Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

choosing an alert level

Our mistake was turning them back on.

Greg Abbot intentionally chose Christmas Eve to attack migrants seeking shelter. Fascist losers like him get off on the hypocrisy of claiming to be Christian.

Possibly the most accurate thing I've seen in 2022.

#Musicians #podcasts #truth

TIL that the Gyruss arrangement of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was inspired by this cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbgUrp1a70

By candlelight, like the OG shitposters

#Calligraphy

Mars is at it's closest to earth and ground based telescope are now able to take this kind of pictures!
With the help of various techniques and technology advances we are more and more able to treat large amount of data into hig resolutions images ✨

[Source: https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1598005005344075776?t=LcncxehwkD04GRjYX4zZJw&s=19 ]

Within a few hours, I came across this post by @mekkaokereke and a friend sent me this screenshot from the re-release of the classic PC game 'Oregon Trail' (where the player takes on the role of a settler).

It was a beautiful reminder that it is possible to receive feedback positively, to take accountability, and to do the work to better ourselves. The outrage around "cancel culture" is largely just a way to shield all of those who are unwilling to do that work.

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay

@scalzi I don't understand why calendar reform didn't go with a variation on the ancient Egyptian calendar (or perhaps the French revolutionary calendar): a year should consist of 12 months of 30 days apiece, plus 5-6 extra festival days at the end.

Why did cartoon characters from the 30s-60s introduce themselves as Esquire?

Did they all practice law?

Did this mean something else earlier in the 1900s?

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish he'll be buried in student loan debt and can't get a job with his fishing degree

Happy Boxing Day for those of the Pugilist Faith.