“You are near the top of it all now. We’re all monsters up here. Find some prey. Have a little fun.” - Apollo, The Persephone Effect (Power corrupts; divine power corrupts divinely)

I just think not caring about what happens to other people is gonna be the death of literally all of us if it’s not checked.

In my house growing up, the classic Serenity Prayer, wishing for the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can, and the wisdom to know the difference, was posted on the wall. It's memorable, but here's the thing. Change is almost always possible given enough time.

does anyone else experience recurring frustration of links and buttons on websites and mobile apps moving right before you click them because of some html/css element or other shifting around as things load? IMO this is bad UI/UX. interactive elements should be stable and not jump around.

i am begging people to stop treating unsourced screenshots as news.

"There's been a tragedy. Don't compound it with ignorance." - Starfleet Academy S01E04

Finally started reading The Hades Calculus, and while I wasn't fully prepared for homicidal cyborg Persephone, I'm rooting for her.

current mood(s): angry, terrified, sad, tired, stressed, resigned, released, relaxed.

In the unintentionally wise words of Beavis... "The future sucks. Change it."

words kind of fail me on how much I hate this from many different angles anyway still being into Harry Potter is like dating a republican

observations so far in disco elysium: - if you pick a side, you get pigeonholed into a stereotype - if you don't pick a side, you also get pigeonholed into a stereotype - the political archetypes are somewhat Basic? - for some reason putting on nice shoes turns you into a capital-L Liberal

I have drunk your milkshake that was in the yard and which was probably bringing the boys Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

thinking about dead assholes. (there's been many of them lately. i am not speaking of any specific dead assholes, for many reasons.) thinking about what the bare minimum level of respect is for a fellow human being - because it cannot be zero for me, even if it may seem infinitesimal.

can job listings be serious please

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"my account was labeled as spam for speaking the truth" no, your account was labeled as spam for following 100k+ accounts (when only 6k follow you back) and constantly QTing posts with one-liners and no new information, all on the same topic. even for people who agree with you that's a bit much.

The Substance (which I finally saw) creeped me out, but not because of the body horror. It creeped me out because of the over-the-top objectification levels / hyper-pervy youth-obsessed dudes. Which...aren't really that different from the type of shit people do and deal with in the real world.

no context FFXIV 7.35 hildibrand side quest dialogue... what exactly does he mean by that? Wrong answers only.

Thinking about people emigrating due to ...well, Everything. I cannot, for many reasons I need not elaborate on here and now. But I know why some must, why some do, and why others are forced to. So what can we do, those who remain, but stay and stand up for those who couldn't be here?

apropos of nothing the "glass is half full/empty" pop philosophy nonsense is a pet peeve of mine. If the glass starts empty and i pour water halfway up, it's half full. If i fill it all the way and drink half, it's half empty. The half-glass of water does not exist in a vacuum and neither do you.

Seeing a lot of "why does it matter" / "it doesn't matter" fatalism with regard to many different current events and in general. It matters because history is never over and we are always writing it. It matters when we make it matter.

Anyway speaking of inciting violence this has me laughing too hard

BlueSky is awash in AI images, misinformation, bots, and people sharing unverified information. Please investigate where things are coming from.

Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany. Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

BREAKING: SCOTUS refuses to step in, for now, in a dispute over one trans student's bathroom access in South Carolina. For now, the Fourth Circuit's injunction granting the student relief stands. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have granted SC's stay. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/two-cases-...

against my intentions i have been exposed multiple times to a certain song from the soundtrack of a certain demon hunter movie that i have not and do not intend to see, and i have to say, there's a little bit of irony to hearing the line "my voice without the lies" sung with a hint of autotune.

Did bud light sponsor Peacemaker or something.... is that why they're only ever drinking bud light.... also how on earth are 4 people who are clearly experienced drinkers getting ridiculously drunk on what looked like 12-24 bottles of bud light (especially when they broke more than one bottle)?

I don't know what caused the church shooting in Minneapolis, but I do know what WON'T be discussed: too many guns and self-loathing religious doctrines. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Replaying NieR: Replicant and not regretting my choice of character name.

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this has been stuck in my head for months since i first heard it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN4U...

Sic semper tyrannis; sic semper imperris.

Modern day heroes. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

I will never stop being annoyed at the way political commentators name their YouTube videos. Trump is always getting DESTROYED or EXPOSED or is UNRAVELING or PANICKING and I just hate it that's all because none of those things are actually happening.

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

All my homies hate 4th of July

down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

be crazy if we just taxed the billionaires and made the things for people instead. imagine if the government was intent on providing for the people. wild.

how was funding a *private* school ever considered "charitable" to begin with? those kids can go to public school. (and if you're concerned about the quality of public school, maybe we should be funding them better, instead of funding tax breaks, or funding forever wars, or whatever)

if anyone has more videos of eric adams getting booed at the nyc pride parade today please show them to me. i’ve only seen it from three angles, i know there’s more.

how about no

oh hey searching bluesky actually helped me confirm it's *just* goblin down in FFXIV. Google was useless for this.

nuclear armed nations are never going to convince other countries they don't need nuclear weapons when they see how differently countries who have nuclear weapons are treated. global disarmament would be nice but everyone's afraid if they go first they'll be vulnerable.

i keep seeing people comparing reality to the movie "Idiocracy" and just wanted to remind everyone that the movie's premise is built on racist eugenics (because only "stupid" people had kids, suddenly a mediocre white man was a genius). That's a story Elon Musk tells you to justify having 50 kids.

I'm not going to do a global political analysis right now. I am going to tell you that I'm just old enough to remember the last time we had this same stupid fucking war, and tell anyone under 30: Do not enlist in the military. They will ruin your life and they do not care. Please don't do it.