Is there a way to gift a subscription/membership to someone? I can just enter their address for the delivery, but there’re lots of other membership benefits they wouldn’t get because they’d be on “my” account 🤔

It’s hilarious that this warped little creep has arranged things such that he has a credible excuse to sit and listen to trans women pinching off loaves from the next cubicle, all while he’s reporting his porn usage to his son via his iChrist app. He’s definitely someone we want making policy around genitalia.

I’m sure this totally unprecedented plan is nothing to worry about. It’s not as though history is replete with similar plans that went awry.

I’m sure that, once concentrated into this one location, the people being deported will be safe and sound and free of disease and well-fed. And when no country agrees to take them in, I’m sure they’ll just continue to be well-cared for in the encampment and there won’t be any problem and certainly there won’t be any spurious stories of riots or uprisings that need to be put down and which sadly result in the killing of pretty much all of the immigrants being held there. It will be fine. This is all fine and very, very normal.

Here’s a related occupation, but significantly less ‘glamorous’ 😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_farmer

Wish they’d do another run of the OG Steam Controller. I love it, but finding replacements is a costly business these days. Can’t even send it in for repair because they don’t produce the parts anymore.

I remember hearing that the basic form of pretty much all animals is that of a worm. Mouth at one end, chucklet dispenser at the other end. Everything in between is just busywork and weird penises.

Woke really does just mean “anything that suggests any adjustment whatsoever to my pre-installed beliefs, behaviours or feelings”. I would assume the Daily Mail would also consider uninstalling McAfee Anti-virus from a new Dell desktop to be “woke”.

Also fails to mention mastery of nunchucks?

It’s the path of least resistance to achieve Musklessness. The second two of the positives you listed are actually negatives to the average Joe. Choice paralysis, overwhelming number of apps and servers, these are things that put people off even trying, especially if there are easier-to-use alternatives that are familiar and instant.

Mastodon is great, but it’s not quite there yet in terms of convenience. Too much copying and pasting and clicking through to different instances in order to read old posts etc. It needs to be more cohesive in a way that doesn’t require constantly leaving your timeline or going into the settings.

It’s also the case that the Twitter diaspora who are famous tend to choose BlueSky, and that brings a lot of people along with them.

And it’s also the case that Mastodon doesn’t have much of a marketing campaign outside of word-of-mouth, whereas BlueSky does.

How does the old saying go? Sex offenders flock together?

Preserving good old games!

Asterisk: Unless the CCP don’t like it, in which case it can go fuck itself.

I would comfortably bet my life that this man is a sexual sadist who would tear up if he were tutted at by an elderly bus driver for trying to pay a $1.30 fare with a ten dollar bill.

Haha bless 'em. He’s a handsome chap!

I guess people really do want fascism. We talk about it like it’s an obviously-awful thing, but apparently most Americans disagree. Most people around the world seem to disagree, in fact. We laugh about the idiots voting for Trump, but far right lunatics are gaining positions of power all over the planet. It’s not just Fox News-fed Americans.

It feels like we’re building up to something catastrophic.

How to explain away the signs of rough gay sex to your wife.

Another instance where the prison system is used as a warehouse for the mentally ill.

Being delusional, disconnected conservatives, they don’t realise that cunty is a compliment these days.

The jokes were the least-offensive thing about that fucking rally.

It should be pointed out that had the Holocaust and WWII not happened, Nazi Germany was still an unmitigated nightmare that no one but the Nazis themselves were enjoying very much. There were and are plenty of authoritarian and fascist states where genocides don’t happen, but which are nevertheless hell on earth for everyone who’s not a functionary of the state.

So even if you think it’s hyperbole to worry about extermination camps in the US, there’s absolutely nothing hyperbolic about a dystopian state coming into existence in which dissent and difference are crimes. Donald Trump and his band of dead-eyed sadists like Stephen Miller will do whatever they can in a second Trump term to bring such a state to you.

Nazi comparisons are completely justified.

At what point do we treat this as the hostage situation it really is and do something about it?