Trevor Talley is dried wisteria

I don't care who likes it, I dream of revenge

What the fuck

The World Is Burning; What Now? — Looking to Art for Answers about the Apocalypse (Preface) [Note from the writer: What follows is the introduction to a series of essays that I am using as a way to process a world where disaster…

The world is chaos, and in order to process it, I've started an experimental series of essays on art and how it applies to Now. I'm calling it #Apocalypse Art Analysis; it's quite personal but #art analysis is what I do, so it's a mix of deep criticism and my life. Here's the intro; check it out 🖤✨

JANUARY 20: For the first time since May 2023, all 3 GLTS boys are doing a livestream. We're raising money for California Community Foundation's LA Wildfire Relief Fund.

You do NOT have to watch to donate, go to the link on the photo below & all donations it will go towards our total.

a man with glasses is giving a thumbs up and the word ok is on the bottom ALT: a man with glasses is giving a thumbs up and the word ok is on the bottom

I respond by going. Pew ain't talkin to the people i know

Power Causes Brain Damage How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

I always come back to this www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Lmao, the govt and boomers working for years to kill tiktok and everyone just moving over to another Chinese app in a day is fucking hilarious. It's gonna take at least a year for politicians to get old people to even understand that red note exists. Pure praxis

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Is there ever going to be a day where we can try to recover our minds and hearts from all this, or is it all trauma forever?

Power lines, involved in previous California fires, will be under scrutiny again.

If it turns out to be true that lax maintenance on power lines caused the #LA fires, I need to tell people as someone who evacuated from the biggest fire in Texas history in April 2024 (1+ mil acres), this was found to be EXACTLY what caused the Texas #fires. If this is just how it is everywhere...

You don't know me or my work at all, but thanks. Also poor, btw. You're clearly looking for a fight over this and as someone who had to evacuate from a 1million+ acre wildfire that surrounded my poor rural town this year, I can understand where you're coming from. Thanks for your input

I'm literally talking about people who clearly are well-off. You're making an emotional reaction and trying to paint my point as something I haven't said at all. I see you're hurting, and this conversation does not appear to be going anywhere. I stand by my point.

Sure, but again you miss the point. That some people who until now had a house and were doing well can just casually reach out and ask for and get 40k within hours of crisis while others struggle to get $200 to get food is something that needs to be critically examined. 40k is life-changing money

Again, I'm not talking about those people. I'm talking SPECIFICALLY about rich white people getting funded thousands of dollars while I see fundmes for homeless people, often bipoc and queer and trans, going unfunded. I'm talking about something specific and not what you're talking about

I'll repeat, I'm not talking about the average person, I'm talking about people posting 40k funded gofundmes with photos of their house with a babygrand piano in it. Also I have family in LA, and I've definitely been there

Losing your home to a fire as any identity or level of wealth isn't ideological by itself outside of the system that caused it bringing the damage to everyone regardless of background, but what happens after to those people certainly is. The MANY gofundmes I'm seeing do not appear to be poor people.

Obviously not, but these are photos of people in nice houses and nice clothes that are mostly middle aged white people. I'm not saying that I know their circumstances or that they don't deserve help, but getting 30-40k funded in hours when gofundmes i see for homeless people can barely get $500...

Something I'm realizing about the LA fires is that a lot of these people are finding themselves in crisis for the first time. As much as I support mutual aid, watching rich white people get their gofundmes up in the 30k+ range immediately is disturbing if you know what trans mutual aid nets

In the end, apocalypse is always the question

My brother was stuck on an island in a flood that nobody ever fixed. Gaza is gone.

It was 100 degrees so often this year that I go out to pee in boots and underwear only and my skin consumes a cold that still exists in the world.

This land burned last April. California burns always, but it's burning like dragons right now. My friends hide from hurricanes yearly. Tornadoes used to live here, but they mostly moved east (only a few familiar faces show up to the party).

You absolute snowflakes. Get the fuck over it
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I guess I just have been so anti jock for like 30+ years that even before superheroes were cool I always thought Superman was the most boring, but it still actively blows my mind that people care about Cape Jesus

My brother is digitizing old vhs tapes for my dad, and i just want to point out to all the 20 somethings that idyllicize the 90s and 2000s that this was very much the vibe

I think the biggest lesson gen z should learn from the current world situation is to stop filming yourselves so much. Sure, film sometimes. But you are hurting yourselves by filming so frequently. It's not good for you mentally, for one, and the building fascism absolutely will hurt you over it

A24 and Alex Garland making a propaganda film about white people in the Iraq War in the middle of another Middle East genocide is proof that we should never idolize businesses or rich people, even if they're artists. Absolutely unforgivable.

Yes, actually. I am happy Brian Thompson was killed. And I do think the shooter is a hero. Brian Thompson would have caused the death of multiple people tomorrow and every day after until he died. This shit is easy math.

Tunde from TV on the Radio on Star Wars is the kind of 2024 pop culture thing that makes me wonder if all this since 2020 has been a fever dream. This time in a good way

The difference in the universes of people who actually explore the stupid internet and people who do not explore culture much. It's so depressingly funny how this cycle just keeps happening, where people try to find some sort of level waters for Being Online in the face of all of internet history

Fully agree. Watergate wouldn't last three weeks, if that, in the news cycle today