I sat alone on a beach at sunset in the hopes of feeling something, anything, and felt nothing. I realized then I was sliding down a dark path. I looked around and noted nobody was near me. I scoured my phone and noted I had nobody I felt I could trust. So I stood up determined to start a new life.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Jared Leto has only ever been perfectly cast in one role, and that’s the evil businessman in Blade Runner 2049. Purely because that role called for an insufferable idiot with delusions of grandeur. And I mean you can’t get more Jared Leto than that

John Brown was hung for treason. Robert E Lee was not. If you want to know why our country is breaking right now that’s a pretty good start to the troubles.

I don’t care about CBS or its myriad shows but it seems to me like cancelling your most famous programs and firing your most famous personalities will probably result in less viewership and worse business. But what do I know?

Capitalism is funny because the primary goal within it is to become rich so you can escape capitalism. But it’s totally a good system guys because sometimes a rare, select few do manage to escape capitalism! And those traps in the saw movies are good because sometimes people get out of them

Yet again I ask, what is the practical use case for this? I don’t need to talk to my glasses and I certainly don’t need my glasses to talk to me. That’s not what glasses are for.

I associate it with those types that buy hordes of guns for no good reason. For them, having a gun makes you badass. It’s a shortcut. You can just buy being a badass. More guns = more badass, even if they don’t know how to shoot Same with AI, it’s a shortcut for them into saying they’re an artist

Google somehow found a way to make bing popular

I have no zeal and I must create

I know my brain’s messed up because the place where I short circuit is “creating things that’s fun for you to work on” bit. I genuinely like creating things, but I’m missing that well to return to and pull from. I see folks get into a thing they make or a fandom and I can only wish I had that zeal

It will always be crazy to me that “everyone should have food and shelter” is somehow considered a radical position

The weirdest thing about AI to me is I’ve never heard anyone in real life who had anything positive to say about it, it’s all disgust…and you want me to believe it’s the tech of the future with the highest adoption rate ever? I don’t know if I’ve ever seen false hype so flagrantly concocted

Capitalists and conservatives really hate it when you listen to them complain about how fucked the entire system is and you just say “damn, sounds like we should have a different system then” and I’ll never understand it.

From a cis guy to trans folks: yall are a fucking inspiration. Badasses from top to bottom. I’ve learned so much just by being able to be on the same internet as you and I hope one day to have a tenth of your bravery. Fuck those trying to drag you down. We would all be lesser without you here

Sometimes I wish I liked MMOs, but I think I really wish I just had something easy and reliable to fall back on for escapism

From a cis guy to trans folks: yall are a fucking inspiration. Badasses from top to bottom. I’ve learned so much just by being able to be on the same internet as you and I hope one day to have a tenth of your bravery. Fuck those trying to drag you down. We would all be lesser without you here

They say we treat politics too much like team sports but if that were true there’d be at least 30 parties and all the politicians would be banned for cheating and insider gambling and those who failed at their job would be fired or, at least, benched somewhere where they can’t fuck anything up.

As someone from the rural southern US I’ve thought frequently about how much this kinda talk from people who look like this is needed. Folks down there are pickling their brains on Rogan, and the idea of the soft leftist is pervasive. Good ole boys talking solidarity is a needed permission structure

Am I the only one who finds all those long, overly-specific prompts that AI bros use creepy? You can’t tell me you believe the thing to have some sort of sentience and then subject a supposedly sentient being to a litany of specific, restrictive commands. Says a lot about how they view people

Seriously, who is this for?

There’s this fun thing my brain does where it convinces me that reading a book for fun will be too much effort so I just spend a bunch of time reading stuff on the internet instead which is not fun but, somehow, also totally not effort. Because my brain is dumb

I don’t think we reckon enough with the idea that people inherently think they can buy their way to prosperity. Obviously we discuss wealth inequality, wages, etc - but in the same way a large part of, say, the supplement market is driven by people who don’t want to put effort into their health ->

Baseball has to be single-handedly propping up the bobblehead industry

I do wonder if, in a world with endless critique and criticism, we are inadvertently creating a new kind of media literacy problem. By which I mean we know critical reading and media literacy is poorly trained as is, and so we create critiques to help fill that gap. But I’m starting to see people…

The day after Mother’s Day should be Sorry If Your Mom Sucks day and we all just get a big hug

It will always be crazy to me that “everyone should have food and shelter” is somehow considered a radical position

My wife very randomly got really into baseball and decided to cheer for the Dodgers and now she sends me messages like this and she’s the best and I love her

My wife very randomly got really into baseball and decided to cheer for the Dodgers and now she sends me messages like this and she’s the best and I love her

I’m not versed in law by any means but something about this whole “we have to issue decisions that are unpopular” line is getting super under my skin. It reeks of “well we can’t let the masses have power now, can we?” Which, I mean, I know that’s their job, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t irksome

I’m not versed in law by any means but something about this whole “we have to issue decisions that are unpopular” line is getting super under my skin. It reeks of “well we can’t let the masses have power now, can we?” Which, I mean, I know that’s their job, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t irksome

Damn, maybe they should stop acting politically then

Fascists are so fucking pathetic.

One of my favorite aspects of sports fandom is that moment when a team someone cheers for does something good and the fan’s body reverts into toddler mode - arms waving randomly, nonsense sounds of joy, feet stomping, etc The whimsy is in you somewhere

I think the thing that gets me down most often is that mainstream media can be like “This horrible monster wants to make rich people pay taxes to provide food for children!” and a week later an opinion poll will demonstrate that that messaging somehow convinced a bunch of people to hate said person

I think the thing that gets me down most often is that mainstream media can be like “This horrible monster wants to make rich people pay taxes to provide food for children!” and a week later an opinion poll will demonstrate that that messaging somehow convinced a bunch of people to hate said person

I dunno, maybe we shouldn’t cover the oligarch parties?

Doing my regular Vonnegut reading and always stunned by this quote from Mother Night:

Doing my regular Vonnegut reading and always stunned by this quote from Mother Night:

Reminder that an incredulous look and a perplexed/skeptical “what are you talking about?” can get you a long way in irl conversations with folks spouting bs talking points. Most people aren’t actually super online. They just heard a buddy talk about a podcast and didn’t think that hard about it.

Here's another watercolor I made for myself a few years back. Big hearts to everyone it might resonate with. 💜

This really is it.

This is a cute comic and I’m glad it exists. Seems like a little thing - not being able to smile properly for posed pictures. But when I was a kid I had an abusive step parent who used to beat me with a belt buckle for not being able to “smile right” for school and family photos so… yeah. Feelings

As someone who grew up fundamentalist and, as such, has waded through the world of “clean, wholesome” media I feel like one thing that isn’t really discussed is how vapid it is. It removes humanity and replaces it with empty moralizing. It leaves nothing but guilt and condemnation in its wake

Fully convinced that, aside from simple greed, a big reason the rich fight so hard against any sort of wealth tax or equal distribution is because there would be no right wing media without an endless supply of private investment If they have no money they have no voice Because they’re assholes

I wish I liked anime more than I do. It would be nice to turn on any number of shows with cool little guys having a grand ole time, but no matter how much I try I just can’t get into the structure of it. Doesn’t help that shows about kids tend to boot me straight out since that’s, like, every anime

It’s funny how classical art is like “beware devilry and witchcraft for it will steal thine soul” and then the actual piece is a bunch of people having a genuinely great time

Yall gonna be real disappointed when the democrats win in a landslide and change nothing

I swear we have the dumbest electoral system

I’m tired, y’all