C.S.

@cephander.bsky.social

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he/they | polisci major (for my sins), recovering theatre kid, seattle mariners enthusiast, food discourse centrist, theoretically I write sometimes

The “myth of consensual sex” meme (Jesus laying down the veto) edited to read “the myth of excommunication.” Pope Leo and Jesus offer their consent while the society of Saint Pious the X interjects to say they don’t. The bottom text reads “isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?”
A person in an inflatable frog costume instead of front of a line of armed agents outside the Portland ICE facility
Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.
"Close and secure the border. Not as a political performance — as a structural requirement. A sovereign nation controls who enters. That is not a debate. That is a definition."
The real photo senate candidate Mark Moran puts first on his website. He looks like a temu american psycho character in incredibly ominous lighting. He's pointing like he's in a meeting. He looks like a dork.
A pencil sketch in a spiral bound sketchbook of a stumptown scud. The scud is a little bug thingy with legs pointing all over the place.
Prisoners Johnny Maynor and Anthony Murphree filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama over conditions at the Morgan County Jail. Maynor’s and Murphree’s complaints stemmed from violations of a previous Consent Decree that had been entered by the court on September 25, 2001. Pursuant to the decree, the county had agreed to serve nutritionally adequate meals to prisoners at the jail. What the district court found was deplorable. For breakfast, prisoners received a serving of unsweetened grits or oatmeal, a slice of bread and half an egg or less. Lunch consisted of either two baloney sandwiches or two sandwiches with a dab of peanut butter, plus a small bag of corn chips. For dinner prisoners were served either chicken livers, meat patties or two hot dogs, either slaw or onions, beans or mixed vegetables, and a slice of bread. Each meal was accompanied by weak tea or an unsweetened beverage. Milk was not provided, and prisoners received fruit only three or four times during the two-year period considered by the court. Salt, pepper and other condiments had to purchased from the jail’s commissary.
Simpsons "Don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says "However bad you think the American carceral system is, it's worse."
The cover for The Mountain Goats’ 2023 album, Jenny from Thebes. It’s a black disc on black background with gold decoration in the style of Ancient Greek art. A woman is pointing and running away to the right, and a warrior is standing behind her, looking where she points.
The album cover for John Henry by They Might Be Giants. The cover art is an image of a girl with a pink shirt and long hair sitting in grass against a dark backdrop of woods. She’s holding a pickaxe. The name of the album and the name of the band are on either side of her in the same sketchy white font.
A hand holding a ladyfinger covered in tiramisu filling above a mostly empty bowl covered in the remains of said filling
3 panel lord of the rings "never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf" meme. First panel says "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Yankees fan." Second panel says "What if we're both fighting fascism?" Third panel says "Fuck it, I guess?"
Spotify wrapped graphic showing In Bed With The Right as this user’s top podcast. I listened for 3,856 minutes and was in the top 3% of listeners worldwide.
The poster’s folly- a pair of unbaked pumpkin pies sit on a white countertop.
A post by Tumblr user boringkate. “ People get so fixated on the rehabilitation of convicted criminals. Nobody ever talks about rehabilitating law abiding citizens. This is because law abiding citizens are a lost cause. The law abiding citizen is beyond redemption.”
This user has muted the word mariners for the next 7 days. Please respect their wishes and don’t talk about it until they’ve recovered
Tumblr post by user unionizedcrabbucket reading “oh it must be spring the mariners fans are doing the charlie brown kicking the football thing again”
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him? These two things then thou must bear in mind; the one, that all things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle, and that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the second, that the longest liver and he who will die soonest lose just the same. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.”
Dril tweet: and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
Kathryn’s bird avatar in silhouette superimposed over the bat signal.
The Posse Comitatus Act, last updated in 2021 for reasons that will become immediately clear, is one sentence: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
Q: Aren't the Nicosia's millionaires and live in a 9,000 square feet mansion in East Avenue? A: No and No, we are by no means millionaires and our mansion is 12,000 square feet, not 9,000 square feet. We are proud of our historic family home, and it provided au ideal backdrop for this narrative and has been greatly exploited by Jerrod Jones and the Rochester media. Our The poster has incredulously highlighted the first sentence of the answer because who the fuck would admit that and think it makes them look better
Highlighted text from a book with a read sticky note flag next to it and handwritten annotation. The relevant highlighted portion reads “Second, support for populist parties is driven by both economic insecurity and cultural disruption. That said, populist leaders have clearly made immigration, which is partly economic but mainly cultural, their number one political issue. They have depicted immigrants as the reviled "other," and as distinct threats to their nation's way of life; they have used the issue to roil emotions and stoke fear; and they have succeeded in growing their base of support. Economic insecurity matters. Culture is explosive.”
