Just Another Apocryphal Mess
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* formerly of cohost dot org
* so very, very tired
* dog dad of @beanzo.bsky.social
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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Generations of quite strategic right wing scheming to establish perma-dominion and the guys charged with getting across the finish line are... these guys
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Generations of quite strategic right wing scheming to establish perma-dominion and the guys charged with getting across the finish line are... these guys
every so often I look at the shelf with all the Umberto Eco books, with the essays on fascism and semiotics, and I remember that he died in February 2016, before Trump and LLMs and all of *this*, and I can't help but think that maybe it's good that he didn't have to watch the final death of meaning
December 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
every so often I look at the shelf with all the Umberto Eco books, with the essays on fascism and semiotics, and I remember that he died in February 2016, before Trump and LLMs and all of *this*, and I can't help but think that maybe it's good that he didn't have to watch the final death of meaning
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they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
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new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced
September 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced
"Before that, dreams. The dream of being warm and staying warm. The dream of the upper hand like a love song, the dream of the right weapon and then the perfect escape."
Jorie Graham, "To The Reader"
Jorie Graham, "To The Reader"
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Before that, dreams. The dream of being warm and staying warm. The dream of the upper hand like a love song, the dream of the right weapon and then the perfect escape."
Jorie Graham, "To The Reader"
Jorie Graham, "To The Reader"
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The appeal of stuff like cassette futurism has morphed over the past few years for me from childhood nostalgia to a very genuine desire for tactile, reliable, functionality over flashy, futuristic aestheticism that seems to only make things more difficult
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The appeal of stuff like cassette futurism has morphed over the past few years for me from childhood nostalgia to a very genuine desire for tactile, reliable, functionality over flashy, futuristic aestheticism that seems to only make things more difficult
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The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
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“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being."
— Robert Anton Wilson
— Robert Anton Wilson
"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years
My personal guidelines for dealing with people on social media:
Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know.
Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health
Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide
If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away
Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know.
Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health
Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide
If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being."
— Robert Anton Wilson
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
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November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
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This quote below is from Tom Murton, who was hired in the 1960s to reform Arkansas' worst prison. The governor fired him less than a year later after he started excavating unmarked graves of murdered inmates and inviting national media to write about it. Ended up running a duck farm.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This quote below is from Tom Murton, who was hired in the 1960s to reform Arkansas' worst prison. The governor fired him less than a year later after he started excavating unmarked graves of murdered inmates and inviting national media to write about it. Ended up running a duck farm.
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/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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And I say again, the enduring appeal of many murder mystery stories is the notion that the rich and powerful can be made to pay any consequence at all for the horrendous crimes they commit in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And I say again, the enduring appeal of many murder mystery stories is the notion that the rich and powerful can be made to pay any consequence at all for the horrendous crimes they commit in plain sight.
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you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street
October 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street
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You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.
My problem with everything is that I know For A Fact that the purpose of life is frivolity. It is to fool around & pursue joy.
September 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.
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It’s amazing how the nft craze didn’t lead to a single good or cool thing. Not one piece of art that didn’t suck
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It’s amazing how the nft craze didn’t lead to a single good or cool thing. Not one piece of art that didn’t suck
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A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane
September 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane