Baudrillard described the ecstasy of communication as an infinite fractal Narcissus, refracting himself in a thousand small mirrors, with no greater desire than to see one's formula, face, "code" reproduced and reflected back on every screen and billboard. Now tell me what this is.

all the signs are slowly popping up, the reaction is what will ultimately determine it

really not navel gazing here when i say there's a non-trivial chance that we might be the last "modern" generation with a "broad base" of general literacy

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

TikTok is brainmelting stupidity and engagement farming. Hate that app. Enough is enough. Can feel myself getting dumber from it. Jesus Christ

Greta Thunberg speaking after release from Israeli prison

Also shout out to Robin Pecknold for being an absolutely insufferable scold who called weed “narcotics” lmao. Josh Tillman may be a narcissist, but at least he continued to make interesting music lyrically and sonically after 2012

He also kinda looks weird anyways. He’s not totally conventionally good looking. He doesn’t have eyebrows and has a mysterious vibe. He’s not Jim fucking Morrison, although he definitely is inspired by him. Superficial ass take faroutmagazine.co.uk/father-john-...

Coming back to this to quote Andy Warhol “Art is what you can get away with” or as Anthony Jeselnik says: www.cracked.com/article_4035... Regardless, Josh Tillman isn’t just saying “I’m a cynical asshole”, he’s a deeply earnest and depressed person who actually is intensely romantic and hopeful

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

with friends like these, who needs enemies?

Hutu are ~80% of Rwanda’s population. Unclear how to permanently prevent Hutu leadership of the state without destroying it. The contrast with Germany (Nazi party permanently banned; ethnic German leadership of the state fine) is helpful: it efficiently reveals unsettling underlying premisses.

Insomnia makes your brain feel like pudding

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Predictable and horrifying.

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Some of you have never coughed up blood into a white handkerchief and mournfully said “I’ve come down with a touch of consumption” and it shows

Shamelessness will get you somewhere. Not far. But somewhere

i feel like it should be a national crisis that a foreign nation has kidnapped and tortured a U.S. citizen

“Socialism has too many bureaucrats” Socialist Russia had like a third of the bureaucracy of modern capitalist Russia and they didnt have the tech we do now. So.

pete just got himself a spot next to gavin on the list of democrats i will do everything in my power to ensure they never hold office again

I find it bizarre that we're forced to accept live-streamed genocide and are told that it's illegal to be opposed to it, but anyone who says the obvious about these guys is at best putting their account at risk and at worse potentially facing legal charges. and the obvious is: we need to kill them

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I’m going to die if I stay in this city. No matter how hard I try. No matter how desperately I work to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, people will never see me as sincere. I’m marked by some awful thing. Maybe I’m the only one for me

One thing about the whole Contrapoints "thing," and I've been saying this about Contrapoints and about many other queer liberals, is that moderating your politics has literally never worked. You got dick. You got shafted. You got scammed. Gavin Newsom wants to sell you into prison slavery, chump!!

okay, enough

Contrapoints so Squidward-coded, I just mentally insert a smug "Spongebob" after each of her sentences

they call her contrapoints, not sandinistapoints

This is genuinely the news every day

transgender people are the core demographic trumpism is targeting as a wedge. if you are unable or unwilling to see this now, by the time they come for you it will be too late

'Anti porn legislation suppresses healthy sexual expression, forces sex work underground, inevitably turns into criminalizing women's bodies, and sabotages sexual education systems' Vs. 'No it doesn't'

Yall asking Grok questions like it’s not pumping out 1000 cubic meters of poison gas into South Memphis every 15 minutes all so MFs can get a corny ass screenshot to dunk on.