Quotes

  • krisjohn:
    "I hope we have to go through all of this crap because out of an infinite number of timelines, this is the only one where we survive. Otherwise it's hard to justify."
  • mightshould:
    "I'm coping. That's a major accomplishment. Anything else is bonus."
  • Mary Rodgers:
    "So I asked the shrink: When you're depressed because of actual things that are depressing, are there any drugs that can make you feel better? And he said no, which was even more depressing."
  • David Sedaris, Happy-Go-Lucky:
    "I figured my post-college life would be pretty much like the one I'd been leading for the past decade: work some little job I didn't have to put much into, then come home and do my own stuff. It was the life that most of my friends had, and half my family." "It's a consequence of putting stuff out there--you're going to get reactions."
  • Kristina Marusic:
    "There likely aren’t a ton of people on this planet—let alone within your geography or social circles—whose moral compass, sense of humor, Netflix addictions, dietary restrictions, and idiosyncrasies sync up with yours closely enough to make you want to hitch your wagon to them for the long-haul (and the internet is making us all even picker)."
  • John Oliver:
    "Let this be a lesson that you absolutely don’t want to fuck with someone who has the patience, attention to detail, and sustained anger to crochet their resentment into a handmade garment."
  • Gail Donovan, quoted in "Knitting Yarns" in the essay "Knitted Goods"
    "I love taking what is basically a long string and constructing a three-dimensional object. I love thinking about how somebody figured out how to do that!"
  • Amber A’Lee Frost:
    "It’s not just bad for a person to rely on their weakest skills for survival; it’s unsustainable and immiserating."
  • Michael Che:
    “You know what else makes you do crazy things? Crazy,”
  • August and Annie/Isaiah, "One Last Stop."
    "Does it ever, like...I don't know. Make you lonely? To love somebody who can't meet you there?" "Sometimes. But, you know, that feeling?" When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good."
  • Katie Brennan:
    "The Office taught me that love isn’t always an immediate burst of rainbows and butterflies; sometimes the best kind of love is a quiet, enduring, and steadfast process. When you really love someone, you know they are worth putting in time and effort. Even if you entertain the thought of someone else during the process, i.e. you get yourself a Karen, you know they can’t compare to your person. No amount of time can make that connection fade, so whether it’s consciously or subconsciously, you wait for your stars to align. It might take your company casually hosting a Casino Night, or a heartfelt post it note attached to an Office Olympics “medal,” but eventually your time comes—and when it does, it’s pretty much the best thing ever."
  • Jane Tyson Clement:
    "We don't notice the strange way things come about while they are coming about. It is only afterwards that we see the pattern..."
  • "Candace Kahn," Almost Romance:
    "You can't blow off a good story just because it's challenging."
  • Nick Cave:
    "I prefer to say that I have made, for reasons of survival, a commitment to the uncertain nature of the world. This is where my heart lies. I suspect it always has."
  • Ted Lasso:
    "I love meeting people's moms. It's like reading an instruction manual as to why they're nuts."
  • Ask Amy:
    "My point is that you can lay out your plans, but the world might have other ideas."
  • supercrayon:
    "But I kept thinking there’s a future me a week or a month or a year away that is through this. That future me is not plagued by uncertainty, they know what happened and they’re looking back at how things played out. I liked to think that future me was sending strength and love to present me. Sometimes now, present me in fact does send strength and love back towards past me. Your future selves know what happened. The you of a week or a month from now knows, and has already started to plan your next moves. I hope strength and love are rippling up and down the timeline between yourselves."
