“In the depths of matter there grows an obscure vegetation; black flowers bloom in matter’s darkness. They already possess a velvety touch, a formula for perfume.” –Bachelard, Water and Dreams

Johannes Factotum The real pro-social sadism: unlimited gleeful cruelty towards anyone breaking the norms of kindness and empathy

Fascists get teary-eyed over this meme and then vote for Trump a fourth time

does tim curry throughout the entirety of red alert 3 count

Yet another Drumm truth nuke

Think of the Mom ‘n Pop slumlords!

We have no way of knowing that

had a dream that josh brolin saw godzilla walk by him and just said “lotta meat”

one day i am gonna grow wings 🤍

The rivalry extends beyond their H2H. It’s also about how they dominate the field in a similar way. Meeting in the final every time will produce lopsided matches as fatigue and pain creeps in.

I appreciate that the FT just comes out and says it

Everyone’s a materialist until they encounter a djinn

"Evidence" is just a story about some evidence curated for your experience by one of the many competing conspiracy networks that shape what you learn about the world. All you can do in this fog of war is try to distinguish friends from enemies.

I think experience ought to have shown over the recent past that your assumptions about what kinds of things are plausible are probably too restrictive. The real world is more lurid, cartoonish, and ridiculous than would be allowed by the demands of sober and grown up thinking.

My childhood of reading Philip Dick novels prepared me for this world. The man who had more rational insight into his own paranoia than most people have into their own more normal thoughts.

Next shoe this guy throws at a politician gonna blow his head smoove off

Banger thread

I appreciate this point. Why don’t (most) academics move between registers? Unwilling, uninterested…?

the alternative is that you are some state's or billionaire's propaganda machine. it's really that simple.

Yes coooook that fraud