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“And so goes he forth: a clamless shell, as it were—a man of straw—a house untenanted—a futile, motile void." - George Herriman, “Krazy Kat” Philosophy PhD Utopian leftist ✡︎ ☮︎ Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 19h

So if a state can’t ban “conversion therapy” how the fuck can it ban abortion

They’re not even trying to be consistent

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 19h

I’m assuming DDT will not just come back but be mandatory

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 1d

Good to know that the genocidal criminals who carried out the Wounded Knee massacre will keep their medals, but why not give them some more medals? That would sure own the libs, and all those soy people who disapprove of massacres

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if the MST3k Information Club P.O. Box in Hopkins, MN still works

#MST3k

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 3d

If only MLS could get goal-line tech.

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 3d

They should have been proud of that kid who picked off Charlie Kirk

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 3d

Ever see those bumper stickers that say “my marine can pick off your honor student at 1500 yards.”

Not a fan of those sentiments

“My kid may be stupid, but they’re also a murderer.”

“As a trump voter, I fantasize about the violent deaths of your children.”

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 4d

When the government shuts down, government functions should stop.

All of them. Immediately.

Keeping stuff working by hand-waving and forcing people to work for free is a stupid lie. It fosters the illusion that government is not essential in our lives.

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 5d

Just strange, rather than being the necessary, appointed agents of the coming apocalypse.

Meeting evangelists nowadays is creepy, because if you say you're Jewish they get this avid light in their eyes. "Oh, you're *Jewish!*"Like they want you to bring on the Second Coming right now. Now! Go! Now!

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 5d

He paused again.

"Well, remember everyone is always welcome at the Church of Latter-Day Saints!"

"Thanks," I said. "I'll remember that."

And the light changed.

I found the whole thing oddly comforting. Finding a Jew can still throw them, like it used to when I was a kid. When we were strange.

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 5d

He looked puzzled.

"I'm Jewish," I explained.

It didn't seem to help.

"Jewish?" It was clear he was now off-piste. Either there wasn't a script page in the missionaries' binder explaining what to say when stopping someone at a red light and finding out they were a Jew - or he hadn't studied.

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 5d

"I've heard that," I said. I didn't feel like being rude. Too tired. "Thanks."

Maybe he would stop. Maybe the light would change.

"Are you planning on going to church this Sunday?" No such luck.

I essayed an unguarded answer. "It would be Friday, and synagogue, but I might."

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 5d

I should have expected it. I live in the Bible belt; getting proselytized ("witnessed-to", as they say) is a common experience. And there were clues. Had I looked closer, I would have noticed the stiff polyester shirt collar and the clip-on tie. His name tag wasn't visible, but it was surely there.

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 5d

I was at the long red light next to the Halloween display the town does, when the kid in the passenger seat of the car to my left leaned out and made the universal sign for "roll down your window." Thinking I might have a flat, I did.

"Do you know that God loves you?"

🧵

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 7d

The difference between getting a selection of thoughtful, genuine replies and getting a bunch of half thoughts coming from cough syrup enthusiasts who were just jolted awake and stumbled across your post by accident

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 8d

Hair pots? That is confounding.

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 8d

Something about the contrast between the incredible decoration and the plastic plants and fairy lights

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Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 8d

In the UK they have a different Alex Jones from the one we have over here

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 10d

I might get one of those trump coins, if they mint them, and mount it in my toilet bowl.

but of course it's been illegal to put a living person's face on a coin since 1866.

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 12d

Why do social media CEOs always seem to think that personally abusing their users individually is a better thing to do than just shutting the fuck up and concentrating on running the huge company

Why do they act like children

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 13d

FUCK YES
#EveryoneN #COYBIG #NashvilleSC #Nashville #USOpenCup #OpenCup

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve taken to dusting myself in baking soda as a buffer

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 17d

(To the tune of “Yellow Submarine”)

We all live in a war-torn living hell

A war-torn living hell

A war-torn living hell

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 17d

If true, Indonesia has had an INES Level 5 (or higher) radioactivity accident, and nobody has much commented on this.

Contamination of workers at the site could be severe. The Goiânia accident killed four and contaminated hundreds.

Cooler Pseudonym @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 17d

The shrimp processing factory in Indonesia is right next to a huge scrap metal yard, and the best hypothesis is, they had a Goiânia-type accident: a medical cesium source wasn’t disposed-of properly, arrived at the scrapyard unrecognized, and was broken up.

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