FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Remember the end of The Lion King when the hyenas realize Scar lied to them to secure power so they eat him?

Thinking about that a lot for no particular reason.

Saw a wonderful documentary on him last year, RIP

I don't intend to be callous, but I wish people wouldn't post about terminally ill or deceased relatives
I have enough sadness in my own life, as most of us have as we grow older, and I don't want to share anyone else's. My sympathy to all who are suffering loss

give me coffee for the things i can change and some gasoline and a match for the things i can’t.

The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

I’d run in an election solely to see how they’d cope with throwing the limbless gal in the air. My siblings would line up to fling me into the abyss

having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

Am checking urban dictionary for funny synonyms for "privileged" for something and found this for a rich kid who goes to the Global South for rich kid tourism (implied: semester abroad, bad service learning tourism, etc):
conquistadouche

As I have said before, the problem with this government is that it sees housing as transactional, when we council house kids know that housing in transformational.
A loving, permanent home, a haven, gave me space to study, to learn, and, ultimately, to give back.
#LeadersDebate #GE24 #RTÉUpfront

Listening to Paschal O'Donoghue on RTE1, I find I've no faith whatsoever in Fine Gael to make any impression on the housing crisis. Change is needed fast

I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...”

...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.

It's kind of nice here at 2 am. The notifications are manageable and the house is quiet. I belong in bed, but it's nice to breathe and be grateful.