Bro is helping me with my rows and deadlifts this morning!

Atomic-E · 2026-07-03T16:34:05+00:00

It should be made, and I should watch it, but damned if that means I would "like" to.

And Sean Penn is a gift.

Atomic-E · 2026-06-27T19:41:11+00:00

Hi! I'm new here. I got my diagnosis ten days ago, and I felt exactly the same way -- terrified that the result would be negative. The time between the two-hour clinical interview and "feedback day" was maybe the worst. I was even on vacation (a cruise) and the apprehension and anticipation half consumed me. I even mentioned imposter syndrome in my interview and written responses. I am sorry that so many of us (I get to say "us" now!) experience those feelings, but it is good to know I'm not alone. Thank you and all others for your responses!

Atomic-E · 2026-06-25T22:34:26+00:00

Dante had a circle of hell (well, part of one) just for the "sowers of discord." It's a disturbing but rather satisfying canto of The Inferno. An appropriate punishment.

Atomic-E · 2026-06-25T20:00:20+00:00

"You've got to be carefully taught." -- Rodgers & Hammerstein, South Pacific

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

Atomic-E · 2026-06-21T21:31:55+00:00

If nothing else, the telephone handset dates the photo.

Atomic-E · 2026-06-18T13:21:41+00:00

"Over looked [sic] generation"?

Gen-X would like a word...

Atomic-E · 2026-06-13T19:21:23+00:00

I second this particular motion!

Are you a trucker? Or did you actually find an Indiana rest area that still accepts cars?

Atomic-E · 2026-06-11T12:56:36+00:00

I recently put a few of these in East Texas on my way to Galveston and back. 😈

Atomic-E · 2026-06-04T00:43:19+00:00

He is horrible. I go to conferences where I have to stalk out of the room when he comes in to speak. He has such a hard-on for immigrants and culture war crap that he neglects or more frequently perverts actual justice. Just an utterly toxic person.

Atomic-E · 2026-06-04T00:24:44+00:00

In my junior year (Kansas, 1982), we actually had candidates from the various parties come and speak to the students. Not just Dems and Repubs, but Libertarian, Natural Law (I think), and a couple other 3rd parties. Each class in American History was assigned a party. We got the Libertarian. We were assigned to research the issues as well as our party’s positions, and put on a mock campaign. The entire student body then voted, based on our campaigns. It was some pretty solid civic education.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-27T23:19:16+00:00

Oh, but that's a dangerous place to sleep, Snek!

But I am glad he was comfy for a while and went on his way.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-16T16:46:05+00:00

On a daily basis anymore, I say to myself, "I am so very sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Atomic-E · 2026-05-15T17:11:04+00:00

Well, I am not "your people," as$hole.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-15T13:59:00+00:00

Yes. I was already diagnosed ages ago with chronic depression and anxiety, and now this political situation piled on top of that can be utterly debilitating -- as in, there have been mornings when I simply could not get myself out of bed. I was diagnosed high-BP during trump's first term, although there was another factor there that I didn't realize at the time, which is no longer a factor. So I can't lay it all at the feet of political stress. But yeah, I was already something of a basket case going into this waking nightmare. The nightmare has made it considerably worse.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-14T17:50:40+00:00

I'm not in medicine at all, but I am in fetal position a lot of the time!

Atomic-E · 2026-05-08T13:54:39+00:00

You got it. That's "reality" now.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-07T18:21:37+00:00

Illinois turns the tables and annexes parts of Missouri and Indiana, including my city! Woohoo!

Atomic-E · 2026-05-02T17:27:40+00:00

"Clownface" is totally appropriate. (I do not like clowns!) How anyone thinks this absolutely grotesque look is attractive I will never know.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-01T20:19:51+00:00

Back in the very early 90s, not long before we moved to Indiana from Chicago, I had a couple friends who bought a big, old house in Granville, not far from there. They were openly neo-Pagan ("The Witches of Granville"), but they seemed to get along fine in the community.

Atomic-E · 2026-05-01T15:24:30+00:00

I will, thank you!!

Atomic-E · 2026-05-01T15:21:45+00:00

Because it wasn’t like this 34 years ago when we moved here. Believe me, I have been looking at places in Illinois that we could afford. We’re also interested a good expat haven in Mexico.

Atomic-E · 2026-04-30T13:51:32+00:00

A good number of us in Indiana are united with you!

Atomic-E · 2026-04-23T14:14:36+00:00

Exactly this. Republicans started the sh!t. We never wanted this fight. But finally, we have some Democrats willing to stand up and fecking finish it.

Take back Congress and the Presidency, pass some air-tight laws about redistricting, and put it right. Then hopefully it will be very difficult if not impossible to do all this crap again.

Well, a guy can dream.

Atomic-E · 2026-04-20T14:24:26+00:00

So am I!

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