DutchMissourian
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He/Him. Dual citizen. Somehow ended up in Fryslân. Loves films, books, games, American sports. Trying to relearn how to ride a bike.
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Wow we wouldn't have used infant formula if only we knew there was a free God made one. Why didn't our OB/GYN or pediatrician explain this to us?!
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Wow we wouldn't have used infant formula if only we knew there was a free God made one. Why didn't our OB/GYN or pediatrician explain this to us?!
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Every time you talk to someone about "what we did before" things like commercially available formula the answer is "babies died" (or suffered nutritional deficiencies, or or). I can tell you every household manual from the 19th c back has recipes for replacements for breast milk. Not a new issue.
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Every time you talk to someone about "what we did before" things like commercially available formula the answer is "babies died" (or suffered nutritional deficiencies, or or). I can tell you every household manual from the 19th c back has recipes for replacements for breast milk. Not a new issue.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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Disney bought two of the biggest IP brands there is and after lots of success managed to get them stuck in the mud
It's very funny to me how many billionaires suddenly want a media brand and a creative enterprise. Do you realize how fucking hard they are to run? Even the companies that are very good at it (Disney), make mistakes that take a decade or more to correct.
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Disney bought two of the biggest IP brands there is and after lots of success managed to get them stuck in the mud
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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If you are addicted to heroin you can have your blood tested to help you manage the health risks. But if you are a child trying to access healthcare, in line with international norms, Wes Streeting's position is that you "must" be treated worse.
The Times yesterday, on how trans kids, denied the healthcare they need, are buying black market hormones.
Of course, this is *exactly* what everyone said would happen. And its risks are dramatically amplified by Streeting telling GPs they must stop offering blood tests.
Of course, this is *exactly* what everyone said would happen. And its risks are dramatically amplified by Streeting telling GPs they must stop offering blood tests.
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If you are addicted to heroin you can have your blood tested to help you manage the health risks. But if you are a child trying to access healthcare, in line with international norms, Wes Streeting's position is that you "must" be treated worse.
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this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
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One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
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Maar dit dus, mensen. Het hele idee dat je iets wel over iemand zou moeten kunnen zeggen wat je vind dat Wilders niet mag, puur omdat diegene niet voldoet aan jouw eisen, is gewoon racisme.
Zien mensen dat niet ofzo?
Dat racisme óók racisme is wanneer het slachtoffer een abject karakter heeft?
En dat racisme een begrip is voor 'discriminatie op afkomst of etniciteit', ongeacht dat er inderdaad geen rassen bestaan, maar die discriminatie volop aanwezig is?
Dat racisme óók racisme is wanneer het slachtoffer een abject karakter heeft?
En dat racisme een begrip is voor 'discriminatie op afkomst of etniciteit', ongeacht dat er inderdaad geen rassen bestaan, maar die discriminatie volop aanwezig is?
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Maar dit dus, mensen. Het hele idee dat je iets wel over iemand zou moeten kunnen zeggen wat je vind dat Wilders niet mag, puur omdat diegene niet voldoet aan jouw eisen, is gewoon racisme.
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Had to explain to a 20 year old medical student what "try the link in a different browser" meant. God help us all.
For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.
What we say is their kids know the tech of a phone. If it’s not on the phone they struggle
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Had to explain to a 20 year old medical student what "try the link in a different browser" meant. God help us all.
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The main fact that stuck with me after writing a book about British Xmases is that The Times was complaining about decorations going up in October back in the *1930s*, Selfridges has had decorations up in Oct since at least the 1950s and the whole “earlier every year” thing is generally bollocks
Middle class people love to pretend to be appalled at Christmas decorations being either early or fun to look at, the ideal Christmas tree is put up at midnight on Christmas day and decorated only by a black cloak and an unlit matchstick
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The main fact that stuck with me after writing a book about British Xmases is that The Times was complaining about decorations going up in October back in the *1930s*, Selfridges has had decorations up in Oct since at least the 1950s and the whole “earlier every year” thing is generally bollocks
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The Mean watching the Chiefs win go like 173-2 in one-score games over their dynasty run
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Mean watching the Chiefs win go like 173-2 in one-score games over their dynasty run
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With the twin tools of revolutionary optimism (I believe that we will win) and revolutionary defeatism (it’s good that bad things happen to me as a person in the imperial core) I am immune to all attacks
January 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
With the twin tools of revolutionary optimism (I believe that we will win) and revolutionary defeatism (it’s good that bad things happen to me as a person in the imperial core) I am immune to all attacks
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Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.
According to Pew Research and a few other stats, the loneliness epidemic isn’t disproportionately affecting men over other genders.
I have a feeling that men have been the squeaky wheel over the last few years.
If anything, we have a loneliness epidemic because more people are (barely) surviving.
I have a feeling that men have been the squeaky wheel over the last few years.
If anything, we have a loneliness epidemic because more people are (barely) surviving.
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.
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they’re not cowed, they agree. maybe not on the method but the mission. all these people in both parties are aware climate catastrophe will create / is creating unprecedented numbers of refugees and want to make sure they can keep undesirables out. even bernie is for a closed militarized border
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
they’re not cowed, they agree. maybe not on the method but the mission. all these people in both parties are aware climate catastrophe will create / is creating unprecedented numbers of refugees and want to make sure they can keep undesirables out. even bernie is for a closed militarized border
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Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT
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Not that Matthew Lillard needs another shooter but he had memorable roles in two of the ten best television shows of all time, Twin Peaks & Halt and Catch Fire.
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Not that Matthew Lillard needs another shooter but he had memorable roles in two of the ten best television shows of all time, Twin Peaks & Halt and Catch Fire.
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like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight
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Maybe, just once, they could try writing a column about how neurodivergent women were misdiagnosed with borderline all the time and then left wondering why that 'label' didn't help whilst dealing with the prejudices that came with it, but that wouldn't sound as sexy to their new right wing pals
TERFdom is the entrance point down a deep reactionary rabbit hole.
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Maybe, just once, they could try writing a column about how neurodivergent women were misdiagnosed with borderline all the time and then left wondering why that 'label' didn't help whilst dealing with the prejudices that came with it, but that wouldn't sound as sexy to their new right wing pals
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December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’