Eh? Eh? (expectant waiting for laughter)

Meme-ento mori.

Remember to meme.

Help something blew up while I was distracted

Can someone please explain to me why Amanda Palmer is being cancelled? I have seen nothing except "she's racist" usually followed by misogyny and then antisemitic attacks on her husband and... whaaaa?

Still fuzzy on the details, help appreciated

So let me get this straight. Amanda Palmer harassed a journalist. This is like, objectively bad.

And instead of talking about that, people are... calling her the c word and overall being massively sexist, complaining about her music like that's in any way relevant to the situation, and pulling receipts from like 2006?

I just. This is the loudest group of activists we can muster? People who sound, frankly, like a woke version of the cult I lost my middle sibling to?

It's "eat the rich" not "eat your own" damnit

Guess what! If your standard for people is "hasn't said anything problematic ever" or even "hasn't said anything problematic for at least twenty years" then LITERALLY EVERYONE will fail! It's just that some people will fail without you knowing it because they said that shit in private and not on a stage in front of ten thousand people!

I am a bona fide trans person, got the gender marker change paperwork to prove it and everything, I've been active in the queer community for like fifteen years. And still! If you do enough digging, you will find out that I (le gasp) used "tranny" as a derogatory word in like 2009! Ooooooh, go ahead and cancel my cripplefag retarded bitch ass, why don't you! Run me out of the country, harass my family too while we're at it because how dare they associate with me! Who cares if the kids starve, that's better than being raised by a ~morally impure~ person like me!

[swears at everyone in foreign]

Literally every Russian person in the US I know - and I know quite a lot - has straight-up stopped saying "I'm Russian" to people. Like, they are using the 1/64 Polish or whatever ancestry they have to call themself anything else, or even just straight-up lying.

Conservatives still hate them for the whole "communism" thing. Liberals hate them for Putin's crap, nevermind that none of them voted for the dude in the first place. (Russia's elections, by the way? Rigged. It's common knowledge there.)

I mean, if you were actively trying to create a violent cult of Russo-supremacists, this is how you'd do it.

This is about a local event I just got invited to

Man, I know that nothing can be made perfectly accessible for everyone.

And that a community center needs money to function.

But I don't know, having an event specifically for a population with some of the highest rates of alcohol abuse not only in a bar, but also with a requirement that you buy multiple alcoholic drinks as part of your entry ticket?

It sure beats the reverse!

I know that most people who work in customer service develop a customer service persona. (Custsersona? No, that's pretty bad.)

I have a "dealing with customer service persona". Unfailingly polite, upbeat, always "don't worry, let's just get this fixed, take as much time as you need", making sure to compliment them to the manager, that sort of thing, even when I'm about two seconds away from bloody murder.

I have never worked in customer service. I'm not sure where I got this.

Please let me quietly hate the Mona Lisa in peace

I wish that "I hate this thing" could exist as a separate concept from "this this is inherently bad" or "this things needs to stop existing" or "this thing is bigoted somehow" in social justice-y spaces.

Sooooooo fluuuuuuffyyyyyyy!

Okay, I've never been a Pokemon person.

But the furfrou looks? All the different colors and styles? A+ job there.