everyone is getting caught up in the more commercially fronted festival of saturnalia, but it’s important to remember that december 25th is actually about the birth of sol invictus, the unconquered sun!

denmark rocks bc theyll notice that only 80% of their population is currently laying in the grass in a park with a six pack of 8% beer reading a book while on a 3 hour lunch break from work making $50/hr selling croissants at a cafe called GOBBO or FLUUZ and their government will spring into action

The thing about the Diddy verdict and the budget bill is that you can and should take both of them seriously. Powerful men getting away with violence isn’t a distraction from Trump and his administration. It’s the same thing powered by the same rhetoric and logic of abuse

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

being a baby was probably cool. being a large person is more work, but it ain’t bad sometimes.

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

got a new job! can’t talk much about it rn but let’s just say it comes with a really cool hat.

black smoke = we don’t have a pope white smoke = we do have a pope grey smoke = we might have a pope red smoke = stop for the pope green smoke = go pope go yellow smoke = watch out for the pope purple smoke = grape flavored pope orange pope = glad i didn’t say banana pope

freud: so, i’ve come up with this new technique to treat human mental pain. everyone: wow, cool! will it make us happy? freud: well no, but it’ll return you to a normal state of unhappiness.

in honor of sigmund freud’s birthday, think about every mistake you’ve ever made and completely suppress it.

i forgot jesus died today… i knew the vibes were off.

VICE be like: “This Slovak Commune Is Harboring Pangolin Traffickers Who Use Their Scales In A New Street Drug Called ‘Mucky’ Popular Among Day Laborers In Moldova”.

Altman is using Studio Ghibli’s popularity very specifically to push users into OpenAI’s paid tiers, and presumably neither Ghibli the company nor its artists will be compensated in any way.

the concept of “you should still care about problems that don’t directly affect you personally” is apparently lost on many people.

on this day in 44BC, julius caesar looked around and said, “kind of a weird vibe in here”.

californians/liberals be like:

This is how they be talking to you in the pawn shop after offering you $40 for your PS5

partner: you’re taking up my entire side of the bed. me: every border implies the violence of its maintenance.

it turns out not being depressed requires a baseline level of healthy delusion which i simply lack.

texting “hahaha” is kind of aggressive… and like, i can’t imagine feeling that happy about something except garlic.

how is even one person happy on this planet? remarkable to not ever hate it here.

if i seem quiet during a date, it’s because i’m thinking about the time french composer erik satie wrote a play called “cancelled” and the play was cancelled after opening night because people saw the sign and didn’t show up.

something about walking along the simple symmetry of a paved road makes life feel complicated. something about walking among the complex tangle of a pathless woodland makes life feel simple.

kanye west is not picasso.

this meme started as a joke but i think we’re getting closer to a time when it will become the founding document of a new political party, which i will join btw.

imagine carving the oceans into landless nations. border buoys littering the rolling waters, struggling in tiny voices to hang names and loyalties on all that living motion. it seems ridiculous. with just a little more imagination, it seems equally ridiculous on land.

may compassion be extended to those of us for whom chaotic events create chaotic responses. may we learn to integrate the pattern of seeking safety by camouflaging ourselves in the chaos of our surroundings.

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

wholesome philosophy.

self-deprecation is negging by proxy, confessing love is a bombing.

how simple doomsday would be if the mere act of not creating was enough to avoid it. how little we would have to worry about if the survival of the species was as simple as no longer demanding that our toys talk to us.

kropotkin:

prank idea: give every person access to all the information in the world without teaching them to discern what’s true.

covering “sarcasm: just another service i offer” t-shirt with a t-shirt that says “i’m not that interested in sarcasm” to catch my rivals off guard.

the fact that 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 is complimentary but 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 is pejorative shows that we as a society venerate the act of creation while simultaneously despising the product of creation. in this essay i will—

palestine will be free, from one unspecified geographical parameter to another unspecified geographical parameter. 🇵🇸

thanks, i hate it.

harrison ford as meursault in 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 movie adaptation, 1981:

ok foucault i hear you but did you maybe consider that even the body itself might be an inescapable prison.

the idea that saying 𝑖 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 a lot devalues it relies upon a framework of value stemming from scarcity which stands in contradiction to the fact that the beauty of love is found in its abundance. in this essay i will—

climate change is a hoax perpetrated by globalist elites with the goal of advancing their secret agenda to do absolutely nothing.

“we’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” —kurt vonnegut

to me, the average person, it’s hard to know whether i should believe scientists or podcasters. what we need is some sort of empirical method for determining whether something is true.

criticizing america means you hate america. if you really loved your country and saw it rotting from within you’d patriotically shut up and let it happen.

🖇️ is the secure form of 🔗 because both parts maintain the freedom to separate which makes connection a constant choice instead of an ongoing obligation.