Started HOUSE OF LEAVES and I can already tell that this is the novel that presaged HOMESTUCK

I'm from the States and I'm drowning in uspol; I've no idea how people outside the country can stand it.

I think lawyers probably have higher tolerance for this sort of thing than we realize, though, and you worked in big places for powerful people.

This is one reason I like the threat "I am going to kick you in the shins." Even if you take me seriously, a shin-kicking is not a particularly grave matter.

Also it sounds funny

I agree with this, but not with your followup post that nobody would reasonably view such a post from anybody as a threat. There are a lot of weird, violent freaks out there. And yeah, Link absolutely isn't one of them, but if your defense relies on that, you've said something stupid.

The defenses of Link's post largely involve "hey Link's a good guy" and "it's just the internet," and if your behavior has to be excused by "this would be frightening from a random person but not from a Big Name Poster" it is not very excusable.

I don't think it's a death threat in the sense of a reasonable person being concerned that Link sending it would show up to their house with intent to harm them. I do think that you'd be a fucking idiot to, say, mail that image of Kirk to a judge with a quote from the judge's opinion written on it.

bsky should be more crafts and sports and dinners and less politics

I don't even like baseball lmao I just want less politics and more people enjoying things

like, i'll happily go to a party to watch a game or something, and if I weren't sick I'd play a pickup game with buddies, but it's not something i'd watch by myself

same and it's fucking awesome we need more sports people on here i want to see more people posting about shit that isn't politics

Congrats. You've got this.

10/10

I just think choosing this month to be the month you decide to go after Democrats for being insufficiently aggressive is a weird choice

Like yeah I guess they could declare a civil war but my hot take is that a civil war would create more problems than it would solve

Well the federal government has been shut down for over a week now and there's increasing focus on the release of the Epstein files and attempts by the administration to increase their power are being defeated left right and center in the courts so I'm not exactly sure what you want from the Dems rn

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Okay.

The state of Kansas wants me to file my 2023 taxes.

So I file. I'm on a payment plan because I'm poor.

Then the state of Kansas wants me to file my 2024 taxes.

So I file.

I'm told I 'broke your promise' by... filing my taxes, which changed my tax load due to time going forward.

For all the issues with universities, it's much better to have an independent one supported by state government than one subservient to government.

They won't be bitter if you cut out the seeds properly

I love orange and yellow bell! Loathe sport peppers, though.

Pray God this holds and leads to peace.

Increasingly hard to ignore the fact that a significant number of people on this site think that the US should be some penitent/martyr-state kept in a permanent immiseration by the priest-theorist class for its corrupt original sin.

This whole thread is excellent. Ressentiment is not a good look, not good policy, and not good for the soul.