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Had a dream a while ago about Warhammer 40K, where I learned that there was a meme in-universe among the Mechanicus where they would trick each other into opening a file that contained a picture of Vashtorr the Arkifane. Presumably, this would then require the victim to waste time scrubbing their minds of potential Chaos corruption. They referred to this meme as "getting Vashtorred."
On my deathbed, I will not be thinking About the $9 someone owes me for a lunch we shared.
Instead, I will be thinking About the dozens, hundreds, Of lunches we shared, where we laughed And cried And held hands.
I will remember that long ago, my friend (who, in a few minutes, will be mourning me) and I decided to stop counting pennies with one another, and instead chose to focus on the time we spent together.
I will think about the joy my friend brought to my life, Not the $9 they cost me.
And even if I do remember it, $9 is a small price to pay For a such friend.
this is ideology eating itself it's so amusing to me.
Like what kind of manufacturing base do you think America has right now? we're going to bring Factory Jobs back to Detroit, girlies. It's going to work, because we're Fighting Woke. Woke will Die and its death will usher in a new age of American Prosperity. By way of. Uh. Oh. Oh no. Is it supposed to do that?
"We're going to get companies to build factories in the US!! We're going to bring manufacturing back here!!" Are you?
Trump heard that Biden set money on fire with the CHIPS act and said. We can do that but with everything.
Most intelligent graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
dear universe give me ten billion dollars and infinite free time and indestructible hands so i can do every hobby ever
twin peaks (1990)
created by mark frost & david lynch
Bro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.
It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
The Yemen bombing group chat messages accidentally shared with The Atlantic are now public. Here’s three high-ranking government officials celebrating the destruction of a what sounds like an apartment building, part of a series of airstrikes which reportedly killed 53
I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.
A series
An addition:
Small dogs are good dogs too!
IN A VIOLENT NATURE (2024)
dir. Chris Nash
drew over something i wrote for a class and liked :] sorry the cars are lowkey ugly, its because I fucking hate cars and cant be bothered to learn what they look like beyond ominous hunks of metal
edit: transcript of the poem by itself under the cut
“Yo Uncle Phil check out my stand [ARABIAN NIGHTS]”
You'll have to turn sound on for this one
Text for deaf or HOH. Not captured by AI.
"Carpets are useful for indoctrinating little boys into white supremacy.
And I'll explain that in a moment, once I get you started painting this one.
First, use lexion purple contrast paint or mix up something similar like I'm doing, and give the area a once over.
Then, grab some flow-aid and use that going forward in place of water. We're gonna mix warlord purple and then pink then white, making tiny little tics, getting lighter and lighter towards the edge.
Watch the demo. No blinking.
I'll know. I can hear it.
We were at a trade show, and my dad pointed out a small hand-stitched rug that was incredible.
He mentioned that people makes these kinds of things for kings and rich people.
But, they took so much time historically that they didn't get to be enjoyed by their makers. Or were doing it as slaves.
I looked pretty galled, I imagined. And my father reassured me that not everyone can afford incredible and beautiful things, so unless we want to live in a world without monuments and works of beauty. That, sometimes, just what has to happen.
I was comforted by this. And I didn't think, not for an instant, that I'd be the one stitching the rug.
No one challenged me to think what those people would be doing. What feats of art and science and human kindness they'd wrestle into the world if they had comfort, time, and space to do so on their own.
And my station as the one enjoying the rug, had always been implicit.
These moral justifications for expecting the fruit of wide authority aren't always intentional. But they bleed from one generation to the next.
They are poision at the root.
I held onto that comforting for a long time.
(Text appears on screen: not my mom tho, she rules, luv you mom)
If my dad didn't turn out to be the kind of person he was, driving me away, causing me to question everything, I wonder if I'd still be enjoying that comfort.
Content and unchallenged.
Passing ot along to my son.
My father, for all of his faults, was someone's little boy once.
And he was failed too."
As well as the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of the native population, the trail of tears and the treatment of the native population of America was a template for Nazi Germany alongside the Jim Crow laws. The US is founded on stolen land with an economy built on enslaved and stolen people and it’s vitally important to never forget that
