really feels like this is only a few degrees of tone removed from The Movie

but yeah I’m seeing horrid little glimpses of a discussion that makes me question if some people are about that carceral abolition life because they want to get rid of prison for everyone or just the people they consider to be like them.

anytime the question of lawyers defending guilty people comes up I remember that scene in daredevil (2003) where foggy talks about being taught to “operate in a moral vacuum”. btw this ISN’T ‘imagine a burger’ stuff because I was a teenager when that movie came out, it’s allowed.

RT @darren_cullen: New one

I think it’s more the price being, like, 35% past the “I’m okay paying this” point. It’s too expensive for a brand as associated with frivolousness as YouTube.

my little joke, btw, was—after our cat penrose had jumped up onto the bed expecting dreamies—“I’ve heard of ‘bedtime for bonzo’, but ‘no treats for penro’?”.

a follow-up: “I love hearing you in the apartment, talking nonsense”. this, from the person who once asked me, “who is the money-duck???”.

made what I thought was a funny little joke and my partner said, with only love in her voice, “you just *talk*” and then, after we’d stopped laughing, “it’s *every* *day*”.

RT @aedison: “don’t use q-tips to clean your ears, you’ll just push the wax in further!!” well, yeah, sure, except for my special technique….

getting catcalled a bunch more in canada. one guy looked at my tits and straight up said “wow”. thought I left that in my twenties, will enjoy it for a brief time before it becomes annoying/scary.

a thing i’ve always known to be true about galactus is that he has video game-style weak points.

voting on the name seems interesting, but maybe a little rushed? would love a vote on whether or not we should debate on voting on a name, maybe an initial straw poll at the first conference, with a follow-up ranked choice ballot with write-in option in 2-4 years?.

in case anyone would like to update their records, and because—with my history—it’s quite a big deal: I am currently in Toronto, Canada.

[seeing a scandal] um, okay, so I actually have some notes on this.

RT @MKupperman: I'll never forget when Tracy Chapman came into my office with her new novelty song, Fart Car. I said kid, you change the fi….

did some digital organizing and discovered I—at some point—accidentally deleted my original copy AND backup of my bootleg of claudia o’doherty’s 2013 hour-long “pioneer”. there was a time in my life when preserving those files was of the utmost priority to me. we lose ourselves.

sorry to be a class-reductionist, but… it’s all class.

been seeing a bunch of answers to this over the past few days, and while a lot of them are relevant and mostly-right, the single biggest cause is the class system, particularly the vice-grip in which the upper class holds the realms of academia, media, and politics.

I like all the orc city posts. they’re making me laugh.

RT @joelgolby: this is the kind of thing AI can't take away from us