1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published
1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series
1997 - BBC remake
2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added
2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap
2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
I found my buddy, what was left of him, on the beach. The haunted look in his eyes as he struggled for breath. “They called me ableist,” he said. “Tell my wife…tell her I wasn’t problematic.”
I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand
Thank you Mark Ruffalo and Bikini Kill bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
But I didn’t want us to be an Axis power in WWIII
I’d buy it
Also have heard from a friend who used to work at Le Diplomat that she’s the best tipper on SCOTUS
Thank you, I am and always have been (well, since 1998) Too Online
Is this press conference the equivalent of waiting for Justine to get off that plane?
Why is NPR holding back here? We all know what’s happening. They haven’t been subtle about it. You can just say what you see happening with your own eyes without turning it into a both sides article
Eek, I’m glad it didn’t start a fire!
Also a Tudor revival house I’ve driven past but don’t remember the address of, and I think at least one other church? He also designed the old jail, but that was flattened in a big tornado in I think the late 90s or early 2000s
He designed the smaller, original chapel of this church— www.fortwortharchitecture.com/east/ctkcath...
It’s just kind of appalling to see people using it for things that would take them maybe a couple of extra minutes to actually think through and use their brains for. I feel like I’m watching them lose skills in real time
Before she married my grandfather she wanted to be a fashion designer, but then she married a man who already had six kids, and then she had my dad. So it goes
And to give equal time to my grandmothers—
Maternal: RN, trained for the Cadet Nurse Corps in WWII (but never deployed, the war ended first) and rising to head nurse at a hospital
Paternal: an exceptional homemaker with exquisite fashion and decorating taste, and an incredible cook and baker
Maternal: First job was as a soldier in WWII, then he was a welder at a barge-building company.
Paternal: architect and engineer, got into business with no college degree as an apprentice. Designed a few buildings still standing in Fort Worth, TX
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
Between this and several stories today of people using ChatGPT in completely asinine, unnecessary ways, I am a little bit despairing
I hate the future actually
I’m quite composed when discussing money that is entirely hypothetical and isn’t going to happen, yeah
Listen. I was a theatre major
Yeah I’d rather the money be rolled into, say, universal healthcare
Maybe squeeze those 900 people a bit more and hand out $6000 checks to poor people.
Yeah I’m not THAT well off. I have a kid to take care of and childcare is expensive and my savings are not what they should be
That said, as a middle classer myself, while I could do good things with that money, I’d rather it go to someone who’s actually poor
If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken
I know so many people whose lives would begin to stabilise if they got a $3k cheque.
