…first time i heard ozzy playing in a grocery store twenty-five years ago, i knew my age had passed into history…

…my 2ZZ-GE has been great; this is the first time i’ve read a complaint about the 1ZZ…

…not until they file two doctors’ recommendations, a one-year waiting period, and two more notes from doctors…

…big boxes killed malls in the 2000s, the retail apocalypse killed big boxes in the teens, and covid put the nails in big retail’s coffin…

…powerhug!..

…handles about as well as a blimp, too…

…with uniformly-tessellating paper sizes, you’ll have cave geomorphs…

…you’ll put your eye out, kid…

…i give everyone i work with stickers when they do a good job, and they all go crazy for them: interns, bosses, the lot!..

…our CEO rolled his eyes at first and said they were patronising, then the entire staff catcalled him over it, so he changed his mind and loves getting stickers now, too…

^{(i think that’s half the reason why armed forces do ribbons)}

…industrial shredder: quick, efficient, good-enough for baby chickens, good enough for ICE agents…

…f*cking balls-out cartoon fascists…

…when i was growing up, my well-meaning parents pulled me aside to express their concern over a jewish friend dating a black friend; aghast at their comment, i immediately confronted them over its apparent racism, and they replied that they had nothing against it personally, but were instead concerned about what other people might think…

…they’re f*cking balls-out fascists fourty years later, and i want no part of them in my life…

…to anyone tempted to compromise their own best interests on behalf of what other people might think: don’t give them that kind of power over you, or they’ll drag you down in it…

…christians are f*cking evil and any good folks still riding that train need to debark and rebrand lest the be dragged into a hell of their own making…

…blue raspberry gatorade…

…what?..no, that’s blown HDPE: a translucent plastic bottle with syrup inside…

psyche

…astroturfing; good catch…

^{(i was trying to parse when bra-stigma had been a thing after the twentieth century)}

…mossad gonna mossad and FSB gonna FSB…

…it’s an okay movie: perfectly servicable Standard Hollywood Treatment^TM; competently written, directed, performed, and edited; genre trope in-jokes liberally sprinkled throughout…

…i believe most positive reactions stem from defying expectations that it be a bad movie, rather than actually being good…