Mariana Colín

But it's called "Imperial boomerang" and when I heard that I said wow what a beautiful term. You throw it and it comes back stronger than perhaps ever before

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

One thing I think about a lot is that as social media has made all our lives constant performance, the biggest differences between us are the types of stories we want to act out.

These guys are living their favorite vigilante thug-as-hero movie.

@golikehellmachine.com has posted at length about how this is the all stick, no carrot administration, but it occurs to me that this is because the administration considers itself the carrot nonpareil. If the mere fact of their actualization is not a joy & a glory in your eyes, you're the enemy

That’s right. Getting laughed at is their Kryptonite. The sandwich guy was the first white guy in all this that DHS/WH tried to make an example of in a viral video they posted. They only did it because he got some huge laughs around the world at their expense

Everybody needs to show up at protests with sandwiches now. The streets need to be running christmas colors with slightly wilted lettuce and pepper aioli

*wielding

bureaucratic violence is the weird ding of the truncheon when somebody “talks back.”

-David Graeber

A crowd can be either orderly or disorderly; a citizen can be white, black, Hispanic, or an Asian/Pacific Islander; a petitioner is or is not in possession of a valid photo ID: such simplistic rubrics can only be maintained in the absence of dialogue. Hence, the quintessential for of

“If you want to cause the police to be violent, the surest way better a to challenge their right to define the situation. This, of course, makes perfect sense if we remember that police are, essentially, bureaucrats with guns. Bureaucratic procedures are all about questions of definition.

Tesco takes more from you than it costs for Asylum Seekers, and the Banks take more in 2 weeks than Asylum Seekers cost in an entire year.

But of course, there is absolute silence about that.

Only slightly less ridiculous than Richard Spencer going on The Daily Shoah to worry wart about what the glitter thrown at him during his April 2017 "anti-war" protest *could have been* (as the hosts made fun of him for it using the soundboard)

Jordan Peterson taking temporary leave from public life after undergoing a surgical procedure that removes "nearly a mile" of lustrous blonde hair from his abdominal cavity. "The world bequeathed me a horrible freight," he said through a family spokesperson, who added that Peterson "was crying."

jordan peterson getting into having unrecognized diseases is so babygirl coded of him. i hope he becomes a chronic lyme influencer

I think it’s supposed to evoke a vibe of inner precision and delicate gentility, which tracks since as a function of being supervillain-coded it’s also very aristocrat-coded. Anyway it’s dumb and embarrassing and I hate it

This hand gesture (termed “genius fingers” by Internet Hippo) is a fascinating performance choice for the modern right. It’s extremely supervillain-coded, which it’s unclear to me if they know.

Oh expressly endorsing the imperial boomerang

"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army.

I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.

Fascism is colonialism turned inward

“His genetics” are making him bomb Ukraine?

And this is a handicap the right-wing propaganda machine has never burdened itself with

This is the way now. Every Gestapo officer needs to know they are the enemy. No peace for the fascist foot soldiers forever.

Community action is our duty and it’s our only way out of the fascist hall of mirrors we now inhabit.

So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime

I have but I had to miss the last 10 minutes lol. Gonna write a thing, I just have to see it again first. I liked it though!

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Berger's three laws of chatbotics:

1) The bot should never express emotions.

2) The bot should never praise the user.

3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state.

There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

This person is a fascist. This shouldn’t be news, but it is convenient to have it all in one place. The hatred is coming from him, and it’s the stuff that underwrites reactionary violence against people whom he does not see as people but enemies to be subjugated and if necessary eliminated.

Photo of Mr. Rogers captioned "I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better"

Photo of Mr. Rogers captioned "than to have us feel awful about who we are."

Rape cult

Supremacist ideologies always fail because they know absolutely nothing about the communities they’re trying to subjugate. That’s what supremacism is— insistence that you have the right to not think about how people who are unlike you live.

It’s like saying the civil rights movement needed its own Bull Connor, or feminism needs its own Andrew Tate.