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scalzi.com • 6 days ago

I use "(gestures at the world)" but yeah

Reposted from Randi Mayem Singer

Who else has adopted "besides the fascism?" as their response to every casual "how are you?"?

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houseocelot.bsky.social•5 days ago

At 50501 rally in Austin

shadowqueene.bsky.social•6 days ago

I just go with "all things considered..."

wrenardena.bsky.social•6 days ago

Mine has been “You know. The coup.”

michaeljjohnson.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have.

tiff.is•6 days ago

I use "the horrors persist, but so do I."

wiredog.bsky.social•6 days ago

Pretty much.

franchiselawlady.bsky.social•6 days ago

My dear friend is a therapist. She’s busiest than she has ever been and this is our conversation opener every day.

mikejolk.bsky.social•6 days ago

“We’re grading on a curve here, of course”

imagoddamnrockstar.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Well, the world is on fire, but other than that..."

j.wieche.rs•6 days ago

I used to use *gesticulates wildly at everything*, but I'm old and tired now, so now it's *gesticulates vaguely at everything*

kithrup.bsky.social•6 days ago

They've mostly stopped asking why we moved here...

joynemeth.bsky.social•5 days ago

My new answer!

sgbohs.bsky.social•6 days ago

I just used that in a text when someone I haven’t spoken to recently checked in.

nancygiabrown.bsky.social•6 days ago

I haven’t yet, but I will now.

momoklepto.bsky.social•6 days ago

I just burst out crying and laughing.

niemandbesonders.bsky.social•6 days ago

I asked someone "how are you" the other day. The answer was "that's a loaded question." When I was a kid, "how are you?" and "how about that weather?" were inane small talk, not political minefields.

sarahrshiver.bsky.social•6 days ago

I may start asking "how about that weather?"

niemandbesonders.bsky.social•6 days ago

The red state answer is, "It's not global warming. It's totally a coincidence that we had two hurricanes in the last month. Global warming's a myth. And it's Biden's fault. Has anyone seen my roof?"

kencf0618.bsky.social•6 days ago

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln...

lennysundahl.bsky.social•6 days ago

*flails arms*

jrossnicoll.bsky.social•6 days ago

My therapist: How often do you feel an overwhelming sense of doom?

Me: *waves hand confusedly at everything*

princessjemmy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hey, we have the same therapist!!!!

Does she follow up with, “yeah, I know”?

shd262623.bsky.social•6 days ago

My go-to answer is "Do you really want me to tell you?"

vanetti.bsky.social•6 days ago

“other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

thatshaggymatt.quepossums.fyi•6 days ago

"The horrors" is the go to in my group.

stillglorious.bsky.social•6 days ago

Did Americans back then watch the rise of Fascists in Germany in disbelief—just like I am now? I want to scream: Wake up! Do something! Yet life rolls on, oddly unfazed, as if history isn’t a slow-motion car crash happening right in front of us.

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