@corbden@jrefior@mekkaokereke Oh I do love to do the last part. When someone makes a bigoted joke, just keep saying you don't get it and can they explain it please?
@persagen Christ on a bike. Imagine you're someone who's served your country for decades, worked your way to the very highest ranks of the military, and now you've got to deal with this absolute clown as Secretary of Defense.
@PabloMartini@ChrisMayLA6 It's so foolish to try to treat railways as a profit centre. It should be treated as a strategic asset for the country, moving people around efficiently for work, leisure, tourism and business. Why would any sensible country want to make it hard and expensive for people to go places where they will spend money and earn money?
You know, the way the motorway network is treated.
I'm going to have to restrain my constant urge to "well actually" every Kamala Harris-supporting meme featuring Ripley from Alien and Jones the cat and the words 'childless cat ladies.' Must remind myself not everyone has watched the extended edition of Aliens twenty times. 😏
I'll say it here and shut up about it from now on, unless asked. Ripley had a daughter, though you'd have to see the extended edition of Aliens to know that.
Jodi Picolt speaking at the Hay Festival: Having books banned in US schools is "not a badge of honour" and writers “whose livelihood is writing for middle grade and young adult readers. They are suffering greatly”
On one of her banned books: "She said the reason Nineteen Minutes, which is about a US school shooting, was banned, was not because of the shooting scenes: “They have no problem with that. The problem is that on page 313, I use the term ‘erection’.”
@futurebird Whenever people say we can't tackle climate change because it needs to be done by all countries and you can't get everyone to sign up to take actions cooperatively, I wonder if they forgot about that whole ozone hole thing and the Montreal Protocol. I mean, we did that in the 80s! With people like Reagan and Thatcher in charge of countries! Hell, they even pushed for action and following the science.
It can be done - if our politicians weren't so bought off or blinded by ideology.
Oh lawd, I've got to bite the bullet and start rewatching Star Trek Enterprise, now Greatest Generation podcast has finished Voyager and is about to start on Trek's red-headed stepchild. I mean I don't have to watch, but the pod is better if you've seen the episode they're discussing. The things I do for @GreatestTrek
@NickGates It's okay sometimes. But there are long stretches of episodes that were a real slog to get through. More so that in any other series. But Ben and Adam will ease the pain. 😁 @GreatestTrek
@kozy138@codinghorror Agreed. Any time I do that "political compass" test I come out as left libertarian. Only recently twigged that means I'm basically an anarchist.
@aeva@stinerman@Cassandra@cat@_L1vY_ Could be that the cat on top of the can felt the lid move and jumped too, so less weight on the lid, which would then push it as it jumped I suppose. So partly yeeted and partly a jump. Whatever, it made me cry laughing, so I love it.
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