Sometimes people dress it up with a variant on the 'deserving poor'; but like the deserving poor, disabled privation is only virtuous when it's silent.

The undeserving can get fucked, of course. And whether or not you're deserving is something they can definitely tell by visual examination.

An upsetting thing to realize is that eugenics is actually really popular among people who think they fall on the 'good' side.

They can't just enjoy feeling healthy, it has to come with a little sprinkle of disgust for people who aren't for them to be able to really savor it.

"Please sign my petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide"-ass government

idk, you could get really florid with it. If a picture is worth a thousand words, surely you could generate a thousand words worth of Alf hog description. Describe the Alf hog until they make you stop.

Well, it was either ghosts or hallucinatory episodes, and I'm basically okay with either explanation.

Call it net zero ghost belief, drifting with the current of lifetime events.

Me: Vizier, I need to retire to my conservatory to consider the day's events. Much has happened that requires a reckoning.

Partner: Is that what we're calling 'go to the botanical garden and mutter ominously'?

Me: The cycads know what they did.

✨ don't post anything online you don't want to read aloud in a courtroom ✨

My interpretation of Link’s profile pic, with the words, “Free Link” repeating in the background

Hey, since Patton Oswalt was reinstated, maybe Bluesky moderation can reinstate someone who was banned for doing the exact same thing.

Partner: So it's the poster's cavalry charge?

Me: Right, Posters of the Light Brigade. "Ours is not to do or die, ours is to go online and be really weird about it."

this, all day right now

(unmute, it’s a bop)

*absolutely* worth it.

the movement doesn't sync up correctly with normal cassette tapes, but he & I had been inexpertly fucking around with the wiring, so the eyes would blink at random and it would jiggle a bit when it was playing sound....the sound being War Pigs.

remembering fondly the time I got in trouble for putting a black sabbath cassette tape in my cousin's Teddy Ruxpin

some are saying he's the best to ever post through it

latin literature of the 5th-6th centuries AD

anti-wellness checkpoint: i'm throwing water at your face. punching and wrestling you. have you eaten any gold foil today? your cell phone notifications miss you. your emails miss you. try starting an argument with your dad

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

"we shouldn't desire better than what the most precarious members of our species had, back when bad weather or viral illness could depopulate us nearly to extinction. I am a leftist"

ok man, you can naturalist fallacy yourself into a bone infection if you want, but I enjoy Having A Society.

"Freedom of Speech" by Norman Rockwell. In common online parlance this image has come to represent an unpopular opinion that the writer believes is true.

The significant changes del Toro made to various details of Frankenstein were good actually.

Elizabeth is barely a character in the novel (and somehow psychosexually weirder). Here she's a more pointed foil than Clerval, with interests & beliefs, who uses her limited agency with deliberation.

Look, Terrance McKenna was wrong about a wide variety of things, but I have been thinking about "the secret faith of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic" about twice a day for fully 20 years.

polisci and conlaw professors standing round the coffee machine asking what level of functional decline makes congress legally dead for constitutional purposes

yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

writing a companion piece to A Report on the Banality of Evil that’s just A Report on How Evil is Also Deeply Cringe

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

I find it very unsettling when people agree with me too enthusiastically or try to build intimacy too quickly.

This is pretty maladaptive behavior in most social circumstances, but it makes the servile language LLMs use nauseating, so I end up with a little defense bonus against computer madness.

voting to end the shutdown should’ve been the biggest news today but we’re all so very busy reading old emails between rich pedophiles

Once again rotating Tausk's "On the Origin of the 'Influencing Machine'" around in my head & wondering where I'd be if growing up around undermedicated schizophrenics hadn't fundamentally altered some aspects of my personality.

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

I've had more lucid conversation with people on whippets.