I can't escape the impression that if I were immortal, I would smoke constantly. I'm not currently, nor have I been a smoker. Just waiting for the immortality to kick in, I guess

I saw a falling star and made a wish last night. Of course, magic and prayers aren't real. But the fact that it may have been one of Elon Musk's satellites burning up in the atmosphere felt like a good thing to wish on.

Strictly speaking, I'm not into eugenics. But people that think War Pigs by Black Sabbath is a pro-war song really challenge me

Sure, the fash look dumb reacting violently to people in inflatable frog suits. Wait until they're being redacted by people in full fur suits.

I feel like excessive use of generative AI or bad photoshop edits should be part of diagnostics for dementia screening. That might be complicated by the brain damage AI use seems to immediately cause all users, but I think that only supports the idea.

Pretty sure tech bros don't believe in consent, given how hard they're pushing AI in everything. Also reasonably sure they've just replaced my comma button with a fucking em dash to make AI tells less noticeable.

Look, I fully realize I'm well beyond the age demographic for Hot Topic. That's okay. I'm also hardly a gatekeeper- if you're into the wide range of Goth music But I do take issue with actively conflating #Goth and #Emo bands separated by decades. #gothsky 🖤🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇

Whenever I look into a bigger city's #goth scene, there's always a bearded guy in mismatched brocade and a kilt proclaiming himself a vampire prince and / or dom.

It's fascinating to me that fascists and conservatives often speak of foreigners in terms of disease, contamination, and infection. And then a pandemic comes and they try to flex by disregarding all precautions. Just thinking of all the fun diseases Trump is going to fumble handling.

Hobbits probably have a foot fetish.

Listening to a podcast on ivermectin. Wondering if anyone has ever done a study on side effects enhancing the placebo effect. "It makes me shit out cancer!"

My very red county has an NPR broadcast tower on top of a mountaintop military installation. Every time it's struck by lightning while reporting on Trump, I'm like "STOP SUPPRESSING THE-- oh, it's back."

I hate how life uncertainty has made everybody all woowoo. People asked in 2020, "Why am I dreaming of the apocalypse? What does it mean?" Bruh, put down the birth chart and tarot cards. You're not gonna believe this, but you're stressed because you're in quarantine under a fascist nincompoop

The only upside to the AI bubble is the vaporization of reputations and hoarded wealth by assholes.

Lifehack: Block any and all AI users. It also happens to filter out a lot of stupid people and reactionaries.

Some men are out here wondering if they can pull off a hat or a kilt. I'm wondering which cape goes best with my battle vest and mohawk.

"I'd like to explore my rock roots in a Bowie-like way, distinct from my country persona" Everyone else in 1999: "THE FUCK YOU ARE, GARTH BROOKS."

I hate paying taxes because they go to annihilating brown people. You hate paying taxes because Ayn Rand affirmed your worst impulses at a formative age, so that you never matured intellectually or sexually past your teens. We are not the same.

I will forever be a Star Trek guy. But Gene didn't have the vision to be like "Magic swords are cool. But what if they had a retractable, glowing blade that could cut through anything?" Nor a convoluted forcefields = knife fights thing like Dune. But taser / vaporizer / bomb guns are cool too.

I watched a gothy band ditch their backing track partway through their set due to technical problems at a festival. They went from being a formulaic, 120bpm band with electronic elements to a 4 piece rock band paying attention to each other with a rhythm section that breathed. Instantly better.

Things that instantly elicit my laughter: Security guards Big trucks revving their engines

Liberals are the reasonable Conservatives they keep thinking will magically emerge in the party that gets Nazi votes.

"Have you hung out with enough Trans women to know the difference between a sine wave and a saw wave?" - @margaret.bsky.social

Evangelicals be like: "I can bear a little false witness as a treat." (To be fair, that whole book they never read is second and third hand accounts)

What the fuck did I do to have the algo throwing ads for banjos at me? (He posted wearing filthy overalls)

Every kooky shooter's manifesto:"I WANT HUMAN FREEDOM AND YOU'RE ALL SHEEP!" Sir, I'm busy and live in a society of interdependence where I can't "research" everything with AI. I have relationships. I don't have time to make a quack podcaster's off the cuff remarks my entire personality.

Trump using this attack while he's at a hotel ballroom to argue that he needs his own secure, gaudy, bullshit ballroom isn't making the point here thinks it is

I was decieved by Roger Ebert once at a showing where he talked extensively about and referred to the film about to be screened as 'Fight Club.' And then he put on 'Mulholland Drive' and nobody said anything. A real Fincher Lyncher. I got over the deceit, but not the jump scare behind the dumpster.