religions out there that teach that women should only achieve certain subservient roles in life, and MCPS would never think of not having a book in a classroom that showed a woman” in a professional role. The Board’s student member agreed with the sentiment and proclaimed that “ignorance and hate does exist within our community, but please know that every student—each of our 160,000 students in our large county—has a place in the school system.”
A white pigeon with bits of grey spotting captured mid-takeoff. It’s photographed against a background of Roman cobblestone and a brown stone wall. The pigeon is only a few inches off the ground
An image of a scattered bunch of charcoal on a slightly off-white background
A hand holds a cardboard sign in front of the sky. It says “No damn kings” in all caps, written in black marker
The user, in a winter coat, scarf, a university sweatshirt standing outside the locked doors to Senator Wyden’s office. Two other students are standing behind them, backs turned to the camera.
An image of a pie in a grocery store box with a fork sticking out of it. There’s been a bite taken out of a slice.
The “Chicago mentioned” meme edited to read “Très Riches Heures mentioned”. An anime girl holds a page from said manuscript in either hand and has the arms of John Duke of Berry slapped on her baseball cap. The background has also been replaced by pages from the manuscript.
A pie chart from the prison policy initiative showing the U.S. prison/jail population and where they are incarcerated. The skeet is referencing the 14,000 person subslice in the U.S. marshals slice labeled “immigration”. This is separate from the blown up immigration detention portion on the side.
A baking sheet covered in conchas—pan dulces with a sugar topping scored in lines like a shell.
A Swiss roll cake coated in chocolate ganache on a white plate on a white counter in a kitchen.
A movie poster for White Christmas.
A screenshot of the Bible verse Luke 17:4 “Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.” edited with shitty handwriting to say “you must ‘tell them to get fucked, I guess’”.
A gif from Henry V (1989). Kenneth Branagh as Henry V, lit by fire, sitting back in his throne.
The car left the city and sped west along the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Highway. It exited the highway as soon as they were inside Hebei Prov-ince. Da Shi stopped the car and dragged his two passengers out. As soon as Ding and Wang got out of the car, the bright afternoon sun made them squint. The wheat felds of the North China Plain spread out before them. "What did you bring us here for?" Wang asked. "To look at bugs." Da Shi lit one of the cigars Colonel Stanton had given him and pointed at the wheat fields with it. Wang and Ding now noticed that the fields were covered by a layer of locusts. Every wheat stalk had a few crawling over it. On the ground, more locusts wriggled, like some thick liquid. "They're plagued by locusts here?" Wang brushed away some locusts from a small area near the edge of the field and sat down. "Like the dust storms, they started ten years ago. But this year is the worst." "So what? Nothing matters now, Da Shi." Ding spoke, his voice still drunk. "I just want to ask the two of you one question: Is the technological gap between humans and Trisolarans greater than the one between locusts and humans?" The question hit the two scientists like a bucket of cold water. As they stared at the clumps of locusts before them, their expressions grew solemn. They got Shi Qiang's point. Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a fly-swatter under it ... this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens
A photo of a hand holding a bag of mixed pan dulces and a bag of duros.
A photo of a church nestled between two other buildings. It has a classic Italian Basilica shape, a tall bell tower, and beautiful but faded mosaics along the top of the front wall.
A sloppily edited screenshot of the enchanter Tim from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Tim Walz’s face under the beard. The subtitle says “There are some who call me… Tim”
A screenshot of tags of a story posted to Ao3. It’s titled “God bless America” and the description indicates it’s SCOTUS mpreg.
A screenshot of a tweet. Defunctland replying to a Reddit screenshot which asks “what’s the one part of your hobby that you hate doing?”: I hate literally every step in the filmmaking processes. The only thing I hate more than making a film is not making a film.
A red ball with a smiley face floating on water. Text to the left of it says "Tell us a true, one-sentence story from your life that absolutely opens more questions than it answers and demands further context."
