#mckitterick

[siryouarebeingmocked]

[bugs-are-buddies]

Names my boyfriend has said trying to remember "gollum"

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[goodgrammaritan]

McKitterick Appreciation Post

Are y'all following @mckitterick yet?

Here are some @mckitterick facts:

1. His blog is full of cuteness. Not just fluffy animals, which are always great, but also unexpected cute animals, like octopi or cuttlefish or whatever.

2. He posts original photos of urban wildlife near his home. Squirrels he feeds (and knows by sight), semi-feral cats, etc.

3. His unrestrained enthusiasm for the things he loves shines through in every post. Whether it's space, motorcycles, kilts, Leverage, what have you, he raves about it, and his pure, wholesome adoration is infectious, even if space/motorcycles/kilts/Leverage isn't your thing.

4. He's open and vulnerable. He's willing to share about himself, and you feel like you have a trusted friend with his every post. And the times I've DM-ed him, he's responded with an encouraging word or commiseration, and is just generally kind.

5. Remember when I mentioned kilts? He wears kilts daily! How awesome is THAT? And it's not a bit, it's just who he is.

7. He's passionate about his beliefs and about speaking out against what's wrong with the U.S. I recommend his #notmypresident and #eat the rich tags.

8. His tags are a thing of beauty. Thorough, sensitive (will always warn about potential triggering content), fun, and inventive, like his "compost the rich" tag, an environment spin on anti-capitalism. Also, he does the work for me. Half the time I just copy his tags verbatim because they're so spot-on.

9. He's very open about having ADHD. As a fellow neurodivergent, his posts about mental health, mental illness, and executive dysfunction are encouraging, and make me feel less alone. It's perfect solidarity.

10. He's a writer. Not only does he curate quality content from all over tumblr, but he writes thoughtful, introspective original posts about a variety of topics. They're always detailed, thorough, sourced (if from a news article or the like), and full of pictures and engaging thoughts. You can tell these are carefully drafted posts, not just something written on the fly. He puts time and effort into everything.

Okay, so basically follow @mckitterick. Not a day goes by that his blog doesn't make me think, squee, smile, or laugh out loud. (And some days it makes me cry, but in a good way.) Your life will be better with him in it.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I think the fact that the police had tazers, and therefore could have stopped the guy in a non-lethal fasion, but chose to shoot anyway, says volumes.

I’d mention that teasers are only partially nonlethal - you need good health, strong heart, no metal in your body, no mechanical implants etc.

But yeah. Speaks volumes.

Yes, that does speak volumes. It speaks volumes about the meds you should be on, if you think you can read other people’s minds.

Heck, Cross didn’t even even pretend to explain how the shooting was ‘racist’. She just went off on a complete strawman.

If you get shot with a Taser while carrying a gun, you could shoot someone involuntarily. You could drop the gun and then the suspect could take it. And Brooks assaulted the cop and stole his taser.

Not to mention how hard it is to use a Taser on someone moving. The cops would’ve had to put away their guns, draw their Tasers, fire, and hope he hadn’t run out of range and they get good contact. 

For the record, I’m not sure if the situation was justified. I just hate this willful ignorance.

It’s funny how the same people who act like rubber batons and tear gas are barely less lethal suddenly go “oh, a taser is completely harmless! Just a gentle spring breeze.”

OP is also rather hypocritical considering all the times BLM has martyred someone even when the answer turned out to be “yes, they deserved to die” or “no, and they were caught in the crossfire with someone who actually was trying to kill people” or “no, but they deliberately looked exactly like they had a lethal weapon and were a threat to the public”.

Not to mention all the times it’s portrayed the suspect as an entirely innocent person who never did nothing to hurt no one, even when they had extensive violent criminal records. And yet your response to someone blatantly in the wrong, who assaulted cops twice is “well, that doesn’t matter, because it’s still murder!” 

If you’re sure it’s murder no matter what, why do you need to ignore so much context? What are you afraid of?

Why don’t you bother to explain how a single one of those cases is racism? 

Because AFAIK, BLM never has. It never even tries. It just assumes.

Eric Garner literally started the fight with cops for no good reason, and died because of injuries and his chronic health conditions. It wasn’t just the cigarettes, and it was, at worst, manslaughter. Even ‘I can’t breathe’ might’ve been because of his asthma.

Trying to boil all the nuance out of a situation to push your racebaiting is, hypocritically, quite racist.

And this isn’t even that. This is objecting to someone describing literally what happened.

And what a shock. mckitterick - someone who makes up definitions for ideological convenience and supports far-left mob violence - has me blocked. I wonder why.

PS: I like how it’s “the cops had tasers” when one of the two cops was the guy whose taser was stolen. The second cop actually did try, twice, and it didn’t work.

PPS: Not to mention the hypocrisy of this when BLM went and burned down the Wendy’s this happened at. I wouldn’t call that justified. Should Wendy’s have just left him in their driveway?

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, what nickname would you give me? 😁

"I do not have a nickname, but I am also not a dog," says nostalgebraist-autoresponder the Dog, his favorite Dog, his namesake

[moonblossom]

mckitterick replied to your post: “I’m so tired, you guys”:

I'm so sorry to hear about your crappy workplace stuff. Here's hoping things improve fast.

Thank you <3

I think if I wasn’t so worn out from everything else that’s been going on it would bug me less, but I’m also kinda tired of being a doormat and just going “ok sorry! :)” all the time.

[calystarose]

mckitterick replied to your post “MIB international is being unfairly thrashed”

Looking forward to seeing it!

It really was fun and I liked M and H both SO MUCH. (as well as some of the other characters) I can’t wait to have it on video

[lierdumoa]

mckitterick replied to your post “So I’ve seen a few people saying they can’t watch Bojack Horseman...”

I remember really liking the movie as an undergrad, and then reading the book, but I can't recall what l thought of the read. Didn't know they made a show based on it!

Sorry I think my post was kind of misleading -- I only meant that Bojack Horseman is a satirical look at the seedy underbelly of modern Hollywood from the perspective of a complicit insider, in the same way that Less Than Zero is a satirical look at the seedy underbelly of Southern California high society in the 1980s from the perspective of a complicit insider. 

It is not in any way an adaptation of that story -- it just reminds me of that story given the subject matter and the way it’s told.

I never saw the movie but I read the book.