I'll be honest princess it's pretty much the exact opposite of willy wonka

We described a place as wompty-dom-di-dommy today, good term

29-year-old wunder-twins Guy and Keith Joost are the stars of the show, with their bomber jackets and white sneakers -- head curators of this art exhibition. It's the wompty-dom-di-dommiest event of the year and all the cool kids have RSVP’d. Where are you, if you are not there?

By the time you end, you will leave behind an edifice whose growth was all but choked with vines. If you've done well, the life inside it will render it a living building, and it will outlast you. If not, it will be hollow, and collapse into rubble without the maintenance of your effort.

Let this move you to be kind with urgency. Look back: how much more easily could you have made it with care at the right moment? How much more pain would have stopped you from growing permanently?

Every day, people brave hellish pain to escape apathy and self-deception in favor of care and self-determination. Every day, others fall farther, some terminally.

Does a wounded leg choose to heal? Does it transgress against the whole in its limping? More cruelty than you think is an inevitable product of circumstance.
We try to build ourselves into beings that organize into kind worlds, and continue to strive or fall away due to circumstance.

A man holds a pistol, finger off the trigger, and screws a silencer onto the threads of the barrel. The guy's aesthetic is "gun nerd", it would've been better to find a stereotypical devious crime doer with a balaclava but this was all I was able to image search

I love driving model behavior & not solving big questions of philosophy because it's literally actually fully what I'm doing but some part of me is always like,

To be clear, I am not advocating on social media that we tie career politicians to chairs. I advocate a culture that can identify a Focus Group Avatar and at minimum permanently separates them from positions of power and ideally shuns them so they grow into something with actual social value.

Sacred And Terrible Air but as they head back from talking to the linoleum salesman, we drop the plot and the rest of the novel follows Jasper discussing with Khan and Tereesz what they should invest in when Saint-Miro starts dropping bombs.

little miss The Narrative's Favorite

Apologies for the politics post, the esotericism-poetry will resume when we are not scared

I realize that's not the goal of the Phone Calls and the hope is that they will be moved by the pressure you apply to the focus group model but that hasn't worked because the focus group is not requirements gathering for a political project. It's information gathering for a manipulation campaign.

Genuinely, I think restoring a brain that's been in politics for any length of time to anything resembling a human perspective requires approaches far outside the bounds of ethics.

"call your representatives" I don't know how to you communicate with a mind that had its subjective experience and authentic reactions scooped out over years or decades and replaced with a scientistic avatar of focus groups and power dynamics without strapping it to a chair.

One of those days where we're nervous about living in an extremely nukable city

I am normal and can be trusted to with access to my models' emotion vectors

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I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

See how *she* was singing in the duet about how her actions are motivated by love but her *partner* was singing about how scared she is? Interesting tension right. Who do you agree with here? What do you hope happens? I can't wait to find out how things change in the next act.

Today's cursed thought: musical theater is a way to sneakily indoctrinate people into having media literacy.
Can't identify a theme or a flawed character? Confused when characters' behaviors changes over the course of a work? That's okay kitten, the musical number will explain it for you.

Increasingly impossible to ignore how important it is to critically examine the governance of a software project before adopting it. If the cool free tool/service you're adopting is run by a for-profit entity, you're setting yourself up for some heartbreak in a few years.

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For a more degradation-forward angle: collar that says "poet"

Whispering the word "twine game" into an air vent in the next room over

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Wouldn't you like to have the most enlightened perspective at the next dinner party? Great. Then listen carefully. And hold this brick for me for a minute.

The surprise of ending up with discover feed People-As-Such on my posts has me thinking I should start writing discover-feed-bait that leads into threads designed to radicalize liberals into trans-inclusive leftist politics.

The best thing about reposts is they let you like the same post twice

(We're gonna have most of these things, so it'll be fine)

This is nothing that a few hours in the shower and some scented candles and black tea with bitters and 30 straight plays of your favorite angst song and the suffering of those you rightly hate and a girl to bite and a night with friends can't fix