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I know at least some of this is rhetorical, but: it's a resolution of cognitive dissonance. There are two contradictory beliefs: they were right and good to vote as they did, and they on some level know unpleasant things will happen, some of which may well be among the actual reasons for their vote.

Some people are willing to be openly cruel, but many aren't, and so they resolve this by doubling down on the choice and downplaying the cruelty. (Openly cruel people may still espouse the rationalization, to keep people on board.) We/liberals/people aren't upset because we (and people we care about because they're also people) are going to be hurt, we're just upset because we don't like them. Their choice can still be right and good; it's other people who are the problem.

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Feeling super amped up that we got Executive Director, Julie Packard, and Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Margaret Spring joining the trend to tell you all about the based things at our Aquarium. They truly were the moment💅✨🌊

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the nap was always the important part

People don’t even want to say le sigh anymore. le sigh

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being a Black woman is hearing “save us but don’t LEAD us” a thousand ways and a thousand thousand times

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the California DMV has a *wild* alphabet book

Customer: (not on record) DMV: P-PUSSY, VULGAR Verdict: ACCEPTED

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#chappell roan: 2, paparazzi: 0

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In a way, it’s actually really cool. I hear there’s just about anything by the roads, fun things to see you might never see again or anywhere else!

one time I was out in west Texas with my dad and his friend and one of them saw maybe a cool rock? by the road and we pulled over and walked back to it and it was an old leather glove

but honestly yes I love longer drives without time pressure

Honestly, some things I look forward to experiencing in the United States when I inevitably go is the normal mediocre stuff. I mean, obviously the biggest biggest things I most look forward to are the things I'll actually plan my trip around (Monterey Bay Aquarium I will see you) but I dunno, I wanna see what else there is. I want to go to a Rainforest Cafe. I want to go to a Wendy's. I want to go to a Build-A-Bear and gawk at the prices. I wonder if Applebee's knows what gluten free means

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and the full video (oh noooo)

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twitter OP watching someone do the going down stairs behind the couch gag and thinking "whoa they're a kid now!!?"

Saving this screenshot so I could show my nonexistent child what ‘chronically online’ meant

# Fellas is it pedophile if I’m super tall and my partner is shorter than me 😔

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you gotta get the gender squirt gun and load it up with the gender fluid

if gender is a gun then what do you load it with?

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Anyone have the gif’s of the Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler lifting two of her teammates with ease.

I need them for um reasons lol

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Weirdness about frogs and names and Starfleet

A while back, there was news about three tiny frog species, called mini ature, mini mum, and mini scule (delight all around). Being no expert in frogs at all but generally interested in cute, unusual animals I went to look up what madlads (g/n) came up with the names. Among them, I noticed, was one called Mark Scherz. Which made me Question Things™, since Scherz is a German word for jest or joke. Didn't have time to look into it further though (and it's not that far out a name anyway).

Then, just the other day, another set of frogs was introduced to the world, this time with names of Starfleet captains, named thusly because their calls supposedly resemble sound FX from Star Trek. This being even more up my alley because it's cute, unusual animals AND Star Trek, I tried to find recordings and happened upon the names of the madlads (g/n) responsible this time - and again, Mark Scherz is among them.

This almost convinced that there is no such person and it's an in-joke by herpetologists, a fake persona they attach to scientific work that is a bit tongue in cheek (to MARK it as a SCHERZ, if you will). After all, there's a number of names used similarly in academia so there's precedence for this type of shenanigans. We have an entire member of parliament in the German Bundestag who isn't real.

And then, my feed here, on this webbed site tumblr dot com, of all places, saw fit to show me a post about the Starfleet froggies by none other than @markscherz and I don't know which reality I am in anymore.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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sorry Janeway but you're an amphibian again

Read more here.

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I make smallish biscuits and then I can have a (top) half with butter to enjoy while it's as hot and fresh as possible, then often a half with butter, then go through all the jams I have on hand. look biscuits are serious okay

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i'd love to see them try to play brennan off with music

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the thresher shark is the loam shark of the shark shape triangle (not to be confused with loan shark)

there are 3 types of shark

“Yea that’s a shark”, “what in the hell”, and “:3”

do you see the vision

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record scratch ivy freezes in the middle of wrangling an oil CEO into harley's circus cannon to shoot him into the superfund site—damn are we not interesting enough or does she just think we're heroes

(love the recent ivy comics; show/movie please please)

I'll probably watch Penguin at some point, but I was just realizing that I don't care about Gotham City without Batman (or Batwoman.)

That's why I wasn't into Joker, Gotham, Pennyworth(?), Gotham Knights etc. etc. etc. Gotham City and its villains are just not that interesting on their own.

Exception: I did love the GCPD comic by Brubaker, Rucka, et al. That was two of the best comics writers at the time just having fun telling cop stories.