Things You Just Don't Care About

it's open season on mysterious flying objects

If more immigrants traveled by balloon it would put to rest all the silliness about Trumpy walls. Balloons appear to be an underrated way of getting to the United States.

Let me try this out: a certain band I was unfamiliar with showed up in my algorithmic year-end wrap-up because they are one of my daughter’s favorites and so…I will have listen to them myself and get back to you.

― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, January 16, 2023 8:57 PM (one month ago)

uh, are you at liberty to reveal the name of the band?

(and is it Wallows?)

harry potter

Roald Dahl

The Telegraph losing their minds over that story, as you can imagine

Funnily enough I was reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my daughter at bedtime last week and did some on-the-go editing as I went. He was a bit of a mean-spirited prick, wasn't he.

I think that part of his work is very appealing to children, there’s nothing saccharine about it at all. There’s so many dark and disturbing plots! The witches killing children, the child-eating giants, the things that happen to the bad winners on the chocolate factory tour. On the one hand, this appeals to a child’s sense of thrill and fascination with things that scare them, but on the other you’re like reading this (as an adult) and wondering exactly how far removed he is from those Daily Mail columnists who despise children and call the police if they see them playing outside. I mean the works are generally good, the outrage is completely dull as per, but even as a child you know that stuff is harsh af.

https://clivedav184z.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/when-roald-dahl-met-kingsley-amis/

Thanks for that, what a prick!

When Two Pricks Meet

irony with Dahl is that i don't feel he missed out on a great career writing books for adults

Especially because he wrote quite a bit for adults (and it’s fantastically misanthropic material as well)

I used to work in a second-hand bookshop where old copies of his charmingly titled "Switch Bitch" were regularly on the shelves, and sold well to people obv. attracted by the author's name. "You're in for a disappointment or a shock" I always thought.

Horrible man. Famously anti-Semitic.

harry potter

― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, February 19, 2023 3:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Roald Dahl

― into the crypt of ray reardon (Matt #2), Monday, February 20, 2023 4:04 AM (five hours ago)

Being the one I read at the oldest age, the Dahl I most vividly remember is Boy, his autobiography of being relentlessly abused at boarding school. If JKR had read it, maybe we'd all have been spared

ChatGPT. Listening to someone prattle about this is like hearing them talk about crypto or their fantasy football team. I just don't care.

I used to not care about Harry Potter, but now I do at least care enough to never spend a cent on anything that makes JKR wealthier.

I just don't care about the Chinese government "spying" on us with TikTok and balloons.

Right, beard papa, both governments are constantly looking at both countries with countless satellites (and in lots of other ways).

There is nothing that a balloon can see that wouldn't get seen otherwise.

Also TikTok can't get anything of value that we aren't already providing to a hundred sources in a dozen ways whenever we interact with a phone or computer or tablet or phablet or tabputer or comphab or whatever. Or click "yes" on a user agreement or terms and conditions or whatever.

I am pretty sure that electronically speaking, I have already been as compromised as I am likely to get. I don't really have any secrets anyways, and if something bad was going to happen to me I suppose it already would have. Or it's going to happen anyway regardless of what I do or don't do.

(P.S. Hi, digital overlords! Hope you're doing well.)

yeah but can a sophisticated high-tech spy satellite stop a pigeon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6-LG5VpGk

marjorie taylor greene, hating marjorie taylor greene, funny memes about hating marjorie taylor greene

spelling the name correctly. etc

I almost added her (and all right wing presidential hopefuls) to my list of things I just don't care about. I'll seethe about them if they win, but I'm not into the emotional cost of being constantly outraged by shitty people.

This may be so obvious it doesn’t require mention, but Alex Murdaugh (and all other tabloid fodder sensationalist murder cases foisted on us by the media, past present and future)

Sue Gray

xp cosign; true crime is a scourge

Gwyneth fucking Paltrow and some shite about skiing.

if the vacuous celeb and the grasping middle-class ambulance chaser both got buried alive by a deadly avalanche and that was the end of the matter, then I would applaud avalanches.

Excerpts from this nonsense have been running uninterrupted on Sky News for the last 20-30 minutes.

still banging on about Avalanches in 2023, classic ilm

carmody to thread

where’s Snow Patrol when u need’em

like bringing up a finely aged excelsior vintage 2005 from the ilx basement

Lol

I know so little about this that at first I thought it was about the Colorado NHL team, and I know nothing about the NHL.

John fucken Wick movies

whether or not to ban TikTok

Every new Wes Anderson film is a "Things You're Just Not Sure If You Still Care About" for me.

Andy otm.

My kids like TikTok. Anything TikTok can get from me is already out there a thousand times over.

I am resigned to that fate. The horse has left the barn, and closing the door now would be pointless.

The way I see it is that we're all going to go to information hell anyway; why spend too much effort on getting ourselves out of the handbasket that almost everyone is in?

whether or not to ban TikTok

Two days ago I would have been with you, but after reading up on some of the Patriot Act ass bullshit they are trying to squeeze into this, I think it might behoove us all to care a little bit more. I don't give a shit if TikTok goes away, but I do give a shit about Congress using it as an excuse to expand their digital surveillance of citizens.

Oh yeah. Virginia is advancing a bill to require proof of age to access porn.

Sounds well intended in theory (won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?). But the idea of three or four million Virginians uploading their driver's license to PornHub?

"Alex, I'll take 'unintended consequences' for $200, please."

i'll upload your mom's driver's license, governor Youngkin

Lol. All my accounts shall henceforth be GlennYoungkinsMom69

Also "Youngkin" shall forever be code for und3rage inc3st, thanksbye.

A la santorum

'Virginia' means no one's been in ya

lol.

Also the only state flag that's rated PG-13

okay I have to admit I'm kinda glad that Paltrow won the ski trial^^^^^

I don't give a shit about her but the whole thing seemed bogus to begin with. If you don't want to get injured, go to the lodge and order a hot toddy

Donald Trump's court appearance.

Orange, sweaty, belligerent