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Ryan Bishop-d'Plume (aka Ryan Waggoner) 45, bi (more like pan, but old enough that "bi" was the only term I knew for a while) (he/him, comfortable with they/them) Writer, gamer, worrier Essays and more found at: https://bishopdplume.wordpress.com/
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If I had a nickel for every time the lead singer of my favorite 90s Christian pop-rock band unexpectedly quit, and then "cocaine on the tour bus" comes up in later investigations, I'd have 2 nickels.... ....which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Rediscovering some of the 90s alt rock I loved in high school but haven't listened to since. Why did I love "Get Off This" by Cracker, but turned my nose up at Hanson? It's the "corporate wants you" Pam meme in audio form.

“What’s our target?” “Several dishwashers and a prep cook.” “Damn. We’re gonna need body armor, night vision scopes and stun grenades for this one.” “…wait…” “IF IT BLEEDS WE CAN KILL IT.”

Dear Mr. Bluetooth Speaker On The Bus- I'm sorry the five blocks between where you got on and the bus station were so quiet that you felt you needed to turn your speaker on. But I assure you the entire trip up to that point had gone absolutely fine without a 90s R&B slow jam. Thank you.

While watching crafting videos with her, my roommate told me that Brits refer to all yarn as "wool", whether it's actual wool or acrylic. So then I wondered: do British knitters dream of acrylic sheep?

Zac Brown has tattoos on his knuckles....why isn't he getting tackled by ICE agents right now on the AMAs?

Happy Towel Day to all who celebrate!

Hate to break it to MAGA , but you can't accept jets from Qatar, build developments in Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and India.. accept hundreds of millions of dollars of "investments" in your own profit-making meme-coin from China.. and still declare so-called "globalism" a problem.

Dear Spike- Thank you for visiting me in my dreams last night, and cuddling. You always knew exactly when I needed it. Love, Daddy

Heinlein wasn't seriously writing a satire of American Evangelicalism in 2025 when he wrote about the Fosterites in the early 60s, was he?

The absurdist in me kinda loves the idea that while America is in the middle of sliding into fascism and tanking the global economy, India and Pakistan launch 2 nukes and spark off the entire planet going up in flames.

For the first time since probably high school, I'm reading multiple novels at once. Not that this information is in any way notable. I just realized it and decided to throw it out there. Rereading 1984 and Stranger In A Strange Land, incidentally.

Fuck. Jill Sobule. 😭 #RIP

I fucking hate this Samsung commercial where it starts off with the guy's phone vibrating, but the screen is still black. I don't need that jumpscare.

Oh, shit....the man who fueled my love of audio production has left us. RIP Roy Thomas Baker

Fucked. Up.

I don't care what you say, "I just can't seem to drink you off my mind" is an objectively great line.

This

What the fuck? Is that really the end of Zero Wing? A bunch of chibi California Raisins breakdancing to the Can-Can, and the game starts over?? What in the actual fuck?

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

America: where having an autism awareness tattoo means you're an MS-13 gang member, but having a swastika tattoo just means you're a German history buff

"Donald Trump and his allies have been using 'anti-Semitism' as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes:

If it were true that we can't control what El Salvador does in terms of prisoners, it all the more reason we have no business sending anyone there.

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

Randomly thinking about how excited I was for Iron Sky 2, then didn't get around to watching it as soon as it came out, and now it's just hard to get excited about watching it. It doesn't feel terribly escapist now.

This is a pretty extraordinary thing -- not sure I've seen or heard of anything like this before. It's tomorrow/Tuesday morning -- noon eastern, 9am pacific: speakupforjustice.law

To clarify: Setting fire to the home of a Jewish politician on the first night of Passover = apparently not antisemitism Saying "I bet Israel would stop killing innocents if we stopped giving them weapons and money" = antisemitism, I guess

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Republicans in the House just passed the SAVE Act. It tells Troops overseas, disabled Veterans, and Military Families: We don’t want you to vote. That’s not “election security.” 
That’s voter suppression.

This pair of billboards is just outside my work. I've never really taken the time to appreciate it before.

As a reminder, "antisemitism" is, to the current administration, not actual hate speech against any person of Jewish ethnicity (or, say, blaming wildfires on "Jewish space lasers", or people who have publicly made pro-Hitler statements giving a Nazi salute at the inauguration);