The Victorian
@nonessentialfungus.bsky.social
I do videos on YouTube, often covering video games and other topics: https://www.youtube.com/@nonessentialfungus
DOUBLE KILL
WICKED SICK
VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER
GODLIKE
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL
WICKED SICK
VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER
GODLIKE
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free.
...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...
...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...
February 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
DOUBLE KILL
WICKED SICK
VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER
GODLIKE
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL
WICKED SICK
VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER
GODLIKE
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL
Online weirdos: "Oh, you think your numbers and charts actually MEAN anything? Have you ever considered the lived experience of myself, the most important person in the universe?"
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Online weirdos: "Oh, you think your numbers and charts actually MEAN anything? Have you ever considered the lived experience of myself, the most important person in the universe?"
"Irony" is a silencer that chuds attach to a gun labelled "Racism."
For leftists, that silencer is called "White People."
For leftists, that silencer is called "White People."
I can assure you that you do not in fact want that.
February 15, 2026 at 4:30 AM
"Irony" is a silencer that chuds attach to a gun labelled "Racism."
For leftists, that silencer is called "White People."
For leftists, that silencer is called "White People."
"Indigenous"
That is a Soviet 2K12 SAM system.
That is a Soviet 2K12 SAM system.
This is why I will never trust tankies nor take them seriously.
February 14, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"Indigenous"
That is a Soviet 2K12 SAM system.
That is a Soviet 2K12 SAM system.
Anyone else think he's a dead ringer for Laurence Fishburne?
#BlackHistoryMonth Frederick Douglass, born enslaved, celebrated his birthday #OnThisDay. Happy birthday! Douglass chose his own name after escaping enslavement. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/blackhistorymonth-frederick-douglass
February 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Anyone else think he's a dead ringer for Laurence Fishburne?
My attempt at livening up the Pelican Town luau did not go well:
February 14, 2026 at 4:21 AM
My attempt at livening up the Pelican Town luau did not go well:
Not quite: "Homo" milk means homogenized milk, meaning that the fat globules have been reduced to a small enough size that so that the cream does not separate out.
Whole milk is simply milk with a 3.25% fat content.
Whole milk is simply milk with a 3.25% fat content.
posting this for those who are not aware of what whole milk is called in canada
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Not quite: "Homo" milk means homogenized milk, meaning that the fat globules have been reduced to a small enough size that so that the cream does not separate out.
Whole milk is simply milk with a 3.25% fat content.
Whole milk is simply milk with a 3.25% fat content.
"If I can't have socialism, give me fascism!" in other words.
"I live in a democracy but the candidates I like rarely win. Therefore, democracy is of no use to me." is the basis of way too much leftist thought on here and frankly we need to do a lot better job shutting these people down and shaming them for it than we've been doing.
February 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
"If I can't have socialism, give me fascism!" in other words.
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Watching the rollout of AI feels like what it might have felt like to watch the widespread adoption of cars in the early 20th century. Having the foresight to think: we don't have to live like this; we shouldn't live like this; in 100 years we'll be desperately trying to stop living like this.
February 12, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Watching the rollout of AI feels like what it might have felt like to watch the widespread adoption of cars in the early 20th century. Having the foresight to think: we don't have to live like this; we shouldn't live like this; in 100 years we'll be desperately trying to stop living like this.
When I moved to this site, one of the first accounts that appeared was that of Benjanun Sriduangkaew, AKA RequiresHate, a notoriously toxic and abusive individual.
Fastest block I ever did.
Fastest block I ever did.
it is not feasible, let alone reasonable, to tell new users to be like "Hi, welcome to bluesky! you are in grave danger from Those Users. first you gotta IMMEDIATELY subscribe to these blocklists. no the other ones. then if you see someone coming through the blocks to talk shit, ITS ON SIGHT."
Yeah, it’s insanely corrosive to both individual users like you and to site health as a whole! This shit does not happen on healthy, well-moderated sites!
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
When I moved to this site, one of the first accounts that appeared was that of Benjanun Sriduangkaew, AKA RequiresHate, a notoriously toxic and abusive individual.
Fastest block I ever did.
Fastest block I ever did.
Leftists be like: "More people should use public services like buses and libraries!"
Also leftists: "Public services should be carnival sideshows of anti-social behaviour."
Also leftists: "Public services should be carnival sideshows of anti-social behaviour."
People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Leftists be like: "More people should use public services like buses and libraries!"
Also leftists: "Public services should be carnival sideshows of anti-social behaviour."
Also leftists: "Public services should be carnival sideshows of anti-social behaviour."
