Jim Wright

If it weren't for the Gothic Theater, I would never have known about the Revolting Cocks.

I used to live in an apartment behind this theater.

Well, behind the bowling ally next to this theater.

Assuming it's the one in Englewood.

And it looks loke it.

The Trump Conspiracy's orbital flower control satellites will enslave us all!

The world has gotten so bad that even the roses have to wear tin-foil hats.

My dream wasn't working properly last night, so I called tech support.

And that turned it into a nightmare.

Why do women love robots so much?

They're just more fun than you.

People prefer to talk to AI doctors about their problems, because they don't want to be judged by snooty nurses.

People prefer to complain to human operators about customer service problems, because they enjoy the power of being able to harangue people who have no choice but to listen.

So, the Jay's secret weapon is that their bats are all transformed vampires?

Here's how I torture myself. According to likes on the DMaR feed, these are all about the same quality.

YouTube video by School of Visual Storytelling How Do I Overcome Comparison?

I think I'll listen to this video on "How Do I Overcome Comparison" while I obsessively map out the matchings in Draw Me a Robot's October competition -- where I'm getting tossed out in the first round again.

I'll be less pissy about it this month that I was last month.

youtu.be/UO9nUHsn28s?...

This is one of the best comedy pieces I've read in a long time.

I should not have read it in public.

"At low social temperature, the parties are almost pure, i.e. Republicans contain rights while Democrats contain lefts...approaching the critical social temperature, the two parties become indistinguishable which leads to collapse of the political system."

- Ts., "Social Thermo 2"

"The molar social enthalpy of the bourgeoisie equals h_b B + c_p T, where the molar heat capacity at constant price pressure obeys the Mayer law [relating it to the molar heat capacity at constant volume."

"Evidently, the American Civil War had been the triple point of US society, where slaves had formed the third social phase."

"Thermodynamic equilibrium requires the same social temperature, price pressure, and exploitation, which guarantees peace."

- Tsekov, Social Thermodynamics 2.0

* The van der Waals equation of state describes a gas that is non-ideal in that the size of the molecule is large enough that its volume cannot be considered to be infinitesimal.

In the limit of small molecule size, it becomes the ideal gas law.

"The van der Waals equation* predicts a critical point...Above the critical temperature, the system cannot separate into two phases in equilibrium...corresponding to Marxism, which cannot be split into two classes. Below the critical temperature, the capitalist society consists of two phases."

YouTube video by Gresham College Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War - Alec Ryrie

youtu.be/j9DDBMookVY?...

Mythopoetic Interpretations

of the

Historical Moment

provide

Hope and Meaning

for the

Alienated and Lost

[I guess]

Weird getting one of your own book reviews recommended to you on the YouTube algorithm.

But maybe it shouldn't be.

Whoo!

All of the political problems in this world come from a basic disagreement that pervades society: do you cut your sandwiches horizontally or diagonally.

Y cuts them diagonally.

You can imagine what happened when she saw that I cut one sandwich diagonally, and then I cut then next one horizontally.

It's like that advice they always give you in Creative Murder classes:

Kill who you know.

Hawk flying in a spiral around tree branch trying to catch a squirrel that's running up it in circles as I type.

@cincinnatusc.bsky.social

Oh, wait. Napal did ban social media last month.

Gangs of kids stormed Kathmandu, burned down the Parliament, and "elected" a new prime minister in a Discord chat.

The kids might not want to pay for their Snap, but they're willing to string you from a tree for it.

Social media's alright.

I mean, social media has been good to me.

Twitter, I failed to get into four times now.

But IG, for example, has been awesome. Very welcoming, very supportive. Exactly not like real life.

I wonder if there's some way we can find out what would happen if it were banned?