Gene Justice
@genejustice.bsky.social
Exactly.
I still don't understand what about these people strikes 33% (or so) of Americans as charismatic. There was never any point in time when they looked like serious alternatives to me, and my working theory remains that it's 100% a troll that's gotten way out of hand.
I still don't understand what about these people strikes 33% (or so) of Americans as charismatic. There was never any point in time when they looked like serious alternatives to me, and my working theory remains that it's 100% a troll that's gotten way out of hand.
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Exactly.
I still don't understand what about these people strikes 33% (or so) of Americans as charismatic. There was never any point in time when they looked like serious alternatives to me, and my working theory remains that it's 100% a troll that's gotten way out of hand.
I still don't understand what about these people strikes 33% (or so) of Americans as charismatic. There was never any point in time when they looked like serious alternatives to me, and my working theory remains that it's 100% a troll that's gotten way out of hand.
There are probably contexts in which any jazz song needs the volume cranked up, but the amazing thing about Fela's "Zombie" is that there's pretty much no context in which it *doesn't* need to be cranked up.
October 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
There are probably contexts in which any jazz song needs the volume cranked up, but the amazing thing about Fela's "Zombie" is that there's pretty much no context in which it *doesn't* need to be cranked up.
I don't know of any politician that I agree with 100% of the time, but I am nodding violently to the sentiment in this post.
Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I don't know of any politician that I agree with 100% of the time, but I am nodding violently to the sentiment in this post.
Now that's an apt description. My main concern is that the average consumer may actually prefer product that's been run through that level of processing.
"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Now that's an apt description. My main concern is that the average consumer may actually prefer product that's been run through that level of processing.
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They are called writers
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
October 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
They are called writers
I hope this is true, and that it catches on.
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I hope this is true, and that it catches on.
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An unspoken plus for buying a paper has to be doodling.
October 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
An unspoken plus for buying a paper has to be doodling.
I suspect this is the truth of the matter. But I have to battle heavily with a desperate worry that when I do take this line, it's me being optimistic. And that sucks, too.
As I've said before, it sounds like a joke, but I'd be less angry if I had the energy to be angry.
As I've said before, it sounds like a joke, but I'd be less angry if I had the energy to be angry.
It's becoming clear that this is not an administration that is popular or skilled enough to do the consolidation needed to implement actual fascism, so they've decided that constantly creating fascism-flavored content is good enough
October 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I suspect this is the truth of the matter. But I have to battle heavily with a desperate worry that when I do take this line, it's me being optimistic. And that sucks, too.
As I've said before, it sounds like a joke, but I'd be less angry if I had the energy to be angry.
As I've said before, it sounds like a joke, but I'd be less angry if I had the energy to be angry.
I mean, I am relieved to see that today's meeting, by all appearances, is just a fashy pep-rally, but on the other hand, when exactly do a critical mass of us decide it's important to stand up to these absolute cretins?
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I mean, I am relieved to see that today's meeting, by all appearances, is just a fashy pep-rally, but on the other hand, when exactly do a critical mass of us decide it's important to stand up to these absolute cretins?
My efforts to escape the North American media lens seem to be paying off: I'm still in its orbit, but totally missed this week's forecasted rapture.
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My efforts to escape the North American media lens seem to be paying off: I'm still in its orbit, but totally missed this week's forecasted rapture.
I'm usually not really keen on teleological arguments, but there is no universe in which this graphic does not signify a movement backwards.
For many of the neurospicy among us, everything is an autism announcement.
September 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I'm usually not really keen on teleological arguments, but there is no universe in which this graphic does not signify a movement backwards.
Some days, teaching is a job filled with the minor wonders of the everyday. Other days, a middle school student slips you a durian flavored Pocky stick.
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Some days, teaching is a job filled with the minor wonders of the everyday. Other days, a middle school student slips you a durian flavored Pocky stick.
Was always quite taken by Shakespeare's fools...Touchstone was my go to in comedies.
In darker times, I always went with, "And I'll go to bed at noon."
When the fool disappears, things usually get much worse.
In darker times, I always went with, "And I'll go to bed at noon."
When the fool disappears, things usually get much worse.
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Was always quite taken by Shakespeare's fools...Touchstone was my go to in comedies.
In darker times, I always went with, "And I'll go to bed at noon."
When the fool disappears, things usually get much worse.
In darker times, I always went with, "And I'll go to bed at noon."
When the fool disappears, things usually get much worse.
In spite of a very sparse public output, I have worked at writing since I was 8. I suspect any productivity I do have going forward will be highly independent: I don't like even the thought of contributing to Amazon's bottom line.
One thing I underestimated: how much writing hurts as you age.
One thing I underestimated: how much writing hurts as you age.
September 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In spite of a very sparse public output, I have worked at writing since I was 8. I suspect any productivity I do have going forward will be highly independent: I don't like even the thought of contributing to Amazon's bottom line.
One thing I underestimated: how much writing hurts as you age.
One thing I underestimated: how much writing hurts as you age.
I mean, hot take, but...
It could well be that the average U.S. citizen really has no clue as to how highly regarded they really are in South Korea. As for media lenses: escaping one, and getting repeatedly slapped in the face by your most basic assumptions, is a good cure for that.
It could well be that the average U.S. citizen really has no clue as to how highly regarded they really are in South Korea. As for media lenses: escaping one, and getting repeatedly slapped in the face by your most basic assumptions, is a good cure for that.
I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I mean, hot take, but...
It could well be that the average U.S. citizen really has no clue as to how highly regarded they really are in South Korea. As for media lenses: escaping one, and getting repeatedly slapped in the face by your most basic assumptions, is a good cure for that.
It could well be that the average U.S. citizen really has no clue as to how highly regarded they really are in South Korea. As for media lenses: escaping one, and getting repeatedly slapped in the face by your most basic assumptions, is a good cure for that.
Slightly more complicated than breakdance was.
truly don’t see how we can come together as a country until we all agree on the past tense of “screenshot”
September 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Slightly more complicated than breakdance was.
This one definitely gets filed under evidence that the world is a simulation. A bad one. When the player has become bored with the game and just starts doing random shit.
So much winning.
Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This one definitely gets filed under evidence that the world is a simulation. A bad one. When the player has become bored with the game and just starts doing random shit.
Now see I know a whole lot of the boys who I grew up with whose only response to this would be "good," a strong indication that they have no idea, at all, how much good will US citizens enjoy in South Korea. But if Seoul's take is true, behind the scenes, Trump blinked.
September 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Now see I know a whole lot of the boys who I grew up with whose only response to this would be "good," a strong indication that they have no idea, at all, how much good will US citizens enjoy in South Korea. But if Seoul's take is true, behind the scenes, Trump blinked.
Am likely to adopt this as a go to response in meatspace discussion, not gonna lie.
September 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Am likely to adopt this as a go to response in meatspace discussion, not gonna lie.
I would like very much to go back to a time when I had the luxury of being more than just passingly excited to know I shared a love of Sonic Youth's "Evol" with David Bowie.
September 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I would like very much to go back to a time when I had the luxury of being more than just passingly excited to know I shared a love of Sonic Youth's "Evol" with David Bowie.
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I miss Literature class.
September 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I miss Literature class.
And this does not even begin to take into account the countless deaths of individuals who do not qualify as "persons of consequence," and thus receive little to no media mention. Discourse at the point of a gun is not discourse is a truth that applies to even the stillest voices.
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
And this does not even begin to take into account the countless deaths of individuals who do not qualify as "persons of consequence," and thus receive little to no media mention. Discourse at the point of a gun is not discourse is a truth that applies to even the stillest voices.
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GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
September 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
I'm just sitting here in Gangneung on the latest of a couple decades worth of year-long visas, thinking, "Oh my dear Korean friends...you are no exception to the one universal truth of U.S. politics today -- Never trust Trump."
m.koreaherald.com/article/1057...
m.koreaherald.com/article/1057...
Visa hurdles put Korean investment in US at risk
Korean companies are rushing to revise US business travel plans and tighten internal guidelines after last week’s immigration raid at a battery plant under con
m.koreaherald.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I'm just sitting here in Gangneung on the latest of a couple decades worth of year-long visas, thinking, "Oh my dear Korean friends...you are no exception to the one universal truth of U.S. politics today -- Never trust Trump."
m.koreaherald.com/article/1057...
m.koreaherald.com/article/1057...
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A tech bro once commented on my page saying if they took away my tablet I wouldn’t be able to make anything. It was so funny. Bruh I was making art before tablets existed.
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A tech bro once commented on my page saying if they took away my tablet I wouldn’t be able to make anything. It was so funny. Bruh I was making art before tablets existed.