if you have a job, your job is always essentially to obey.

Maybe one thing that’s nice about popular horror is it elaborates very specific circumstances of revulsion which may still be generic.

There’s a lot of directly experienced horror that gets experienced in disparate registers, and I think that feels uncanny and alienating to one another.

https://videos.scanlines.xyz/w/mWmiew328V8W82dRfn8nyT

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/mFSufvgmB9bSmUqAh8XCCy

Money is a tremendous disincentivizer, in my experience.

When being paid, interesting activities become doldrums.

Nonetheless the crushing, constant necessity of acquiring money— and therefore being subjected to waged labor— produces (among other things) a general deadening of enthusiasm & hope. This (among other things) flowers into unspeakably vivid bitterness & alienation.

epiphenomena visit like angels

just saw this on Instagram. baffling. https://infosec.place/notice/B2hXKzrylxL5gheFzE

RE: https://infosec.place/objects/62b5ed87-e72d-41f6-a6f7-60fdc18f9ed1

progressive mugshot sequence video but the person just looks totally hot in all of them

The Red Scare worked so well that otherwise fairly intelligent US writers are saying “neighborism”.

Do not worry about the future. Don’t imagine anything.

RE: https://convo.casa/@b/115829592977569611

I’ve truly learned that the best I can hope for from this world is that sometimes shit is extremely, extremely, extremely funny

CBS News again being given what appears to be first access to confirmation that Trump ordered the strikes on Venezuela:

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pak4k3vxv6nv5wmnlh5qbdnw/post/3mbivthffls2c

English: 'Treaty.'
Esperanto: 'Kontrakto, traktaĵo.'

Do not worry about the future. Don’t imagine anything.

RE: https://convo.casa/@b/115829592977569611

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1760842804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Over recent nights, Portland has seen nazis showing up to nightly protests at ICE. Tonight, three of them were shouting "heil hitler" into megaphones and seig heiling. Two of them were seen on 10/17, tagging along with three other skull-masked nazis and threatening people. #pdx #portland

🧵Hi, I'm the @propublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Negativland Live Microcassette "Bootleg" from Radio Forever Festival 2025 https://archive.org/details/negativland-at-radio-forever-festival-2025

Objectively funny thing for a guy who has shilled doomsday food buckets to post
https://bird.makeup/users/timcast/statuses/1974162301214482452