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?

Someone walked up to me to talk at the mall. But nobody acknowledged they were being shadowed by the mall's Easter Bunny. It just quietly smiled at me a couple of paces behind her for the entire exchange. I feel like I need to rewatch "Harvey."

Hey, stop saying "Anti-Fa." It's illegal in the most free nation on Earth. Start saying "Antifascist" and "Antifascism"

It's not proper wall of sound, pop music without Phil Spector holding you at gunpoint.

Has AI cracked the code on human expression in jazz solos and the instrumental conversation between band members with the ebb and flow of a shifting mood? Because I wouldn't listen to it even if it had.

Love how I've been hearing "the market will provide" and "vote with your dollars" for decades. And now we're in an oligarchy and it's not economically viable to help the poor, sick, or do anything to stabilize the climate. Nothing is sacred under capitalism and we're all whores under it.

The millennial update to the Hemingway short story: "For sale: dog stairs, never used, $5 off."

I have no trouble imagining Pete Hegseth pulling a Joseph Goebbels when the end comes. Getting cornered in the bunker, wiping out his entire family, and then himself. Fortunately for their kids, this regime is made up of even more pathetic, cowardly, divorced assholes than the OG Nazis.

I want to say it feels like we've circled back around to snake oil, but I know enough about American culture to know we've never changed

My favorite part of "Psycho Killer" [2026] was when the Canadian post-production couldn't hear their accent and the killer yells "GEYT OAT!"

Consumerism isn't all it's cracked up to be. But I got a bottle of champagne for the day the US gets a front page obituary. And "Ausgang: Scarred Lips" by Mark "Max" Freeth of @ausgang-kabuki.bsky.social (And not just because I myself, friends, and my band @witchhands.bsky.social are in it)

I'm getting a lot more mileage than I thought I would out of this meme I made for a family group chat

Israel is to the USA what Rhodesia was to South Africa.

Things I've noticed up from driving from Central Texas to Southern Colorado: It all has basically the same culture and vibe across a span that would encompass hundreds of European cultures, languages, and landscapes. All the big truck stops have SHRINES to beer. West Texas loves "midget wrestling"

Gavin Newsome is the Mitt Romney of the Democratic Party. Pictured here, throwing away the mobility aid of a homeless person.

NPR Politics Podcast is grappling with "remigration," "great replacement theory," as policy in the Whitehouse. It's ethnic cleansing and Nazi propaganda. I hope this helps.

A better world is possible. (But only after it gets a lot worse)

I know it's trite and oversimplistic to say that reactionaries are too stupid for art and fiction. But they keep reading absolutely black and white good vs evil stories like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, then siding with the bad guys. And then they claim Christianity and do the opposite of Christ

I keep seeing stuff about how turning warehouses into ICE detention centers means they also could have been housing or anything else helpful. But they're not equipped with HVAC, plumbing, and other things for human habitation. Warehouses CAN become concentration camps where people die of neglect.

He's in a better place now. (Non-existence)

Me going on Instagram once a week: "Why the fuck is the algorithm giving me so many of the same sorts of posts? Why do all these people look the same?! *Clicks back from an account to endless scroll* "Ah. ... Christ I'm old."

It's kind of, not ironic. Maybe poetic? that generative AI is able to easily rip off art styles done on Adobe Illustrator. (Commonly abbreviated as AI)

"Haha, you're old. You're more than halfway through your life and you're gonna die soon!" "Do you mean it?" 🥹

I think they might have let unchecked greed get in the way of the access to bread and circuses

Thought of the day: The guys bitching about NIN for the past 3 decades also aren't doing anything interesting with industrial

"Christians keep turning into Blavatskyites" The distinction between a cult and an established religion is that the latter no longer enriches an individual. If you believe in the supernatural, anything is on the table. And it always morphs with desires, even when written down. Hence, sectarianism.

Is Neil Gaiman a monster I'll be mad at for the rest of my days? Yes. Will I be happy all those days that I look like Morpheus when I throw a coat on in the middle of the night? Also, yes.

What's more annoying than Gen Alpha? Millennials bitching about Gen Alpha (and sometimes calling them Gen Z while doing so) Nice to see human nature is locked in an endless cycle of shaking our fists at children for all of recorded history.