Mostly_Gristle

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." - Benito Mussolini

Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. Both the books and the radio shows.

I caught the cat eating thing, and the post-birth abortion thing. I must have been too distracted by the Venezuelan gangs that are supposed to have taken over my city to catch the other stuff.

Did I miss the news cycle where Democrats started dismembering children?

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime

That's why I poop on company time

You should watch the actual Only Connect show (a lot of them are up on YouTube). It's absolutely bonkers what some of the players are able to figure out. You'll be like, who are these people, and what laboratory were they grown in? How the fuck did they get that? But after you watch enough episodes you actually start to get the hang of it and start solving them yourself. A lot of the time just knowing that there's definitely a connection is more of a clue than you might think at first.

Historically, the people who say, "Some folks need killing," usually turn out to be the folks who actually need killing.

If we're going to be running minor celebrities for the Irish presidency, the only real choice is Blindboy Boatclub.

He's taken many too many blows to the head. Listen to interviews with him early in his career and compare them to his interviews now. The level of brain damage he's endured is pretty obvious.

Bring back OK Soda or there's nothing to discuss.

Did the mushroom learn to control a robot, or did the scientists figure out how to connect a robot to a mushroom in such a way as to make the regular processes happening inside the mushroom trigger a set of robot legs? Because the article makes it seem like the mushroom is intelligent and has agency, and was thus far only lacking the proper robot body in order to express that; but the video makes it look like the legs were all pumping in unison, and the resulting movement was more or less coincidental.

I read that title like three or four times before I finally realized it didn't say "formed an alliance as a paramilitary group."