sylvan cave on ff4 is such a work of art of deeply frustrating but deeply addictive dungeon design

it only gets better. your 20s are supposed to be your worst decade

the best part of mental illness is probably all the naps and the worst part is probably all the mental illness

maga’s losing polaks if anyone needs a bright spot

don’t want to give Klein credit for anything because he was using this argument in bad faith but the making of science into a liberal pseudo religion has both made science worse and made people less likely to place their trust in it and that’s partly why science misinformation is so addictive

garland jeffreys fucking hell this shit is incredible youtu.be/L0PhaCCqpAU?...

Courtney told her students that I have a flip phone and one of them very sincerely and nonjudgmentally asked if I was a drug dealer

Elected officials simply CANNOT POST THROUGH IT. That is NOT their JOB.

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

one of my favorite things in all of music is how on the aerosmith compilation "big ones" they did a sloppy edit of the transition between "eat the rich" and "angel" so that the latter begins with a vociferous belch

the way schools now make kids download an app where they track their grade in the class which updates in real time and weighs missed assignments as a 0 until they're turned in is, frankly, insane

I was an clinic escort for a few years and you all need to be talking to abortion activists. reversing roe was the win of a century for the right and all the people behind clinic harassment were called up to the big leagues. the techniques being used are EXACTLY the same

there's this buffalo springfield tour story about how they stopped at a diner somewhere in the middle of the country and were just sitting minding their long-haired business and all of a sudden this lady stands next to their table staring daggers and aggressively singing the star spangled banner

collapse is a drawn out process that takes years and affects different sectors of society differently at different times. as people get antsy, they get more selfish. all of 'em, even the ones who vote like you. come up with ways of vetting people that aren't connected to political messaging

Yup. 👇

pulled this one out for the first time in a decade+ and it still hits. not typically my thing at all and an aesthetic I typically think of as a manic grab bag of references to the heaviness of other music. maybe it's the resemblance to spiderbait that hooked me www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyzF...

one of my favorite parts of life in vegas is the funny little ways we have to dance around the fact that the backbone of our regional economy is corruption

I'm trying to raise $1300 by 10/11 to pay the final half of the out-of-pocket costs for the (long overdue) dental surgery my youngest son will have on 10/14. Anyone who donates $50+ can get a custom song from me; I'll begin recording the next two in my queue this weekend! 🎵🦷❤️ #HelpFolksLive2025

And if you are consistently focused on one or two areas then you can safely ignore all of the people doing NOTHING who are constantly yelling "someone needs to do something" [that I am personally not doing myself].

a cool thing that was obvious from bsky hour 0 is that this place is going to attract a huge bunch of losers who care wayyyy the fuck too much about "bsky culture" without giving fuck-all about what a culture is and what role they themselves have to play in cultivating it and it's only gotten worse

man it's wild how medieval china gave us the 1000 schools of thought and medieval europe gave us the crusades

there's a huge misconception in this country that the propaganda works by telling you your enemy instead of by sending you on a snipe hunt

fascism is scary but it's important to know it can be easily defeated by endlessly mulling over how illogical and unethical it is and imagining laws and enforcers that don't exist and behave with a level of careful deliberation never achieved in the history of human authority

if art tatum played any faster he would just be mashing a long board against every piano key at once

ok here's one about speech as power, our instinctive ways to treat it as such, how that can feed into a hard to identify sense of shame, and how we all need to stop posting ourselves at our most unhinged for our own sake

sometimes I think about how much time I spend explaining cognitive microfunctions to people and how often we mystify ourselves and how this was a service now available to the economic elite for generations and how much of modern tech seeks to attack the very components of sanity MH works to protect

bruise springsteen and the e street gang with nails lofgren big stevie van zandt maximum weinberg roy beatin' patti shockya clarceny clemmons

level of desperation in the blood donation person's voice who called to remind me I'm eligible and then the tangible regret that followed when I told them I just had covid and it'll need to be a few more weeks makes me think either our public health grid is fucked or my blood bank is a vampire front

sometimes I think about how every time my mom fucked up her computer over something ABSURDLY basic and came crying to me to fix it and instead of thanking me she would yell about how come I'm not an IT guy making six figures if I'm so smart and how that is the core of maga

horror movies about haunted internet tech are so fucking stupid

over/under on us catholics propping up an antipope in the next decade?

would love to see the venn diagram overlap of blue maga with those weirdos 15 years ago that went out of their way to fight with people about how big tech is an unambiguous good we must only speak kindly of in public

Can't wait to listen to this now it's October

so the little meditative essays I fart out every couple of days are partly personal journal entries to get me settled for whatever my schedule looks like that day, partly a brainstorm sesh, and I'm catholic damaged enough that I need to do it in public or it doesn't feel like it counts

one of my favorite subgenres of pop country is when they take something you would only hear out of the saddest sack of shit you've ever run into and try to make it sound like the best party since chattahoochee youtu.be/-NPqM3vPDg8?...

courtney made the joke the other night that I EMDR'ed my crappy childhood so hard that my entire life now revolves around polish identity issues and I would have a snappy comeback here but the only music not on my ipod I've listened to in the past year are old tvp broadcasts of polish music fests

here come the warm jets is my favorite concept album about peeing in pools

at this point I might hate this song more than I hate american pie

doing a refresher on polish medieval history and coming to the conclusion that christianity needs to be studied as a soft power of European conquest and any other take is muddying the waters of all this shit has ever been about

I am very idiosyncratic about which famous people I consider among the 5 or 6 I consider trustworthy and which ones I see as a professional noisemaker and it means a lot of viral threads on here are unreadable because I've simply blocked too many people

of all the british crimes against food how does this country always manage to zero in on the handful of things they do right?

no figure of popular entertainment is as consistently disappointing as the comedian. literally can't think of any one that didn't turn out to be a horribly sad husk of a human being on a desperate hunt for anything that will make them feel alive

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latest meditation on how absolutely everyone woke or asleep is addicted to the smell of their own farts and how to make conversations with people you don't like or respect actually count for something

a whole bunch of you so called dialectic materialists really need to fucking start looking at the material more than the rhetorical

I really should read some tolstoy. the more I get to know the guy the more I admire him. mystic, anarchist, vegetarian, mentor of nadya krupskaya, every time I look a new interesting thread emerges

as cringy as my rock'n'roll dream chasing era is in the long run I'm glad I got that shit out of my system in my 20s and didn't convince myself to hit snooze on my big plans while I got my career sorted out because my god there are few things sadder than a 50something living that 120 minutes life

I honestly can't believe I was worried this was going to announce a blitzkrieg of some kind

You know that politicians do not run their own social media, right? And that you don't have to engage with the underpaid 24-year-olds who do? You don't even have to ever look at the posts. Let yourself be free