If you ever meet someone on the internet claiming they’re from the USA, watch out because they’re most likely an AI bot. nobody in the US can afford an internet connection (because they’re so poor) and even if they could their schools are so underfunded they couldn’t even know how to use the internet
Apparently my stepdad and I are fucking psychically linked because ?? every single time he makes chili for dinner I get a migraine. Without fail. And it became like a ha ha running joke because it happened so many times but now I’m living 3 hours away from my parents and I just texted my mom and
i am as white as a white american can get and the thought of using the white color emojis sickens me to the bone. bitch if you dont make me simpsons yellow
my political perspective: what artists “want” is completely immaterial to IP legislation, which is & always has been founded on the ‘wants’ of corporate rightsholders who exploit barriers to entry and monopolistic distribution practices to demand ownership of artist’s works upon which they can establish new and ever more garish practices of rentseeking
my personal perspective: to hell with what artists give permisison to be done with their work. you are free to criticize, to rail against, to disparage uses of your work you think are wrong, or facile – just as cervantes excoriated shoddy third-party sequels in the second part of don quixote – but if you wish to take preventative measures, to enforce your disapproval upon potential remixers and reusers, i think your sophomoric preciousness about your work makes you an enemy of everything i value about art and culture. you are fighting for a world without cross, without the low end theory, without garfield minus garfield or lasagna cat, without centos or cutups or blackout poetry, without video game modding, without plunderphonics or youtube poop or collage. anne rice’s world, a world immeasurably poorer with a dead culture pinned to a board and preserved by immersion in the logics of capital
Chat stop trying to make the unyielding silence do something it cant do. Do you look at your friend, who enjoys a piece of media that makes them happy, and try to change them? Do you look at someone quiet and demand that they scream? One should not change what is not harmless, not while there is much joy in the world to be had from a little moment of silence in your dash.
Dude, check this out, it’s Show You Like Abridged. It’s Show, but a hilarious dude dubs over the characters and makes them say fuck. It’s so funny. Dude. Dude.
writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.
really enjoying calling chatgpt a ‘magic 8ball’ because while far from a perfect analogy i feel like it is a very good deflationary weapon against both hype and antihype that helps bring things into perspective by detaching the actual thign from the cultural object it’s attached to. “this magic 8ball is going to become sentient” i dont think thats true. “if you talk to a magic 8ball it will kill your soul” that one doesnt sound true also to be honest
Under Virginia law, a month had to elapse before the death sentence could be carried out. Governor Wise resisted pressures to move up the execution date because, he said, he wanted everyone to see that Brown’s rights had been thoroughly respected.
Brown made it clear repeatedly in his letters and conversations that these were the happiest days of his life. He would be publicly murdered, as he put it, but he was an old man and, he said, near death anyway. Brown was politically shrewd and realized his execution would strike a massive blow against Slave Power, a greater blow than he had made so far or had prospects of making otherwise. His death now had a purpose. In the meantime, the death sentence allowed him to publicize his anti-slavery views through the reporters constantly present in Charles Town, and through his voluminous correspondence.
Before his conviction, reporters were not allowed access to Brown, as the judge and Andrew Hunter feared that his statements, if quickly published, would exacerbate tensions, especially among the enslaved. This was much to Brown’s frustration, as he stated that he wanted to make a full statement of his motives and intentions through the press.[54]: 212 Once he had been convicted, the restriction was lifted, and, glad for the publicity, he talked with reporters and anyone else who wanted to see him, except pro-slavery clergy.[46]
Brown received more letters than he ever had in his life. He wrote replies constantly, hundreds of eloquent letters, often published in newspapers,[133]: 43 and expressed regret that he could not answer every one of the hundreds more he received. His words exuded spirituality and conviction. Letters picked up by the Northern press won him more supporters in the North while infuriating many white people in the South.
KING
Just a couple of the quotes about him that I like:
“His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.”
-Frederick Douglass
“That new saint, than whom nothing purer or more brave was ever led by into conflict and death, — the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Image Description: initial tweet by Haymarket Books, at HaymarketBooks. It is dated May 9, Twenty twenty-three. It says “Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, Eighteen hundred.” Beneath the tweet is a grayscale portrait of John Brown, an elderly white man with a long, bushy beard. In reply, Edward Ongweso Jr, @ BigBlackJacobin, tweets “Happy birthday to this crazy ass white boy. One day we are gonna go back in time and give him power armor.” End I.D.]
