“Cate Blanchett, our queen, you are needed in the front office, please.”

Literally every time I see your face I just assume it’s RBG out of respect is that bad?

Humankind has launch more satellites in the past four years (2021 - 2025) than in the previous seven decades.

75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).

By the time members of congress get locked up for being “enemies of the state” or similar, we’ll have to do a check-in on this post.

Help?!

He has been past that for a long time.

She is a ghoul who wants to uphold US hegemony/imperialism for as long as it will serve the interests of the ruling class she occupies. And part doing that involves propping up Israel as the West’s military outpost in the Middle East. Actual people in Southwest Asia who yearn for freedom be damned.

I would guess that her actual beliefs are more nuanced (and probably darker/more myopic given her former role as Secretary of State etc). But she was a politician and has a lifetime of experience doing the public-facing PR shit. So while this is not entirely surprising, it is still incredible.

This is factually not true. The Biden administration intentionally lied to the public in order to play us while they (and our fucking congress) continued to provide financial and material support for the destruction of Gaza, wholesale. Stop trying to defend this shit and go read some more.

baby you’re describing the US right now…

No fucking accountability. None of them deserve to be able to live it down, but sadly I don’t see a future where these monsters are prosecuted.

See, I knew I liked you… 😘

Now let me stop before I get more upset…

Like yes, I know they had contractual obligations with The Rings of Power situation (which I also really enjoyed!), etc. but COME ON. People who were sci-fi/fantasy fans and watched TWOT cold turkey (me) could tell it was literally epic in its scope, and the cast and crew put their back into it.

I never read the books so I didn’t have the same kind of grappling with that whole “faithful-to-the-source-material” thing a lot of people did.

That said, I don’t know if I will ever get over The Wheel
Of Time being canceled.

So I retreat further and further in the distance on a proverbial ice floe, and of course I’m left with myself and my thoughts to deal with all of this alone.

Even though none of them really interact with me on this platform: thanks, friends, for showing me another, newer flavor of abandonment.

Part of this has to do with the above, but part of it also relies on most of them being unable to operate in any way other than the transactional. And since I have nothing discernible to “offer” them anymore, I’m just left on the shelf collecting dust while life happens all around me.

That green one is cute 🩲