +

#ocean #GirlWhoRowedTheOcean

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

LOTR trilogy but just the scenes where two female characters interact.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqdDUTsNDwc/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

if it's any comfort, we just need to get through a few more weeks of "uncontrollable wildfires" season, and then we can sit back and enjoy "record-setting hurricanes" season and "people freezing to death in their homes" season before the fires start up again

Hell is rejoicing today because Pat's coming home!

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/pat-robertson-dead-hell-plans-massive?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=75540

Anyone fancy pooling together to buy a newspaper? Telegraph’s up for sale and i think what the world needs right now is a newspaper fun by a collective of union activists, cat girls, knitters and queer programmers.

You can neatly divide the GOP presidential field into Donald Trump, former sycophants of Donald Trump who Donald Trump tried to kill, people Donald Trump has not tried to kill yet and a few people Donald Trump won't bother to try killing.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

cursed sentence

We've been through so much, with so many bad actors, that it's easy to forget that Susan Collins is still a piece of shit.

#SusanCollins #GOP #POS #VoteBlue

Chuck Todd presuming to take a victory lap after the all the absolute fucking horror he blithely stenographed and bleached over ten years is like Judith Miller taking a victory lap over all the mass graves she helped dig in Iraq.

The both of them can fucking rot.

I was hanging out with a bunch of college buds last weekend and - as a cultural frame for the reader - we went to school in the mid-1980s, and at some point someone started looking up the ages of the B-52s and just one small and seemingly insignificant nugget of advice I want to impart to people is maybe don't fucking do this.

You have so much information in your pocket, available with a few clicks - don't use it to be sad.

One of my favourite British traits that I’ve held onto over the years: if I buy a product and it’s crap, I’ll often buy the exact same thing again if I need another one, rather than taking a chance of finding a better alternative, just because this time around I’m prepared for the level of crapness, and won’t be disappointed

Fans of the #Sopranos will remember the #BustOut as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the lives of the business's workers, customers and suppliers. When the mafia does this, we call it a bust out; when Wall Street does it, we call it #PrivateEquity.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read/share, here's a link to pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farbenizers

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