it's absolutely a coincidence that it's the end of the work week and i'm blasting semi-coherent replies on every post i see. completely unrelated, not at all to do with burn out.

It occurred to me today that the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading and Lanthimos's Bugonia are companion films. The former is about how individual humans with the power to influence geopolitics act absurdly, while "smaller" individuals act absurdly in the shadow of sociopolitical influences. 1/6

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. - Us - Peeping Tom - Sinners - Videodrome

i emerge from non-reply hibernation to say to the void: don't make videos on sora to show how bad it is. don't use it at all. come on.

it didn't occur to me until embarrassingly late in life that the idea "technology is at worst neutral, at best inherently virtuous" is one of the most devastating propaganda wins of our era. i only realized after hearing ppl use the word around decarceration. tools developed to harm are not neutral.

echo in the bsky echo chamber these days seems to be "fuck you--no fuck YOU*. we're all going through it.

all i want to do is talk about sinners.

using this year's annual non-reply post to tell you that FKA twigs is a genius and i'm in love with her new album.

huh.

of all the games that come bundled with suffering from depression, I think "try to find all the things that I apparently hid around the apartment," is one of my favorites.