Happy Geek

Random Blue Collar guy living life in the Pacific NW. 49 years and counting.

[praxis23]

It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

I really feel like I've been here longer.

[mango-kitty-art]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[depsidase]

[praxis23]

To be honest, the "liberal media" has always been a lie. Sure, many journalists tend to be on the left, politically. Possibly due to having to adhere to facts and accuracy in their jobs. (At least back in the 20th century.)

That phrase always ignored who owned the newspaper or broadcasting company that was publishing the story. Tons of those companies were famous for airing the biases of their owners. Hearst media waged war against marijuana legalization for decades because the Hearst family was invested in paper and chemical companies. NBC news in the 80s was never able to air negative stories about their owners, General Electric. And we all know about Fox News.

It has been said to understand why things happen, we have to figure out who benefits from those events. Who gained the most from the lie of Liberal Media?

[depsidase]

[liberalsarecool]

DOGE was a cyber attack. They looted everything. Next administration must convict.

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.

[wilwheaton]

“Hickenlooper is 74 and says this new term he’s running for will be his last. He’s been in office almost continuously since he was elected mayor of Denver in 2003. He served two terms as mayor and as governor. He seems like a very solid guy. I’m sure I’d like him. But it’s my strong impression that he is very much in the camp of Democratic senators who don’t want to do any of the big necessary things: abolish the filibuster, reform the Supreme Court, fight against encroaching autocracy as opposed to preserve decorum and regular order. In other words, he’s approaching the senate gig as though we were still in the 1990s or perhaps the W. era. To listen to my own oft-repeated arguments, he is the problem. And as I argued a few days ago, this is the kind of thing that has Democratic primary voters on fire now. They want fight.”

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Some Thoughts on a Possible Big Primary Upset(s) in Colorado - TPM – Talking Points Memo

From now until the heat death of the universe, I want elected Democrats to beat the shit out of Republicans. No reaching across the aisle, no moving forward together. I want motherfucking consequences and impeachments and ruthlessness.

I want the Republican party, as it exists now and has existed for my entire lifetime, absolutely destroyed. I want every member of this administration put on trial for their endless crimes and corruption. I want the dirty SCOTUS 6 impeached. I want Thomas put on trial for corruption. 

I want fighters. I want them to be fucking vicious and I want them to do to the Republican party what Sherman did on his march to the sea.

[victusinveritas]

The danger is not the Orc King, it's the Horde.

[marisashorror]

Meanwhile, at the White House...

[depsidase]

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[praxis23]

I'm in my 50s and can verify that this is very useful advice.

[forgottenbones]

[d6b-onion]

this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

[depsidase]

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.