(Youtube short voice) A few weeks ago

JESUS CHRIST: See you guys tomorrow! (rounding the corner)

GM: So what did you think of the new guy?

ME: Jesus? I don't know. He's too nice. Like it's some maladaptation. I'm worried he's gonna snap one day.

GM: We snap every day here.

i got scarface on repeat

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in Am… In her groundbreaking history of the class system in Am…

I highly recommend White Trash: The 400 Year Untold Story of Class in Ametics by Nancy Isenberg.

Talks about how the concept of whiteness was created as a means of working class suppression.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...

life

You're doin' fine kid.

ME: Sorry I can't remember your names. I don't know how many of us are going to be around in a little while.

REGULAR AT MY RESTAURANT: It's okay. I come here cause I don't know how to cook!

HIS WIFE: He's Grisham, but yes, he's doomed. And I'm Maryann. And I still need my red.

white trash is a white supremacist term

ME: He just wasn't any good in the sack. You know what that means?

MY CAGE DOG WHO I GOT SO I HAD SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MY CAGE: Auu

ME: I'm so glad we can talk like grown ups now. You're my little grown up. You saved me.

The Ghost of Dopamine Past Frankly #103

@natehagens.bsky.social speaks/writes about [the purpose of] our society and the transformation of billions of barrels of oil into millilitres of dopamine.

natehagens.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

Honestly, I'm not sure this is exactly *wrong* as such. A lot of what the tech industry produces is basically code porn.

If you think porn addiction isn't real, you have accepted an extremely limited definition of porn. Society is so addicted to porn that we produce it almost exclusively.

Virginia Governor Vetoes a Ban on Plea Deals That Waive People's Constitutional Rights - Bolts Abigail Spanberger blocked a bill to bar prosecutors from pressuring Virginians to waive protections against unreasonable police searches as a condition of pleas.

Understand what this means.

When you sign a plea bargain, if you find out later the police and/or prosecutors violated the constitution to frame you for a crime, you have no rights to legally challenge those actions.

Spanberger vetoed the bill to end that.

boltsmag.org/virginia-fou...

As soon as you get your head clear for the first time, you start moving in a way that alerts all the flora and fauna around you that were benefiting from your disarray.

also they give me free stuff instead of a pile of change

i have started just giving the fish away to the stores and they appreciate them now instead of just tallying them

no time for dat goku

"Are you sure the gas leak isn't back?" You cannot begin to fathom the significance of that which you so flippantly invoke. That which I had to metamorphose into something unrecognizable to understand and reclaim and forgive and move beyond. I am an empty ocean. I was a good kid.

im gonna try and think about something else before i go to sleep

jesus christ

volatile parents. listen to owl and tanager. mama

aw, i figured out what this album's about.

how can i trust someone who won't arm their friends? what company you must keep!

anyone with a door on their office is louis ck if they don't give you some kind of collateral

don't ask someone less powerful than you what's wrong and then get confused when they speak in riddles. you won already. you are in charge. pop the champagne and cut into me. i hate you

sometimes someone asks you what's wrong and you have to say something but what you want to say is more anguished and assertive than is allowed so you say im in a macaroni art class