the universe is not so badly designed

I think there's got to be like a Robin Hood corollary to any pro-pirating stance in that if/when you can afford to, spend the money to buy from small/local/independent art.

Some big top 100 musician/major studio whatever doesn't need your money, but the $10 on Bandcamp for the local band you saw at the bar's new album or your friend's soaps on Etsy or that indie movie playing at the cinema when it comes out on DVD or literally almost any author's book that's not like already an NYT Bestseller or community theater producing new works by living artists. It really can make a difference to those people.

me: do you guys like my evil thorned plate armour and bloodred cloak? is the ominous glow of my visor slit too much?

my manserpent minion: it'ssss sssslaying absssolute penisssss, ssssire

my shambling zombie: uuuu 👍

captured gnome i keep in a birdcage: golly gee willikers it's sure some scary!!!

my straight manserpent minion: looks pretty good boss

I think a cocaine addiction is more ethical than owning four homes in the new york metro area.

I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.

One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.

The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.

I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.

When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.

The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.

I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.

This is such an important addition. It’s wild how often people accidentally stumble their way into eugenics, and it’s vitally important that people are educated and aware of eugenics and the problems with it.

It's okay therapy dogs, human therapists can't solve those problems either.

“how do you support multiple ships”

there are infinite timelines. in my mind.

polyamory

Dawg how are you 22 with a wife and kids you should be outside playing

recently at a bar someone told me i seem like id have a lot of pdfs

the constant censorship of trans lives, art, & love on social media is vicious & purposeful btw. i cannot stress how important it is that you share trans voices, frequently & loudly

the amount of trans people i know who have had their accounts suspended, targeted, restricted etc is staggering. mostly for just existing

I hate it when polls try to fluff up their choices by forcing me to adopt some sort of weird personality to answer. like instead of "yes" and "no" the choices are "obviously I would!! everyone who disagrees is a moron" and "I'd rather shoot myself in my pinkie toe than do that" like.......... I want to answer but I'd never say that.....that's not me......! !

an interesting take on this from matt braly, creator of amphibia

Imagine being a business that has managed to get THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE, and you've managed to make it so this is a bad thing.

You did it. That's late stage capitalism in one sentence.

"What was promised as infinite growth proved to be finite" feels like a very concise summary of every business person ever everywhere.

literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

op managed to swing a bat at 2 hornets nests in one go

[ID1: Digital art of Jon around season one of TMA. He is a light-skinned man with short, neatly styled, greying hair and dark eyes. He wears wire-rimmed rectangular glasses and is looking into a mirror, tying his tie with a look of concentration on his face. In the room around him are visible a potted monstera, a coat rack with one hooded jacket, a chest of drawers with a book and lamp on top, and a print of Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace at Night. Undertale-style flavour text at the bottom of the image says “It’s you!”

ID2: Digital art of Jon circa season five. His hair has grown much longer, he is no longer wearing glasses, and various scars dot his skin. The room is empty but for a spider web in one corner. The mirror is shattered, and in one shard there are spectral green eyes on a black background instead of a reflection. Jon’s expression is disconsolate and his hair flies around his head. Undertale-style flavour text says “Despite everything, it’s still you.” End ID.]