Mass psychosis

Last night I dreamed I could fly, but I only used it to go to Dragonball Z LARPs and show up all the other players. Yeah you're sleeping with the GM and have a piece of paper that says your power level is really high, but I'm the only one actually flying around.

We're all just rats in a massive living global experiment conducted by Big Tech on our bodyminds, and the politicians and people in power who could actually do something about it are trying desperately to appease Big Tech instead

According to science, four-day weeks after a holiday are the longest weeks on earth. 🫠

Still haven't seen it reported in the state's paper of record, but the People's Lawyer Keith Ellison just put out a press release condemning this bullshit:

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

There can be a terrible helplessness to being the smartest one in the room.

Statue identified as Osiris the Time Lord (Osiris Chronocrator), possibly from the Janiculum Sanctuary in Rome. Late 2nd century CE, now in Palazzo Massimo. The friendly snake, wrapped around the god, may symbolise the endless cycle of death and rebirth. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology #snakes

I think Amazing Stories had an all-time great TV intro. youtu.be/yinCgjSlNC4?...

they kidnapped de blasios daughter because he told them no horse units in response to the 2020 blm protests

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

You can tell the late 90s was a real different time in re: our optimism about the internet, because hoo boy Commissioner, the last decade has been rough for the thesis that "the free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny"

CONFIRMED: The Wonka Scotland Oompa Loompa girl has formerly withdrawn from President Trump's America 250 concert.

One of the things that makes me think we're not going to make it is seeing a regime that is super openly proudly wielding government power to punish and regulate speech and then seeing people say "well this wouldn't have happened if the government could punish and regulate speech more."

This is my latest fascination. Everything about it. It’s also become my new thing to say instead of the risible ‘it is what it is.’ “Forget it, Jake. It’s potato.”

Even now we promote children into adults through the power of bureaucratic transubstantiation and that is because you can treat them worse after that. You just magically rob them of a few years of assumed innocence and then it’s basically like whatever. www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-cr...

Last night I dreamed there was a screaming corpse in the woods that no one wanted to do anything about, because it was too scary.

A ca. 4,500-year-old seed bag from #Egypt, made from reed-grass. It's still in fantastic condition due to the arid desert climate. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me

are there a lot of five foot five guys out there who get deeply offended whenever anybody says the median U.S. adult male height is 5'9" because it doesn't reflect their lived experience.

I think I personally would have fired a client that wanted to turn depositions into some sort of brawl.

These goons are making war upon the People of the United States of America

GEEZUZ

the church is going to love it when we make a robot dog a folk saint

Those giant pickups are stupid and I wonder how many of them are underwater.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Remember the old days of forums when they allowed people to have multiple massive images or even animated gifs in their sig files? They should add that to Twitter. Not here though.

About once a month I randomly think about this post and just have an overwhelming rush of feelings.

I should try playing Pantheon of Woe in 11th. I only have to paint two minis to have a credible army for that, I think.

indeed, one of the core structural failings of our society is that the schedule's younger people must live by are set by older people according to *their* needs schools, workplaces with younger staff, etc start early because that's what seems right *for the people who design the institutions*

So the reason I have missed so many calls the last few days is that my phone decided it doesn't ring anymore.

I've been reading a lot of 80's paperback horror, specifically those huge 500+ page epics where you meet an entire town full of characters right before they're devoured / mutated / go mad, etc., so I felt inspired to paint a paperback novel cover for one that doesn't exist!

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

the wikipedia image for sexual roleplay is making my lose my mind

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

My 7 year old iphone has worked perfectly fine this entire time until I did the latest update like a dumb ass and now it's a fucking piece of shit. I shouldn't have to shell out $1,000 just because a company felt like it was time to get it. Not sure if that sounds as "the economy" or not.

Unnoticed by whom?

Something really ridiculous that I want is a set of Invader Zim miniatures, with a version of each character modeled after the actual show, and an alternate version modeled after how Dib sees everyone in the intro to Enter the Florpus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3RC...

I am the first one to ever ask: what if Stargate was also XCOM? Well, except for everyone else who has asked that. Those don't count.

I had a thought on the way home and I can't tell if I'm being a paranoid lunatic. If the demand for AI output is far lower than is required, but all these data centers are still being built and consuming all this water etc. What else could you do if you threw that much processing power at it?

So, mini painting this last weekend: I have finished the Pestigors for Darkwater. I didn't like painting them and they aren't good. But they are done and that gets me closer to playing the game! Second image is my various Hasslefree minis for Frostgrave. I love them.

I have finished all the major work of painting my Pestigors for Darkwater. They look like ass and I didn't enjoy painting them, but they're eight more points on the scoreboard and a big step closer to playing the game.

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

I'm playing Mechanicus II, and so far my takeaway is that the main Necron character, Nefershah, has a really pretty name.

Timeline cleanse. Volume up.

New reaction image just dropped

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the Bog Pervert's mind.

I have decided that I should see the new MOTU movie, and my beloved partner is making wild accusations that this is motivated entirely by Allison Brie in an evil sorceress costume. That isn't true, but I can't be upset at her for thinking it.