  • Christina Long (Washington Post)
    “WHY ARE NONE OF MY INTERESTS WORTH ANYTHING IN DOLLARS,”
  • Michael Diamond:
    “People get frustrated when they can’t see the future,” says Diamond. “The future looks scary if you’re telling them it’s just staying at home for the next 12 to 18 months. You shouldn’t really be that surprised when at least a fraction of them get angry."
  • Seanan McGuire:
    "Please stop trying to solve me. I'm not a problem."
  • Morrie Morgan, in "Work Song" by Ivan Doig:
    "I don't know any cure for being myself. The lotion for that hasn't been concocted yet."
  • Jason Mendoza:
    “Sometimes you just gotta huck a Molotov cocktail at a drone and see what happens.”
  • Augusten Burroughs:
    "But impossible is a concept that makes one's heart laugh and throw peanuts at the television."
  • Augusten Burroughs:
    "Even if things aren't catastrophic now, catastrophe has always followed me. Life unfolds, right? All the time, it's unfolding, and I'm going to follow it."
  • Augusten Burroughs:
    "My life has never really been “happily ever after.” I’ve always had conflict and disaster follow me around like a shadow, and I can’t really believe that will suddenly stop now that I’m happily living in Connecticut with three dogs. We’re just going to have to see."
  • Jacqui:
    “If you have a job where you’re not coming home with stories, it’s time to leave. That simply is our qualification. Healthcare helps. Benefits are nice, but oh my god, how do you not come home with stories? It is the easiest qualification, but it’s true. My feeling is if you don’t have a story, it wasn’t a good day."
  • armeowda:
    "Many people can cast their affections broad and bright as floodlights, but others of us are laser beams, and when something actually trips our attraction/affection sensors it can feel like a certain kind of instant precision strike, and it can leave a mark forever."
  • Stan Tatkin
    "There's actually nothing more difficult on the planet than another person."
  • Lani Diane Rich:
    "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger."
  • Heather Havrilesky:
    "Do they let me write these words because I’m good at it, or do they let me do it because I’m an entertainingly crazy person who is slowly but surely unraveling before 50,000-to-100,000 sets of eyeballs each week?"
  • Justin Peters:
    "The simple lesson that Millionaire taught me is that if you want to change your life—either by winning a lot of money on television or by some more prosaic means—at some point you are going to have to take a risk. Unless you are John Carpenter, you will eventually have to step into the unknown, bet on yourself, and hope that you are making the right decision."
  • Leslie Jones
    "Women are the same as humans."
  • Anne Lamott:
    “If you’re paying attention and making your own life as beautiful and rich and fun as it can be, you might just attract someone who’s doing the same thing,” she said. “You can give up on tracking someone down with your butterfly net.” “Never give up, no matter how things look or how long they take. Don’t quit before the miracle.”
  • Seanan McGuire:
    "If what I say doesn’t help you, ask someone else, until you find the person whose reply tells you how to kick the damn door down."
  • Grangousier:
    "It's 2018. There's a realistic chance of pretty much anything happening if it's ridiculous enough."
  • Joy:
    "I feel a constant low level of stress every day, just by virtue of existing in my environment,"
  • Fancy Feast:
    "When she was on a bad date, she would go to the bathroom, hit her nose until she got a nosebleed, and excuse herself, because it was easier to punch herself in the face than suffer the consequences of rejecting a man."
  • Ber:
    "Get your freak on, screw the powers that would deny you."
  • Lee Bradford:
    "Lee? Why does all this weird shit only seem to happen to you? Well, disembodied voice from nowhere-statistically, it has to happen somewhere."
  • David Neal:
    “Nobody told us that our ‘15 Minutes of Fame’ would include shaming, insults, threats, etc. And that we might not have even asked for it.”

