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They don't actually want children to be safer from CSA, that's a big part of this. They absolutely do not want children to have an avenue like the Internet where they could connect with people who tell them what they might be experiencing is abuse.

I am actually really hopeful that they destroy the internet like they destroy anything and everything else under capitalism because man my mental health would be so much better if I had a sturdy barrier put up between me and social media; my laziness and paranoia would win the day there

As soon as we got back to the shopping center Hal went to a public phone and called someone in Washington. He wrote down a name on a piece of paper: David M...
“That's one of the men in charge. I'll call you tomorrow about it.” (16 Oct 1973)

Our little group meets again tonight at Bryn Mawr. Allen now calls it "the Invisible College" in reference to the scientific movement that preceded the creation of the Royal Society in the 1660s in England, at a time when it was very dangerous to be interested in natural philosophy. (27 May 1967)

Just for comparison, I believe the most profitable Toyota dealership on Earth is also in Burbank, pumping out every Prius I see on the road in LA. If you can't make money there selling cars, you're already dead

"This is where they hunt, like female hyenas" is a turn of phrase worthy of J.G. Ballard

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Jack Ruby's mugshot after capping Oswald

There's always been a lot of movement between Illinois and Texas, sir.

good thread

My god, David Bowie, rail thin — Halloween (!!) 1974, with David Johansen at Max’s Kansas City. He’d just released Diamond Dogs. It’s bonkers that he survived the cocaine — look at him! — another two years, through LA and Station to Station. That is real magic he wielded there.

this post still fucking undefeated

Gumby Screens account, just avoid being Lynchian for one 24-hour period please

LYNCHIAN AGAIN

watching Mulder/Scully shippers in the year of our fuckin lord 2025 is making me think these people could not have hung at all in alt.tv.x-files.creative circa 1995

your grandparents were getting weirder with it than you thirty fuckin years ago with nothing but ASCII and a Unix login, kid

there is the very faint and low possibility over the next 7-14 days that I will be compelled to relive the trauma around the most fucking awful thing that happened to me since COVID and given my luck the past week I do not like those odds one bit

"Of course!" is so weirdly reassuring

Ingo Swann and I had a serious discussion about remote perception. He was looking for ideas to build a new model of psychic functioning, because old techniques inherited from Rhine and others have failed to bring about conclusive results. (1 May 1973)

more capitalists in this country should be scared for their lives

when innocent children were being slaughtered every week in their schools, they didn't give a shit, but a couple of executives get got and now it's a crisis demanding omnisurveillance, restrictions on speech and glorified martial law

it's clear that the language (and all-too-infrequent direct action) of militarism, armed resistance, and stochastic violence actually does have the ruling class shook to their fucking core

fuck Bernie Sanders forever, crawl into your grave you rotten Zionist, you have been left behind by history

me

it might be a professor o' blivion videodrome situation

there's that apocryphal saying of the famous bank robber who when asked why he robbed banks, replied "coz that's where the money is"

granted the NFL is evil but this has to be the funniest "oops wrong floor" ever committed in human history

I hope when I die everyone remembers me as "fierce in the defense of its people"