The Victorian
@nonessentialfungus.bsky.social
I do videos on YouTube, often covering video games and other topics: https://www.youtube.com/@nonessentialfungus
Requiem for a Dream
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Requiem for a Dream
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underlying problem with a lot of pop culture and society generally is that people stopped believing that duty is a real thing
Man, remember when star trek knew it was a show about adults in the navy doing their duty as best they could see how, through a deep sense of devotion to cause and morality
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The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
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The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
underlying problem with a lot of pop culture and society generally is that people stopped believing that duty is a real thing
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
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as i like to say, actually existing capitalism is never going to stack up well against magical fantasy communism
This doesn't make capitalism the best we could possibly have it!
The problem is people are so used to socialism as a utopian pitch for freedom from contemporary wants that Hypothetical Utopia Socialism is compared to Extant Having to Administer Getting People To Do Necessary Jobs Capitalism.
The problem is people are so used to socialism as a utopian pitch for freedom from contemporary wants that Hypothetical Utopia Socialism is compared to Extant Having to Administer Getting People To Do Necessary Jobs Capitalism.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
as i like to say, actually existing capitalism is never going to stack up well against magical fantasy communism
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everybody should be a single-issue voter in this election and that issue is "how much do you hate Republicans and what are you willing to do about it?"
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
I would vote for a moderate if I thought they would end the filibuster, pack the court, and use every lever available to them to keep the GOP out of power. if the leftists are the ones promising that, I'll vote for them instead.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
everybody should be a single-issue voter in this election and that issue is "how much do you hate Republicans and what are you willing to do about it?"
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
Can't stop won't stop
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Can't stop won't stop
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I'm begging you all in the media. Please read the emails for more than 2 seconds. They don't just say Trump "knew" about underage girls. THE EMAILS SAY HE PERSONALLY PARTICIPATED.
BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm begging you all in the media. Please read the emails for more than 2 seconds. They don't just say Trump "knew" about underage girls. THE EMAILS SAY HE PERSONALLY PARTICIPATED.
A thief thinks everyone else steals. A clout chasing, social media poisoned cretin thinks everything everyone does is "performative."
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A thief thinks everyone else steals. A clout chasing, social media poisoned cretin thinks everything everyone does is "performative."
Back on my Baldur's Gate 3 bullshit again
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Back on my Baldur's Gate 3 bullshit again
"It's...it's you! The Hero of Kvatch!"
Laura Loomer is in the Middle East, apparently with the world's campiest Andrew Mountbatten Windsor impersonator. As if that region hasn't gone through enough . . .
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"It's...it's you! The Hero of Kvatch!"
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A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.
Disco Elysium feels like one of those games people play so they can feel intellectually superior to all the people who are playing games like Skyrim and actually enjoying themselves.
hot take: it's completely ok to not want to play a game where you play a fugly guy doing depressing shit, that is a completely valid aesthetic preference
yeah, I mean bluntly its because the cozy stuff is female-coded. The "i don't wanna be an fugly guy doing depressing shit" thing kicked off the controversy but it crossed into being All Gender very fast
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October 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Disco Elysium feels like one of those games people play so they can feel intellectually superior to all the people who are playing games like Skyrim and actually enjoying themselves.
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Tonight, for the first time in more than three decades, the Blue Jays are in the World Series.
We #WANTITALL.
We #WANTITALL.
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Tonight, for the first time in more than three decades, the Blue Jays are in the World Series.
We #WANTITALL.
We #WANTITALL.
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Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.
"You are the one from my dreams," the Emperor said.
I guess nightmares are a "kind" of dream...
I guess nightmares are a "kind" of dream...
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"You are the one from my dreams," the Emperor said.
I guess nightmares are a "kind" of dream...
I guess nightmares are a "kind" of dream...
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I love flying the MiG-21 *because* it's so terrible.
- Landing gracefully? Not with those puny delta wings. You gotta come in *fast*
- Radar cooled by alcohol
- Forgot to return landing gear handle to neutral after takeoff? Oops, all pneumatic pressure for braking is gone!
- Landing gracefully? Not with those puny delta wings. You gotta come in *fast*
- Radar cooled by alcohol
- Forgot to return landing gear handle to neutral after takeoff? Oops, all pneumatic pressure for braking is gone!
The East-Libyan regime of Haftar bought up all the old Mig-21s of the Egyptian air force, and uses them for bombing raids as recently as 2020 in the Libyan civil war. There have been a lot of accidents, and you have to be crazy to fly these. Those rusted rivets must be hanging on for dear life.
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I love flying the MiG-21 *because* it's so terrible.
- Landing gracefully? Not with those puny delta wings. You gotta come in *fast*
- Radar cooled by alcohol
- Forgot to return landing gear handle to neutral after takeoff? Oops, all pneumatic pressure for braking is gone!
- Landing gracefully? Not with those puny delta wings. You gotta come in *fast*
- Radar cooled by alcohol
- Forgot to return landing gear handle to neutral after takeoff? Oops, all pneumatic pressure for braking is gone!
Now now, let's not besmirch poutine like that...
Depuis l’invasion de Poutine, la Russie a enlevé des milliers d’enfants ukrainiens.
Aujourd'hui, à l’ONU, je me suis joint au président Zelenskyy afin d'attirer l'attention du monde sur ces crimes de guerre et de stimuler les efforts internationaux pour rapatrier ces enfants.
Aujourd'hui, à l’ONU, je me suis joint au président Zelenskyy afin d'attirer l'attention du monde sur ces crimes de guerre et de stimuler les efforts internationaux pour rapatrier ces enfants.
September 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Now now, let's not besmirch poutine like that...
Flaccid Flanker
September 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Flaccid Flanker
Fun fact: I distinctly recall someone on Twitter saying that a dislike of passive protagonists in fiction is "colonialism" because people preferring active protagonists was a result of their 'colonizer ancestors" wanting to murder indigenous people.
“Colonialism” as used in contemporary left wing discourse is basically not a concept or a coherent idea at all. The fact that people have elevated this non-concept to an evil on par with racism, anti-LGBT bigotry, and sexism (and, usually, treat it as worse than the last two)is a plague on discourse
September 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fun fact: I distinctly recall someone on Twitter saying that a dislike of passive protagonists in fiction is "colonialism" because people preferring active protagonists was a result of their 'colonizer ancestors" wanting to murder indigenous people.
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Today I wrote a long piece on political violence and online radicalization, as well as what to do about it. It's for patrons only, but can also be purchased.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Today I wrote a long piece on political violence and online radicalization, as well as what to do about it. It's for patrons only, but can also be purchased.
www.patreon.com/posts/139011...
www.patreon.com/posts/139011...
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So what does work? Not giving them any platform. It's why the right AND the media hated "cancel culture" so much. It's why the media stays complaining about BlueSky. Because when you say "i'm not debating you, i'm just gonna cut you off" now they gotta deal with consequences for being a shit human
September 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So what does work? Not giving them any platform. It's why the right AND the media hated "cancel culture" so much. It's why the media stays complaining about BlueSky. Because when you say "i'm not debating you, i'm just gonna cut you off" now they gotta deal with consequences for being a shit human
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“I suffered and so must you” seems to be at the core of so many of these people and their followers.
September 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“I suffered and so must you” seems to be at the core of so many of these people and their followers.