i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

(Since Bluesky is mostly pedants, I will add disclaimers here: Eggs are not actually a luxury item, I am using hyperbole to say that groceries have gotten significantly more expensive.)

Shocked to learn that under a right wing presidency, the rich are having an endless party while all of the rest of us are adjusting to eggs being a luxury item

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Overheard a customer at work saying "This isn’t a communist country, you can’t just do whatever you want!"

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

It’s awesome that they’ve accomplished this stuff by having a conversation with the companies and the companies going "sure whatever" and probably changing nothing

I mean, if you’ve logged on to Twitter in the last year, this isn’t really much of a shock.

It is kinda baffling that it became a right wing position since the obvious solution to it is something antithetical to most conservatives: just, like, regulate shit more

I really hate that "all our food is poison" became a right wing coded health woo woo position bc it's basically correct but their solution is giving themselves trichinosis

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Basically my entire politics. I am interested in your liberalism if it's liberalism that takes liberalism seriously but I can't consider it to be such a thing if there is some racial exemptions made simply for the benefit of your preferred group in MENA. This is what liberalism in the US does.

If you like this post but are thinking "hmm, what does Twitter user Cigarette Liker think about Bush-era youth group metalcore?" Boy do I have a podcast for you

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Kicking off horror month on Fruitless with an episode about Candyman!! Check it out!

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HORROR MONTH AT FRUITLESS BEGINS! With @jackaljackal.bsky.social joining me as co-host, we are kicking the month off by talking about one of his favorite movies: Candyman (1992). Available wherever you get your podcasts.

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Unfortunately this is holding up

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide