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tacocat  ·  208 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August, 2023

Yo.

tacocat  ·  305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have important things to say about addiction

You’re going to wipe out any progress if you get all mad is probably my point. I’m not going through that but I have and it’s bad

tacocat  ·  504 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk is melting down Twitter

I encourage anyone without an account to find a way to watch Twitter go down because Musk has enabled some truly funny ways

I've seen verified Ted Cruz say he tastes his children and verified Dave Chapelle say he now respects trans women. Real shit show

I badged you also at one point in my absence FWIW

tacocat  ·  504 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk is melting down Twitter

Bitch about the run rate on a company that everyone knows makes no money, my good bitch

tacocat  ·  1302 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: We are in the midst of a Hubski experiment.

Are you tired of this place and trying to drive out the few remaining users?

Think I might be done until you stop this

I love Robert Evans. This podcast isn't dissimilar to his work but it does have some sympathy for the Bundy family. Or at least doesn't paint them as out and out assholes. It explains their grievances. But the second season is pretty much just about white nationalists and how the Bundy occupation and Ruby Ridge have influenced them

Thanks for the response

tacocat  ·  1329 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: About that Georgia high school photo

Update

The suspension was lifted. But still

The psychology of a person who wants to be a police officer is the psychology of a person who wants to have a legal mandate to inflict harm. They're in hog heaven right now

I don't know if I've told this story here before in as many details but my ex's ex husband successfully bullied her back into a marriage through stalking and property destruction. He found a couple pictures I'd taken of their dogs while at the house he got in a no contest divorce in a group of like 200 pictures on an unpopular photo license website. He committed felony property destruction that included destroying prescription medicine and eyeglasses after finding out I was still in a relationship with his ex wife. He's likely run illegal background checks on me. Just complete psycho shit

tacocat  ·  1399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Some of those who work forces, are the same who burn crosses

I'm voting for Killer Mike for Georgia Supreme Court because all the actual options suck ass and write shit like this

https://www.amazon.com/Resurrecting-Lee-HAL-Moroz/dp/1502526220/ref=nodl_

tacocat  ·  1421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

A black Facebook friend called out all his white friends for none of us "posting the video of the kid who got shot yesterday." I assumed he was talking about Arbery. Like a fucking idiot I tried to tell him in so many words that I was different. Then I had an oh shit moment. He was talking about this

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-reed-killed-in-indianapolis-police-shooting-that-may-have-been-broadcast-on-facebook?ref=home

I feel like shit now and don't know how to address it. Like I can't even keep up with the number of black men the police kill in this country. Since I live in Georgia and Arbery is getting so much attention it might seem like a good excuse. But I don't think I should have to tell someone I know that I didn't notice the black guy that got killed because I was distracted by the other black guy who got killed a while back.

He said it's "pussy shit" that we don't want to upset racist aunt Karen. I don't know if I care much at all about Facebook. I'll probably post the Daily Beast article and still feel bad that I tried to say I was different from the other people who didn't post about the story

tacocat  ·  1443 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 15, 2020

Oh no! Trumpbucks have gone international. He's unstoppable!

tacocat  ·  1452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v4.25 - April 6, 2020

Hell, you can pour into sand. I helped melt a lot of things in college but I try not to give casting advice on the internet because it's dangerous and I'm not an expert on the finer points. Wanna see an arrogant graduate student cause small explosions inside a large mold filmed with a potato?

tacocat  ·  1454 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The free market and small gov't aren't really going too swell, huh

Libertarians should have to bid on paper towels and toilet paper in auctions based on local scarcity. Invisible hand, rational actors and all that will determine prices fairly

tacocat  ·  1462 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Breadwatch 17: The Meatbread Strikes Back

I was defeated in an argument with a Salvadoran who said tortillas aren't bread

"tortilla is tortilla."

Really a foolproof argument. I realized I lost a long time later.

I don't know where all this bread talk is coming from. Just reminded me of losing a dumb playful argument about the definition of flat bread that I was sure I won before it began

Sorry. I'm kinda checked out lately. I'm sure your bread is delicious

Might show off my loaves of stale white bread in the future

Can they go stale before molding? Like rock hard? Science must know

tacocat  ·  1799 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, A Hired Desk And A Handful Of Clothes

I heard this on the radio and it wasn't described with enough horror. I can't believe there's a a large number of people like the guy in the story who are pleased to rent a bed in a flop house and own two outfits

tacocat  ·  1800 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 24, 2019

I found an intersection of my education in art and my interest in far left politics. I always knew Gustave Courbet as the self aggrandizing prick who compared himself to God and made a painting of a close-up pussy and called it "The Origin of the World". Apparently he was also one of the first anarchists and was involved in the Paris Commune, the first communist revolution. There doesn't seem to be much if any writing about Courbet from a leftist perspective easily available. Might fuck around and make a blog post about French Realism and the beginnings of socialism.

Pubski is good because we can write about stupid shit we're into once a week without it being its own post. Yall might have to ignore my blog post if I get around to it. Sorry in advance

tacocat  ·  1807 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 17, 2019

Nothing interesting has happened to me in about a year. By interesting I mean catastrophic. This after being arrested four times in 18 or so months and sleeping in the woods behind a grocery store for several days at one point. Part of me wants to give a full rundown of October 2016 to June 2018 and a larger part thinks that's some form of weird bragging about how bad I let my life get. There's also a big narrative hole in the beginning of September 2017 because I don't remember what the fuck happened

One of the victims says Alan Dershowitz raped her and I don't know why this isn't a big story

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/trump-defender-alan-dershowitz-deeply-involved-sordid-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/

tacocat  ·  1973 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Post Malone sucks

Say what you will about Post Malone but at least he's not an objectivist.

tacocat  ·  1976 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which LolBrooks asks after the angry white guy with the gun

    There’s always a pile of bodies at these massacre sites.

Really opened with a winner this time.

    Most of us are part of the problem we complain about.

Yes, you are, David.

    Most of us live in insular media and social bubbles that provide us with Pravda-like affirmations of our own moral superiority.

And some of us are just a tiny bit self-aware.

Two out of five. Needs more examples of his disconnection from humanity

Edit:

tacocat  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 3, 2018

Ya did good!

    Don't be afraid to speak up.

    Even if your voice shakes.

- A bumper sticker I saw a long time ago

tacocat  ·  2009 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 26, 2018

I sold a drawing I had in an exhibition. For like ten dollars in the end but it's still pretty neat.

tacocat  ·  2015 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The FBI Mysteriously Close New Mexico Observatory
tacocat  ·  2016 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 19, 2018

There was an actual Tacocat:

And thank you

tacocat  ·  2019 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, how have the past 2 years been for you people?

I also don't know where to start. I was homeless or in rehab for like 11 of the past 24 months

tacocat  ·  2024 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 12, 2018

The depression has keyed up. Depression impairs my ability to do things that make me feel good so I don't do them so I feel worse so I don't do things that make me feel good because depression impairs my ability to do those things so I don't do them and I end up struggling to decide if I'd rather eat or sleep because I need to do those things but they become hard because they make me feel good but sleeping is hard right now because it's 1PM but eating requires getting out of bed which sucks so fuck all of humanity. What did you assholes ever do for me? I'm gonna watch YouTube videos about the Hulk until I have to pee, then I might have a drink and then return to bed to think about things that I'm not doing that would make me feel better which will prevent me from sleeping, another thing that might make me feel better because it's not something I'm doing very well right now. "I thought Bruce Banner died during Civil War 2, a terrible event miniseries I'm aware of in passing! Better waste time on this mystery!"

...hours later...

I guess I'll eat some Chef Boyardee because I ended up watching a video about him somehow after trying to figure out if She Hulk actually had sex with Juggernaut.

tacocat  ·  2030 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars

I would think, possibly incorrectly, that people like Jones who are in media know the difference between the First Amendment and the concept of freedom of speech. The difference being government and companies regulating speech. Random assholes on the internet sometimes do not and that's the Infowars audience: idiots. They have this slippery slope argument with an end point being< "We can't start our own Twitter. No one will go there." The free market says, "For good reason." Jones & Co know it. Internet libertarians fail to see the flaw in their own argument or are willfully intellectually dishonest.

Sure you know all that. It's just kinda surreal to type it out because a minority of people are just that stupid.

tacocat  ·  2031 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 5, 2018

I've been too broke to buy food at several points recently. From about 10-3 is the only time I can expect to leave my apartment without being stuck in ridiculous traffic. And the grocery stores here are crazy busy if I don't go during that time window. I really need to move to a different living situation

The Big Bang Theory is a nerd minstrel show.

I don't expect this to be controversial here.

Joss Whedon writes annoying dialogue

That may be more controversial

tacocat  ·  2063 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Conspiracies are hard. They're even harder when you're stupid."

LOL The writer is a republican strategist. And hey, I like the purpleness of the prose.

NPR covered this bullshit yesterday.

Reporter: Why do you believe this person?

Rube: Trump shows he's aware of it in public statements after Q posts clues

Reporter: Can you give an example?

Every rube:...no...

I hope whoever invented this is shitting himself in uncontrollable laughter right now