AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 days ago:
I’m very relieved that he didn’t try to detain and deport Mamdani (after publicly threatening to do so), but I’m also definitely not convinced anything be said was genuine. Especially coming on the heels of vaguely threatening to murder Democrats.
Idk if it was a genuine attempt to ingratiate himself with the left before the Epstein files are released, or some other kind of misdirection. Either way, I think anyone opposed to fascism who can remember further back than a goldfish, should know not to let their guard down.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 week ago:
“I can’t figure out what this button does, so I refuse to use it >:(”
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 week ago:
Exactly! Ugh, if these miserable, global extremists, sacks of dog shit hate freedom so much, why won’t they all just go build a man made floating island somewhere in the middle of the ocean and leave the rest of the world alone, instead of dragging us all into fucking holy war just to force us to be miserable too?
Answer: A. They aren’t actually capable of creating/building anything on their own, and are completely reliant on exploiting others because they’re a bunch of talentless cocksuckers. B. They thrive on the attention/theatrics of it all and need a captive audience. C. Even if they suddenly woke up to a world where every need was met and everyone was exactly like them, they would be even more miserable nobody was paying attention to them, and still find excuses to go to war with each other. D. All of the above is
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 1 week ago:
It’s the size of the box not the fact that there’s no information about the candidates jfc
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 1 week ago:
It’s not that they’re less important. These were very important propositions, but normally the election and proposition boxes are the same size.
This was an election where an incumbent candidate from a local political family had already done some things that seemed to undermine getting people to vote in the election
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 1 week ago:
I think it says a lot that they keep bothering with this passive aggressive shit. Why bother trying to stack the deck in your favor if you truly didn’t need to worry about how it’s stacked?
Democracy is trapped under the boot of oligarchy and corruption, but I don’t believe it’s quite dead yet. Looks like Duncan won by ~67%
- New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎sh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if people just start using these as an IRL dark humor coping mechanisms? Like you know killing yourself isn’t even a luxury you’re allowed anymore, but every once in a while you just jump bc jumping has become a joke between you and your coworkers?
- Comment on Velma can't math. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on A roundabout 1 month ago:
It’s like he knew he was supposed to be setting an example but buckled under pressure.
- Comment on It's true... 1 month ago:
“You’re fucking up the curve!”
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 1 month ago:
But what I notice about myself only on reflection, Ann Coulter seemed to recognize and respond to in an instant, like a puma recognizes an injured giselle. For Ann Coulter is a predator. A predator with a hungry asshole.
'The Grapes of Wrath, huh?’
'Yes’ I said, faking composure. ‘It’s fantastic.’
‘It’s a fantastic primer for vacuous proto-Communists everywhere,’ she said dismissively.
‘I don’t know about that…’
She sighed. ‘I don’t have enough ink in my pen to keep a running list of what you don’t know. May I?’
Definitely on point.
Speaking of, she’s been very quiet during Trump 2.0. What’s she up to these days? And does she still return to that farmers market longing for the one who got away?
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 1 month ago:
It’s especially weird given the whole Elon Musk black eye thing a few months ago, and then her dropping this after his vengeance speech at Charlie Kirk’s funeral.
After dropping that other tidbit about him and mayonnaise?? These people are so fucking weird.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
I had this really awesome kind of angry and nihilistic history teacher in H.S. who offered an elective course that studied the repeated patterns through history leading up to genocide. It covered Armenia, Rwanda, and the Holocaust.
I don’t know if it was just the fact that we looked at the repeated overlaps between human behavior vs just memorizing historical events, but if more people took a course like Crimes against Humanity maybe they would be able to spot the clear patterns of human behavior that somehow happen over and over again.
push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
Yep, the Holocaust didn’t happen overnight. It’s always starts as a slow slide into genocide, but once it picks up steam it turns into an avalanche. It drives me nuts that people keep pretending we should be entertaining any of this as just normal politics. The reaching across the aisle bullshit was insane a year ago (and really 10 years ago), but at this point it is literally enabling this shit to happen. You’re a collaborator.
