Stephen P. @azure@wonkodon.com

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity and malice

To teach kids about democracy, I let them vote on dinner.

They picked pizza.

So I made bangers and mash because they don’t live in a swing state.

a story in two pics

THIS IS A PRETTY HARD TIME FOR YOUR REPUBLICAN FAMILY MEMBERS. KICK 'EM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN. CALL YOUR UNCLE A BABY. ASK HIM IF HE'S GONNA CRY.

Perfect.

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Viel gelacht.

I like presidents who aren't felons

#uspol

If you could press a button that would give you a great deal of money, but it would cause someone you don't know in a distant part of the world to die, then you would have a good model for how our current economy works.

Welcome... to Night Vale.

Why do birds appear every time you are near? It's likely they planted a tracking device on you.

Welcome... to Night Vale.

Found in the social media intertubes:

Scooby-Doo gave me the right expectations of how frequently monsters would be actually men.

I'm not distracted, I'm on a side quest.

Yeah.

The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

Find it in your heart. You'll need to break past the ribs and then scoop it out, but it's in there, and you need to find it. Quickly.

Welcome... to Night Vale.

If you're happy, and you know it, then the chemtrails are finally working.

Welcome... to Night Vale.