Also, they are screaming "I LOVE TOTAL POLITICAL IRRELEVANCY!"
When people on here say "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, "what they mean is "I abused a liberal and they objected to it instead of groveling at my feet in awe of my righteousness."
February 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Also, they are screaming "I LOVE TOTAL POLITICAL IRRELEVANCY!"
As if this weren't obvious to just about everyone.
1. The Kremlin merely feigns interest in peace talks, hoping to restore its bilateral relations with the United States to their previous level and formalise Ukraine's defeat. Despite this illusory thaw, Russia continues to regard the U.S. as its principal adversary.
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
As if this weren't obvious to just about everyone.
And coffee is actually *good* for you: there have been studies that show it reduces the risk of diabetes, hypertension, and colorectal cancer!
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
And coffee is actually *good* for you: there have been studies that show it reduces the risk of diabetes, hypertension, and colorectal cancer!
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If Chomsky's choice of friends surprises or upsets you, you did not read who he said were good people.
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
If Chomsky's choice of friends surprises or upsets you, you did not read who he said were good people.
Having to deal with capital-G Gamers jades a man's soul.
These are the people who will hook their entire identity into the products they consume and throw massive tantrums when their favourite toys are criticized.
That's got to leave you with zero patience for Gamer bullshit.
These are the people who will hook their entire identity into the products they consume and throw massive tantrums when their favourite toys are criticized.
That's got to leave you with zero patience for Gamer bullshit.
I'm having one of my moments. No need to reaffirm me or anything.
I cannot believe i spent two decades, the better two decades for health and virility, to the dumbest fucking entertainment medium out there and it's worthless, pavlovian trash-gobbling audience.
I cannot believe i spent two decades, the better two decades for health and virility, to the dumbest fucking entertainment medium out there and it's worthless, pavlovian trash-gobbling audience.
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Having to deal with capital-G Gamers jades a man's soul.
These are the people who will hook their entire identity into the products they consume and throw massive tantrums when their favourite toys are criticized.
That's got to leave you with zero patience for Gamer bullshit.
These are the people who will hook their entire identity into the products they consume and throw massive tantrums when their favourite toys are criticized.
That's got to leave you with zero patience for Gamer bullshit.
To "almost feel bad" for someone is perhaps the most damning indictment one can make.
MAGA in a nutshell: you can almost pity their miserable lives. Almost.
MAGA in a nutshell: you can almost pity their miserable lives. Almost.
his email to me said that i have "no value" and i am pretty much convinced that it was projection. i almost feel bad for him.
February 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
To "almost feel bad" for someone is perhaps the most damning indictment one can make.
MAGA in a nutshell: you can almost pity their miserable lives. Almost.
MAGA in a nutshell: you can almost pity their miserable lives. Almost.
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We we should have paid closer attention to the bizarre phenomenon where Starbucks became a primary target of protests over Gaza, for reasons that can literally only be described as “the internet collectively hallucinated bad stuff.” I think that phenomenon explains a lot about world we live in.
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
We we should have paid closer attention to the bizarre phenomenon where Starbucks became a primary target of protests over Gaza, for reasons that can literally only be described as “the internet collectively hallucinated bad stuff.” I think that phenomenon explains a lot about world we live in.
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Your Bluesky experience will be immensely improved simply by browsing Will Stancil’s replies and blocking everybody being a freak. This takes out like 90 percent of the shittiest people on the site and makes everything better.
February 8, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Your Bluesky experience will be immensely improved simply by browsing Will Stancil’s replies and blocking everybody being a freak. This takes out like 90 percent of the shittiest people on the site and makes everything better.
My most reactionary opinion on literature is that there are far too many authors out there who cut their teeth writing fan fiction (particularly smutty fan fiction) and never really grew out of it, aside from transitioning to writing original fiction.
I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
February 8, 2026 at 7:08 AM
My most reactionary opinion on literature is that there are far too many authors out there who cut their teeth writing fan fiction (particularly smutty fan fiction) and never really grew out of it, aside from transitioning to writing original fiction.
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Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"
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Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
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I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
February 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.
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It’s a good lesson, I guess - the fringe left will never care what you do, how much you put on the line, it will sell you out in a heartbeat for not being the exact same kind of communist as they are.
February 7, 2026 at 11:22 PM
It’s a good lesson, I guess - the fringe left will never care what you do, how much you put on the line, it will sell you out in a heartbeat for not being the exact same kind of communist as they are.
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so uh what’s going on with socialist reddit
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 AM
so uh what’s going on with socialist reddit