Bicyclops posted:

No, he's in if they're tweeting congrats. My bad. Sorry, everyone. The admissions office definitely would not use the logo that way, though, so he butchered it somehow when he put it on his Twitter.

theflyingorc posted:

Then go do it?

Electric Bugaloo posted:

I picture Prester Jane typing these posts into an Android phone from like 2013, one of several that she has in use at any one time. She’s in a parking garage in a hoodie, second or third floor. Maybe top floor if it’s sunny. Probably not, she prefers the abstract feeling of security that the roof and honeycomb of floors provide, also it’s like 50 degrees out and windy.
There’s another phone in the pouch with a twitter client open. Also Pokémon Go, but she hates to admit to using a piece of software so intrusive, so tied to the system.

That’s why it’s on the burner

She appreciates the therapeutic nature of it.

Its self care she muses. Plus she’s so loving close to evolving another Sunglasses Blastoise and those cats are adorable.

Maybe she’s typing this out from the drivers seat of a 2004 Hyundai Elantra. Maybe it’s the passenger’s seat of a gen 2 Prius. Is she waiting for somebody? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️ How long has the car been parked there?

Maybe she isn’t in a car at all. Somedays I picture her on an adult-sized BMX bike, like a 26er. Like something you might buy from City Grounds for three to six hundred bucks.

Or maybe on a beat up city bike, or a mountain bike from the 90s- especially one on fat road tires. Or a mutt bike cobbled from parts. But not a cool bike, more like the bike a moderately celibate dude who smells like feet and root vegetables and lives in Cambridge MA might ride. A bike owned by a man who cried during Isle of Dogs and then masturbated before falling asleep. A bike you could leave outside in the right neighborhood, but you won’t if you can because you care. Like the kind of bike Casual Encountess might help somebody build but not one they’d care to own themselves. Bikes for women who own cds of a cappella music.

Homely bike. Elegant and pure in its homeliness. Maybe it’s got panniers maybe it’s got fenders and a mirror. Maybe it had all of those things at some point and now it has duct tape residue in various spots. The type of bike a mentally ill person rides. Or a socialist. Or both. The bike equivalent of a 2002 Subaru minus the fandom.

Nah. I’d like to idealize her on that BMX. Because she probably deserves a sweet bike. Something with lightning bolts down the front fork and neon blue gummy grips.

But the real question- is there a cat with her? Maybe if she’s in the Prius. Or the Elantra. Probably not on a bike, they don’t have that kind of bond and it wouldn’t be cat safe anyway.

But she’s definitely on a phone and definitely in a parking garage. And the reasons are maybe urgent or mundane and maybe there’s a lot of reasons for a lot of things that led to this particular parking garage at this particular hour. Or maybe she’s in a library or inside a house and all of this is off-base. But regardless, the time to stand up and fight is now, and she knows this and some of the jabronis having a vapid-rear end Harvard derail know it as well.

Prester Jane flips to the music app. She’s listening to Pavement. And also Garbage. And some Hole. Courtney Love gets a bad rap but not from me. Her earbuds are close to fraying. Like everything else, they’re disposable. Temporary. Like everything else in this powderkeg world.

Two years into the unending days. When time stretched and congealed and months passed like years and weeks went by in a blink. Two years past the year of the comet. When the orange black swan came and the fascists declared open season on the immigrant and on the womb.

Another compaction cycle will happen she thinks. And that’s how I picture Prester Jane.

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Pembroke Fuse posted:

3. The critique is aimed at the powerful, who are shirking their loving duties. There are things they can do that would be way more effective than just some rando getting arrested or shot for staging a protest against the kiddie concentration camps.

Electric Bugaloo posted:

Another compaction cycle will happen she thinks. And that’s how I picture Prester Jane.

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Munkeymon posted:

No, I assume that'll happen either way, though there are degrees of 'riled up' and that's worth considering.

What I worry about is that the average person who cares more about their favorite sportsball or movie franchise than the kiddie concentration camps is going to see some version of 'Senate finds Trump not guilty' and say 'oh OK no crimes then 🤷‍♂️ I guess I can vote for the guy'. I think the way to prevent that is to make the crimes common knowledge, so the Senate is either forced to remove (super unlikely) or makes a bunch of average people mad that they're ignoring the crimes. Then he should at least lose pretty hard next year.

