Aaron Fown

I am not inside Japanese culture enough to understand why there was such an astonishing electoral swing. Is it just mascot-ism, and the leader is a good mascot? Or are we gonna have Musk claiming he stole it in a few days? I mean, we are supposed to ignore it when he does that, for some reason.

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Jeff Bezos, world's richest man, was so busy killing democracy in broad daylight that he failed to even pay for the reporters who were part of WaPo's foreign offices to get home after they were unceremoniously fired. So now many of them are stranded in war zones.

Here is their GoFundMe?

Perhaps some neutral country should investigate if this despicable man is still alive? I feel like there should be at least a few investigators checking up on that, at this point.

No; it was a head fake. Democracy is being killed in broad daylight.

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The influence of music like his, and the citypop soft-rock that was popular in Asia concurrently, is proportional to their actual popularity. And, I get it; most of the western record execs were on so much nose candy in that period that chill out music did not appeal enough to market it. Nonetheless

A screen cap of a story by the Atlantic, which was soft balling the idea of re-animating our loved ones in a ghoulish digital form which would, no doubt, sell us Netflix or something (in final implementation). Under it is a post by myself, saying "Digital necromancy should be treated as akin to defiling a corpse and defaming the character of a dead person, by the law and by society. 4:09 PM · Feb 1, 2026 14 reposts 1 quote 80 likes Notably, the original story only has 41 likes, so digital necromancy is, evidently, not popular.

I consider the ratio here a small win against this latest torment nexus.

This is a delightful joke. A full guffaw.

Though, really, it’s like he’s from another dimension, or something. Like, if we are the moustache universe, then he is from the other one.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Times article has an incredible illustration

A post on the Child Porn & Bots social app from Epic Games via their FortniteStatus account, denying their involvement with Epstein. It reads: Fortnite Status @FortniteStatus Hey Official Fortnite here - this was a ruse by a Fortnite player. A few days ago, an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username from something totally unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube. These Fortnite trackers only display your current name, not any prior changes to it. We have no record of the subject's email addresses referenced in the public document existing in the Epic account system. Since the public document releases, people have created Fortnite accounts with similar-looking email addresses and user names.

Oh yeah, I can screen cap! Here is the full statement from Epic, so far:

So yeah, no facts, no figures, and one bald faced lie and/or obfuscation makes this weird affair look more real, to my eyes, not less. We know he was playing Fortnite; he was talking about it all the time!

They state that they have no record of his email address in their systems, but we have him buying or receiving V-Bucks in the files themselves. Either they are flatly lying, or he was using another email address which is not public for his gaming activities, which is at best an obfuscation.

I was forced to use my a dead account to read their direct statement (not really encouraging that Epic requires me to use the CSAM platform to read their denial of hosting Epstein) and I feel like Epic is full of shit.

Epic Clarifies That, No, Jeffrey Epstein Is Not Still Alive And Playing Fortnite In Tel Aviv "This was a ruse by a Fortnite player"

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Epic has followed up to claim that the account in question changed its name a few days back. I would like to see some evidence besides a 'trust us' from a company that is actually of implicated in oblique ways, given that Epstein seemingly invented the loot box.

OK, now it is popping out... I really don't want this to be so, but if it is true that this villain yet lives, then I could hardly imagine a more galvanizing event, even if the gods themselves were to arrange it.

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People never put enough texture on black outfits to make them interesting. All black tends to just destroy your profile and essential line in anything but the brightest light. But, there are exceptions.

This is why trucks cost a hundred grand and are increasingly bad at doing work, to such an extent that people are importing old Isuzu micro trucks to do actual work with.

More fundamentally, it is that people who commission art want to be seen as artists, without paying anyone, by commissioning a machine instead. It's the age old, 'the patron wants to dance, too' problem, but combined with this kicked-in-the-head tech overlord anti-human perspective.

I am 100% serious when I say that Governor Tim Walz should call up the National Guard to protect Liam Conejo Ramos and his family against Trump's demonic activity, the same way Ruby Bridges was protected by US Marshals in New Orleans in 1960.

This is made worse by the industrial artists whose 'talent' comes in the form of a staff that quietly does all the work.

I tend to think that it's ~10% 'talent,' but talent also doesn't matter except at the extreme edges of productivity or precision. The thing is, the people who live on that edge tend to be widely regarded, and thus there is selection bias towards the 'talented' in the public view of artists.

If true, this would be... less than ideal. Though, if people were still afraid of Epstein as 'shadow emperor', it would explain some of the odd behavior we have been seeing. I honestly wanted to find some evidence this was dirt that was being thrown in the air, but it seemed legit last night.

This hasn’t percolated out yet, but late yesterday some Reddit sleuths used info in the files to get into Epstein’s email, and from there determined his Fortnite account name. Someone was playing it in Tel Aviv a few days back. Perhaps Mossad stole it for his skins, or…

Anyhow, stay frosty, folks.

If kindness was not so powerful they would not work so hard to beat it out of children.

Even worse, given how casually these people seem to talk about causing people they dislike to “commit suicide”, I am lead to wonder whether he did as well. He was fond of the Palestinians, after all.

Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats.

It's all there.

He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players.

Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.

He was just comfortable covering up pedophiles for decades, in order to grasp at power, as servant of the pedophile welfare services here in the US we have in place of a government.

You know, if he were a pervert, he would at least have the society of the other perverts. He did it just for power.

Really, the only reason all of this handwringing makes sense is if they plan on skipping the primary and just selecting someone, again. But that would hardly be good for the legitimacy omni-crisis?

It's kind of amazing how the worst consequence many of our most powerful people can conceive of is someone being mad at them online, to the degree that they are driven to distraction about it even in the abstract.