And for my next feat of mind-boggling prognostication, I will:
Good ol' JP here is so bad at the basics of science that he can't conceive of the differences in scale and applicable forces of a stock and the climate.

I can't predict where one water molecule will go if I toss a glass of water in his face, but I can predict that he'll get wet.
big "hurrr hurrr, the weatherman can't even tell me when it's gonna rain" energy
All these dudes keep getting trapped in the reactionary doofus spiral, because once they say one completely wrong but popular thing, they have to go all in or they lose their audience of chuds.

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Jan 27
Just so we're all on the same page here, this is the nudity-containing image that the Mcminn County School Board objected to as pretext for removing Maus from the curriculum.

You probably can't tell, but that's the author's mother in the bathtub where she died of suicide.
I cropped it because the image of suicide is clear in context, and I didn't want to just drop that into your feed unannounced.

It's a gut-wrenching moment in the story, where Spiegelman includes his actual underground comic story about the tragedy and its impact on his life.
To think that it is a prurient image, even for an 8th grader reading the story, is the sign of a mind warped by a disgustingly misogynistic sexual morality.
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Nov 3, 2021
In case any of you have a cat who has been experiencing colitis or IBS-like symptoms, you may way to try eliminating thickeners like xanthan gum, guar gum, and carrageenan from their diet.

Knute had developed the worst poos, but taking him off these ingredients fixed it FAST.
Knute's medical history is COMPLICATED to say the least, but he's had gastric issues for years, at least partly caused by the pile of meds he has to take for his heart. It got really bad in the last few months, and we really worried for him. Grain-free did nothing for him.
We tried eliminating specific proteins, but it didn't matter. He would come get me every time he had to poo because it was so unpleasant for him, and let me tell you, the aftermath wasn't pleasant for me either.
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Sep 9, 2021
Ethics professor who won't comply with vaccine mandate proves self incapable of job duties, making the vaccine question moot.
tired: hemlock

wired: ivermectin
"hey, chill out, i'm just asking questions" Image
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Sep 2, 2021
I'm gonna need everyone to quit using #AmericanTaliban and #TexasTaliban--not only are they xenophobic copouts that ignore the role of white American Evangelicalism behind the Texas law, but they also get the timeline mixed up. This form of US Christianity PREDATES the Taliban.
I know you think you're being cute, but trust me, white American Evangelicals have never needed to look abroad to get ideas about how to enact oppression here at home.

The Texas abortion law is rooted in whiteness, Christianity, and Americanism.
When you can only describe a purely American phenomenon in terms of the bad stuff that happens elsewhere, you're saying you think the bad stuff *belongs* in those other countries. You're saying you think it's always been sunshine and roses here, and injustices here are anomalies.
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Mar 2, 2021
I was born in the 70s and was a voracious reader as a kid, meaning that I internalized a huge amount of implicitly racist, sexist, homophobic, nationalist, and colonialist ideas even while being exposed to all the feel-good united-colors-of-benetton celebrations of diversity.
In the 80s, kids were still consuming tons of media that was decades old, which very often contained outdated ideas of what constituted full humanity. And a lot of 80s pop culture was really pretty awful on that front.

This media instilled implicit biases in my developing mind.
The dominant media environment that I grew up in was overwhelmingly *supportive* of someone like me--a straight white middle-class boy in America, so even though I knew, for example, that racism was *bad*, the books I read normalized a racist world.

That's tough to re-learn.
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Mar 1, 2021
R drinks a huge thermos of this herbal tea every day, so we get it in serious bulk and of course keep it in this old tea bin from a long-time new york tea shop ImageImageImageImage
in the shop, the same bin could be used for a variety of teas by rotating the label at the top ImageImageImageImage
here's what the shop looked like in the late 19th century, complete with my bin! ImageImage
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