Every so often I see a comment from someone outside of the USA and I am reminded how uniquely deranged our entire country is. It's like that weird friend who insists "toothpaste and pasta sauce for dinner" (TPPS or "the tops for dins") in his favorite traditional Tuesday food, but as a country.

Are we just posting random photos?

Don't know if I've ever actually seen one of these in the wild before. Amazing.

Corrected @sahilkapur.bsky.social post

Here is a funny joke, @bsky.app uses the idiot garbage lie machine from the billionaire who wants you dead in their own app! Neat!

Am I... am I free???

I'm glad Starbucks is doing this, but one quick question: HOW WOULD THEY FUCKING KNOW??!!

I mean, we're almost exactly at the "get here or get into a mass grave" point, is my take. Not sure how many other moves are left on the board.

My family thinks I'm being an insane alarmist but I honestly don't see how this ends any other way anymore.

Yeah, & they force giant companies like Apple, who promote themselves as "the privacy company", to kowtow to giving up control of their physical servers to the govt. Does it seem like Apple is hashtag The Resistance here now? Do you think Trump doesn't want to know every mean text I sent about him?

Complexity? Do we keep having to do this?

But hey, perhaps you might "gotcha" me with the second definition, which describes a central governmental authority, which is vaguely akin (but completely different to what you describe. But wait! The third definition is coming in with a chair!

In order to prevent falling for a phishing attempt, I filled out this form with utter garbage. And it turns out that yes, you can basically put anything here and have it accepted.