or white cotton shirt and trousers that make you look somewhere between wannabe boyband member and British pink-skinned colonist on a gap year

This made me lol

When it comes to walking, I believe in just putting one foot in front of the other.

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I read this tweet with the sound of Will Ferrell’s “Voice Immodulation Disorder” character in my head.

I heard he also microwaved fish the other day.

But no word on why the meteor was naked?

To be fair, that guy IS on social media. A lot.

May 21, 2011 was supposed to be the rapture or end of the world or whatever. I remember this because it was also my wedding day. Lived outside DC at the time and there were all these people holding signs and wearing shirts about it. We joked about getting a few for my bachelor party (“ha ha the world is ending on that day … FOR HIM!”). Never did it. But I had a great wedding.

I grew up in a fundamentalist environment and heard tons of crap about how beards were bad or whatever. Never made sense to me, Jesus had one. Soon as I left high school I grew a beard (dirty-ass chin-strap because it was the year 2000 lol). I’ve sported a full beard pretty much ever since. It gives me a jawline, plus I enjoy the feeling of spite.

The jank is always part of the charm.

This might be the most scholarly shitpost I’ve ever read. Bravo to everyone involved.

We elected Hector Hammond to something? Wow

Honestly? If it means more ICE off the streets harassing decent people and stuck doing boring-ass airport security, then let’s go. There are only so many ICE guys to go around. It’s not the infinite respawn that he seems to think it is.

The raptor. From the Jurassic World series.

Not really near Honolulu. About an hour drive from Honolulu, on the North Shore. But same island (not Maui or Big Island)

I live on O’ahu (same island as these towns, but they are several miles away from where I live, on the North Shore). This is some serious stuff. I posted a few links over on my Mastodon account, but if you’re interested to learn more about what’s going on, please check out the Honolulu Civil Beat. They have several stories going on with excellent journalism–particularly an investigative story they did on this very dam that showed Dole (the pineapple company; also the family that led the overthrow of the Kingdom) has known for around FIFTY YEARS that this dam was unsafe but have kicked the can toward other entities to try and fix it rather than pay for it themselves.

EDIT: Link to Civil Beat’s homepage. Probably the best journalistic outlet in Hawai’i: https://www.civilbeat.org/

You’re not fooling anyone, y’know

“Scheduled power blackouts, roll out!”

How many of the accounts that followed this one were actually bot/“AI” accounts designed to do nothing but help boost shit like this to a place where the press reports on it?

For several years I lived adjacent to the Palm Beach world. Had an ex whose family was generationally wealthy and so I would hang out in the various clubs from time to time. Me? I grew up in the 'hood (part of that time in a double-wide trailer) with a single mother, had a lip ring, and would drive my pick-up that had no muffler up to the valets (both embarrassed and amused). I say all of that for context, I was a complete outsider to this world. And what I learned is that these people are so entrenched in their way of life that they can’t see anything different. They really don’t think anything at all about their privilege–because they’re not capable of doing so.

For instance, my ex took her grandma to Target one day. Woman was in her 80s and had never stepped foot in a big-box type store. She found a purse that was like $18 and was just so delighted that such a thing existed. Meanwhile, their normal way of shopping for things was that, say, the local Ralph Lauren store would send a trunk over with all the latest styles, pre-tailored, and they would just send back what they didn’t want. She once lost her purse and when asked if there had been any money in it she replied “not that much, only about $800.”

And the thing is that she was a lovely woman, very genuine, and I always felt welcome in her home. I came to realize that I couldn’t expect her to know what she didn’t know–AND the challenge that comes with people like her not being able to learn different perspectives. Her view of the world was vastly different than mine (like, I recall being five or six and my mom leaving a cart full of groceries at the counter because she had maxed out credit cards after losing her job).

This is not to excuse this kind of behavior. Just to add perspective. These CAN (notice the emphasis on can) be good people, but are just so completely unaware of their privileges that when a journalist asks them “what’s the secret?” and they don’t bring up their heritage and connections, it might not be because they’re lying to us; it might be because they genuinely cannot see those things.

I will also add that, after those years around such people, I came to feel sort of sorry for them. Their vision of the world was as narrow as the trailer park rednecks I knew. Many of them had traveled all over the world, but hadn’t really SEEN it, y’know. They were so closed off to the wider world that they couldn’t enjoy anything that wasn’t “safe.”

Is the same sort of poll cited in stories yesterday that said 71% of Americans are in favor of the SAVE act? A poll that was actually conducted by a right-wing group but published by Harvard (or something like that)