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In the middle like a bird without a beak 🐓 Admin of this here instance 🦖 I have no idea what I'm doing 🦣

Alt Text: Avi is the head of a rooster with a velociraptor's face instead of a beak, seen in profile and looking majestic af. The header is a hilariously inaccurate 19th-century woodcut depicting an iguanodon and a megalosaurus as big lumbering quadrapedal lizards biting each other. Neither of them seems bothered by this, in fact they both are sporting big goofy toothy grins.

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2024-04-08 17:02:55

After the eclipse, the wolf awakens in a field wearing a suit and tie. Accounts receivable forms flutter in the breeze. Not again, he thinks.

2024-04-07 09:24:12

After having to figure out how to do some minor plumbing repairs around the house I have come to appreciate the humble gasket as the only thing separating civilized society from utter chaos

2024-03-21 06:04:33

Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.
Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.
Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.
None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?

2024-03-07 19:14:32

Some people may claim the Like button does nothing but it's actually the equivalent of giving the author a small kiss on the lips

2024-02-25 06:28:27

...and we're back! Local-only toots seem to work. Hopefully the outside world can still see us too.

2024-02-24 04:36:29

Having finally gotten Covid I have to say the most surprising thing has been how long it takes to crawl out of the exhaustion hole. Normally with a cold or the flu, a couple of days after the symptoms start to abate there's this rush of restored health and with all the endorphins kicking in you feel better than you did before you got sick. This has not been my experience at all with Covid. My symptoms started improving about a week ago and still, as soon as the sun goes down I feel completely wiped out and all I want to do is curl up on the couch and pass out. And this is with the benefit of being vaxxed and boosted and not catching it until the milder variants became dominant. It's definitely worse than "just a bad flu."

2024-02-20 21:46:34

The most effective propaganda perpetrated by the right over the past 40 years has been creating a world so mind-numbingly shitty that even progressives can't imagine a brighter future anymore

2023-08-05 02:15:00

Friends, I'm gonna steal a page from @npub18lj…80hq and ask a QUESTION. What's the best live music show you've been to? Or more accurately, what was your favorite?
I'll go first. For me it was Tears For Fears in 2014. I had just moved to Portland and Project Pabst was having its inaugural season in a hot sweaty gravel pit that was at once stifling and full of glorious potential. I was there mainly for Violent Femmes but I stayed for Tears For Fears because I remembered them mostly as a band my mom liked when she was somewhere around the age I was at the time (early 30s). I went in with zero expectations and was completely blown away. They played the hits without making them feel dated and new stuff without it feeling indulgent. They had enough of the original lineup to stay authentic but enough fresh blood to keep it interesting. I'm currently in a bar that serves strong drinks at a reasonable price and Everybody Wants To Rule The World started playing and brought me back to that amazing show.
So what show was it for you?

2023-08-05 01:38:24

Owning a little yappy dog is like going to a bar with a guy who's always looking to start a fight with anyone who looks at him the wrong way but the bar is your street and you can never leave

2023-08-04 07:10:19

Everyone love an Aviator they said. And the planes? Practically fly themselves! Just flash 'em those pearly whites and let them see themselves in the dark inscrutable pools of your sunglasses and the world is your piñata: ticker-tape parades every Sunday, beautiful women heaving their fat babies at you to kiss, comped drinks at the Airport Hilton (limit 2 per customer with purchase of a meal), the respect that you so sorely deserve. But now, with the wind whistling through your teeth and the pine needles screeching in your ears, you're starting to wonder if those gnomes had ever even been beyond that enchanted stump you found them in.

2023-07-31 18:39:27

Every man should watch the Barbie movie if only for the scene where Barbie and Ken first arrive in the real world and are both receiving a lot of attention, and the very different experiences they have being the object of the male gaze. It is certainly no spoiler to say there is an undercurrent of implicit violence in Barbie's experience that is completely absent from Ken's.
This is something that took me a long time to really understand as white cisgendered heterosexual man: that in every space we occupy we are an implicit threat to everyone outside of that group. And truth be told I can't fully understand it because I haven't had to live my entire life with that weight bearing down on me and that fear pulsing in my bones. What I can do is look at myself and how my presence and actions are perceived by others, regardless of how good my intentions might be.
I'm not saying that white cisgendered heterosexual men need to feel guilty about this (though we probably should a little), but we need to recognize that for us, as with everyone else, to be is to be perceived. For those of us handed privilege that we didn't deserve, that means being perceived as an instrument of that same corrupt and violent system of oppression that bestowed that privilege upon us and denied it from others. Did we ask for that privilege? No. Do we benefit from it at the expense of violence inflicted on others every single day? Absolutely.
So how do we reconcile that? We can't. It's just a bare fact. I can't say that I'm one of the good ones and exempt myself from responsibility for the damage it causes. What I can do is look at my own life and think about times when I might have made people uncomfortable, times when I was thinking more about my own experience and what I thought I was owed by women more than the woman's experience and what effect my actions had on that experience. We're all the good guy in our own head, and the protagonist of the story. We need to try to step outside of that false perspective to see the full picture.
If your first reaction to reading this is saying "not all men," you're missing the point. This is not a contest of who can be the best and most enlightened. It's just as absurd as saying "I don't have a racist bone in my body." Of course you don't, but you do have racism in your mind, I guarantee it. We are humans so by nature we are messy, flawed, contradictory creatures. For those of us with privilege it is our duty to recognize that our human flaws can have a greater effect on those around us than we might expect, because society amplifies those flaws—it has been designed to weaponize them.
We can't be perfect, so all we can do is try to do better. This is an ongoing process and not a destination. You can't work on yourself for a while and say you are done. If it feels oppressive to constantly have those second-guessing thoughts in the back of your mind, think of those who have had to live with actual oppression, second-guessing everything they do, without the luxury of ignoring those thoughts because the consequences of doing the wrong thing could be violence or death. Even if it's not always that severe, the threat is always there. Yes it's ugly. It's about the ugliest fucking thing that humans have ever created. But not looking at it isn't going to make it any prettier.

2023-03-10 17:27:19

What is Beige? It is an intelligible joke—a joke known to mind, not to the senses—whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.