that bitch eating eggs in my escalade (eggs)

when u see someone else getting a lot of success and admiration and youre feeling envious take a deep breath and remind yourself that there is only so much love and happiness in the world and they are hoarding it

philosophers only want one thing and it’s discussing

cancer is a perfect biological model for what fascism is, what it does, why it’s incompatible with life, and why it must be killed before it kills its host

i've invented another way out other than through. i call it "under"

catholicism is wild cos like you get a job at the god store and they make you a brother then eventually you get promoted to dad

none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too

On 9/11 something really violent happened and the right wing immediately made a huge power grab while scapegoating and actively discouraging critical thought about the matter. As you can see a lot has changed since then

"Charlie Kirk was a huge piece of shit, but his extrajudicial killing violates the high principles to which America should aspire, even though these were principles Kirk hated and feared." There, I wrote your response, how fucking hard was that

This is genuinely repulsive

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

ill keep saying this but before i die which is going to be pretty damn soon id like to see a guy who has selected a good deal on chicken thighs any time in the previous five years get a turn behind the wheel

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

there's a powerful moment of human connection I feel when I learn about a big mountain and I find out the name translates to "big mountain"

Great pains, small gains for those who ask the world to solve them; it cannot solve itself.

When I was in Los Angeles during the George Floyd protests, the cops would drive a patrol car up to the crowd, get out, fall back, and let the protesters advance their line past the car. In any crowd that large someone was inevitably going to start defacing the cop car.

yesterday was the day, if you waited until today, you are fucked

They're trying to convince everyone that building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system is more realistic than increasing the capital gains tax

While there is a lowbie class, I am in it, while there is a cringe element I am of it, while there is a reply guy in poster's jail I am not free

Helicopter Mom Asserts Airspace Claims

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

i don't have a dog in this fight but Gavin Newsom seems like he really wants to use a toddler as a human shield, while Pete would only do so if programmed in advance

Cleaning out my desk and inadvertently opening the 'letters from ex girlfriends' file

Just a polite reminder that we owe the concept of zombies to voodoun/Haitian cultures as an externalization of the fear of being compelled to labor beyond what was supposed to be the Absolute Freedom of death.

Every day I find a new reason to be glad that I don't know what anyone is talking about

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carried down alive to wondrous depths

Pilot over the intercom: uhhhhhhh we are all just flesh. We exist so briefly.

The liquor store by my house has an animist shrine in it but they won’t let me make an offering at it even though I believe that stuff is guys just as much as they do

'I've just finished writing a Jesuit sci-fi' 'wow is it going to be an exploration of conscience and theology in a context echoing the historical experiences of jesuit missionaires' *hiding my cover image of a Jesuit holding a laser and kissing a space babe alien* 'why yes'

legend of zelda: a link to the past puzzle solved sound effect as i push the last deck chair into place and the titanic stops sinking

It sucks so bad that you have to be a cop to be a detective

Universities that prioritize “commercializable” fields over the humanities have long had it exactly backwards. Maybe one thing that comes out of all this is that we’ll finally realize this.

battlecher galactica

Ants are the little explorers of my house

I didn’t really come into my own as a boy genius until I was about 34

What if a "generation" is fundamentally a meaningless way to characterize tens of millions of people? then what

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

Modern "tech" is full of dudes who watched the Instagram/Paypal/iPhone/etc. boats sail without them and make their inventors/investors disgustingly wealthy, and refuse to believe there's no one, final ship, just for them.

By the time you hit 35 your feelings are supposed to have calcified into one kind of big grey thing that you feel all the time

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

I am again calling for the next generation of leadership to be steely-eyed puritans who hate corruption in every form.

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

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