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Is that time of the year again

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Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

"Liminal" means "boundary" as in "the veil is thin here"

Liminal spaces are places that feel dreamlike, fuzzy on reality. Their boundaries are unstable. A bus station at night. A long desert highway. A bridge over a river.

They do, however, have an opposite; the Proximal space. These are places that feel far too real, extremely defined, boundaries that seem to override natural forces like time or space. Large warehouses without windows, identical chain stores at disorienting hours, your home after a nap of indeterminate time.

The traditional liminal space is the crossroads. Liminal spaces are places you travel through, but never stay. Motels in the middle of nowhere. Airports. Places like that.

The traditional proximal space is the monument. Anywhere that exists but isn't really "used" for anything. Their presence resists use, closer to landscape than location.

blue pill: everyone forgets one memory

yellow pill: piss whenever you want

green pill: of nature or natural direction

red pill: warrior's heart

black and white pill: turn into the black and white pill

orange pill: wet dream every night

purple pill: explode things in your mind

puce pill: yell at people online

grey pill: instantly know all the names of all your favorite songs

rolly polly pill: can list three of any type of thing instantly

the brown pill: mispell one word

zigzag pill: they only made one of these and nobody has taken it so we dont know what it does yet

& i thought i was a sassy faggot

brooo it was so fucked up at the club last night bro the dj was playing straight bangers like “babbling brook ft. deep woods” and “mourning dove remix” and everyone on the dance floor stood still completely at peace with and within themselves, all still trees in the envelope of the world. at some point in the night i sat and contemplated the beauty of all things it was sick as hell man

I also enjoy this version by the Orphénica Lyra ensemble:

the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

man people really just say stuff on here huh

All grown up

why are men so weird everywhere always (x)

i just imagined this and cannot stop laughing

(via retconcorps)

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

Am I not remembering something why is Gus holding the cursed amulet

Last chance to look at my amulet Hector

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you might be confused on what happened in russia this past weekend. it’s a little convoluted, but not too hard to grasp: 

evgeniy prigozhin (head of wagner private military company (pmc)), was told by shoigu (minister of defense) that all wagner troops would be signing contracts with the ministry of defense on july 1. facing a deadline he could not renegotiate, he decided to use wagner on a march on moscow to stop said dissolution, as a sort of last-minute decision to wage gangland turf war. actually, it was a military mutiny, because wagner wasn’t getting supplies, which it was hoarding for months to prepare this. actually, it was a coup to overthrow putin and end the war. in a video message that morning, prigozhin derided the war as senseless, corrupt, and fabricated, lambasting the denazification pretext in particular as a lie. actually, he wanted to overthrow putin because he, wagner, and his supporters want to prosecute the war more efficiently. actually, they want to prosecute the war more efficiently, but they didn’t want to overthrow putin: what they wanted was to get rid of shoigu and gerasimov (chief of general staff). 

his supporters? yes, there were high-ranking individuals and networks in the kremlin who supported prigozhin. this is why wagner wasn’t stopped in time and took over rostov, saboteurs blew up military bases around moscow, and regular troops defected to wagner. actually, there were no saboteurs. actually, everyone in the russian government supported putin, which is why the air force bombed wagner on their highway march north and regular army troops engaged wagner forces. surovikin (commander of the aerospace forces, former chief of general staff) immediately published a video calling on prigozhin and wagner to stand down, as did the deputy head of the military intelligence. actually, surovikin was on prigozhin’s side the whole time. actually, the american intelligence community lied about surovikin’s role to encourage a purge, because he is one of the more competent russian generals. actually, surovikin knew about prigozhin’s plans and was on putin’s side, and didn’t intervene earlier to set prigozhin up for failure. actually, no one supported anybody, and everyone simply wanted to see where the winds were blowing.

as this was ongoing, the russian military bombed apartments in kyiv and other cities, as the ukrainian offensive continued in the south. the ukrainians have the upper hand, and are slowly, but surely, beating back the russians. actually, their offensive is stalling, and russian internal divides help them. 

how did russians react? they didn’t do anything to stop wagner, showing that they don’t support putin or the war. actually, they didn’t do anything because they’re apathetic, apolitical, and nihilistic, believing in nothing. actually, they supported wagner troops because they’re fascists who want the war to continue. the russian opposition is against the war and wagner. a few leading figures issued statements in support of the rebellion while it was ongoing, because the russian opposition supports the war and finances wagner.

actually, all of this was staged by putin to weed out enemies. this is why prigozhin got everything he wanted: the dissolution of wagner pmc, exile, and charges filed by the FSB and the ministry of justice investigating him for corruption. prigozhin stopped so close to moscow because it was all a false flag. actually, prigozhin, widely-known for his humanitarian views, stopped because he didn’t want bloodshed. actually, he stopped because he was short on troops, weapons, and heavy equipment. putin comes out looking strong, as someone who disappears for 12 hours, can’t make a decision, and can’t enforce it 200 km away from the capital. putin, who only respects force, is letting this go as a sign of respect by immediately walking back on the deal he struck via lukashenko, who was fleeing belarus on a jet to turkey, as the kalinouski regiment was about to start its own belarusian coup against him. the russian government looks strong and resilient in the aftermath of all this. actually, it exposes the sclerotic rot and hollowness of the state, which is now standing on feet of clay. putin will have to carry out a purge to strengthen his power. actually, it could all remain the same for years to come.

Mark Beck (American, b. 1942)

The History of this Moment Forward, 2019

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