bdonnelly

Mario is strong with the Force

BASED

*werner herzog voice* you have your light evenings now but the mornings are darker than ever

also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy

Hell, the kids don’t even blame Nixon for anything anymore

The Machine Still Clatters - Aricie's thoughts Institutional Rot, the Personalist State, and the Long Decay of the American Republic

Not only that, but the implicit social contract of capitalism — that its rewards are justified by the discipline of its losses — was publicly voided and this created a structural legitimacy crisis which we’re still living through today.

Yeah, what part of the political spectrum disappeared? Center Right. Gone. *poof*

WH official: “We want to seize all the oil from Iran. The long-term benefit is getting massive oil reserves out of the hands of terrorists.”

Russian asset says what?

thinking about the voters who intentionally did this to me and the newspaper articles that were published encouraging me to see their point of view

this is how I access bluesky

“Just refilling the Zyklon B tanks. That was my job. I don’t know nothing about anything. Just says ‘refill tanks’ not my job to know what a zyklon is, man” [smirk]

So many people in important positions around the world are still operating as if we are in an era of neoliberal guard rails where "don't mess with the money and crash the global economy" is a self-evident hard limit to policy decisions by the powerful.

"Iran war drags on" my siblings in christ it is day seven

Quarterly Profit Time Horizon

The sheer *harm* Justin Fox is responsible for is difficult to grapple with - I'd almost prefer a cackling villain, even knowing the chances of him suffering any consequence for his actions is essentially null, either way.

But him being this boneless fucking dipshit? Awful. Just awful.

We do not know the names of the ghosts we live with

Your skeleton is a fortress your body built to make blood inside.

Here's one for your noggin this morning...

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Guitar of the Day

Ain’t that the truth…

It’s no Babylon 5, but I’ll allow it…

It’s hard to fight a clean mind war. Stay the fuck away from AI.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I was ok with Kamala’s "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now…” stuff at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. I’m all for the vibes of “we fucking told you, we did…”. Hell, I revel in it myself as a salve.

But truth, at key points there’s no functional difference between being wrong & being early.

Smartest Guys In The Room

The Wisdom of the Markets™

just hauled my music tapes out of storage. Like 1000+ tapes. Was pondering ordering an import boombox so I can play them. I’m thinking whether I should drop the cash to get it now because maybe the era of cheap goods is about over. And then it’s gonna be me with the cassettes in the wreckage like…

Sucking the 70's, by Various Artists 35 track album

Soundtrack for my mood while doomscrolling the current timeline… 2002 compilation of 1990s stoner rock bands doing 1970s covers…

Sucking [in] The 70s

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I think we’re going to need a new Republic. And a new university system. And a new journalism.

I keep thinking about those Irish monks saving as much as they could from the ass end of the Roman Empire and keeping it safe for a few hundred years on a rocky Scottish island.