March 28, 2017

Update #58: I have nothing cute for today

TrumpLife:

The Evil Empire:

Possibly off topic: When nations apologize.

I don't even know: Sesame Street’s new “alt-right” Muppet will teach your kids how to spell “cuck”

Video: 

The Resistance:

Posted on March 28, 2017 at 07:44 AM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 27, 2017

You're got a reputation now, boys

Shockingly, women don't want to work at Uber now. Sorry, recruiters! Of course, I don't think women are actually wanted there anyway, so I guess it's no big loss! 

Posted on March 27, 2017 at 09:14 PM in Feminist Chick Talk, Geekitude, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 26, 2017

Update #57: weekend was filled with nothing but GOLF

This is an awesome song:

"The outlook wasn’t brilliant for Republicans that day.
They’d promised for six years that they’d repeal the ACA.
But when the caucus gathered, and they looked from man to man
They knew that not a one of them had ever had a plan.

“I’d counted on a veto,” said a rep from Tennessee.
“The blame Obama always took would fall on Hillary.
Then Pennsylvania went for Trump, and Michigan the same.
And now we run the government, we can’t just play a game.”

Trumpcare:

TrumpLife:

The Evil Empire:

Video: Melissa McCarthy on how her Spicey happened.

The Resistance:

Posted on March 26, 2017 at 11:15 PM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 24, 2017

Update #56: WE STILL HAVE OUR HEALTH CARE! WE STILL HAVE IT!

I finished my doll and here it is, shaken, not stirred. Note tape for extra long tie. 

TrumpCare:

TrumpTrucks:

TrumpLife:

The Evil Empire:

Video:

Washington Post:

The Resistance:

Posted on March 24, 2017 at 10:00 PM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

Update #55: stall! stall! stall!

The mind-boggling past 24 hours in politics, explained 

We could just use that title over and over again EVERY DAY.

DIFFERENT! OH NO!

RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!

TRUMPCARE:

TRUMPTRUCKS:

Other TrumpLife:

The Evil Empire:

Fear and loathing:

Washington Post:

Video: A Closer Look

The Resistance:

Posted on March 24, 2017 at 07:38 AM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 23, 2017

Update #54: bring on the squirrels 'cause this is nuts.

Lowestlevel

TrumpLand:

TrumpCare:

The Evil Empire:

Russia:

Fear and loathing:

Television:

Washington Post:

  • Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show: "A person familiar with internal Secret Service budget discussions said the requests for additional funding, prepared in late February, were rejected by the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House. That means the agency will likely have to divert other spending to handle the additional burden."
    Before taking office, Trump repeatedly criticized the cost of President Barack Obama’s travel, saying the fact that Obama’s trips were “costing taxpayers millions of dollars” was “unbelievable.” During the campaign, Trump pledged to save public money by working diligently in Washington and skipping out on expensive travel.
    “There’s no time for vacation. We’re not going to be big on vacations,” Trump said at a campaign rally last year. “The White House is this incredible place. It represents so much, and you’re there for a limited period of time. If you’re at the White House and you have so much work to do, why do you fly? Why do you leave so much?”
    The Secret Service has struggled through years of budget short­ages and low morale. Former Secret Service agents said tightening budgets have hit agents hard and that, unlike other agencies, the Secret Service can’t travel less or staff fewer people to keep costs down because full protection for the first family is guaranteed."
  • Trump’s visits to Mar-a-Lago are stretching Palm Beach’s budget and locals’ patience:  “We can’t even get UPS deliveries. Every time this happens, it sets us back four days. Customers don’t want to wait that long.”
  • Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why.: "Three of the airlines that have been targeted for these measures — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — have long been accused by their U.S. competitors of receiving massive effective subsidies from their governments. These airlines have been quietly worried for months that President Trump was going to retaliate. This may be the retaliation. These three airlines, as well as the other airlines targeted in the order, are likely to lose a major amount of business from their most lucrative customers — people who travel in business class and first class. Business travelers are disproportionately likely to want to work on the plane — the reason they are prepared to pay business-class or first-class fares is because it allows them to work in comfort. These travelers are unlikely to appreciate having to do all their work on smartphones, or not being able to work at all. The likely result is that many of them will stop flying on Gulf airlines, and start traveling on U.S. airlines instead."
  • Donald Trump keeps getting things wrong. And there’s not much we can do about it. "Trump understands that the punitive consequences for continuing to insist that he was wiretapped are relatively minimal. And so he will keep doing it."
  • Why does Trump keep making promises he can’t keep? The secret lies in his past. "I’d argue that the answer lies in Trump’s unique experience as a businessman. In his particular corner of the business world, you really can create wealth just by managing public perception — or at least he could. This was the theory of his entire career, that by fashioning a public persona that was as much of a caricature of wealth and success as Scrooge McDuck, he could turn himself into the picture he was painting. The more people saw Donald Trump as the embodiment of wealth, the more they would want to invest in his projects and buy his products, which would in turn make him wealthier. Making ridiculous promises and outright lying were all part of creating the image; one of my favorite examples is how Trump Tower is 58 stories high, but he numbered the floors up to 68 so that everyone would think it was taller than it is."
  • The Wall Street Journal editorial board just went off on Donald Trump: “The president clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims,”
  • Pat McCrory says would-be employers think ‘he’s a bigot’ — so Samantha Bee fixed his résumé 

