Seattle-ish area. TPOT-adjacent, occasionally legible. Art, social psychology, mediation, open mic poetry/music. DM if you're thoughtful and/or friendly.
Tonight, we stand tall in the middle of every highway (briefly between waves of traffic, longer in rural areas until shotguns appear) and shout with the unmistakeable ring of American pride:
JUSTICE SOMETIMES WORKS!
@tisaiahcho
I think fetuses represent the inner child of religious fanatics, the person with great potential they were supposed to be but never became. If they have kids, they surely pressure them into playing out the thwarted dreams of the parents and punish them for failing.
@AnneNotation
When people feel helpless, they often seek a sense of power in gatekeeping and rejecting things, and those who can't get what they need from the world become judges of it.
@djrothkopf
The elephant in the room (apart from the GOP) is that media has great influence on cultural narratives about politics, that media has been intentionally dragging the administration down, and that media companies get tax cuts when Republicans are in power.
@JoshuaPotash
A lot of older people hate the idea of being a burden and will pretend they're lucky to be able to work because someone convinced them depending on the state for support was Communism.
@hankgreen
The mitochondrion is like a glowstick factory. It assembles little glowsticks, and then when other parts of the cell need energy, they snap the glowsticks to make various molecular machines dance. The entire cell is really one big rave, viewed through the lens of science.
@MediumSizeMeech
The zombies aren't easy to spot at first. They cut in traffic, take up too many parking spots, say inappropriate things, take stuff out of your basket. Like ordinary assholes, in the beginning. Then, some of them start to bite.
@RichyCraven
Peter, to confessional cam: Man, I really thought he was talking about me, but to my surprise it was Judas. Can you believe it?
Thomas: I don't know what the hell is going on. I feel like Towelie.
Judas: Whatever, it is what it is. I don't have to explain anything to anybody.
@aaronthomm
@RonFilipkowski
Some people like to feel powerful by verbally abusing workers, it's not really about who they think is in charge of what because they blame whoever they can abuse.
@andreivkozyrev
I'm skeptical of the concept of identifying people as "rational actors". People are rational up to a point, as long as their information is accurate and their perceived options are relatively familiar. *Everyone* has the potential for irrationality, given the right conditions.
@travisakers
I've fantasized about going to a fundamentalist church and communicating entirely in Bible verses until they throw me out for telling them to love their enemies or whatever.
@JoshuaPotash
They're just leaning into their power and they don't care who gets crushed. If it results in riots, more profit for private prisons. If crime goes up, more money for police. They'll solve homelessness with work camps. They'll improvise as needed to exploit evolving conditions.
@yashar
He's your uncle who made funny faces at you as a toddler and it was hilarious then but he kept doing it as you got older until it became uncomfortably awkward.
@imaginmatrix
There's a system of notation from 1931 for piano that's much, much easier to learn, and hardly anyone has heard of it. It would dramatically accelerate learning on keyboards if it were adopted, but nobody does.
@awelab1956
@BruceDoggie1
@Lee_in_Iowa
Just once I'd like to see an Evangelical be told that and respond. They idolize Israel but know nothing about it except that they think God wants all Jews to got there for the End Times (and be killed if they don't accept Jesus).
@JohannesTEvans
A great many people don't want to accept that their parents abused them. They hear "abuser" as a dehumanizing term, but their abuse was at the hands of people they perceive as human, therefore it *can't* be abuse, so they feel compelled to justify it and minimize the impact.
@skooookum
You'd be surprised how many attractive people are afraid to initiate anything romantic and only encounter people who are also afraid to initiate.
@piper4missouri
A great way to pick a good church is to ask how they feel about men and women having equal access to power. If they think men have to lead and women follow, run.