Wants
by Phllip Larkin

Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:
However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards
However we follow the printed directions of sex
However the family is photographed under the flag-staff -
Beyond all this, the wish to be alone.

Beneath it all, the desire for oblivion runs:
Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,
The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
The costly aversion of the eyes away from death -
Beneath it all, the desire for oblivion runs.

People have been picketing the Tesla dealership in San Francisco. That seems like a good place to target on Presidents Day, too.

Sadly true – in more ways than one.

Please: It’s called getting a cornjob.

There’s a lot of reasons. Some got passively sucked into right-wing brainwashing by Fox News and talk radio. Some dove into fascist Internet rabbit holes.

But my guess is most are people who avoid political news and commentary, don’t really know what’s going on, and don’t really care unless there’s an election on, and even then only at the last minute; and they’re most influenced by the last, loudest message they heard before pulling the lever. Those folks stopped paying attention the day after the election, and they aren’t really. paying attention now. If you point out to them that eggs are still expensive, they’ll look back at you in confusion and say, “Are we still talking about that?”

“Um, are we curing plague? Or causing it?”

“Well, let’s see how the evening goes.”

Meanwhile, in the Delta Quadrant:

All that might be true, but I refuse to deny the possibility that Stormtroopers’ aim is especially bad when attempting to shoot at their secret crushes 😍 .

You’d. Better. Warp.

Pft, typical stormtroopers:

"Mi error!’

They tried everything they could, but…

“iMe preciosa!”

Everybody talks about artificial intelligence, but nobody ever talks about artificial buffness.

Screen Rant only records 16 love interests in total, and a few of those were under mind control/duress.

Everybody talks about the lens flares, but what about the chromatic aberrations? The spacial distortions? The vignetting? There’s so many other things that lenses can do wrong!

Uh oh, my fight plan is to cry/beg like MacGruber. Being 4,000 times less effective than that means I’d end up devolving into an actual jellyfish.

The gangs at the dog pound are getting out of hand. Gotta watch out for the Cavalier Latin King Charles Spaniels.

“Damn immigants stole ma’ bootstraps!”

It’s subjective, but I clearly remember saying Windows couldn’t get any worse around the time that (Microsoft was claiming that) Internet Explorer was irrevocably integrated with Windows 98.

Never believe it when someone says such-and-such can’t get any worse. Somehow it always can.