We’re in the tail. The cold warriors are dying, but not dead. Their legacy will remain for a while longer.

Or because they recognize that optics affect the reception of the message and with America pumping out decades of anti-communist propaganda during and after the cold war, using Marx’s language will get you ignored at best by a lot of people.

Long live the devs. Fuck publishers.

Do they still make the ones you warm up in water and push in to custom fit your ears? I knew someone who had one like that and it was apparently quite comfortable.

Nope. Acid Spray.

Kame-homo-haaaaaaaaaa!

The cotton candy machine operator might be about to lose his job, but we’re having a great time.

Hey, Boss. I need to call in dead. … No, but I will be in the next 24 hours. … Yeah, you should probably leave the office too. … Yeah, have a good weekend. Bye.

Bees or ants. I wish to taste the hive mind.

‘Neither the silly name you call your deadname or the silly name you answer to now are your true name. Magic doesn’t care what you call yourself. I have your true name. Now, sit.’

This is 2026. Poe’s Law has never been more relevant.

Perhaps because the other dress code constraints are for more universally accepted reasons while the question of things like the hijab/niqab are tied to an inherent contradiction within one of the standard political camps, disrupting the placement of the (un)acceptability line. Wearing a uniform is a sign of responsibility. (If you wear the fuel station attendednts’ uniform, you are responsible for the fuel station, etc.) Wearing a minimum quality of clothing is related to the service provided. (Showing up to a black tie restaurant in board shorts and flip flops ‘lowers the tone’ of the restaurant, which is often more the product being sold than the actual food. In that kind of restaurant, you are paying more for the exclusivity of the space than the chef’s produce.) However, Muslim women’s headjoys are more fraught because they simultaneously occupy two symbolic spaces, one as a symbol of Islam itself, which is coded as evil by one broad sector of politics and, because of that, something to be protected by the opposition, but the other as a symbol of Muslim patriarchy, which has the exact opposite coding by the standard broad political binary. Resolving the hypocrisy would require abandoning one set of symbols or the other and taking a position currently held by the opposition. Most people aren’t willing to do that.

You misunderstand. You pay rent to him. Be glad he only charges you one bowl of kibble and some scritches each day.

No.

Referred to as a thorn.

It’s absolutely for your benefit! Oh, wait, did you say user? I thought shareholder. No, you can get in line for the rectal probing with everyone else.

I particularly enjoy the fourth from the top.

It is possible to think of time as a ‘line’ with events strung on it like flags/tags.

Some people believe there are points at which events seem like they could result in different outcomes, like flipping a coin. They flip a coin and it comes up ‘heads’ but they can imagine a world where the flip came up ‘tails.’

Some people even think both the ‘heads’ world and the ‘tails’ world are equally real, just that people in one cannot interact with the other. Both worlds continue forever.

These are ‘parallel’ or ‘alternate’ timelines.

It’s already captioned though.