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grumpylama.bsky.social
From Shorewood, Wi now a blue dot in red Iowa. Almost retired. Have a wonderful wife. Books, friends, and good beer.
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Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

Number of times I’ve heard trans people say Evangelicals shouldn’t exist: 0 Number of times I’ve heard Evangelicals say trans people shouldn’t exist: Approximately 563, 843 and counting… Decent people know who the real danger is.

I just made my first call using @5calls.org and this is just a message of appreciation for them for helping me do something (and also to tell everyone to check them out)

We all need to start posting that trump has no idea what’s in the EOs he’s signing and that Elon and others are the “brains” behind the orders. That’s he’s just a figure head, a useful idiot for them.

You need to read this. hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...

MAGAs are using DEI now because woke was too difficult to spell.

This is already an unimagined hellscape of bully bullshit, he closes pandemic offices, we have a pandemic, he imposes tariffs, farmers go bankrupt, he loses the election, stages a coup. We are TWO WEEKS IN, he's fired the FAA chief and we have the first plane crash in 16 years. Could have bet on it

Makes quite a bit of sense. newrepublic.com/article/1900...

The newly reconstituted RE0 Speedwagon has twice as many members. They're now called Double Stuffed REOs.

IDK who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to like one part of a band's discography and not the other. You don't have to know the whole history of a band to be a fan. You can just simply LIKE the music. You don't need to know names of every album or song or band member. You can just LIKE music.

I cannot overstate the absolute physical exhaustion caused by dealing with people's stupidity, particularly my own

I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.

Good one.

Yes, there is a war on Christmas here in America. But the brutal yuletide assaults haven’t come from Atheists, Gays, Muslims, the Liberal Media, or the Woke Mob. The very wh*te Conservative Christians sounding the alarm, are the quickly-advancing hordes. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

Die Hard is a Christmas movie because it was the baby Jesus' favourite movie when he was growing up

If Scott and Ruth get divorced, he becomes ruthless while she gets out scott-free

Good morning from Des Moines. The forecasted overnight snow/ice apocalypse failed to show up again.

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

A story that begins with a corpse on the floor is a mystery. A story that ends with a corpse on the floor is a tragedy. A story that begins with a floor on a corpse is The Wizard of Oz.

I don’t want to upset anyone but there were no other mambos before no. 5

Putting the “Turn off the space heater” sign on the microwave door is a sure sign of winter.

John Wick and the Chocolate Factory

I wonder how many people die each year as a result of lifeguards running in slow motion

There’s no real good way to web search “exploding manhole”.

It's actually really annoying to us bearded simple small-town tradesmen with a checkered past and a heart of gold when all these successful big city business ladies that traded romance for power come back to town during the holidays

A Tolkien-themed chicken restaurant called: "Fellowship of the Wings"

“I just want to make music that will be played in a super market while someone buys almond milk for their morning protein shake.” -Kurt Cobain

"I want to swim with an overweight, rich white guy before I die." - Dolphin bucket list.