In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.

I’m looking California and feeling Minnesota

He met a girl out there with a tattoo too

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

What a way to ruin a perfectly good sporting event

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@scalzi.com You magnificent bastard. Your blatant marketing strategy of “generally being a cool person on this site” convinced me to read Starter Villain, which I greatly enjoyed. Now I’m going to have to visit my Local Independent Bookstore to get more of your books. Well played, sir.

Trump’s pardon of Jan 6 attackers corrupts the rule of law and rewrites history. These were not “hostages.” These were people who used brute force to commit vigilante violence.

And now I’m back to the refrain of the Lions fan: There’s always next year

Brilliant observation by @maxkennerly.bsky.social to a whole pot-full of parboiled frogs.

Report from our D&D session last night: we wrestled a giant pig with explosive diarrhea and then someone stole our McGuffin

I cut myself shaving this morning and just realized at 11am that I’ve been walking around all morning with toilet paper on my neck. 😔

Post you from a different era.

Just rewatched Captain America; The Winter Soldier. One of the plot points is that evil government agents are plotting to use people’s digital footprints to identify enemies for elimination and uh…

Derp

This is where we post cat pics right?