Rigel
@rigelr.bsky.social
He/ him. Mostly reading or painting things for nerdgames.
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Rigel
@rigelr.bsky.social
· May 20
The most bullshit thing in the world, I believe, is the inability of the human mind to correlate its contents. We live on a crapass island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and we could be journeying so much further.
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and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
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Fiscally conservative and socially liberal means "I think it's bad when people starve, but not bad enough I'd help pay for their meal."
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Fiscally conservative and socially liberal means "I think it's bad when people starve, but not bad enough I'd help pay for their meal."
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The uber-rich could be comissioning art - shows, movies, games, buildings. Instead, in their philistinism, they have comissioned hordes of podcasters to tearfully rant about how the west has fallen and nobody makes art like they used to.
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The uber-rich could be comissioning art - shows, movies, games, buildings. Instead, in their philistinism, they have comissioned hordes of podcasters to tearfully rant about how the west has fallen and nobody makes art like they used to.
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Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.
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Me: the side effects list says “changes in dreams” what does this mean?
Doctor: yes there are two possibilities. If you find yourself in the “abode of stones” we can work with that, but if your dreams are staged in the “blood neighborhood” you have to call me
Me: how will I know?
Dr: you’ll know
Doctor: yes there are two possibilities. If you find yourself in the “abode of stones” we can work with that, but if your dreams are staged in the “blood neighborhood” you have to call me
Me: how will I know?
Dr: you’ll know
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Me: the side effects list says “changes in dreams” what does this mean?
Doctor: yes there are two possibilities. If you find yourself in the “abode of stones” we can work with that, but if your dreams are staged in the “blood neighborhood” you have to call me
Me: how will I know?
Dr: you’ll know
Doctor: yes there are two possibilities. If you find yourself in the “abode of stones” we can work with that, but if your dreams are staged in the “blood neighborhood” you have to call me
Me: how will I know?
Dr: you’ll know
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sometimes i like to switch it up when talking to a cat. i'll say shit like "you should kill them all. wade in blood little man" in the same friendly tone i tell him i love him. he'll usually just purr about it because he agrees with me
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
sometimes i like to switch it up when talking to a cat. i'll say shit like "you should kill them all. wade in blood little man" in the same friendly tone i tell him i love him. he'll usually just purr about it because he agrees with me
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I have just now completed my Halloween essay, which is about NIGHTBREED. It was just about the coolest thing I'd seen when I was 14, its flaws are more evident now, but so are its various meanings. It has dozens of cool monsters, it's pro-freak, anti-fascist, and full of imagination. I love it.
Nightbreed (special Halloween revisit) | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA
There was a time when I was 14 years old and Clive Barker’s NIGHTBREED was my favorite movie. Maybe that was too soon to move on from BATMAN, or maybe they
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October 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have just now completed my Halloween essay, which is about NIGHTBREED. It was just about the coolest thing I'd seen when I was 14, its flaws are more evident now, but so are its various meanings. It has dozens of cool monsters, it's pro-freak, anti-fascist, and full of imagination. I love it.
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Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows.
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Happy Halloween! Welcome to...Bransylvania.
Ever since the young Count's voyage to New Spain, he had been...different. Obsessed. The bats of that region drink blood, and he would have perished of blood loss had not a local tribe restored him with a miraculous drink--xocolotl. He craves more.
Ever since the young Count's voyage to New Spain, he had been...different. Obsessed. The bats of that region drink blood, and he would have perished of blood loss had not a local tribe restored him with a miraculous drink--xocolotl. He craves more.
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Happy Halloween! Welcome to...Bransylvania.
Ever since the young Count's voyage to New Spain, he had been...different. Obsessed. The bats of that region drink blood, and he would have perished of blood loss had not a local tribe restored him with a miraculous drink--xocolotl. He craves more.
Ever since the young Count's voyage to New Spain, he had been...different. Obsessed. The bats of that region drink blood, and he would have perished of blood loss had not a local tribe restored him with a miraculous drink--xocolotl. He craves more.
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i need to visit a big old bookshop that's a borderline fire hazard, please
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
i need to visit a big old bookshop that's a borderline fire hazard, please
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A whole bunch of Americans died in a field in PA trying to stop Osama Bin Laden’s cronies from destroying the WH.
That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.
The terrorists must be so pleased.
TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,
while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.
That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.
The terrorists must be so pleased.
TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,
while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A whole bunch of Americans died in a field in PA trying to stop Osama Bin Laden’s cronies from destroying the WH.
That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.
The terrorists must be so pleased.
TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,
while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.
That asshole just destroyed the WH for him.
The terrorists must be so pleased.
TACO accomplished what Al Qaeda could not,
while all the mouth breathing “patriots” let him do it.
"But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early.
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight."
Happy Something Wicked day!
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight."
Happy Something Wicked day!
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early.
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight."
Happy Something Wicked day!
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight."
Happy Something Wicked day!
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EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
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You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
They say there are plenty of fish in the sea, but anglerfish aren't risking it, and I wouldn't either if I looked like that. So the males fuse right into the females' side when they mate, shared circulation and everything.
This means anglerfish can't get a divorce. It has to be a
...debridement.
This means anglerfish can't get a divorce. It has to be a
...debridement.
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
They say there are plenty of fish in the sea, but anglerfish aren't risking it, and I wouldn't either if I looked like that. So the males fuse right into the females' side when they mate, shared circulation and everything.
This means anglerfish can't get a divorce. It has to be a
...debridement.
This means anglerfish can't get a divorce. It has to be a
...debridement.
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When a puppet dies and you feel sad even though it wasn’t a real person the phenomenon Is called “felt loss”
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When a puppet dies and you feel sad even though it wasn’t a real person the phenomenon Is called “felt loss”
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plague doctor? no. blight attendant
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
plague doctor? no. blight attendant
What are some classic Halloween books, in the same way 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Hogfather' are Christmas stories? I know Zelazny's 'A Night in the Lonesome October' and Bradbury's 'The October Country' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' --are there others?
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
What are some classic Halloween books, in the same way 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Hogfather' are Christmas stories? I know Zelazny's 'A Night in the Lonesome October' and Bradbury's 'The October Country' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' --are there others?
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we are the sons of the hamburgers you could not help
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
we are the sons of the hamburgers you could not help
Dude I learned about not too long ago was Joe Lee Kieyoomia. Navajo code talker, captured and tortured by the Japanese (they originally thought he was a Nisei spy, because Axis powers are hella racist); survived the Bataan Death March; locked up in a deep cell in Hiroshima; was there for the bomb.
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Dude I learned about not too long ago was Joe Lee Kieyoomia. Navajo code talker, captured and tortured by the Japanese (they originally thought he was a Nisei spy, because Axis powers are hella racist); survived the Bataan Death March; locked up in a deep cell in Hiroshima; was there for the bomb.
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Please don't just say "happy indigenous people's day" & slap an image of an indigenous person up you Googled. Do a little work, say their name. What tribe they are a part of, the works they did. Actually Celebrate them. Don't insult their spirit by reducing them to a clip art image. Alt text it too
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Please don't just say "happy indigenous people's day" & slap an image of an indigenous person up you Googled. Do a little work, say their name. What tribe they are a part of, the works they did. Actually Celebrate them. Don't insult their spirit by reducing them to a clip art image. Alt text it too
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Weird conspiracy for the day: seagulls are the souls of dead modems, come back to negotiate connections from hell.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Weird conspiracy for the day: seagulls are the souls of dead modems, come back to negotiate connections from hell.