“No Person holding any Office [in the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present… of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” — US Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8
Guy who transforms into a swarm of locusts when shaken vigorously: hey can you turn the music down it’s resonating kind of hard and shaking the ground and I don’t want to endanger anyone
DJ Loudmusic: SORRY I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THESE SICK JAMS! HERE’S MY NEXT SONG, “EPIC JUNGLE BEAT THAT GIVES LOCUSTS THE DESIRE TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS”
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I get no notes because as soon as someone finishes reading my post they are compelled to put down their phone and experience the wonders of the world around them with fresh eyes
Okay but you know how you sometimes see an awesome picture and then go “what the fuck you mean this is a painting?” when it turns out not to be a photograph? I legit thought this was one - just one of those absurdly well-drawn talented shitpost art masterpiece paintings of wizards in improbable places. The colour contrast, the composition, the whole vibe. Like I did a little colour adjusting paint-over edit here - you see what I mean?
It’s scary to be transgender in the world right now but if you’re transgender I love you and we have to stick together and keep fighting and keep living and keep loving
like, i’ve said this before – remember when the big cultural event was the hbomberguy james somerton video? – that’s like, in the imagination of anyone who thinks that copyright law “‘protects creators”’, surely the most clear-cut use case imaginable, where a guy straightforwardly and blatantly plagiarised people and made huge amounts of money off it. and did copyright law stop him? no! people knew he’d been plagiarising them for years and the only thing that made him stop was a youtuber with a bigger audience dropping a vigilante video essay on his head
several people who he was shown to be–again, very unequivocally and shamelessly!–plagiarising from were asked 'hey, are you planning to sue’ and they all said something along the lines of 'no, i don’t have the money and even if i did the rights to that article belong to the website that i wrote it for that went under five years ago’
Anyone else having vivid dreams, strange and alluring, with that pressing sense of Prophesy? Those dreams that only appear to you after finding the Amulet? Dreams you can’t quite recall? Save for the brief flashes of half-remembered images that won’t leave your mind? No matter how hard you try? Like they’re an invasive worm? That has burrowed deep into your brain? And from it’s nest it whispers, so sweetly? Oh, so gently? You want to listen, don’t you? You want to hear what it has to say soooo bad. Won’t you listen? Please? Hear what the dreams have to say? It could be important.
- ‘u dont have (insert food/music/restaurant here) over there??’
- ‘wait what time is it. shouldnt u be asleep’
- alternatively: timezoned/clockblocked again
- ‘do u need a hug. have a virtual hug’
- weird slang terms
- ‘i will fight everyone thats mean to u. i will fight them rn’
- vague embarrassment regarding ur accent
- ‘dont maKE ME COME OVER THERE’
- ‘oh yeah i have a friend who lives in (insert country here) and apparently’
- no real hugs :((
- suffering
- fahrenheit vs celsius
- the measuring of things in feet fucks one of u up, probably
please support ANIM!!! they’re working on truly game-changing RPGs like Eureka that have changed the way I see tabletop roleplaying games as an artform and how I interact with them.
They’re doing something truly special and i don’t want to see their fire fade. They have to live, which means they need money. Please, if you can, throw them a few bucks, ten, twenty, whatever you can afford. If you can’t, reblog this and spread it around. rally support for the creators, please! we can help them!!!
on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as ‘masturbatory’ because even though it’s an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it’s impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance
with all the news recently i’m thinking of closing this blog because. uh.what the fuck i am a child that’s still figuring out the political state of the world i made this blog because of one funny joke thread i did not ask for this 😭
irl pakistan and india sort out your shit so i can make funny memes on this place again oh my goddddd.
On a serious note, i do wish that you wouldn’t, bc you are loads of fun to rp with. That being said, this is all very complicated and long-standing issue and the burden of two governments beefing shouldn’t fall on two kids (except maybe making jokes about it). However, you should do what feels best for you.
Also pls stay safe both of you. With communal tensions and stuff it’s kinda risky to get political. Esp cause of internet activity monitoring… I just wish the peace treaty thing will work itself out somehow idk. It’s not the citizens’ fault that the government is…less than ideal.
for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!
don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!
Remember, when you’re on the jury, a good “that cop’s story didn’t add up” will sway a lot more Chads and Karens than “fuck the police.”