The Resistance:

  • Man who attended 45 rallies now opposes Trump
  • I Was A Hardcore Conservative: What Changed My Mind
  • Will Trump be impeached – or is it just a liberal fantasy?
  • Hawaii Republican resigns from party after criticizing Trump: "As a Japanese-American whose grandparents had to destroy all of their Japanese artifacts and items and bury them in the backyard to avoid getting taken and interned, how could I not have said anything?" Fukumoto asked. "And how could my party have not said anything?"
  • "we have had presidents who were in favor of open, widespread chattel slavery. We have had presidents who were vocally indifferent to widespread lynching. And before we do that whole "but the police, but the prisons, don't you know that the present is just as bad as the past" - back in those days the police and prisons were also terrible and brutal, and the slavery, sweatshops and imprisonment of dissidents were on top of that. We've had presidents who supported the direct exterminations of Native people by the military.
    What's happening now isn't unprecedented, and it isn't the end of the American project. History is long. Tyrants fall. These people have not installed a thousand year reich, however much they would like to.
    And again, throughout the Americas people have endured the terrible regimes foisted on them by the United States and its collaborators. Some of the most heroic people of the 20th century were the people who resisted those regimes - from Archbishop Romero to Victor Jara to the many less famous.
    US people and others have fought against tyrannical regimes on these continents. They endured terrible things but they didn't give up or go silent.
    The Republicans' day will come and their fall will be a hard one. If you were an American in 1900, you wouldn't have believed in the events of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties - the struggles for racial, gender and labor justice that were fought and won during those times. You might recognize 2017 and regret that things had come to this, but that doesn't invalidate the victories of the past.
    We may not be able to be permanently victorious, but these people, they will fall - it may take time, but they're not immortal tyrants. Trump is old and he may not live to see it, but many of the Republicans in power today will be alive to witness ourvictories, when we undo everything they've built and take their power away."

Posted on March 23, 2017 at 07:43 AM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 22, 2017

Update #53: well, I've been out of town and then sick for a few days, how about you?

Time for a roundup of all the shit I've missed! I haven't puked in a few hours and I got dressed, so I'm declaring myself recovered! Huzzah? 

Trumpchicken

"“You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”

TrumpLand:

Trumpcat.

The Evil Empire:

Russia:

TrumpCare:

 Fear and loathing:

Town halls:

  • Bernie Sanders's town hall in “Trump Country” revealed a longing for a past that never was
  • Vote him out!
  • Anatomy Of A GOP Town Hall (It's Not Pretty): "The story this morning is that Rep. Dave Trott, Republican from the Detroit area, had a "rowdy" town hall typical of town halls this year. But there is more to the story and it's worth watching because you will see this story unfold again and again:

    1. Republican congressman does everything possible to avoid holding a town hall. Dave Trott hasn't held a town hall in over 2 years. He even spent a week designated on the Congressional calendar as "district work week" on a fact-finding tour of India.

    2. Republican congressman gets shamed by his constituents, who have learned how to do media. These smart ladies held a "Trott-less town hall" with a live chicken to point out Trott's cowardice:

    3. Republican congressman finds the most inconvenient venue and time to hold a town hall. Hundreds more than hall can hold show up anyway. Trott held his one hour after dawn. In a snowstorm. 
    4. Republican congressman's town hall goes as you might expect.

    5. Republican congressman's town tall ends and in this case Republican staffers are caught on a hot mic planning how to make those constituents look "un-American" because they booed defense spending.

    And of course Trott has already been shown claiming that protestors are paid, not his constituents, and don't represent the real voters.

    6. The Daily Caller and other right wing media sites are happy to pick up on the Republican congressman's framing:

    7. Republican Congressman runs off to Fox News for some tender loving care. Same talking point.

Television:

  • Last Week Tonight. And more. 
  • A Closer Look.
  • Jussie Smollett drops the F-bomb in song.
  • The Boy From Mar-A-Lago.
  • Shut it, Tim Allen.
  • James Corden does a Matilda/Trump mashup. Especially funny to me since I just saw that musical. 
  • Trevor Noah is bailed on.
  • When Sesame Street made fun of Trump.
  • Melissa McCarthy is taking notes.
  • Japanese wrestling has its own Donald Trump storyline, and it is getting extremely weird: "Believe it or not, this is not the first match of that kind to be held in Japan, although the rules of previous Anus Explosion matches were a little different. Traditionally, the match only ends when one wrestler is able to set off a firework in the other wrestler’s ass. In this case, some poor sap who wasn’t even in the match, which was held this last night in Japan, had to take the anus explosion. And yes, DDT has provided video of the ass blast, if you’re curious enough to watch:" And I am ashamed of myself for watching it. So ashamed.
  • Iron Fist raises the question, is Danny Rand the Donald Trump of superheroes? "We’re only three months into Donald Trump’s presidency and it’s already cliché to frame TV and film criticism within the framework of “Trump’s America.” Yet there’s one scene in this episode during which I couldn’t help but think of The Donald. As Joy gets Danny to open up about his time in K’un-Lun, he describes his journey to becoming the Iron Fist:

    When I got to the monastery post-crash, I learned of a certain position. A powerful, important job and I wanted it… Everyone there, and I mean everyone, said there was no way a xiaoguilao like me could do it… [But being called an outsider] just made me want the job more. The problem was I never thought through why I wanted this job. I mistook my stubborn will for a sense of destiny or something. I never counted the cost of what it would actually mean for my life.

    If you had to sum up Trump’s road to the presidency, you couldn’t do it more eloquently than Danny does. But like Star Trek Beyond before it, Iron Fist seems to think there’s something eminently relatable in the idea of almost accidentally achieving all of your dreams and then feeling dissatisfied and bored by your success. And perhaps for some people that is a relatable problem. But I’d wager that for most people, particularly those who have a harder path to walk in life (you know, those who don’t start out with small million dollar loans from their parents), it’s a fairly privileged problem to have.

    But on a purely metaphorical level, Danny’s disinterest in the Iron Fist position he bullheadedly fought for couldn’t be more potent."

The Resistance:

 

Posted on March 22, 2017 at 07:41 AM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 21, 2017

When you have nowhere to go

"Ultimately, these statistics point to one harrowing truth: Women's safety is either a privilege or an accident of fate, and not a fundamental right. They show that British nationals, and white women, are far more likely to be able to turn to a refuge in order to leave an abusive partner. It shows that the street you happen to live on could literally determine whether you live or die."

On a somewhat related note....

"Now—because literally feeding the mother of your child to a pack of dogs is apparently not such a bad thing in the world of professional sport—de Souza has been signed to Boa Esporte, a second-divison club, for two years."

Posted on March 21, 2017 at 09:17 PM in Feminist Chick Talk, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 17, 2017

Update #52: top of the evening to ya!

Stpatrickwasanimmigrant

TrumpLife and Awesome Tremendous International Relations and Holiday Hell!!

