badmouse is posting cringe about the molotov-ribbentrop pact

Had a great riff today when the security guy came up to kick me off the blackjack table. He asked "so how's your day going?" and I said "pretty good, but you knew that already" lmao

Yesferatu

new colloquialism unlocked:

someone in the Ryan Hall Y'all livestream chat said their road was "slicker than a frog's nutsack" 😂

this storm is no joke. we were supposed to get <1" today with the worst of the storm coming after midnight; we are pushing 3" and it isn't even midnight yet.

allegedly we will get 8-10" more between midnight and 7pm tomorrow, which will give us the largest 24-hour accumulation for my area in a very long time.

thankfully our ice forecast has been downgraded from .3" to .1"; we will almost certainly lose power, but hopefully only a couple days.

Listening to the wine guys episode of guys and it’s just Riley lecturing about wine

Talking about how depressing Soviet housing is. And besides the fact that it’s housing people, has anyone who has made the criticism ever been inside of a tiny 1 bedroom condo of the “pretty” glass and steel condo buildings? Besides being small the shape is actually deranged. Canada hasn’t produced a single livable apartment in like 35 years. It’s actually fucking crazy, it does feel like as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed the west decided it could stop pretending it ever cared about people.

Google maps blurring out a an outdoor barbeque and bins with the privacy filter is a good bit tbh

The sexism in star trek TOS while deplorable is at the same time kinda cute in an awful way, work with me here, in how it tried to be anti sexisr in the most sexist way. Like Kirk in Charlie X telling him he can't grab women's asses cause they're weaker than men and can't punch you out good for playing grab ass! The message is along the lines of 'women should be free to pursue their natural urge to find a husband and that husband can be anybody dammit!'. I think it just feels so naive and like boys who served in ww2 were genuinely trying to wrap their heads around dames and their non suppressed feelings. Despite being on screen more objectionable it has this attempt at being better but really sucking at it. I think more modern trek could stand thst kind of humility, where it kinda comes through that the writers probably aren't the ones on the cutting edge of social justice and writing as honest idiots. Good Sci fi comes from when you learn about your oder day metaphor as you write it

'grow the pie don't argue about how to cut it' is just trickle down economics rephrased fuck off aint falling for that

Best screenplay is a funny award to give a movie. It’s going “I’m sure it sounded good on paper”

CW alcohol mention, criticising my own food choices

hi Megathread! longtime no see

a trip to the local cornerstore freaked me out recently. on duty was a relative of the lad who is usually at the counter, the whole family being immigrants from Pakistan as is common in New England’s convenience shops. brief tangent, but while i’m glad the Pakistani community has found a place here in my little corner of the world, it has led to the dying out of an old New England slang term: we used to called cornerstores ‘packies’ (short for package shop) but for obvious reasons that’s now off the table.

anyways, i bring my beer and candy up to the counter like the slob that I am, and the clerk gives me a strange look— i’m a trans woman, so i’m used to people studying me to find out why there’s something so uncanny about this weird woman in front of them. but as i’m swiping my card, she asks me “not that it matters to me, but are you one of those people from (random address down the street)?” I don’t recognise the address so I answer in the negative. she tells me “okay, sure, i guess you aren’t. but i just want to make sure you know…people talk about that kind of thing. when they hear it happen in their neighborhood, i mean. people talk about what is going on there,” as she hits me with a look somewhere between suspicion and disapproval.

i grab my bag and say goodbye, eager to get away from this stranger’s judging eyes. i have absolutely no idea what she was talking about, but she clearly thought i was lying when i told her just as much. now i’m just thinking about it nonstop— my therapist would be annoyed with me for thinking so much about what a stranger thinks about me, but it’s…the mystery of it. not knowing what on earth this woman thinks i’m up to. i almost want to go back and ask her for more info, to set my mind at ease. assess the scale of the damage, yknow? its probably best for me to drop it, but i don’t like the idea of people in my community thinking i’m anything less than an upstanding citizen and a friendly neighbor.

anyways, we need a new cool slang term for cornerstores here in New England. something snappy to compete with NYC’s ‘bodegas’.

world feels so goddamn small this time of year. just sitting in cramped rooms in the dark

it is january 5 and stalin saved the world from fascism