No, it was more like “I can benefit while helping someone in a time of need, so why not.” I wouldn’t have purchased had we not been in an unprecedented situation. That’s part of why it felt so shitty when I thought I saw signs of a potential scam.

They sent a set of pics and vids.

At the start of the pan, someone advertised nude media to make extra cash during the initial lockdown. I sent the $20 or whatever it was. Turned out they wanted to draw more cash and that was only the opener. Felt like a scam and I blocked them. Felt I had been conned. Never knew if that’s true for sure.

Otherwise, only shitty products and services that came from corporations.

It’s the Scream masks that make this interesting. Wtf.

It’s a huge sham. It’s going to pop. All the money after the initial reveal has been wasted.

I love that game. I rediscover it every couple of years and get really into it all over again.

Fuck you, it’s a banana.

I told my partner that we needed to stop excessive spending like going out to eat while the economy is so uncertain. She was ok with that. I’m not feeling great about our (collective) future. Sigh.

You’re missing the part where they’re completely awesome and no one could have predicted this. /s

Hey, don’t get radicalized over here. /s

Oh noez, poor spez. He can eat my ass to feel better.

Moving to California Bay Area. Decision literally happened in about three hours.

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

Read Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power for some scary shit about the last six months before he gained office and how he didn’t have a majority when it happened. It’s exactly this. We’re fucked.

I was planning on leaving if the orange got reelected. I only didn’t because in the years between when I made that decision (2021) and now, I found myself in a relationship cohabitating with my partner. She’s here as a refugee and can’t leave or that gets rescinded. It took some serious soul searching to decide to retract my longstanding plan to escape this hellish fascist-speedrun. I was even doing phone interviews. If you think you could be happy, do it.

Biden strikes again.

Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets.

Every day, I think about how lucky I am. Because my father stressed education and taught me to read and forced me to do summer writing projects. Because I enjoy reading and learning as a result (even though I hated those projects). That I was born to a family that didn’t suffer financial hardship. That I’m male in a world that rewards that. That I’m a white guy in a country that punishes everyone else. It’s fucked up.

The nazis called them “useless eaters,” as I recall.

Log Cabin leaders have long insisted that their mission is to slowly change the party from the inside, but some researchers have postulated that internalized homophobia may a factor in gay conservatives’ loyalty; a 2023 report from the Williams Institute found that 38% of gay Republicans considered their sexual orientation to be a “personal shortcoming,” and 41% said they would prefer to be straight if they could.

These people are fundamentally broken. Not because they are gay or queer. Because they don’t accept themselves.