Oneiric Cyberlizard

just a concept I wanted to get down. always remember there are treatments for this stuff and you can change

badweird feelings

not to be a communist on main but these are literally the modes of alienation under capitalism that marx described

PLEASE be a communist on my posts its literally capitalism thats making me feel this way

Nothing much, just scavenger at a Mcdonalds (ID:7639)

Drawing him because I shake him around and he rattles (one single braincell)

died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it

women can use a weird power

*i spin the wheel to the right so hard i dislocate both my arms*

like i’m ever going to let some absolute godless pervert see the bottom half of my face ever again. in a TARGET, no less

you want to see my chin so bad, huh? my mouth? nose? want me to rawdog the air? freak

i'll have what i'm having

(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing

anybody else in the club feeling this one

Yeahhhh…

Currently…..

This is.....niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.

Period appropriate chickens ("heritage breeds") do still exist, and even include some very fancy ladies, such as:

The Brahma, a popular giant known for its massive meat production and comically large eggs.

The cochin, seen here with gold and black 'lace' pattern

The barred plymouth, an incredible forager for lightly wooded terrain

The fayoumi, often regarded as The Oldest Breed of chicken

The wyandotte, a particularly good forager as well as a bulky, meaty bird.

The Minorca, a Spanish bird with stunning black feathers

And of course, the famous indonesian ayam cemani, which has black meat and bones

Old timey chickens often ARE the 'fancy' ones!

people born in 2000 should be like 12-14 now. but they’re not. that’s how fucked up our world is now

The older this post gets the funnier it becomes

My cousin born in 2000 is a licensed psychologist.

that’s how fucked up our world is now

more bebies

[inspired by @slugfishh's lizard anatomy from this post]

I know that Nintendo gets a lot of hate, but honestly, I think they should be hated even more.

Fucked

Lancer is a funny because of how much it insists that Union is this flawed but ultimately benevolent institution that's well on the path to improvement, a "utopia in progress" as they love to say, when like they casually reveal so many things about it that show Union as rotten to the fucking core. Like as much as Lancer fans like to go on and on about how it's an imperfect society that needs to make compromises, there's so much awful shit about Union that just seems pointless or easily avoidable.

And like part of this is the creator's politics; they're social democrats so it's not surprising that Space Sweden is their idea of a society that, if not the best we could possibly achieve, is at least the best we can do for the foreseeable future. As a Marxist-Leninist it's only natural that I'd have a condemnatory view of such a society just as I do for real Social Democracies; my idea of an achievably "good" society is just fundamentally different from that of the creators But like Lancer is also full of little details that just seem fucked up and awful even from the values and viewpoint of Social Democracy. Like stuff that's just as bad, if not worse, than a lot of sci-fi Dystopias. Like why the fuck does Union have a CIA that's run by a group of super-computers with the actual elected legislature having an advisory role but no actual jurisdiction and this fact being kept secret from the vast majority of the populace? Not much of a democracy if one of the most powerful institutions in the entire political body is free from any kind of democratic or even fucking human oversight while most people aren't even allowed to have an opinion on this because they aren't allowed to know about it. Or what about the caste of Janissary diplomats (like was it really necessary to take children and train them like they're the jedi of interplanetary relations) who come with customised computer slaves. Like yeah don't forget about the fucking SCP computer slavery thing, which is completely fine (except for the times it isn't I guess). Like it's basically the weirdest and most uncomfortable part of Star War's setting imported near whole-cloth only like the regular mindwipes are justified because otherwise they'll full Durandal and you don't want that do you? Look how happy and content they are being forced to think like humans while acting as loyal servants. Btw Union is somehow even less denazified than West Germany. Significantly so. They literally gave Hitler Corp. (a fucking weapons manufacturer so powerful they call it a "corpro-state"!) a seat at the UN. While allowing their Blue Helmets to keep using those Nazi-made weapons. And like Third Comm is repeatedly described as doing basically the same shit that Second Comm did but with more "Care" or whatever so don't worry it's fine now.

Like I can just keep going on and on like I'm not making this up this isn't some like weird expansion this is all from the core rulebook. I get that there has to be conflict and tension but like why did they need to make their ostensible good guys so fucking awful like these are the people you're meant to feel good about fighting for why did you need to fill them with the sort of details you'd see in some cautionary dystopia? And like why do actual people keep defending these guys? Like once you get down to it Union manages to be less Space Sweden and more* "The Ottoman Empire with Pronouns"

*to borrow a phrase coined by a mate while we were talking about this

Okay all that aside, the part that stood out to me the most was this moment of unexpected honesty that turns the whole premise from questionable to just plain ridiculous. Basically, Social Democrats like to treat the wealth in their part of the world and the poverty in other parts as completely unrelated. They don't recognise imperialism and those ties of exploitation and dependency, the wealth of the periphery being transferred to the core. As far as they're concerned, rich countries are rich because they're good countries that are run well while poor countries are poor because of "bad governance" or some natural "lack of development" or even just plain bad luck. Maybe rich countries have some moral obligation to "help" the poorer/less fortunate ones but it's not like they're responsible for it right?

And most of the time Lancer at least implicitly takes this position when describing the difference between the "Core" and "Periphery", that the Periphery is just like that and it's up to the well meaning social justice mech pilots of the Core to help them. But during the description of the Karrakin Trade Baronies, a major member of the Space UN and a feudal empire with an economy based on highly destructive resource extraction using countless malformed slave clones that spend their entire short lives labouring in brutal conditions, page 393 of the rulebook has this to say

Like they just outright admit that Union's "Post-Scarcity" Social Democracy system is based directly on the operations of a mega-exploitative oligarchy. The mass scale immiseration and destruction of both human life and the natural world in the Periphery of Union is directly tied to the wealth and prosperity of the Core. Lancer's space Sweden explicitly has countless space Congos to go with it and like apparently this is tolerable. Not even good but like it's an acceptable enough state of affairs that they can frame Union a near utopia that through reforms within in the system can eventually be brought all the way there.

Like I could get it if things in Union were perfectly fine and they just didn't have the power to stop all the completely unrelated bad shit going on outside of it; I think it's would be an unrealistic way to present Social Democracy but it would at least be morally consistent. I just don't get how you can recognise that your way of life rests directly on the brutal exploitation of countless people and destruction of countless worlds and still conclude "Look we're not perfect, but we're getting there. We're still the good guys after all"

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.

Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?

Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable

Can’t get this on any other social media