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Called senators and left messages again. Used the phrase “fucking regressive bigot” to describe the federal judge nominee I wanted them to oppose, I can remember when I would never do that. Part of me thinks it doesn’t matter as I’m likely to die in a hate crime, a camp or a severe heat wave anyway.
Insert standard “I don’t want to be woke af, I wanna go back to sleep rant.”
MAGIC BOZO SPIN!
Killer Klowns https://youtu.be/IQeTZKI43rY via @YouTube.
the requisite drug post
I’m a crummy stoner the same way I’m a crummy gamer. Pass the pipe or plop me in front of Dark Souls and I’ll be giggling at cornbread or playing for hours. But I usually am too tired or distracted to seek either out.
There’s a dispensary literally down the street from my favorite game store and I’ve never been inside; I keep really wanting to get to Game Kastle or parts further south.
Maybe I should stop in tomorrow? I figure a weed store should be pretty empty on 4/21.
Hitler, Holocaust
@shel We *love* attributing huge stuff to a single person - Hitler, Trump, Patton, JFK, King, Musk, Bezos, etc.
I agree that we do it all the more when it conveniently gets big institutional stuff off the hook, which gets into my huge long rant about the Shoah and antisemitism, and, as you point out, is very much systemic racism and class warfare in the USA.
Bus is hella crowded this morning. Listening to the Beatles, trying not to stew in my own resentment, mentally turning over having spent this week re-realizing stuff I figured out in therapy last year; I figure this is more process, emotionally internalizing that realization. Can talk more if you’re interested.
I really want to just draw, or watch Rampage, which has giant monsters. Giant monsters are always a plus.
paleontology and D&D stuff
So 1) I think that might be a good way to go for D&D wargs - a shorter more easily humanized muzzle and more vaguely hyena appearance. And
2) literally only one hyenid made it to North America, a “running hyena” (there used to be three hyena clades, where one was a lighter built running type). If the local wolves were all big bone-crunchers that might explain why the local hyena was one of the more gracile types rather than a competitor.
paleontology and D&D stuff
Oh HEY here’s something cool;
Canines first cropped up in North America- either C. leptophagus or Eucyon davisi. At some point C. dirus evolved as a heavier larger American form. By this time recognizable C. lupus wolves had evolved in Eurasia and crossed back over into the Americas. These were “Beringian wolves” - they had shorter muzzles with thicker teeth than modern wolves and the wear pattern on those teeth suggests cracking bones.
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
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