really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
oh my god, thread, this is delightful:
like, mullin is not going to be any better at this job than noem was, he will just be terrible at it in new and novel ways, but he's already going to have a mountain of her shit to clean up and miller screaming at him to detain and deport more brown people from day one, and he won't like it
one thing that's going to be a serious problem for mullin is answering questions about what he'll do about the widespread corruption noem let spread throughout DHS, and i think an actual golden retriever would be better prepared for those questions than mullin will be
I would offer that the issue is not so much polyamory as it is people who write essays about their relationships
To be fair, for every “yikes on bikes, your poly relationship is not nearly as healthy as you seem to think it is” essay there are like 40 equivalent essays from monogamous folks
looking forward to @theophite.bsky.social starting the hunger games boom cannon again
Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. @SecRubio and @SecWar are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren. The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security. We have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again: we delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., we have located 145,000 children, FEMA delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, we ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard.
oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job
I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement.
The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual.
It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.
(per my previous repost, that myth is very much tied to racial polarization and the “white conservatives are the normative Americans” belief implicitly held by a lot of actors and observers in the political process)
this chart really undermines the veracity of the “Repubs are a broad national party/Dems are in bubbles” myth that a lot of people in both parties and the punditocracy are super attached to
I get that it's probably a little more awkward due to the translation but "in which they have neither camel nor she-camel" is an idiom that intrigues me
c'monnnnn shingles i'm rootin' for ya, kiddo
i try my humble best
oh not even remotely
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The manila folder in my mental file cabinet labelled 'things I know and can reasonably theorize about Elon Musk's penis' was once a comfortingly empty placeholder that sat at the back of a drawer, untouched
I would like to return to those halcyon days
Not like
The worst thing in the past ten years
But this decade has involved 1000% more public and political discussion of straight men's penises, penis issues, and penis accessories than I am really comfortable with as a Known Penis Appreciator
the solution to feeling weird after you nut is to cuddle your bro and tell him it felt great to do that together while you watch random shit on youtube together, not develop an elaborate incel philosophical confection and try to grindset leverage it into an influencer startup
Paying $30/month to be caught and shamed jerking off is a great deal if that’s what gets you off
I bet Quittr could charge a lot more than that if they have attractive women doing the shaming.
Maybe not the business idea to become a SV billionaire but a solid business model
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I do my best to make peoples' time here enjoyable
just. god. can we be normal. can we just be normal and have weird sex with our friends instead of making it a goddamn startup or being the Speaker of the House of Representatives or whatever it is these people are doing to redirect their weird libidinal issues and shame. i'm begging you
like i'M SORRY i just. i. i can't help myself sometimes this PWP just immediately writes itself, AND i came up in the repressed gay 90s on like, fucking, Cockrub Warrior web forums full of people who were like "it's only Bad Gay if it's anal, we're all MEN here, we hold each other ACCOUNTABLE" and
solemnly-whispered oaths to each other in the dark of night, voices hoarse. constantly monitoring each others' internet use. it's for your own good, bro. i'm doing this for you, bro. bro, you don't need to jack it to porn. bro, i'll do it for you. bro.
i bitch about bsky a lot but broadly agree with this
i think our institutional culture is *bad* and it takes a *ton* of work to curate your feed in a way that both provides information AND does not make you insane, and it might be an impossible task that'd be better untried, but
getting an extremely safe seat, loudmouth senator to take shit from stephen miller all day is going to be much, much harder than doing it to a has-been governor whose career was already toast
do i think a democrat could win a surprise senate election in oklahoma? probably not. but do i welcome the NRSC having to commit more money and energy to a race that would have been a cakewalk? yes.