- Comment on “THE FBI HAS FOUND NO EVIDENCE THAT THE SO-CALLED ‘CLITORIS’ EXISTS, AND HAS CONCLUDED THAT ASSERTIONS TO THE OPPOSITE ARE SIMPLY MORE FAKE NEWS PUBLISHED BY THE FAILING LIBERAL MEDIA!!!” 2 months ago:
The 10 angry downvotes only make this so much more funny
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 2 months ago:
The same day Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Democrats in the Senate called for an investigation into Epstein’s connections to big banks and leaders in Israel, but Republicans blocked release of the files… Again
But nobody has even really noticed yet bc Republicans have been using every opportunity to call for civil war ever since
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 months ago:
When you realize how low the bar is, you should never have imposter syndrome again.
Literally that is why people keep joining this grift. If you’re willing to pledge loyalty, take advantage of people, and help destroy your own country, you can make bank.
The people that fund the right refuse to let a penny of their money go towards taxes to pay for public services, but they will literally throw absurd amounts of money at anything that promotes their agenda.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 2 months ago:
There has been concern that China has been running medical exams on Uyghur prisoners in camps to find close matches for recipients and decrease chances of complications
Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.
This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 2 months ago:
I mean some people have more money than ever to buy stuff. That’s the market that most of these things are being targeted to. Just consider everyone that isn’t extremely wealthy an obsolete product being phased out of production.
Keep restricting birth control and encouraging higher birthrates as early death numbers continue to climb in the U.S. due to a lack of safety regulations and overdoses.
Restrict what can be purchased using government aid to healthy options. Not bc you care about helping poor people to be healthy, but bc you know you might end up needing them for spare parts.
‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room. She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive. “He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.” The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.
"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to ‘find another doctor to do it’ – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,’ " Miller says. “And she’s like, ‘There is no one else.’ She’s crying — the coordinator — because she’s getting yelled at.”
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
Scientists of tomorrow: Colloidal silver cures all disease unless you are possessed by demons or a witch.
If witch, please turn your self into authorities for immediate incineration.
If demons, please report to your nearest wellness camp for rehabilitation.
- Comment on Laika Glove 2 months ago:
Fucking unacceptable!
- Comment on 6 AM Monday. Dreading whatever fresh hell awaits this week. Cranky, definitely getting a cold. Barely awake. Husband starts blasting this song that is now stuck in my head for all eternity. 2 months ago:
I know! It was so carefully hidden then he turns and bam! Surprise rat tail.
I think there might be some mystical powers in the bleached mullet ends of his band mate as well.
- 6 AM Monday. Dreading whatever fresh hell awaits this week. Cranky, definitely getting a cold. Barely awake. Husband starts blasting this song that is now stuck in my head for all eternity.youtu.be ↗Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Off topic 3 months ago:
I had to scroll for a while but came just for the sucks at eating popcorn discussion.
My husband’s first job was working at a movie theatre sweeping the floors between movies. When we met like 10 years later, I learned he had a weird stereotype about white women not being able to eat popcorn without making a complete mess.
When I asked why, he said it was just something he’d noticed when he worked at the movie theatre. He went into this rant about the most ridiculous amount of popcorn he’d ever had to sweep up being when the theatre was showing the Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood. “The entire floor was like a carpet layer of popcorn!,” “It was like they had all been throwing it up in the air throughout the whole movie!,” and “What were they even doing?!?” Even to this day he still brings it up when someone mentions that movie or
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 months ago:
Well specifically, it is still an ongoing investigation. What happened was Pam Bondi had the first half of files in her office, made a big public announcement about having requested all remaining files and waiting on them to be delivered, wrote a letter to Kash Patel about it and publicly released it.
Then when she read whatever was in that second half of files that got delivered to her, she suddenly wasn’t so eager to release it. Image
