A lot of my ambivalence about technology comes down to oscillating between two poles: 1. I want to live in the Federation world from Star Trek 2. We actually live in the Weyland-Yutani world from Alien
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A lot of my ambivalence about technology comes down to oscillating between two poles: 1. I want to live in the Federation world from Star Trek 2. We actually live in the Weyland-Yutani world from Alien
Gonna open a goth bakery and call it Bela Lugosi's Bread
amazing shot!
oh god
Time for a weird confession: I like being a reply guy. Specifically I like it when someone's curious about something but too busy to look it up. I can go look it up respond and feel like I saved them a little time. I sit at my desk and look like this:
yeah, it does say something about the state of things. There will probably be another picture of this guy and we'll see some awful tattoo or something, but the badge at least is legit.
The U.S. Customs Service was established in 1789, so for once this isn't some right wing militia thing, thankfully. A lot of their badges has that year in it.
Eleanor Rigby
oh god. you're right.
Marc Maron lamenting how the jock types have taken over comedy is how I feel about the entirety of the internet right now tbh 😂 Every new popular streamer or creator gives off total jock vibes now and it sucks imo
Supporters praying: “Please, let him be okay!” Folks, if RFK Jr. is his doctor, thoughts and prayers are ALL you’ve got.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
"Guards reportedly used tear gas and indiscriminate beatings to regain control of the facility when an unknown number of suffering captives began to revolt,"
I mentioned that I'm also John Cutter--a pen name. I am working with this outfit, AR, and this gent--a Ukrainian who worked in Russia for years, as a producer. (Now in USA). When he publicly denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he was prosecuted in absentia. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
There's not really any way to explain the esoteric neo-Nazi death cult the Minneapolis shooter was part of without sounding like a complete lunatic, which sucks because all the people who want to turn this into Transphobia Kristalnacht don't care about sounding like lunatics at all.
Whenever I see someone I dont like get a lot of positive attention online. I have to remember that they are not getting g attention tonight for who they are, but who they pretend to be.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7N... "Baby, do you have a light? What's it like...in o-haio"
"Do you like chiles in Ohio?" "But munyeca. Yo te ciaro..."
Well now I HAVE to see this in the theaters.
How more obvious can they get? Putin gave him an order--get rid of this guy, he's finding out too much--and Trump followed the order. When will people accept that Trump is a Russian espionage asset? They've owned him since they bailed out his business back in the 80s.
may the rooooad rise with you
"How Comedy Became a Dystopian Imperial Hell World" by The Elephant Graveyard
this one was dire to watch. I knew Rogan was bad, but his acolytes... holy shit
Yeah, pretty sure it was, but it was 93-94. I don't remember much, they played Stigmata at least once a night and I never complained, and I always had to stay alert because some normal looking dude would want to fight. And the ride home, windows down, blasting whatever was on 97X
There was a club in Cinci that had a 'goth night' in otr when I lived there decades ago, but it wasn't. the goths would all kind of cluster in the back of the club. the front was swimming in choads In SF my first goth club was Dead Guild when SOMA was a warzone
All those folks stockpiling weapons in case the U.S. government comes for them are strangely silent right now.
likewise! I love hackers
"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."
Oh, I'd love to be at the SRL yard sale today. Unfortunately, 3,000 miles away.
I was 13 at a concert with my dad. I saw 2 women holding hands, and giggled and said to my dad "why are they holding hands?" My dad looked confused, then said, like it was no big deal, "Oh, probably because they're in love" and I was like, oh that makes sense, and that was the end of that.
It's the little bits of light in the world that keep the darkness from being overwhelming, like Tom Smith filking up a song about Snoopy fighting C'thulhu on the instigation of another filker. tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/snoopy...
I get this, but it burns me that we're talking like this, and not saying "the guy that we caught cheating the last election also probably cheated this election, because the people around him learned from their mistakes."
this poem showed up in my email box via Patreon and is making my afternoon.
To the person in the group who got bitten by the zombie and is hiding it: just go off somewhere by yourself man. Things are very stressful and it's doubtful they're going to come up with a cure for zombieism in the next 20 minutes
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial: "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct … strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
Look, I really don't give a damn about your Cracker Barrel logo. I just want the pedophiles and rapists out of the White House.
Just saying.
as a random AI aside, I kinda wonder if we'll start peppering all our discourse with intentional misspellings and archaic words like "Quicklier" to make it clear our writing is authentic
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as an Iain M. Banks fan, it pains me that Musk is also a fan and names SpaceX vehicles after his spaceships. Banks would have despised him.
James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.
