Deb Gau
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Deb Gau
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Non-adventures in the rural Midwest.
She/they.
One of the weirdest cases of Wrong Bird I can think of is the CGI robin in one of the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies. It was an accurate robin, that made accurate robin noises - but it was a North American robin, instead of the European kind.
January 5, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Would Lake Le Homme Dieu maybe be a little too niche even for Minnesotans?
January 5, 2026 at 6:46 PM
And I see the stakes as being pretty high, 'cuz aside from the anti-Walz stuff? The crop of GOP candidates skew very Trumpian, burn-it-all-down types.

IDK, maybe the best thing would be to focus on keeping House & Senate majorities.

Not happy seeing Klobuchar's name thrown around . . .
January 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
NGL, I do kinda like the magpie that looks like - I dunno, a chicken nugget hewn out of wood? 😆
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Yes! I always figured if, she was actually having visions/psychic episodes, then the specific form of her fortuneteller doodads wouldn't matter so much - it'd just be whatever worked for her.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
This might be a tangent, but the "My Little Pony is nerd stuff" from a couple seasons back felt *off* in a similar way.

I was there for 80s MLP. They were toys for 5-year-olds! Lots of little girls love unicorns! It felt like the writers were extrapolatong back from 2010s bronies.
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
And not only that, but he's got more or better health care than any of us.

After that stupid COVID stunt on the White House lawn, I realized the potus doctors could probably reanimate a corpse for a few minutes of camera time, if need be.
January 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
It's got me pondering - I know "average American" has always kinda been a dogwhistle term, but are they doubling down on it now to try & shift the narrative away from the fact that people don't like them and their base are weirdos?
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
That's the thing, though - I've seen people who were definitely intelligent still fall for that stuff. I suppose it could be ego, or an intellectual blind spot on their part, but I get the feeling this shit *could* happen to anybody.
December 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I sorta figure it's because the thing in human brains that makes outrage addictive is still there, waiting, regardless of politics.
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My mind boggles at "small-town America," too. Everything I remember about the locations from this film screamed "California suburbs."
December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I'm trying to decide which would make me feel like a bigger sociopath: punching Flipper or punching a child character. 😆

I guess it's less weird beating up Dennis the Menace when you are also seven?
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM