i think it is time people understood that the apocalyptic and hyperbolic tone of baudrillard, virilio, and others was not just rhetorical excesses of french literary prose

A selection of some of the better named offerings at the fireworks warehouse.

Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires

If one of these "barely Austin City limits" fireworks stands sold bbq they'd make bank.

Trying to gauge the effort I want to put into acquiring semi legal explosives and I'm not even out of pajama pants yet.

Cast yourself as a villain

never trust gamers example #38403482

Thinkpiece idea: Will finally reading Berserk cure me of my cynicism around the queer community?

ok this one got me

they made a Ryza "noodle stopper" style figure, the kind that hold the lid of cup noodles down by sitting on it, but then they made her way too fucking big and had to include fine print "This product is not intended for holding down the lid of cup noodles"

Played on drugs; 100% recommended.

In lieu of vague high ranting here's a specific petty question. Is it okay to get a tattoo that matches another person's if they hate you after someone got super touchy about shit you don't know about happening at a wedding in Toronto that resulted in hella allegations you didn't know about?

Anyways I think I'ma go to Russian Circles/King Woman in Chicago and then Alcest/Deafhaven/Mastodon in Denver to diversify and this is me reminding myself to message people about this later.

Damn I haven't been paranoid panic attack high in a minute. Thanks current hellscape.

The venn diagram of "SSPX Opus Dei" and "lovers of Luce, the Vatican's first mascot" is two circles and Jesus has clearly given his mandate to one of them

Claw machines are becoming my anti stress when I really don't wanna g-ddamn deal with other people.

I just completed a work titled “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Slavers Redacted” for America's semiquincentennial.

Its 2026 and I simultaneously cannot remember the plot to Evangelion and also feel like this is probably a point in time in which one probably should know the plot to Evangelion.

Thinking of catching Infected Mushroom entirely to fuck with people.

Oh hell yee first box.

Happy Disability Wrath Month!

Dealing with career burnout by getting tickets to see Mountain Goats perform an Alpha cycle only set in San Francisco.

What an amazingly functional verification process.

yo yo yo what's up yggdrasil?

I'm trying to debug a JVM issue so ofc Opus wants access to Apple Music.

About to see if I can do this because I lost my go to movie himbo to a hetero mono relationship and I wanna see Backrooms with my giant stuffed Cthulhu.

The cool thing about WFH is when you sometimes see something dumb enough that you just have to crawl into bed and take a nap about it.

Bringing back this PFP by Cathedral of Hee for a spell.

The GLP-1 blocks the weight gain from the dopamine stabilizer that counteracts the Adderall that I'm also on hydroxyzine to keep the ever present anxiety under control. This is our transhumanist future.

i mean like one where everyones eyes have been inverted and everyone is constantly vomiting piss and everything is covered in razor blades, or one where Mark Wahlberg's music career really took off and he's the biggest musician in the world, that sounds way worse than whatever's going on here.

I really dislike people saying shit like this is the "worst timeline" or whatever both because it's an extremely played out joke and also because if we do take at face value the idea there are parallel dimensions where everything is different there's probably one way worse

Happy pride I'm on my gender nihilist shit again.

Every intersex person born and raised in Texas should be entitled to an honorary medical degree.

GC discussing if I have enough medical devices in me now to qualify as an animatronic.

Pager duty weekend is good for finding out important shit like "the Valorant kids are into ye".

This is an incredible patch note.

Graffiti. Minneapolis. 1312. Loud. With legs.

Its a stuck at home weekend because pager duty has been exploding so I should probably try playing a video game for once instead of sitting in the dark brooding over past mistakes. Anyways I have Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Pragmata and need help deciding which one.

i'm really blown away, every day, by the number of people who agree that: we're all in this together people must support each other entrenched capital interests are the real enemy who somehow conclude that being an asshole on a microblogging site does anything to help

Why in the fuck did I get a large pear and prosciutto pizza?

Still looking for a remote senior/staff-level SWE role that can provide health/vision/dental. I'm so good at what I do, and this job search dragging on is taking such a toll on me. Any help deeply appreciated.

If we make a bit of an effort we can turn this transatlantic air-conditioning chat into a discussion about the differences in our food

I'm back on the dopamine stabilizer that changes my world view from "we're all in a simulation that wasn't supposed to run this long" to "myself and many others are probably dead and attempting to escape the wheel before the end of this Kali Yuga cycle."

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

"It'll be impressive (pejorative)" is becoming my new slack response for "I have to condone this without taking on the responsibility of whatever it randomly breaks".

Russian Circles is playing ATX on this tour but the temptation of the Chicago show being in a cemetery is feeling too strong to resist.

No career burnout, I probably shouldn't go back to trying to 100% achievements Hades 2 when I need to fix an overdue pypi migration someone else screwed up.

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

The bartender looked genuinely shocked at my ID and let out a "Missy! You're going to be young forever." which was a surprise coz I feel like the last three years have aged me terribly.