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Medium humanoid creature, lawful/liberal Speed: 30 ft. Languages: Common, Latin, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, French Ben was female at conception, just like all human beings. He makes music and digital art sometimes. He used to be @querulus.
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I’ve always believed in the philosophy that you need not attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. But with the current government, my philosophy has become “why choose?”

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, I wasn’t going to read the little blurb of the unrelated book they stuck at the end, but how can I resist an opening like that?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

At least in his first term, trump’s lies were entertainingly awful. You could almost enjoy the show if you could forget about the real people being hurt and, in their hundreds of thousands, killed. Now he’s just predictable and boring (as people start dying again).

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What's that you say, Mr Punch? "That's the way to do it!" It is, Mr Punch! It is exactly the way to do it!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I like the French word « cité » because it sounds like Laszlo Cravensworth saying “city”.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I used to think « fermée à clef » was an odd paraphrastic for “locked” until I met « verrouillée », the word that one is avoiding by saying that.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Holee shit! This guy is seriously arguing that Partition was a great idea that worked well, and we should do it again. Partition.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What’s next for America after democracy? Practice pronouncing the word “namestnichestvo”.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Are you a lumper or a splitter? Lumper here. It feels like lumpers are rare in software, but the Bell Labs, Unix/C guys were king lumpers.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Does he expect all these federal workers to just start picking fruit?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Musk has spent seven trillion dollars of our money in order to cut the budget by as many as four dollars and thirty-five cents.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

So this is what’s up. There is a power balance. There is the rich, who are few but have great power individually. Then there are the many, who have very little power, but vastly outnumber the rich. So when the masses agree on something, they can overpower the rich few.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The right is so upset that the woke mind-police are dictating what they can and can’t say that they are … dictating what we can and can’t say. That is DOUBLE-PLUS ungoodthinkful!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Is the SEC cool with Trump “announcing” planned tariffs in a clear attempt to influence markets?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 13 days ago • 703 comments

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

submitted 13 days ago • 142 comments

I guess, if the goal is to stop immigration, making the country an expensive shit-hole where everyone is sick and poor and has no rights, and so no one wants to come here is one way to do that.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Americans are such idiots. “We have to vote for Trump because of inflation!” Then we’re told again and again it’s not inflation, it’s price-gouging because of all the deregulation Trump did in his first term. Now there goes the CFPB. Guess what, suckers! You (we) can no longer afford to breathe.

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Haven’t missed this. In Cheeto Benito’s first term, whenever the governor of Oregon pushed back against ICE, we’d get fighter jets doing noisy, low-speed, low-altitude donuts over Portland. Been four years since they did that, but wouldn’t you know: there they are again, farting away over my house.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Leafing through the Domesday Scroll.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh. Okay. I’ve “Suspended” Prime. Time to get serious about finding my Subscribe-and-Save items in giant Costco sizes.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We are more powerful than they are. NEVER forget it.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Trump backed off his North American tariff bluff. His “Art of the Deal” is to threaten to blow himself up with a grenade, and when the other people are like “Jesus, dude! Are you fucking serious? Okay, we’ll spend a little more money on the border, just stop hurting yourself!” He crows Victory!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

First draft of the Bible. “And God said ‘Let there be ferschmigganins,’ and there were ferschmigganins, and God saw the ferschmigganins and thought He could do better.” Septuagint: “You know, this bit could be tightened up some.”

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A formal hoodie is a hoodrow. I have spake.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments