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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Incels were a group of young men who were very easy to manipulate to further ingrain chauvinistic, pro-patriarchy norms. Objectifying women and treating sex like a birthright.

    This was a stepping stone to swing them conservative and support Trump.

    It’s pretty obvious now in retrospect. What ever happened with Cambridge Analytica, again?






  • Birth is pretty traumatic for babies to begin with.

    You start off on this dark, warm room. Floating in a little bubble of fluid. All you’ve ever known.

    Then all of a sudden the bubble is gone. It’s slowly draining. Either it popped on its own, or worse, somebody poked it with a crochet hook (I know the real medical tool isn’t a crochet hook but that’s legit what it looks like).

    You’re squeezing headfirst through a hole smaller in size than a CD. And as soon as they see your smushy little skull they are putting a sticker on it to watch your heart rate.

    It’s bright, it’s cold, it’s dry, and it’s loud. The complete polar opposite of everything you’ve ever known. You have to start breathing and then you can’t stop or you die, but nobody tells you that right away. Someone slaps your butt and someone else cuts your blood tube to mom.

    No wonder they come out screaming.

    And that’s a typical, uncomplicated birth. Let’s not talk about suction cups or forceps or cesareans.


  • I don’t think they know Massachusetts.

    I, a cis white male, was at the dollar store and there was a black woman behind me buying a bunch of SpongeBob candy. She’s doing a trunk or treat tonight at her work, she works at a center for autistic kids. And the cashier, a trans man from Virginia, shared his stories of trunk-or-treats and cakewalks. And she told me a story about one of her kids at the center who loves SpongeBob and got her to do the theme. And I shared my story of how my wife and I dressed as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy for Halloween a few years ago.

    I never heard of a cakewalk before, but that’s beside the point.

    The thing is, I don’t think you’d have a conversation with that particular arrangement of people be so friendly and wholesome in Virginia, at a dollar store of all places.








  • Man I want to replace my 2 cycle backpack blower now.

    My handheld (Ryobi 20v, meh) is alright for cleaning the driveway or the deck, but if I want to actually move leaves around the heard, it’s weak.

    I love my ego mower and my ego snowblower (although I only had one season with it so far and I think we got a total of 3 inches of snow, so…yea). An ego backpack blower would be tits.

    Edit: holy shit those are expensive. But man I keep having to dump oil/gas mix because I can’t possibly use it up before it goes bad and the blower loses all its gusto. But pre-mix is ridiculously expensive (but works sooo much better).




  • Generally not a concern unless you are a high profile target.

    If they could do that, they would likely be making more money from an honest living than they would breaking into homes in suburbia.

    Most burglary and b&e is a crime of opportunity. Getting an easy target. What you’re talking about about is the stuff of fantasy…the way Hollywood warps our perception of crime.

    Why go through the trouble of hacking your security system and unlocking your door…when the neighbors house doesn’t even have motion lights?

    For every Danny Ocean, there’s million Tyrone Biggums.