At a progressive church event someone asked me what my body count was, and I thought she was asking how many people I killed and I said "I'm not really sure, I worked in sigint/cyber so we didn't really count that" and then we were both a little confused

I will never ever celebrate the death of a human being. Death is the final enemy. Period. Always. But I will tell the truth about the impact of someone’s life on others. The two can live alongside each other.

I don't care about the Cracker Barrel rebrand, and you can't make me care.

How many houses do you think tourists are buying?

What an incredible sweatshirt, I wonder if I could buy one of my own and have the proceeds donated to charity! Wow, what is this! A link to a merch store in the comments!

this feels like the computer is trying to get me to kill myself

I wish there was a name for where the government owns the means of production.

ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA OF GOVERNMENT-RUN BUSINESS.

Wouldn't it be horrid if our leaders didn't care about our institutions, procedures, and norms? They might do things like gut federal institutions, lay off 128K civil servants, claim powers that belong to other branches of government, militarize the law enforcement of cities...

taylor swift purposefully designed her tour stage so that something different was happening every 15 seconds literally bc of tiktok and people's lacking attention spans. i'm sorry but i CANNOT do that with a lesson plan and they wouldn't pay me enough to either

TBH I suspect that the people writing about general appreciation for Dobson & his family values have never actually read one of his parenting books...or at least haven't in many years. It's not good parenting advice, guys.

FOX: What's the problem with the wind farm in Rhode Island?  Zeldin: The president is not a fan of wind FOX: This project is largely almost finished. You got AI, the electrification of everything around us. Why would you take any power offline?

Section I would like to my syllabus but can’t: “if you want to challenge your grade, you must first challenge me in chess. Beat me in a chess game and then we will quibble about your grade.”

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Desmond Tutu

For the thousands of National Guard Troops preparing to deploy in U.S. cities on Trumps command… Listen up, pay attention. “We Don’t Take An Oath to a Wannabe Dictator….We take an oath to the Constitution” - General Mark Milley

I kinda buy CS Lewis’s thing about the damned being able to leave hell any time they want but choosing to stay instead, because I not only live in Florida but moved BACK to Florida

i’m breaking my QT rule for this one. this is like learning christology from Arian.

This graphic gets a grade F.