Blackberries and blueberries if I’m eating them straight-up. If its berry-flavor, like in a syrup or something, its boysenberry 100%

Hey, I respect it. Glad to hear they are in solidarity

I have never been ashamed in just straight up throwing a book down if I’m not in pretty quickly. Not everything is going to be everyone’s taste, and classics of all genres can be dull if you don’t find the premise interesting. Too many books out there to slog through anything lol

I used to think Static-X was the heaviest, most badass band out there. I loved all of their stuff and bumped it daily up through high school. It’s funny, because there was like a ten year gap where they were very un-cool to everyone after that, but now they seem to be having a kind of resurgence with a new front man. Saw them live a few months ago and the venue was packed with a 50/50 split of zoomers and old farts

Chat Pile has been my newest obsession! Hope to catch their show sometime soon

They try to frame it as disrupting places of business or as a health concern because the meals being handed out aren’t regulated by any food service organization. This of course ignores the fact that Food Not Bombs were giving away meals outside of the public library, after hours, and the fact that the homeless population wouldn’t necessarily otherwise be able to get any food at all.

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. The whole movie is a trip, but specifically the Large Marge scene freaked me out for a long time growing up.

https://youtu.be/lPMSGTfK4Aw

Apologies. I’m not sure why the archived link isn’t working, but here is the original:

https://www.galvnews.com/news/ike-dike-funding-rejected-in-wasteful-spending-cut/article_fb07a0b1-d98c-56ee-be4a-8ac4bb71e74e.html

For more detail on the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2021/astroworld-no-escape-plan/

"One moment, Namrata Shahani had control over her body. The next, she did not.

Waiting for rapper Travis Scott to take the stage, she and those around her became one, trapped in an intensifying wave. They squeezed tighter, flesh against flesh, an imperceptible force pulling them deeper into the mass. Namrata grasped the hand of her older sister, Bharti, who asked, not for the first time, “Are you OK?”

Namrata, 20, couldn’t answer. It felt like she was drowning."

Whenever I introduce people to the concepts of Marxism, fascism, capitalism, etc., I start by recommending two books:

Wages of Rebellion by Chris Hedges

and

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

Both are written in very accessible language and both do a great job at not just explaining these economic/political theories, but also adding historical context to ground the theories in real-world actions.

Sitting in the upper part of the shopping buggy being pushed around Wal-Mart. Must have been 2 or 3.

Not just students looking towards going into college, but also faculty currently working for these universities. Over the past few years is become abundantly clear that the TX government isn’t interested in the education of their citizens. Faculty are making less money in TX, have less labor protections, have worse health are benefits, and so on and so forth.