Funny to me that the US did regime change to Iran and they've in turn had the opportunity to absolutely tank two US presidencies. The CIA did that thing where any foreign leader remotely left of center had to go and then Iran gave us Reagan. Except the US and Iran are rooting against Trump

Wouldn't the logical way to fight the transphobic bathroom laws be to make your bathrooms gender neutral? *monkey's paw curls and now only non-binary people can take a shit*

See between the declining birthrate, oligarchs and corporations dodging taxes, and machines paying no taxes as they "take half the jobs," Are the conservatives and fascists just eliminating taxes all together as they drive up the US debt by trillions every year, or...?

Mind: "Boy, I sure am out of it. Lots to do, but I feel like I need something first...." Body: "SLEEEP! THE SUN HAS BEEN UP FOR AN HOUR! YOU NEED TO REEEESSSST!" Mind: "Maybe I'll work out. Or write. Or learn a new chord. Or drink. Or make a necklace. Or read a book. Or..." Body: "AAAAAAAAAAA! 😭"

Siouxsie is consistently a hot, bad bitch, with killer style. But I love the frequency of this ick / pained smile face people have photographed over the years

Boutique guitar gear makers be like: "Buy our stuff to be original!" And then it's a bunch of Fender guitars from the 1950s with pedals that range from bad fuzzes to green tube screamers.

It's funny to me that Christians think Trump is their guy. It would be hard to find better proof of a godless universe than Donald Trump.

People are leaving money offerings at the statue of a fictional character. If I were religious, that would seem more shocking.

If you find yourself trapped outside a former societal elite's doomsday bunker, don't claw at the door until your fingers are bloody. Consider using your remaining strength and resources to spitefully wall them inside of it for all of eternity. Make the world better for the cockroaches.

Love how every tech innovation brought to us by sociopathic MBAs is: "We made a thing that exists, just worse and unregulated. But don't worry, it won't be used for evil!" And then two years later it's: "We're doing the evil thing now. Eat shit and die!"

Conservative douchebags always say they're banished and silenced, but they never shut the fuck up and go away.

As disgusting as removing a symbol of peace from American currency is, I have to say, it's at least accurate. And E PLURIBUS UNUM is a pretty apt slogan for fascism.

Michael Bay gets held up as mindless, apolitical action. The Rock someone trying to get recognition for fallen comrades so their families to get survivor benefits. Then they send in a guy disappeared by the state without a trial. Then ex-military mercenaries get greedy. But also action and pewpews.

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Interesting to me that AI "writers" can have enough sense to know what they generated is worthless. They have to read it to know what they "wrote." Endlessly generating tweaks like a slot machine because it's not good. If you have to read it to know the content, you're not the fucking author. ✍️!

It's funny to me that part of the spread of Christianity was the lack of a pantheon. No sacrifices dependent on resources or complications with a bunch of different gods. Then they spent thousands of years adding angels and demons for different things, tithes, and technicalities.

Just a reminder to my fellow Goths: You shouldn't take my opinion seriously, because I'm indifferent to Christian Death and Skinny Puppy. I know their logos are as common on your skin as the Black Flag bars and Crimson Ghost are on punks. I am a charlatan and contrarian. #goth #gothsky #deathrock

You absolutely shouldn't support JK Rowling and by proxy, her campaign to annihilate trans folks. I'm not just saying this because even as a kid, I put it down forever the moment I saw the word "muggle" There are better books by better people. Like 'A Wizard of Earthsea' by Le Guinn. #fuckRowling

With military enlistment ages raised, weed charges dismissed, and a lot of people in their 40s and under with little to lose, it seems a statistical inevitability that officers in the Epstein wars are going to be fragged by their troops more.

"My ignorant ancestors didn't create a religious framework out of pattern recognition to explain a baffling world just for you to have a similar but contradictory one specific to your own culture and region! PREPARE TO DIE!"

Wears: CUTE, BUT PSYCHO shirt Apologizes after doing anything "DON'T TOUCH ME, I'M A REAL LIVE WIRE ... Sry 🥺" #qu'est-cequec'est?

Vomit is an apt metaphor for AI, since it's digested and senselessly regurgitated. In a world where "art" and "stories" are generated because some jackass didn't care to put any effort or thought into it, it would render a passionate fool like Ed Wood into a fucking auteur by comparison?