when the "dirty work" royalties hit

A fun commission for Jerez about an architect building a maze.

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

WHAT THE FUCK MAN

'Harvest Fox Spirit' (messenger of Inari, kami of the crops) - Shoson Ohara, ca. 1910. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

when the reference dropped in one battle after another

Their strategy here is “Win over elderly reactionaries or bust”, and it’s helpful to understand that for them, “bust” means “very well-remunerated post-politics job with corporate donor” or at worst, “period in opposition, then try again with exactly the same shit”.

Signs and Meteors by Joan Miró, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137475

C’mon, man. LOL. What are you doing

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.

The Brit Card: Nobody asked for it, it wasn’t in the election manifesto, it’s unclear why anyone would want one and the malicious uses for it are obvious, and loads of people hate the idea, but you know what? *Fuck you*, that’s what. We’re in charge. Fuck. You.

'Labour plans to make it easier to keep slaves'

Trump demands release of hostages in front of the UN, as his regime captures and disappears 1800 detainees.

at a friend’s wedding recently we were trying to think of the funniest possible song to request at the reception and we settled on Even Flow

if you have a Christian family you’ve been wanting to wordlessly abandon tomorrow would be a great day to do it

Conservative men are apparently pretending to be liberal and then "coming out" to their progressive girlfriends after dating for months

every "ancient tradition" was invented between 1848-1870 and every "modern perversion" is so ancient that it predates writing

Did a CEO draw this

journalists are still obsessing about charlie kirk and trump's back to, "i coulda banged Markie Post back in the day"

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

Siri what is a mistrial

"Our position remains this: We want to keep legs intact by engaging in bipartisan negotiation where we can address some of the grave harms this bear has caused to my arms." - Schumer negotiating with a bear that is eating him

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

it's so cool SO COOL so incredibly cool that everyone spent the past two days absolutely freaking out that leftists saying "RIP bozo" was an escalation of political violence while these jackoffs were just openly going "we get to round half the country up and shoot them now, right??? please????"

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

Ice cream trucks should cruise around playing soft jazz at 2 AM

and that right there is the fucking problem.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

What do you mean "the unthinkable"? These are the only things you can think. "Ways to be cruel to refugees" is the only permissible way of thinking. The *unthinkable* would be something like "let's tell the right wing press to fuck off."

“Centrists”: We support enriching the police state because it’s necessary to suppress the left. Nazis: We’re grabbing that police state and ramping it up 4000% with a lawless paramilitary coup, concentration camps, and an apocalyptic bloodbath. “Centrists”: Oh. Well see that’s the leftists’ fault.

[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]

Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters. This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.

The English flagophiles have me thinking of Patrick Freyne's analysis from 2021... #speirgorm

Trump, dying: They don’t actually want you to know tomatoes is fruit. The woke pyramid tells you it’s vegetable. We love sandwich. Beautiful turkey, some ham, does very well. The Swiss have been treating us poorly for decades, charging for the whole slice

this is what's so strange to me. the news has a material incentive to sensationalize, and this is huge stuff without any exaggeration. is journalistic ideology really that impenetrable?

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

aware my followers might not know about uk flag politics. basically if a guy flies the union flag (🇬🇧) he has really strong views on anthony eden's handling of the suez crisis. if a guy flies the england flag (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) he's saying that he's thrown a can of foster's at somebody's head at 11:30 am*

“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”

I'm really not a flag guy, not for any flags really. but having lived through the scottish indyref and endured accusations of jingoism and flaggery and blood-and-soil from THESE SAME PEOPLE, this present iteration of their 'patriotism' is especially emetic

The papers really can make this guy say anything.

It looks like the ruling classes of country after country have looked at a choice between a) “mostly neoliberalism, but now without you” and b) “mostly neoliberalism but with Hitler, and you get to stay on as the tame opposition” and they have all been palm-slamming button b) like its Hungry Hippos.

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