Whenever Trump says “crooked” my mind jumps to that “crooked timber of humanity” quote, probably because I used to read the Crooked Timber blog a lot

Out of the crooked timber of Hillary, no great thing was ever made

[to the tune of the “Cookie Cat” song]

Merri-cat!  She left her family behind!

i’m in an extremely sappy mood rn and have managed to feel sad on behalf of (a) russian revolutionary vera zasulich and (b) the guy in the Mantis post

which is just the subject matter of my last two posts if you don’t count the frog one which i haven’t found a way to feel sad about yet

lmao i was looking for my steam account and instead found a never-seen post from 8 months ago where someone was yelling at me over an argument about whether there were any valid reasons to stay away from neo-nazi tumblr entirely as opposed to actively yelling at it and making it aware of you (i said “yes”)

i used to have a lot of these kinds of stupid arguments on here and i’m so glad i stopped

i love being a disgusting cowardly liberal and just using the blogging platform tumblr dot com for some blogging that i want to do

in the beginning was the bird, and the bird was with dog, and the bird was dog

shelved file from joke R&D:

“aaron paul, jesse pinkman, aaron and paul from tnc, ‘aaron paul potter, you were named after’??  amphetamine connection –> ‘named after the three most amphetamine-addled fictional characters’?  stilted and unfunny, and aaron paul is an actor not a character, but maybe puzzle value of 3 rather than expected 2 is good.  relation between aaron&paul dynamic and walt&jesse dynamic?  tenuous, difficult to utilize for potter joke format (other formats?).  a difficult case.  more research is needed”

jonathan haidt, watching steven universe: ah, you see, the crystal gems only understand the care/harm and liberty/oppression foundations, while homeworld has a broader palette that encompasses authority/subversion and purity/degradation as well

lmao, I actually gave into the clickbait and watched that Steven Pinker video and he’s just like “if we don’t explicitly program an AI to subjugate humanity, there’s no reason to think it will ‘evolve’ in that direction … especially not if, like with every gadget we create, we build in safeguards”

it’s like listening to someone who clearly has never been on deviantart (etc) and doesn’t know that niche fetish porn exists.  the innocence.  so many things i have seen on the internet and he has not