I really hope you're kidding with me.

Like do y'all not get that the pictures of the greatest devastation you're seeing from Helene don't come from the Florida Keys, they come from 3000+ feet above sea level and 300 miles inland??? Is that the problem for you?

The Just World Fallacy is a fallacy. The only reason you, the person reading this, haven't been wiped out by climate disaster is sheer fucking luck. Not your good choices. Not your virtue. Sheer luck. You better hope it doesn't run out.

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E. Lily Yu signs off her TERF diatribe with a citation to Isaiah 53 that I think it is important to question. I won’t quote her directly because fuck that, but the gist is the greatest love is one that doesn’t mind if it’s despised. You can see how this reading would soothe an angry TERF.

generations come and go, but children will think butts are funny until the heat death of the universe

I have a Bluetooth keyboard that isn't awful but still works my nerves and also drains my batteries. Ugh.

No worries; it was a good suggestion, and I almost added that full size keyboard kvetch to the thread (because my new work laptop also isn't full size and it's making me batty).

My paintings by Lost VHS (at the other place) are so beloved that they're right in my sight line when I wake up. So are my Rowan Fridley small 4×6 horror watercolors (bigoldeels at the other place).

Memphis by contrast is much poorer but the 24 hour Walmart is available, because people need those jobs and can afford to live close enough to make working there sensible.