Ixjuvin posted:

Gonna stop lurking for a second to DEFEND MY E-HONOR - in my experience goon gaming sentiment is left wing as gently caress and certainly none of the groups I run with tolerate fascist bullshit.

e: also just saw his subsequent weird fanfiction post so lol if you trust this guy to give you an accurate picture of a pretty large and varied group of people.

Munkeymon posted:

Twitter's image processing could easily have done that - especially if his phone screen is on the small side.

https://twitter.com/Cats/status/1124826207617540096

Electric Bugaloo posted:

good loving god what the gently caress

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1129119218270691328

Ogmius815 posted:

I think the most reasonable conclusion here is that it’s a real acceptance letter. Sorry guys.

If it makes you feel better, I know a TON of unsuccessful people who went to Harvard. For example, my parents, who are wonderful lovely people but have literally no money or prospects for the future because of their terrible financial choices.

Bugsy posted:

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1129057317738242050

mango sentinel posted:

Please don't write weird fanfic about other posters

Rent-A-Cop posted:

My money is on spooge.

Pembroke Fuse posted:

Good to know its not a complete cesspit then, although now I'm operating on two conflicting second-hand opinions. :p

InsertPotPun posted:

Mango sentinel put their drink down and nodded, content with their place in the world. Nothing could go wrong. Suddenly the window burst inward, DOGGOLANCHE!!!

Push El Burrito posted:

Usually it's the other way around in my house.

mango sentinel posted:

Groovelord Neato posted:

powerful boomer energy.

https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1128064708488122368

Groovelord Neato posted:

powerful boomer energy.

https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1128064708488122368

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

A common chud talking point is how he's such a great public servant because he donates his Presidential salary--working for free.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1129090663419658242?s=19

Groovelord Neato posted:

powerful boomer energy.

https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1128064708488122368

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Video games will always draw a disproportionate amount of people with conservative mindsets because violent conflict is much easier to model and much more viscerally satisfying in games than peaceful cooperation, and appealing to and promoting narcissism and the obvious self-importance of the player above all other persons is fundamental to the medium.

gently caress video games.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

I'm fairly sure we aren't supposed to post people getting devoured by a pack of wild animals Doggolanche

Groovelord Neato posted:

powerful boomer energy.

https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1128064708488122368

mdemone posted:

Goddamnit I knew Angry Birds was going to turn me into a Nazi pig.

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Video games will always draw a disproportionate amount of people with conservative mindsets because violent conflict is much easier to model and much more viscerally satisfying in games than peaceful cooperation, and appealing to and promoting narcissism and the obvious self-importance of the player above all other persons is fundamental to the medium.

gently caress video games.

CuddleCryptid posted:

I have extremely mixed feelings over the fact that school shootings are so normal that survivors are growing up to be fash. Like, what do you do with them? Tell them to grow up and get therapy for their obvious PTSD?

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Video games will always draw a disproportionate amount of people with conservative mindsets because violent conflict is much easier to model and much more viscerally satisfying in games than peaceful cooperation, and appealing to and promoting narcissism and the obvious self-importance of the player above all other persons is fundamental to the medium.

gently caress video games.

CuddleCryptid posted:

I have extremely mixed feelings over the fact that school shootings are so normal that survivors are growing up to be fash. Like, what do you do with them? Tell them to grow up and get therapy for their obvious PTSD?

CuddleCryptid posted:

I have extremely mixed feelings over the fact that school shootings are so normal that survivors are growing up to be fash. Like, what do you do with them? Tell them to grow up and get therapy for their obvious PTSD?

nine-gear crow posted:

The kid was faschy before Stoneman Douglas ever happened. His dad was already moulding him into being the next Ben Shapiro and together they used the kid surviving a school shooting as the springboard to fame they were waiting for. It’s multiple levels of gross and ghoulish.

Bicyclops posted:

The puzzle-solving point and click adventures of the 90s were good. I wish Myst had become the model for more games like it. It's still out there (Cyan themselves are even still making them), but they don't have the AAA support they used to have.

Pembroke Fuse posted:

Good to know its not a complete cesspit then, although now I'm operating on two conflicting second-hand opinions. :p