TrumpCare:

The Evil Empire:

Fear and loathing:

Washington Post:

Humor!

The Resistance:

Posted on March 17, 2017 at 11:37 PM in Current Events and News, Holiday Hell, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

March 16, 2017

Update #51: watch this dog hump a Trump doll in the face

Whitedudefired

Trump Life:

The Evil Empire:

Fear and loathing:

Special McDonald's Hacking Section!

Town halls:

  • Ami Bera's town hall was interesting. "This has put him in a difficult position. Bera is often seen as taking positions based upon polling results rather than what he thinks is best for the country. Being in a district that is fairly equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, Bera wanted to focus on his ability to “reach across the aisle.” But most people attending the town hall would be more comfortable reaching across the aisle with an uppercut to the chin instead of a handshake. In this time of polarization, neither Democrats nor Republicans believe Bera is on their side."

Washington Post:

  • Why is the Trump presidency such a rolling disaster?
  • This is what it’s like answering all those phone calls to Congress: "But with every phone call from a concerned constituent, every tweet in support of our shared resistance, every protest sign held by someone who demands dignity for all, I feel a renewed confidence in the resilience of our democracy. Their activism gives me hope. Their resolve gives me strength. And hopefully, hearing a live voice on the other end of the phone rather than a voice-mail message does a little of the same for them."
  • Trump reacts to Rachel Maddow scoop: ‘You’re not supposed to have it’
  • Liberals are learning to love states’ rights: "The United States could not, indeed, survive half-slave and half-free. We certainly could survive if our states’ social models were half-red and half-blue — or one-third red, one-third blue, one-third purple. We might even flourish....Neither Blue America nor Red America really wants to break up. We just need to give each other some space."
  • I tried to watch as much ‘Fox & Friends’ as the president. Here’s what I learned. "Fifteen hours into this experiment, we realize that the trouble with “what does it feel like to watch eleventy billion hours of ‘Fox & Friends’ ” is that is presumes we all feel the same things, or start from the same place, or have much common ground at all. If you are already a connoisseur of the show, then bingeing it will feel both reassuring and entirely unremarkable: a place where Trump is finally getting a fair shake, and people are finally able to call the mainstream media out on their piles of B.S. by saying things that need to be said. If you’re not, it will feel like a parallel universe where up is down, and down is backward, and two plus two equals purple. Which isn’t surprising. We increasingly live in a choose-your-own-facts society. If you are worried about your job, your health care, your safety, you might choose whichever news source made you feel the most justified in your beliefs. If you were a president whose most recent approval rating was 39 percent, you might do the same thing. If, on the other hand, you are trying to watch “Fox & Friends” merely as an anthropological exercise, then what you’ll think of it is that they are masters of tone and delivery. The show is an object lesson on how you can say the darnedest things, so long as you do them in a sunny-side-up way. “Fox & Friends” is much more pleasant to watch than MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” for example, where the host’s smirking indignation wears old and starts to feel like a stress test delivered via the television. It’s also more pleasant than CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” where opposing views are lobbed back and forth like tennis balls: Kayleigh McEnany to Van Jones to Kayleigh McEnany to — oops, the ball has gone wild and Jeffrey Lord is chasing it. If Rachel Maddow is faux outrage, then “Fox & Friends” is faux peacemaking, wondering why the other side persists in being so mean, while casually throwing frosting-coated grenades over the fence. Opposing viewpoints are piped in infrequently, and usually in discrete sound bites (a clip of Bernie Sanders railing against the proposed health-care plan) that can then be dismissed without having to delve too deeply into unpleasant arguing."
  • Justin Trudeau took Ivanka Trump to a Broadway play about (ahem) being kind to strangers
  • "I am born here and I don’t like the way you are treating her,” Tong tells the woman. “We are all in this together. Whether you like what’s going on in the government or not, f— it, you got to deal with it. You are a grown woman.”

Video:

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The Resistance:

Posted on March 16, 2017 at 11:45 PM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | | Comments (0)

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