root_beer @ root_beer @midwest.social

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Stop being so mean!

This was my adolescence except miles removed from Cowtown, the second largest municipality in Pigshit County, Ohio. People wanna talk about car culture and how the suburbs ruined everything, and I get it, but rural life as a teen was depression on top of the depression I’d already developed in elementary school.

If I hadn’t been able to drive my busted-ass ‘85 Toyota Van when I was 17 I don’t know if I would have made it to 18, I was hanging on by a frayed thread. Even then, my hometown was utterly worthless, I’d have to go at least half an hour on the highway to go somewhere with a veneer of life.

I would love for the semi-rural suburb where I currently live to modernize and become walkable and bikeable, but I’ll still take this any day over what I had 25 years ago.

Sounds like The Boer is homesick for the land of his youth

If it weren’t for the whole everything-controlled-via-infotainment-screen thing, the EX30 would be on the short list for my next vehicle, but that’s a dealbreaker. I’m still rooting for Volvo, at least as much as I’d “root” for a company.

Yep, I’ve seen that, along with ads for “jack-off pants”:

GAME OVER: [Person with center-left politics/retired GOP politician with no skin in the game] TOTALLY HUMILIATES [Trump/MTG/any GOP demagogue] with argument

…it’s a just a tweet into the void that nobody with any stake in said argument will ever read

Thanks, HuffPost, MSNBC, et al, for basically all being MeidasTouch

I’ve said it a few times already and I’ll say it again, I’m really hoping that this will be the year we read about how he was found dead on the toilet from a perforated colon and a traumatically prolapsed rectum

Except it’s not exactly involuntary for them, is it? People who subscribe to that ideology are undateable because they become awful, toxic people, which can be changed.

Parent pending

Better hide the weed before they show up

“Mmmyes, quite, I was mildly peeved, rather. My Tom Ford blazer was singed on the lapel, it took the cleaners a week to remove the soot. A week! Also, I am just a tinge dead.”

The way he goes on, I’m surprised he hasn’t mouthed off at the wrong person and ended up at the bottom of the Hudson in the trunk of a ‘77 Eldorado

There are a few webcomics out there that have some excellent artwork. Lackadaisy is the first to come to mind, though updates have always been verrrry sporadic—especially now that she’s working on an animated version—and there was one called The Abominable Charles Christopher that was fucking phenomenal, but it just sorta… stopped. I’m still subscribed to the RSS because I’m holding out hope, but I know it’s over.

Are there any theocrats running third party on the ballot in Utah?

Yeah, and he said MAGA chuds are too

Broken clock, blah blah blah

[note: I do know Mittens is highly educated]

1. Isn’t “lasagna”, as we refer to it, technically a casserole made with layers of lasagne, cheese, and sauce? Not that “casserole” is a category, but I’m just being pedantic at this point, soz
2. I’ve always maintained that pizza is a tart rather than a pie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spreading an entirely different message nowadays, huh

“Communes”, populated by “commies”?

I’m not old enough to have published zines but I am old enough to know what they were, and I think it is actually a pretty apt name for it

Psh, nice shameless plug for your community bro

…to which I’ll subscribe as soon as I can