pukeko

@pukeko@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, when we drive up to Georgia or South Carolina from Florida, there’s a point on I-75 where the Jesus billboards come out. Many of them are the usual “Babies have heartbeats” variety, but there’s also the following:

  • “Have you decided yet … Jesus” which we always render in an exasperated voice, aka “OMG have you decided yet? Jesus!”
  • “Go ahead, let go. I’ll catch you - Jesus” which we always respond to with “WTF Jesus just reach down and grab me, you’re RIGHT THERE!”
  • “Jesus is in control” with mysterious Russian tanks and American soldiers.
  • Zombies and Jesus for … reasons.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lightning bugs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the more annoying things about living in Florida is that we have closely related animals that are nearly identical, but they don’t have glow-butts. (At least not down in the bottom half of the state.)

  I’ll wait for someone from like Lakeland to say they have them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, no, it’s exactly that. “If you let one Nazi into the bar, congrats you have a Nazi bar.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the story about a table. Which is surprising, because I grew up in a bright red community where delivering pithy metaphors about the futility of breaking bread with the opposition was sport. (For the record, I wouldn’t break bread with Nazis.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me give an example: I have a friend on Bluesky. He’s as middle of the road as it’s possible to be (and I say that in an entirely neutral way; it makes him neither better nor worse than anyone). He’s nice, and a good person. But he’s aggressive, disruptive, a fight-picker, and a single-issue conversationalist on social media. Bluesky seems to have a disproportionate number of people who are very nice, well-meaning, but aggressive and disruptive. I left Bluesky to exit an echo chamber for something more serene. I think that’s one thing the loud folk don’t quite get, regardless of their ideology: not all of us are here to yell and throw things all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a joke (or possibly simple wisdom) about a bar that’s worth discussing here.