"Lonergan’s philosophy of history anticipates that, in situations like ours, things will get better before they get worse." @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social on how Bernard Lonergan can help us make sense of our chaotic present: www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-jonath...

Nobody had any idea how to sell video games in the 90s (and well into the 2000s) so a good chunk of game ads were just sex/masturbation jokes that told you virtually nothing about the game itself. The prime example being this absolutely unhinged Goemon's Great Adventure (N64) ad:

Jimmy Build Wall My Tactical Romance New Border Cute Is What We Detain For Panic! At The Detention Center

This is looking increasingly likely

GOLDEN AGE!!!

I missed out on these but I was a huge fan of Keebler Pizzarias we were wild in those days, just pizzafying everything

Glow sticks hold the sins of all the children who forgot to release the fireflies from the jar

Dave Navarro probably doesn't avail himself of the services of a Blood Boy or measure his son's erections either, just sayin' is all

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

I've been looking for a new musical genre to be autistically fixated on, might be time to give instrumental hip-hop a go

Radio Free Europe or Drive, depending on my mood

It's 1990something and I'm wearing black: Black shirt, black pants, black jungle boots, with a black leather jacket or trenchcoat for good measure I was not a goth; I would describe my style as "skinny redheaded fuckboy/moody theater kid/nihilistic hipster"

What if the ambient anxiety you feel scrolling feeds isn't random?

A technology called X that slowly drives people crazy and makes them believe friends and colleagues have become part of a secret cult-like organisation called The Blob sounds like the plot of a high amphetamine consumption era Philip K Dick story rather than our current reality

this is how the WH works now

We need so damn many things To keep our dazed lives going youtu.be/FeHdIDeUsEY?...

The Nineties were my era so I'm inclined to view them through the dewy lens of nostalgia, but I'll be the first to admit the aesthetics were terrible Like us Olds can rail against zoomerslop all we want, but we're never beating the allegations

Congratulations to Emerson, Lake & Palmer for winning the Grammy for Best Concept Album About An Armadillo Tank for the 54th year in a row

Three Doors Down wasn't interested in a permanent residency?

Funny how this is still relevant to today's media environment. adam.nz/zen-tv-exper...

honestly one of the most insane things i’ve ever seen. i cannot believe this. i feel insane seeing this and it being real. everything is unreal

From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Cain From The Bible Date: March 7th, 3000BC Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀 go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)

Five classes you took in college Intro to Astronomy Intro to Logic Ancient Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Intro to Theater

Seems most appropriate since MST3K was born in #Minnesota

Not much in life to compare to the smell of onions hitting hot butter

AMC design a normal looking car challenge impossible

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sausages

*Marilyn Manson voice* We're all stars now in the Woke Bowl

Remember what they took from you

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

The masculine urge to buy this car and tear down the highway blasting Judas Priest at maximum volume while ripping a can of Coors (Also the masculine urge to put this bad boy up on blocks on the front lawn and vaguely work on it while doing the other things)

If realpolitik is the art of the possible, then surrealpolitik is the performance of imagined possibility in a system where actual possibility has collapsed. Or, as we mostly know it, posting.

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

Inexplicable sensuality, like Don Knotts

Genius jimll.co.uk/products/par...

A "pretty solid example" of a sick fuckin' whip if ever there was one

Every ideologically driven group on the planet has their ways of convincing themselves that actually everybody already believes the things they know to be true. Just ask your friendly neighborhood very online socialist why Bernie didn’t win the 2020 primary, for example.

If a cop asks what you're getting up to, just tell them you're maximizing shareholder value and further entrenching the interests of Capital They literally have to let you go (pretty sure this is in the constitution)

The two most influential visions of governance right now are Trumpism and Davosism—power concentrated in a nationalist strongman or power concentrated in distant committees of credentialed experts. Trump speaking at Davos feels like a villain meet-up.

Goddesshood is a spectrum. -><-