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tweet by scorpy @socpens: maybe ill never die because am special

the thing is literally anyone who pays attention to how empires end can make the same predictions, and this has been true for thousands of years. but a core aspect of empire is that most people inside it think the guys in charge have solved Forever Power this time for real

of all the many things that were said in that discord server [blasted land I vacated due to wild relationship drama] that is the one and only thing I regret not having screencapped

the thing that has really been fucking with me is that when Jan 6 was happening and I was talking to american friends about what I saw as the terminal stage of empire collapse I said pretty much word for word "I give the US in its current form maybe five more years"

💀 this is only partially a joke but it might be a good time to check in on your psychotic leftist friends because being right about a conspiracy hail mary like this is fucking with *my* reality checking

isn't this the plot to that don bluth movie or whatever

Cool ad I just got now I understand ocd

either you're comfortable playing a game like this to win, or you understand that it has to end. there are no other positions.

"um actually the fact they got Epstein in the end and these files were released for us to read proves–" it proves that anyone can get away with anything until the second they cease to be useful to people with access to that hierarchical power.

... I need you to recognise that, much like luigi mangione being brought to trial at all, this is inarguable evidence that a hierarchical system of law is impotent to deal with abuses of hierarchical power.

I don't want you to read all this Epstein shit and think "it's outrageous that the law is not applied equally to these monsters" or even "we must introduce new laws that hold these people to higher scrutiny"...

it has never ever been about safety or ethics. it has always been about power.

the last 15 years of world politics were manufactured by a group of men who met regularly to rape 13 year olds, but if we draw pictures of adults having sex without smiling we have our careers destroyed

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

no you don't. no clearly the fuck you don't.

of all the many possible responses to the myriad horrific things going on in the world every single day, I think the absolute tackiest remains "lol now I feel awkies about promoting my small business"

Agreed + it costs nothing to not make the moment about yourself

I'm tired of the popularity of art that is about Relatable Feelings, but that does not dig any further into those feelings. I think they are popular in part bc it excuses people from doing anything about said Feelings.

Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively.

Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power

god the blandness of that game made me so mad. I quit after the godforsaken special episode about pronouns. awful. awful. lose faith in game writing as an industry type game.

it's so garbage lol. why do the (perfectly linear) ancient elven ruins have the same shiny ladders and improbable ziplines and ?golden loot chests? as the urban rooftop assassins guild and the tropical pirate swamps

✅ I do not wish to see or be seen by bluesky posters

drawing hourly comics on Feb 1st in solidarity w the trans woman who started it before being harassed into oblivion but not posting them until Feb 8th in solidarity w black cartoonists who want Feb 1st to be about black history month and finally killing myself in solidarity w the webcomic scene

slowly everyone is sounding like an anarchist zine i’ve owned since 2009.

A drawing of pit pit that says severed is the head that wears the crown

has anyone else noticed that peaceful and reasonable gets you murdered in the street with the full backing of the state. silly little social observation. and how about the price of groceries

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

but like it's not as if abled people don't fall into exactly the same trap all the time. boring art is universal.

this too is why I'm not especially interested in the argument that image gens are worthy tools for disabled artists who couldn't otherwise produce 'traditional' artwork. like I don't think it's an incorrect position to hold, I just don't find the aspiration to technical presentation very compelling.

I actually think some of the coolest art in the world is made by people who have taste and insight but lack technique

this post brought to you by everyone who is apparently SHOCKED that james 'kinkade with dinosaurs' gurney thinks AI image gens are neat

just because someone is extremely technically good at a particular mode of expression doesn't mean they have insight or taste. those are three completely separate things and it will help YOU better appreciate art if you learn to distinguish them.