A screenshot of a word document containing citations and annotations. The text is as follows: Klein, Ezra. 2020. Why We’re Polarized. Simon and Schuster. My number one book for understanding what our system looks like right now, and why. Smidt, Corwin D. 2017. “Polarization and the Decline of the American Floating Voter.” American Journal of Political Science 61(2): 365–81. doi:10.1111/ajps.12218. And then less directly related to the general election but still interesting in terms of “how do voters make decisions”, Abramowitz, Alan I. 1989. “Viability, Electability, and Candidate Choice in a Presidential Primary Election: A Test of Competing Models.” The Journal of Politics 51(4): 977–92. doi:10.2307/2131544. Abramson, Paul R., John H. Aldrich, Phil Paolino, and David W. Rohde. 1992. “‘Sophisticated’ Voting in the 1988 Presidential Primaries.” American Political Science Review 86(1): 55–69. doi:10.2307/1964015. Utych, Stephen. 2019. “Man Bites Blue Dog: Are Moderates Really More E
A screenshot of a tumblr reblog chain. User hoofpeet says “Must suck ass to be like. a lawyer or something in the pokemon world. They haven't made any cool lawyer pokemon yet”. User eternal-fractal replies “Ho oh”. User dkpsyhog replies “I think we have different definitions of ‘lawyer’ but sure”. User eternal-fractal says “Why wouldn't ho oh be a lawyer? They're a Phoenix, wright?”.
A screenshot of a word document containing a play. Astronaut: "I don’t know. It just feels selfish? But at the same time—I worked so hard for this, and you worked so hard for this. Like, I wouldn’t be here if not for you getting off a double shift and then helping me study for calculus. I don’t want to throw that away because I got cold feet. " Stage direction: Astronaut looks at Parent, clearly asking for something. Parent takes a minute. Parent: (carefully) "You know I’ll support you no matter what." Astronaut: "But what do you think? Are you just ok with this?" Parent: "What do you want me to say?" Stage direction: Astronaut is quiet.
A screenshot of a web store interface. The product highlighted is a replica of the Dunstable Swan Broach, an enamel broach in the shape of a swan with a gold crown around its neck attached to a gold chain. The visible description text reads “Brooch in the shape of a swan from around 1400, gilded brass coated in white resin. The emblem of the swan was very popular among nobles eager to demonstrate their descent from the Swan Knight of courtly romance. The most notable English family of the fourteenth century to use this symbol was that of De Bohun. The swan was adopted by the house of Lancaster when Henry of”. The poster lusts mightily for it.
A baking tray lined in parchment covered in misshapen filled cream puffs. The tray is on a counter.
A crowd of protestors. The poster wants to call attention to a white flag with a cartoonish green evergreen tree and some black text on top.
A shot of the Oregon State Capitol park. There are bushes in the foreground, with a medium sized crowd of protestors dressed predominantly in pink and blue. The state capitol building is indistinct in the background.
A photo of a theater marquee. The top line reads “The Mountain Goats 3/3”
A screenshot of a post from the tumblr account majorleagueupdates. The post says “BREAKING: a witch has just cast a spell on a seagull, transforming him into a Seattle Mariners fan to teach him a lesson in humility.”
An image of an adult nutria and two juveniles on grass with a caption in impact font. The top text says “love this animal” and the bottom text says “the nutrient”
The simpsons “don’t make me tap the sign” meme, where the sign in question reads “there are people born after 9/11 who are old enough to drink”
A black plate with a chocolate-frosted rolled cake on it, decorated with cranberries and sprigs of rosemary.
Derek Jacobi as chorus in the 1989 Henry V film
A black and white image of Foucault, edited to have his head surrounded by mistletoe.
Spotify wrapped summary: the top five artists are The Mountain Goats, Lovejoy, They Might Be Giants, Hozier, and Los Campesinos! The top five songs are Call Me What You Like, Caramelldansen, This Year, It’s All Futile! It’s All Pointless! and Knee Deep at ATP. The used listened for 28,696 minutes, and the top genre was “pov: indie”, whatever the fuck that means.
A man being interviewed by a reporter. He's wearing a blue sweater, yellow windbreaker, and white hard hat and is helpfully labeled as George Thornton, State Highway Division.
Consider an employer with a policy of firing any woman he discovers to be a Yankees fan. Carrying out that rule because an employee is a woman and a fan of the Yankees is a firing “because of sex” if the employer would have tolerated the same allegiance in a male employee.