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Whirrlaway
@mpzrd.bsky.social
Oregon Coast old-guy recluse. Dog person in a cat world, people are strange, when you're a stranger. Gardening with a survivalist bent. Streetstyle and trails bikes. Looking for a soft landing if possible, politics same as bikes
"He likes the stuntwomen, but not the starlet."

cool description of women's place in the patriarchy lately
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
urban firefighters do very well, forests are generally commercialized, a form of agriculture, and firefighting is typical agricultural maintenance work naturally done by typical agricultural workers with typical lack of benefits
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
the basic plot of many westerns

actually true of all kinds of fighting, or at least if people thought about it more betcha they would do it less
December 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
people today are much more polytheistic than is generally credited

another form of modern binary fixation
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Jesus freaks were a recognized subgroup of Original hippies,
there were even a couple of musicals with actual theological content

folks probably saw you as a poseur, which of course you were
December 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
in Nixon's case we never did get to hear the 18½
minutes of Oval Office dialog but the fact that he erased it was definitely a telling shot
December 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
but the boomers were booming and watching a lot of tv where Happy Days was being nostalgic for the good old 50s
December 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Searle's argument was silly, man with tools can do all sorts of things man without tools doesn't even know how to think about

annoyed me for a long time

Rorty had more to say
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by Whirrlaway
where I was when we gave up smoking indoors even the smokers agreed this was better, nobody complained at all

goes to show how we can get stuck in a bad place that nobody likes through sheer laziness or assuming that somebody thinks it's important or something idk what
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
where I was when we gave up smoking indoors even the smokers agreed this was better, nobody complained at all

goes to show how we can get stuck in a bad place that nobody likes through sheer laziness or assuming that somebody thinks it's important or something idk what
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
he doesn't even give you money, you give him money
December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
well you have to learn to say no nicely like the regular girls but as a rule the gays will listen and not care that much
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“growth in the past 12 months has been concentrated in public and government-adjacent sectors such as health care and education.”

and that's a HUGE problem!! ai data centers are being STARVED for new investment!!
December 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
nonetheless a multi-party politics is a step forward from the bi-brained American system where one has to vote for a comprehensive package of unrelated things

but yeah, some kind of ranked-choice system plz
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
seems to me the acknowledged possibility of sex makes gay men interested in each other even if they aren't going to do it. there's a natural equality while male heterosex is more likely to be hierarchical/exploitative, and that is likely to extend into other relationships
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
if divorce is a sin, many are damned.

apparently he was legally separated and legit for dates for years so I don't know why you would bring that up?
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
won't argue that Brooks isn't an old fool but I think there's a lot of difference in righteousness as well as law that revolves around the word "consent" and we could also throw in "committed"
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
seems to me it's trans theory asserts a spiritual essence of some sort that may or may not align with the physical embodiment, and it's the phobes say your body is you
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"an all-stock deal"

ADVANCED nfts
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I wouldn't put MARRYING a woman in her '30s as a man divorced for several years in the same category as arranging parties with drunken adolescents, but you do you
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
she had just married the guy and put herself on the inside! I'm sure she was Very Concerned with His Behavior!

Jeezus, people
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
dehumanizing people is always bad, I don't like it when it happens to me either
... just want to add for clarity, there are ten thousand socially recognized roles in the naked city, and by me people are totally free and empowered to select among THEM and present as suits themselves
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
... just want to add for clarity, there are ten thousand socially recognized roles in the naked city, and by me people are totally free and empowered to select among THEM and present as suits themselves
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
if I had been presenting as a woman for the past 20 years my doctor would still say the same thing

sounds like organized religion to me. "If you believed you would understand."

hi ho, off to run the dog
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM