Target Locator go brrrrrrr

Dudes rock

"Death is Just Around the Corner.*

Well I grew up in the client-state of a petro king with a complicated take on things like human rights, But baby that's the sacrifice, for bringing joy to the world

And I learned young how the west was won, with Christ's big heart and a bigger gun But it wasn't enough so we took the moon Because nazi rocket science too, can bring joy to the world

The war on drugs, this righteous cause To clear our streets of criminals, now civilized by an opioid, so the Sackler family can enjoy Spreading joy around the world

New York City, the world loves you and retribution was surely duе To the zealots who brought you hell, boy thе heroes in Langley taught them well How to infiltrate joy into the world

Can’t we all just get along like Amazon and Raytheon Coming together to make a drone To bring us lunch and kill their sons in a synergistic 2-for-1 Ballistic joy to the world

Please stop resisting all the joy in your world Just a car full of celebrities singing about the joy in your world

A string of bad luck, in this final turn, we gathered around and watched our cities burn “Who could have possibly predicted this?!” said everyone

So we'll boldly venture into the black, guided by a Grimes soundtrack We'll liberate some foreign stars and stick a flag on the face of mars There’s beauty in starting again, patient zero of original sin As the mantra rings across the land “how clever, look at us, we've done it again!”

We're bringing joy to whole new worlds You must admit we've certainly got a knack for bringing joy To whole new worlds In time these aliens will learn to love the joy We bring to whole new worlds

We're bringing joy to your world You’d better hope you don't have cheap bananas or else we're bringing joy to your world You’d better hope you don't have dead dinosaurs or we'll bring joy to your world You’d better hope you don't have big plans or else we're bringing...

What it isn't is an actionable blueprint to end "US Democracy"--as if democracy was even the dominant trend in the US republic--but it isn't nothing. It does tell us where the id of future GOP staffers actually is, and what incoherence in right-wing ideologies and interests needs to be papered over by an otherwise incoherent grabbag of ideologically opposed policies. Trump likes his demagogy much vaguer. But we also need to look beyond these immediate concerns and interests and see the long-term trends that are being exposed like lipstick traces.

Interesting stuff, I don't always agree with Varn but always think he's interesting and frequently ends up making some cogent insights on political economy development and labor relations and what's going on in major liberal unions in the US and envy how well read and broad his theory knowledge is. Sean KB from The Antifada is really good for that too.

"Fuck movies."

Just guys bein' dudes/ramps for other dudes

One of the things I love about baseball is athletes that are built like midwestern uncles popping off against other players that are built like Olympians

Schwarber looks like he eats cheesesteaks for protein and has a training regimen of splitting firewood and shoveling driveways in the winter and he absolutely killed the Dodgers last night

Recently have been going back through the Death is Just Around the Corner podcast and been marinating in a lot of its themes, and found some of MSJ's music digging deeper into everything I could find about the podcast and its topics, and this song he did about the JFK assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald is really beautiful imo.

Cool fan made remake project of Lego Racers in development. Some of the physics on the boosts and turning look kinda janky and stiff, but the dev said they'd work in it and it's still a one person work in progress and looks really cool to me, I loved that game as a kid and always thought it and Diddy Kong Racing were underrated and way more fun than MK64. Customizing your own minifig and kart and winning new building blocks was so cool, and the item system with upgrades and having specific items other than boosts factor into the design of the track's shortcuts was awesome. Soundtrack was full of cute goofy shit that I loved too.

I don't really know why, but this evening while being frustrated at a parent for them being extremely difficult as they rapidly age, I got really emotional thinking about the therapy thing where you identify and acknowledge your own irrational counterproductive feelings while thinking of how your upbringing conditioned you into having them, and then doing an imaginary dialogue with your child self and telling them how those negative thoughts and shit aren't really their fault and you love and accept them for who they are and so on and so on

That got me really fucked up for awhile about how a lot of my mental health issues are downstream from that kind of weird unspoken structure of cis/het normative parenting where your lib normie parents might be supportive of LGBTQIA rights in the abstract and are on fairly good terms with their lesbian sister, but it's like they both knew you seemed kinda z e s t y since you were a toddler, and you always felt pressured to "be normal" growing up and how that repressed and fucked you up into your late teens.

I got really emotional imagining what it'd be like growing up in a culture where queerness was completely destigmatized, or having parent(s) who were LGBTQIA and never made you feel like you ever had to repress parts of your identity to just "be normal," and now I'm just feeling shitty imagining better timelines and better versions of myself with way fewer psychological hangups and way more happiness.

Sorry for the sad post blog shit, I just kinda felt like I had to scream into the void somewhere