the zipper

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"the" "zipper" | officially "late" 30s | she/they/none | writing, reading, music, games, puzzles, math, food, drinks | a small bird (lying about every part of that) | pfp by uncertaintycrossing

2 energy Sovereign Blade Attack Retain. Deal 2470 damage to ALL enemies.

goose chasing man meme top panel "how much does a car cost and how likely are you to die in an accident" bottom panel "how much does a car cost and how likely are you to die in an accident, motherfucker?" on account of how fucking good ebikes should be looking to everyone in the universe right now

robin stranger things whiteboard meme reading "there is no equitable form of means testing"

mama always said police are like a box of chocolates.. they'll kill your dog

morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social 3g
Not now. Go away.

oblivion.txt @oblivion.bsky.social 5h
No. Go away. I'm not here.

image post from "The Other 98%" Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to restore it "back to the way it was" before Trump started the war in Iran. image of Marco Rubio. bottom text reads This is literally the funniest moment in the history of American foreign policy. skeet from username obscured reads Actually I don't find it funny at all. We've wasted $72 billion, seriously made life harder and more expensive for those in our country that can least afford it. It's a debacle that infuriates me.

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of it voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it.

Elias Canetti, The Human Province

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"okay" kid/megahero about to punch ice youth kid for supporting ice

Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania

Has any theory in international relations been more discredited than blowback?

It turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine.

10:08 PM Feb 28, 2026 Twitter for iPhone

all the united states presidents in order, their soulless eyes peering out from their portraits, superimposed with the text "War Criminals yes all of them hope this helps" and there might be people who want to quibble in the replies or whatever but every single man in the image held his office because of slavery and genocide anyway have a beautiful day and dont forget to love one another

Email title: We must be clear about who pays the cost for war with Iran

From: Pete Buttigieg
to me

Email body: Friend,

As I write, four Americans have now given their lives in this new war. We mourn for the patriots who raised their right hands and took an oath to put everything on the line, willing to go wherever their government said they were needed, sacrificing all for our country.

screenshot of twitter username lauren @NotABigJerk body text "i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion" 9:33 AM 9/15/22

image: four quarter notes on a treble clef staff representing the pitches A, C, A, and B

By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities... There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men... Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person's lab

mamdani sign reading GERALD forD SUCKED

for SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO

a portrait of chairman mao badly photoshopped to include elements stereotypical of a frenchman beret on head moustache glass of red wine two baguettes

One of Britain's most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protestors going "all floppy" when they get arrested.

Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said the tactic of going limp was a "flipping nuisance" as it required extra officers to drag protestors away.

House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: "We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to day, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It's a complete waste of officers' time, and a complete pain in the neck."

House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: "The problem with them going floppy and four officers carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We're not making them go floppy. They're just sort of being a nuisance."