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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social

chat is it good when Lovecraft works as real-life political theory

aug 28, 2025, 7:18 pm • 206 35

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Mourn the Weenie @m0urn-the-weenie.bsky.social

Chat, I have always been delighted to learn more about our reality, and to have our best and brightest forge paths ahead for the enlightenment of humanity. Why should I be afraid about facts?

aug 29, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
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a pound of flax @oatsmemento.bsky.social

finally, i’ll have a use for all these essentiale saltes i’ve been collecting

aug 28, 2025, 7:33 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ian @tadvish.bsky.social

We need zombie Founding Fathers haunting all this so called originalist

aug 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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crunkpetrol.bsky.social @crunkpetrol.bsky.social

"The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy."

aug 28, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social

the country has gone mad from the revelations of modernity and fled headlong into a new dark age, Howard Phillips was tragically spitting here

aug 28, 2025, 7:20 pm • 95 4 • view
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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social

The Last Test is about Gavin Newsom and a sinister mastermind who he unwisely gives great power. the sinister mastermind is also Gavin Newsom

aug 28, 2025, 7:24 pm • 24 0 • view
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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social

We were doing fine with modernity until some racists decided it wasn’t giving them enough power over the shitheap is the thing

aug 28, 2025, 7:22 pm • 14 0 • view
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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social

Still very lovecraftian in a sense

aug 28, 2025, 7:22 pm • 16 0 • view
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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social

yeah a guy who unleashes the eldritch horror on innocents out of short-sighted greed is not out of place in a Lovecraft story

aug 28, 2025, 7:30 pm • 23 1 • view
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Ian @tadvish.bsky.social

The gold is running out, it’s the Shadow over Innsmouth.

aug 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 12 0 • view
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benwasserman.bsky.social @benwasserman.bsky.social

Ok but are we counting or discounting the racism part of Lovecraft’s words? Because it can go either way.

aug 28, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view