in both cases specific organizations on the american right deliberately propagandize for the psychotic version because it improves their position

> thousand word post about how the thing i am a prominent member of is not a religion, it is an insular and weird community centered on a few texts where people mostly converge to the same beliefs i rest my case

if you notice quasisymmetric behavior in your mirror, your first priority is to remain calm. do not acknowledge the aberration in the presence of the mirror. do not allow your eyes to linger on the aberration. navigate to a mirror-free room before calling the hotline.

I stfg if people are more disgusted at a man giving a blowjob than being a multiple rapist and, at the very least, facilitating a conspiracy to traffic very young women and girls to be raped, I am going to lose what little of it I have left.

Writing is rewriting and rewriting and rewriting...

one must imagine the chive guy happy

The cat musician sora videos are reminding me that we have more empathy for predators because they point their heads at the thing they're looking at. People can't as easily read the body language of a cow as they can a cat.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

People used to throw rocks at you until you died for this kind of stuff

my boss comes in an hour late to scold me for being 5 minutes late, i rush to interviews and i get told to wait but if i was late it would be a mark against me, those who can make you wait delight in their own tardiness because they know the real way to waste someone's time is to make them be on it

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

Remember when, after 2016 when literally any inane trivia contained in a hacked email provided by Russian intelligence was considered per se newsworthy, in 2024 the media decided without explanation that publishing hacked emails would be wrong? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/poli...

This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.

I think some of the "cops shouldn't look like soldiers it's just cosplay" stuff misses the fact that part of the reason all of these guys are wearing so much armor now is to fight protestors, a thing they've been doing increasingly for the last two decades Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

it is going to collapse as we become more and more of a fortress state 👍

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the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks if it is for punctuating the stuff on the inside, and outside if it is punctuating stuff on the outside

the emperor's critics make superficially compelling points about his clotheslessness. and yes we can all observe that the man stands stark naked. but what strategic sense is there in calling it out so brashly as all that? are you really going to win hearts and minds with such vulgar pronouncements?

Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH. (Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)

They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

I do not understand how anyone goes through life without this reality just completely poleaxing them from time to time. I mentioned it to my brother once and he was "fuck Beth, that's grim, you need to go outside" and it's just like "this is outside too!!!" How the fuck do you turn aside???

dropped off my son at the montressori school today and when i came back the entrance was bricked up??! i'm calling the police

once they manage to give an ai taste, it's over. until then i'm not worried

“But Toad,” said Frog, “I will be lonely until then.”

alright i can excuse genocide denialism but i draw the line at being friends with the king pedophile

Guess I’ll go see the new Frankenstein, although I hear it’s another anti-Victor interpretation. So few film versions give proper weight to Victor’s last words: “I had a bad bounce, but don’t let that discourage you: next time might work.”

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

broke: the state exists to protect people from the worst among us bespoke: the state IS the worst among us, given codified power and the monopoly on legitimate violence

Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade

Really amazing how much of success in the USA amounts to "habitually offload the work of interpreting, organizing and managing everything onto others"

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

it's still sooo crazy that they just got rid of vine despite its cultural cachet being such that people still mourn it a decade later

If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone

We really need to get people out of this 'nothing I do matters so whatever' depression. We are members of communities, even if tangentially, and our behavior and words matter. This is civic-mindedness, which has gotten too boring and cringey for many unfortunately.

the more we learn about everything the simpler it all becomes. the people who make such things happen helped a pedophile get elected president because they themselves are pedophiles, sexual abusers, and/or criminals

it seems to me that these days you have to be a little autistic

based iain banks

people will need to prepare for a world where theyll have to be more interesting than gpt 7-mini for users to come to your website rather than get information from that

Average American news day in 2025: the President is a world historical pedophile and the entire government of the United States functionally exists in part to cover up his world historical pedophilia and the world historical pedophilia of his friends. We will do nothing to stop this, by the way.

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.

I think it affects us because our brains intuitively understand and fear the prospect of being made into a pariah. "I can't be seen interacting normally with you" is very real, even online. The threat isn't that someone will come kill you (though to be clear, they might!) but ostracization.

My peeves are all wild animals tearing me apart with their gnashing teeth

it's so crazy to write all that stuff from a regular ass gmail account, jeevacation@, I will hardly even respond to a non-Signal message for casual conversation