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.

There aren't a lot of classy ways to tell someone they're not a size 3. RIP fasteners

Trump is forcing those around him to wear shoes he picks out. I'm hoping this goes to the logical extreme. #justdoit

I think every time Harry Kim died, he had to build his stats back from zero toward that promotion. #startrek #voyager

History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. But this bullshit is like a kindergartener trying to finish "Roses are red..." in crayon.

Gene Roddenberry would HATE Starfleet Academy. But only because of the ZIPPERS. (And maybe the lack of gratuitous sex) #startrek #starfleetacademy

It's kind of stunning how people epotomizing the Dunning-Krueger effect have become so bold that when they post something, it really takes me a moment to figure out if it's earnest or the most unhinged satire.

Be careful what you post because "TikTok USDS Joint Venture" now reserves the right to take even more sensitive data.

If the state is concealing the identities of ICE agents that end lives, it's reasonable to treat them all as if they are. If the state will end your life when you're peaceful and lawful, there's no incentive to stay peaceful and lawful. May they never find peace again.

"I kept mentioning your name as if to guide the conversation back to music related discussion." My dear, sweet, friend. You are probably the only person on Earth that would invoke my name. (I'm not even sure I qualify as a nano-celebrity.)

A soulless gloss of AI images and word vomit isn't JUST dominating the web with a tsunami of digital shit. The fear caused from these intellectually bankrupt thieves supresses expression from ACTUAL artists. The financial bubble, data center construction, and pollution atop that? It's unforgivable.

It should come as no surprise that the dying brain of Donald mixed up Iceland and Greenland. It's an old trick, like Nazis calling themselves socialists. The same idiots continue to fall for it and think the KKK still votes for Democrats. It's a great way to know a person is not worth listening to.

"Yes, you'll be a rich rockstar. But as a tonedeaf rapper, overshadowed by a universally liked bassist. And for the rest of your life, every time you appear in public, people will scream 'CALIFORNIA!'" "But I can keep being a piece of shit, right?" "Yes. You'll still be Anthony Kiedis." "Rad!"🤙🤙🤙

The most baffling #horrorart I've ever seen by Emanuele Taglietti Tiddies: out Ass: wiped Grave: mass (and pissed on?)

I listen to my news at 2x-3x speed. On the rare occasions I hear Trump or Elon's real voices, it sounds like they're talking out of their asses while falling asleep between words.

I feel like it's both coincidence that a red flag has historically been used for Leftist causes and currently synonymous with bad things. It's also exactly the type of dumb reframing that American intelligence agencies would spend decades inserting into discourse.

I'd really love there to be a redband horror trailer that turns into an aggressive SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES ad

Jeeze, you go and call a shooter of vodka "kid sized" and everybody gets all upset 🙄

Why is reaching across the aisle in American politics always Democrats trying to be wussy Republicans? Why is it never the fascist oligarch shills reaching out to the mealy mouthed corporate shills? Can't they just meet in the middle on their horrid ideas? Go to the left of Hitler once in a while!

"How many amazing films have been #Oscars snubbed in favor of bullshit?" Which gets me thinking, what's the point of watching the #AcademyAwards that don't reinforce what I think is objectively good? Or even subjectively? Having overthought it that much, I quit personally caring about them at all.

"Hello Kitty finally stopped that annoying dinging sound in the car!"

"Yeah, well, at least I know the difference between Your and You're! Love and light!" - last words of a liberal

I'm really split on whether Trump is setting the worst stakes to make what he wants seem like a reasonable. Or his brain is dying and he really doesn't give a fuck how much pain he inflicts on the US or abroad, so long as it distracts from Epstein and all his other failures and consequences.

The American evangelical crowd really took that story of dad cutting off his kids over getting an education to heart.

Me: "Hey, making a thing is always better than doing nothing. Make a noise! Be you!" Also me: "If your idea of of soloing is playing pentatonics really fast or a button on a sequencer, you're a coward." #music

It's wild to see people bang on about "legal immigration" when they're the product of showing up, spreading disease, stealing lands, people, and mass murder. Technically, that was mostly legal at the time. They lack the critical thinking or integrity to care, while telling you who they are.

It's hard to admit to privilege or that your supposed racial superiority is bullshit, when you amount to so little in spite of it. You could admit that structural and cultural forces damage everyone, find new allies to better the world. You could at least shut up and stop making everything worse.

I know 4 people whose cats died of old age or natural causes last night. Randomness can have lots of things we might see as a pattern, but I have a renewed appreciation for how religious beliefs begin.

If you're a Rome weeb and still make decisions without bird watching, you're a poseur.

Every year, I appreciate the insane whiplash of tone in American entertainment programming to advertising and back more: "We're grudgefucking the climate into oblivion. Workers have no rights. Brb." "BUY A FORD TRUCK AND A BIGOTED CHICKEN SANDWIIIIICH!!!" So, yeah, Robocop has aged pretty well.

*puts on glasses* Douchebags: "YOU'LL ALWAYS BE BIOLOGICALLY BLIND" Okay. 🤷 🖕Transphobes "Fix your hearts or die." 🏳️‍⚧️

Cop tailgates me. I speed up. I find out it's a cop when they flick on their lights. I slam on the brakes. They turn off lights. I go 5 under. They tailgate me until passive aggressively passing me. Tax dollars well spent.

Me explaining the Dune universe to my Tolkien friends at 4am

For that doubly nerdy slice of you that like Dune and Talking Heads

-1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp Hey, fuck you brain! I'm just sitting here!

Thinking of that Star Trek: Voyager episode where everyone is depressed and wants curtains because they're in a boring, starless void. (The interstellar version of driving through the Midwest)

AI users are sad and pathetic. They can't use their brain for the simplest tasks and want constant affirmations. They won't draw or anything else. They don't know why anything is good. They can't explain any writing because they didn't do it. They glee at theft and pollution at the cost of humanity.