It’s hand-drawn, just mocking GenAI pics.

Though AI pics sometimes still have trouble with text.

Me, staring down an oncoming semi as I cross the street to establish dominance

After having my body break, I learned both that I was more attached to my former body than I thought, and became acutely aware of how tied up my identity was with my new, broken body.

… it’s a strange way to acquire an emotional understanding of identity and one’s own body. Would not recommend. Take a philosophy class like a normal person, you’ll be happier for it, I promise.

EGGS

Rare Iran W.

Latin words have so many declensions, it’s nightmarish.

That sounds like Gr*ek talk!

Explanation: A rare bit of OC from me modifying the “Just as the Founding Fathers intended” copypasta.

“Mehercules” is “By Hercules!”, a common Roman exclamation. A gladius is a Roman shortsword, made for stabbing, but as incidents against Greek troops demonstrate, also very capable of lopping off limbs with hacks and slashes. A pilum is a javelin. “Ubi mel, ibi apes” means “Where there’s honey, there’s bees!” A scorpio is a small artillery piece generally used for firing bolts, but sometimes used for specialist ammunition like pots filled with flammable material. Vigiles were Roman town watch/firefighters, and in the city of Rome itself, they actually did maintain some catapults for the purpose of quickly demolishing burning buildings in especially fire-prone areas. Better to lose one building than the whole block! A pugio is a Roman military dagger.

“Conscript Fathers” is another name for the Roman Senate, as the idea was that the Senate was comprised of men who were elderly (and thus the fathers in their household) and regardless of whether or not they willed it. In theory. In practice, becoming a Senator was pretty highly desired, but the Romans did love their false modesty regarding power. “No, no, I couldn’t POSSIBLY accept a position of authority… unless… you were to insist… 👉👈🥺”

If you lean towards descriptivism, it would be extremely strange to tell another group that their word with citable usage isn’t real.

If you lean towards prescriptivism, then Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary.

Brian doesn’t have a leg to stand on for either side.

Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary, and Brian is trying to correct them on what is and is not a word.

That’s how the world should be treating us. Fuck us.

[checks my profile pic]

All bets are off, man. “It couldn’t happen here” is an old and tired refrain, I’m afraid.

Government assistance. Luckily I live in a blue state, so getting several major bills subsidized for being a filthy poor helps me eat regularly and not worry too much about turning the heat above 50 in the winter.

Some lunacy about the LGBT menace throwing sex in their face or something like that, it was pretty incoherent in addition to being atrocious.

You can’t romance the Sister of Battle, 0/10, literally unplayable

“It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

Situation: [gets worse]

Me, a Classics enjoyer, immediately suspecting someone of fascism when they have a Graeco-Roman bust pfp:

Me when I have a loaf of good bread in the house

God, I should ration it, but…

I’m a grown-ass man…

No one is stopping me from making this my Meal For The Day…

No clue. Some people online are just off their rockers.