California is a donor state. We gave $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we got back. Texas and Arkansas are recipient states. They received more from the federal government than they gave. Facts matter.
I can feel it. This next election will be the one where yelling at the left to fall in line despite zero concessions finally works.
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
I truly truly think that the only social media platform that will ever resist this kind of heel turn will need to be created and run by black trans sex workers. These three categories of people are almost always the first people on a new platform and also the first to be evicted.
Honestly have a hard time reading contemporary crime fiction because of crypto / nft / cyber depictions. They’re almost all very, very bad. The one I was reading now had a plot point where signal is an app only used for shady stuff, like texting the mafia. I had to put it down lol
Wish I could like this comment more. You hit the nail on the head
Is it too much to hope J.D. Vance’s next book is entitled “Political Career Elegy”?
He's right, but if you know me well you know how much it kills me inside to repost gavin fucking newsome
Trump 2028 isn’t a joke. Donald Trump doesn’t believe the rules apply to him, and he’ll do anything in his power to hijack a 3rd term. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
If you are a company who is worried about a big boycott from a religious group just remember that because they are people they are mostly hypocrites and you don’t have to actually do what they say. They will still patronize your business!
I'm just thinking *everyone* else in the room had their "I am Sparticus" moment and they ALL fucking blew it
The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.
Slightly diminish a band: The Palliative Care
(delete overly large Watchmen gif I didn't realize would be that large) I share the sentiment, at least.
it is really funny that Elon Musk can't even win an argument on the website he owns with the AI he owns as arbitrator
besides being a net loss for culture and the media, the complete retreat from arts criticism is an act of cowardice. It’s acquiescence to power, a signal that if there will be any problems it won’t be due to someone forming an opinion about what the powerful are putting out into the world
that's the objective of the project2025 people for sure
his objection is Big Balls, some 20 year old he gave everyone's Social Security numbers to, got his ass kicked by two 15 year olds at 3am on a weeknight over a bad drug deal. that or he's a real estater at heart, and wants to clear homeless to raise house prices so he can sell off the Smithsonian
So Trump is unleashing the military on the poor & homeless of DC because "Big Balls" got his ass kicked while trying to score drugs at 3am. Sounds about White.
Oh my god. It's all so stupid. Martial law over a bad drug deal
yuuup. we live in the stupidest timeline. "Big Balls" got his ass kicked trying to score drugs by two fifteen year old kids, and we get a military occupation of our capital.
'troops occupy US capital' is shorter and says all it needs.
it's social media, we don't need to be perfect, I think.
this is a small joy, but one i'll cling to
ah right, the bonus army, right?
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
It's 2025 and we have military troops occupying our capital. wtaf
Remember when the fall of Roe was unthinkable? That’s like the voting thing.
Usually, if you ask experts why an empire collapsed, they’ll give you a nuanced, multifaceted answer. Kind of cool that with America, future historians can just say, “Oh, they took the idiot train straight to Moronsville.”
What the actual fuck
feels like they're telling on themselves, tbh
"did you hear he wor-"
Going to listen to this now. I've been so psyched by the post-punk revival. DITZ's new album I listened to death.
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I cant believe we are now at a point where one party is openly and brazenly saying they are going to gerrymander to stay in power, and as a result gerrymandering is now treated by the pundit class as just a valid political strategy. The normalization happened so fucking quickly my head hurts.
Democrats just beg for money that goes into the pockets of consultants. Republicans straight up massage the amygdala of every fucking person in the country. And they don't care about consistency. A month before the election they were screaming about Hattians eating cats. Now... nothing.
*My working theory about the Ancient Roman Multitool is that it wasn't so much a handy swiss-army jacknife as a medical badge-of-office *If some doctor hauled that gizmo from a saddlebag, awful things were about to happen to you www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
this is gorgeous!
I still remember my great uncle Kenneth saying of the man I was named after: "Oh, he was a ne'er-do-well!" and laughing at the idea I was named after him. My dad's jaw dropped. Like he wanted to go back in time and name me something else. I still grin when I think about it.
"Art is never finished, it is merely abandoned" -- attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
Remember. When you're talking about "The Narrative" we're talking about propaganda.
this is a disgrace and a national shame
It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers
Dear Democrats: Stop overthinking it. You hold blue states—so use them. Redraw. Expand. Dominate. Don’t match their maps—obliterate them. And if you want to actually stand for something, endorse Mamdani. You’re welcome.
You know. I don't think I trust white girls that aren't GOTH.
chainsaw man's legitimately great. and it's definitely a criticism of the shounen power fantasy stuff
American leftists have such a weird negotiation with self-image and colonialism whereby every waking moment is spent trying to absolve their personal character of culpability.