I BELIEVE SUE SNELL

Like a Civil War Dad, but a childless woman

[larkandkatydid]

[cam1lla]

Y’all do not hate republicans enough.

[roycohn]

happy lottery day girlies!

[larkandkatydid]

It’s our first Lottery Day without Rob Reiner, who made the most perfect movie about how reading The Lottery as a 10 year old will cook your little brain and for putting onscreen the most perfect presentation of a tween boy’s fanfiction of The Lottery.

[larkandkatydid]

Unbridled Evelyn-normie-lib swagger is my 72 year old mother sauntering in at 8am on the first day of early voting, no id, having hotboxed in the parking lot after asserting to me that she would fight anyone who stands between her and voting for a hot Muslim socialist. No one was going to fight her but she’d already had an energy drink so she was kind of wired.

[larkandkatydid]

In related news, my mother also had a kidney scan this morning and, to my great relief, her kidneys are totally normal and what appears to have happened is that she had the blood test results of a dialysis patient because she had been eating too many creatine gummies and I swore before God that if her scans were clear I would never, ever say I told you so about the creatine.

[larkandkatydid]

Unbridled Evelyn-normie-lib swagger is my 72 year old mother sauntering in at 8am on the first day of early voting, no id, having hotboxed in the parking lot after asserting to me that she would fight anyone who stands between her and voting for a hot Muslim socialist. No one was going to fight her but she’d already had an energy drink so she was kind of wired.

[larkandkatydid]

This isn’t a helpful or even informative take because I’m just telling you that the terrible thing is in fact terrible. But the cruelty towards Haitian-Americans is a horrific spiritual wound on all us. And it isn’t to lessen the real suffering of Haitian people but allowing this to happen is such an act ingratitude toward the nation that taught the world how to live the kind of free societies we enjoy, such an act of contempt for the values of a free society. It’s the modern version of the kind of blasphemy that makes the gods wipe your village off the map, the literal sin of sodom, etc. The terrible thing is a terrible spiritual rot.

[larkandkatydid]

Stop complaining! We have hot, socialist, Muslim mayors at home!

(Gestures at the city of Dearborn’s new instagram campaign against hot rods in which the hot socialist mayor repeatedly asks, “hey, why you drivin’ like that?”)

[larkandkatydid]

The six-figure trades story has a catch: The vast majority of non-college jobs pay far less.

Some students can build good lives without a bachelor’s degree. But federal wage data shows those paths are narrower — and often more gender

For much of the last few decades, some young people have heard a simple mantra: bachelor’s or bust. That is, the best and perhaps only path to economic prosperity is through a four-year college education. Now a wide swath of politicians, educators, and philanthropists are rethinking this. Some even suggest that there are numerous lucrative jobs that don’t require a degree.

A New York Times video explained that “Job demand in fields like construction, along with the allure of potential six-figure salaries, have some high schools investing in hands-on classes that are redefining what success looks like for the Class of 2026.”

At the recent Education Writers Association conference, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore suggested high schools are too focused on getting students into college. If a student chooses a different route “and they find something that’s going to make them have economic mobility for them and their family, then right on,” he said.

Amidst this enthusiasm I wanted to take a look at the data to answer a simple but contested question: How likely is it that students can skip a four-year degree and make a good living or achieve “economic mobility?”

The short answer is it’s certainly possible, but the odds are stacked against workers without degrees. “We all want the $70,000 job that a student can access right outside of high school,” says Dom McKoy, executive director of the University of Chicago’s To&Through Project. But those opportunities are rare. “We have to be really clear-eyed about what is a true pathway at scale for young people.”

Some non-college occupations offer solidly middle-class salaries — but the largest ones typically don’t

One of the ways I see this myth, acted upon by wealthy philanthropists whose own children absolutely went to elite colleges, also play out amongst regular people on social media is the idea that there’s an unfair “stigma” against well-paying blue collar jobs like garbage collector or construction worker and only that silly middle-class stigma is keeping kids out of these fields, which are, in reality, physically exhausting and low-paid.

[larkandkatydid]

It’s funny that the guy who really modeled how to be a non-black politician who is able to gain the support of community power brokers in a majority black city is Sri Thanadar but no one wants to claim him because he sucks in ways that are beautiful and unique to Sri Thanadar and that no one political faction can claim.

[larkandkatydid]

A conspiracy theory that I’m at least willing to entertain is that David Miscavige killed Stanley Kubrick in a kind of palace coup, like if the guys who killed Rasputin had achieved their second order goals. A corollary to this theory that Christopher McQuarrie refuses to kill David Miscavige because he is a weak vizier who dishonors his bloodline and will lose his formerly dominant film franchise.

[larkandkatydid]

This is my review of Top Gun Maverick watched on my favorite streaming service, delta seat back entertainment, while reading the new Rasputin book. I do stand by it though.

[larkandkatydid]

L. Ron Hubbard killed John Lennon. Just wanted to make you aware

I’m not completely dismissive because I know there are many very real cases of 1970s Scientologists (or Scientology adjacent people) being involved in any number of wild crimes. But I think my Kubrick theory has a stronger and clearer motive in that Kubrick accidentally engaged in some pretty evidence based de-programming simply by declaring it “unprofessional” and “silly movie star nonsense that you [tom cruise] promised to stop” and so forbid Scientology minders to hang out at his film set or his home for the nearly two years it took to film Eyes Wide Shut, what Nicole Kidman has said was the healthiest time in her marriage. If Kubrick had lived another 2-3 years, we’d be talking about openly gay, possibly Oscar nominated actor Tom Cruise.

[larkandkatydid]

A conspiracy theory that I’m at least willing to entertain is that David Miscavige killed Stanley Kubrick in a kind of palace coup, like if the guys who killed Rasputin had achieved their second order goals. A corollary to this theory that Christopher McQuarrie refuses to kill David Miscavige because he is a weak vizier who dishonors his bloodline and will lose his formerly dominant film franchise.

[larkandkatydid]

Love that systlin post where she links to an article about two accomplished women archeologists and then her “summary” portrays those women as total morons who needed to be told what an ancient artifact was by an entirely made-up white man.

[larkandkatydid]

“Was South Carolina from 1868-1876 a Dictatorship of the Proletariat?” truly the greatest thread in the history of Marxism, a debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and himself, shut down by the moderator (W.E.B. Du Bois) after 500 pages of debate, closing with a footnote reading, “almost.”

[annelidarchive]

the thing about that weird stuff americans call cheese is that if you heat it a little it becomes an excellent burger condiment despite its failings in every other area. such is the fate of the american cultural product

[lootpuppy-deactivated20260205]

the American 'cheese' slice was engineered by our best scientific minds (all borrowed from Germany ofc) to melt perfectly onto a burger and for nothing else. Its only purpose is to compliment the one true product of the American people. The hamburger. (also borrowed from Germany)

[annelidarchive]

reeling a little at the implication that the Kraft Single was a product of operation paperclip

[larkandkatydid]

I agree with most critiques of the phrase “the Epstein class” on a bunch of philosophical grounds but I do think there’s critiques of the phrase that go kind of off the rails in that they ignore the identity of the person who coined the phrase when we absolutely know who that guy is.