Michael Burnham

Jayne Cobb

Willow Ulfgood

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Ask John Bolton how that worked out.

Destroying National Landmarks for Fun and Profit

I have a graduate degree in psychology

You would know better than me, but just from personal life experience, I tell people “Don’t try to ascribe rational motivations to irrational actors, because the effort will just make you crazy in turn.”

There’s only one way to find out if you’re right or wrong. Let’s release those files!

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.

–Oscar R. Benavides

Those are awesome. It doesn’t quite reach those heights, but I was always fond of the opening theme from Ski or Die.

Proverbs 11:10:

When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

Why would I?

as well as the belief that opposing trans rights “itself constitutes a form of violence towards people who identify as [trans or gender nonconforming]… or poses an imminent threat to such persons’ emotional, psychological, or physical safety

Just imagine for a moment that one were to replace “trans” with literally any other grouping of humanity and think how insane it would sound.

“I’m not a bigot, I’m just opposed to black rights!”

“I’m not an anti-semite, I’m just opposed to Jewish rights!”

“I’m not committing a genocide, I’m just opposed to human rights!”

Christ, the veneer of legitimacy is molecule-thin at this point.

But then I start to feel like

this guy, with the “real” camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I’ve most consistently got on me, because I can’t lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I’d just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.

Camera is probably the first obstacle. I’ve got a kid, and I really want to have good documentation of her growing up. If there were a dumbphone with a legit camera, that’d be a big deal for me.

After that, probably maps is the next most important thing that I want an actual smart phone for. I remember getting my first smart phone, and probably the main thing I was excited about was always being able to navigate directly to where I wanted to go.

Almost everything else is tertiary to my needs.

The one on the right looks like it has an engorged tick for a nose.