A few people were clued into that reference, I see…

I like the Escher-inpired painting placements, too.

For a short time.

When you go so “minus Garfield,” you invent a new horseshoe theory.

The backwards feet and dough-kneading of her knee juxtaposed with the Escheresque dock and misplaced ripple are a paragon of paradox. Confusion meets solemnity. The dress is a cage. Menudo.

More people need to know about the Pipe Strip.

Fhqwhgads?

Even better, he said “I have moral armor.”

Your head aches as you reach for your coffee. You flick your mousepad quickly to avoid having the words seared on to your retinas. Roll with disadvantage.

I’m already on a list.

rebuild capitalism

Replace, yes?

And even then, you need to ask if it contains egg.

You have to know the rules in order, perchance, to break them.

Words brought into English can use English pluralisations, so you’re not wrong if you say octopuses. I think Grammar Girl had a take on this maybe 7 or even 8 years ago by now. These days, I can’t see myself getting worked up about it for the sheer fun of being pedantic like I used to.

We’re well past it meaning anything. These rebukes, reprimands, and censures are political theater. Fascists laugh when you use the rigged system against them.

And does so begrudgingly.

Totally willing to help the very needy…pharma bros get a piece of that sweet, sweet government pie. Why let government do anything when outsourcing to private capital helps me buy my yach…er…feed my kids.

Wise fwom yo gwave.

They wouldn’t want to, because it doesn’t matter to them. It makes their bogeyman Trump even scarier, and keeps that desperate cash flowing to their campaign coffers so both parties can play off one another while robbing the country, and the global South, blind.

I think you already know the reason is money. Exploiting others isn’t demonized, it’s celebrated as “innovative” and “clever” and “entrepreneurial spirit.” That is the system, held up, and propagandized by, the exploiters. We’re taught that violent protest is “uncivil” or “barbaric,” because it’s the only thing that truly threatens the system, which otherwise holds a monopoly on violence, to prop up that system.