I feel strongly that if your food and media preferences align with another's, you are taste buddies. That's what it's called from here on out. I'm so happy for you/sorry that happened depending on how you take this news.

Sometimes we must separate the art from the artist. By force, if need be. The terminal point of the grim calculus of shared human experience tainted by the sin of the originator. Art outlives us all. Even Ozymandias' weathered self-exhortation had value beyond his understanding, will, or reach.

Phlegm, Lethargy, Aches, Growths, Ulcers, Exsanguination - the Mnemonic Plague

... So I just had a morbin thought.

Blue Sky having a Saturday

Mathematicians missed a real trick when they failed to name an inverted/negative angle a devle.

Did you know you can have infinite, unlimited wordle without patronizing the NYT? You forget your power. It waits for you, drink deeply of it. It is but a search away.

Remember, I say, remember the basics of cqc, boy, you'll end up in a world of hurt without 'em, I say, boy!

it's not FOR us

We must imagine Sisyphus raging at hills, believing that pushing the boulder to the top was an insult to them in retaliation for their plot to usurp the sun by rising into the sky.

Proposal We re-boot the entire internet. The only form of communication now available is MUDs.

"Fortune favors the prepared" is one of the best quotes one can internalize and build off of. It produces real results when you actually put this little bit of advice into action.

We’re living though the Misanthropocene

If anyone ever tells you that regulations are hurting capitalism, remember that capitalism is in the business of hurting you, for money.

Capitalism forces rule of the most selfish and least competent. 1. Winners emerge in Capitalism's system. 2. They corrupt government with excess capital. 3. They then use govt. to self-entrench and remove competition. 4. Society rots as there is no failure state for the winners. It's that simple.

The stomach is best known as an oofy doofy little tum tum who desires the carbs

bsky.app/profile/robe... long thread but worth the read. Posted day of the shooting and shows exactly what's up on the extreme far right most people aren't even aware is a real thing

The writing on the wall covers the surface so heavily that it has mostly overlapped, the next phase is that the sky will start singing Latin. Those who fucked around still aren't reading, but that's no surprise. When competent people take up arms against you, you have doomed yourself.

Bad week for mouthpieces. Let's have more of those.

If AI is so good at effusive, meaningless statements based on glancing at a chart or two and can't physically be, say, a sex pest, I think AI would be perfect for replacing CEOs.

Let it never be said that I am not a memer.

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

I'm feeling okay about the current situation. I've got a poli sci degree, so I know that none of these things that are happening are actually allowed to happen. So it's fine.

Turns out billionaires are just apes. Maybe we shouldn't let a small handful of apes direct our future.

There has been an urgent development; - Chimothee Towelamet - You may now carry on.

More relatable every day

*to the tune of Jesse's Girl* Chekhov's gunnnn.... I wish that I had Chekhov's gun, So I could use it by the third act!

I've ascended past the highest peak, mortals

The creeping omnipresence of AI is going to make daily life a lot like this video, except we don't get the ending. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmvM...

You want an easy answer but... there aren't any. Forever perusing down the aisle of discontent, sold the lie of a solution to your lament.

You can tell Samwise Gamgee was more of an employee or social dependent to Frodo than a friend because when it came time for him to carry Frodo, he didn't say "Sure, I'll carry ya Mr. Frodo, ya fat fuck, how many taters you had lately anyways?" while hoisting Frodo onto his back.

Star-aligned haters just can't help it

People who don't care create societies that don't care, it's that simple. Giving up and checking out is the cause.

All I know about sports is you don't talk shit about the Decatur Fists.

Sometimes what unnerves me the most is the Gen X urge I see to name their kid something like Xackary

"Babe, can you call my wallet? I can't find it." "Ok, one minute."

Hell? Yeah, brother.

we tiredbossin' 'round here.

Turns out God is a version of Roko's Basilisk

In service of always remembering that every moment is in service of pretending

Go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.

What if I don't have insomnia, I just have enemies nearby twice a week in the wee hours?

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe, born on this day in 1943

That which never was, and yet still causes suffering.

They talk about how Rome fell apart because people started caring too much about art and not enough about Real Stuff or whatever, but living through the ~current moment~ is convincing me Rome was already falling apart and, as a result, everyone HAD to care too much about art.

It's easy to be superhuman. Simply be above this shit.

Trump is exactly what they wish they could be: an absolutely shameless bigoted lying asshole who never experiences consequences for his appalling behavior. They can’t get away with this bc of unfair liberal things like their HR dept. They vote for Trump to punish the people who restrain them.

Apocalypse Wow

Jerkury's in reprobate

I, Take Man, have hijacked this account to deliver a take! Sean Combs wasn't convicted on three of his counts because enough American men believe those crimes were rad and wouldn't want to be punished for them, and enough American women believe the victims got themselves into it. Take Man, AWAAAAY!