Reread The Call of Cthulu and pay attention to his descriptions of people, you’ll notice that it’s not as separate from his writings as you think.

I did the same thing two years ago. Heart palpitations, shortness of breath etc. I sat in the waiting room for 5 hrs after being triaged. Hell by that time I was feeling better and was about to leave. A nurse came running out and stopped me. I had multiple blood clots in both lungs and the right side of my heart had…

I drove myself to the hospital with chest pain about five years ago, and saying “chest pain” stirred up the ER like kicking a nest of ants. I was in an exam room hooked up to a monitor in five minutes. Every nurse and the doctor* gave me a long, angry talk about how stupid I was for driving myself in. They kept me…

And it is a recycling of a racially dismissive “’Bama Boys” slogan that Hillary used in ‘08 too. It was a major contribution to Hillary’s campaign failure in ‘16, because it meant that whenever we tried to point out the sexist messaging being used against her, the Trump campaign had an easy fire back of “and Bernie…

I wondered that at first, but now I’m just thinking that Bolton’s mad he didn’t get to take part. Like when you want an ex to stop doing something, like drinking, and they won’t, so you break up, but then as soon as you’re gone, the ex turns over a new leaf. And then you’re mad, and you hate that their new girlfriend…

I am an electrical engineer, and I do have a smart meter in my house.

“But this looks like the most fragile and dangerous thing I’ve ever seen.”

I swear to God, I had a coworker with the last name of Kuntz in an upholstery store. One time I needed her help with something, so I asked another coworker where she was. He told me that she was in the yard, shoving leftover carpet samples into a machine that shredded carpet rolls into smaller pieces to save room.…

You’re not an intelligent person and nobody values anything you have to say.

“Let me have that omelette... no, the other one. The more perfecter one. That’s it.”

My favorite highlights:

The conclusion I’ve come to is that it’s a fallacy of binary rounding, which results from individual unique minds absorbing and processing a near-infinite amount of discrete information and trying to make sense of it; a “0.4999...” gets rounded down to “0" for one person, and “1" for another. Basically a fancier way…

Racism was directly addressed as far back as TOS, even.

The difference is that fandom has a much bigger influence now thanks to the Internet, which was still largely a cultural hinterland in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I remember an Entertainment Weekly article from 1994 that mentioned, briefly, that some fans on AOL were upset because the Voyager captain was going to be a woman.…

I mean, Star Trek: The Original Series had the first interracial kiss on TV. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine not only had a black Captain, but included an episode directly targeting racism (“Far Beyond the Stars”). Anyone who complained about Star Trek having a black female lead apparently never saw Star Trek nor cared…

Trump’s campaign misusing a meme doesn’t so much concern me as Trumpo trying to pull literal Nazi shit with an executive order declaring Judaism to be a nationality. Not only is this continuing Trump’s anti-semitic “Jews = Israel” stance, but it’s also another step in justifying deporting Jews. Because if Jews are a…

Beard Riker or Beardless Riker?

You’ll have to teach him how to sit on a chair in the weirdest possible way.

Dammit, you chucklefuck, your intentions were perfectly clear. You wanted to hurt and embarrass a total stranger because some stray gross impulse darted across your lizard brain and being a white male, you never even thought to resist or question it. You honestly expected her to find that funny or at least “laugh it…

He was a father to us all.