if my son is ever forced to go to war I’m going full Sarah Connor
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Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”
international women’s day
08.03.2026 15:07
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btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
08.03.2026 03:32
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a screenshot of the music video Planet of the Bass, it has a man in a white outfit and angel wings, a woman in a robe and a crown, the caption reads "Women are my favorite guy"
happy international women's day to all my international women
08.03.2026 17:03
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Offline, It's Still 2005
A distinguished member of the Bad Faith Times discord community recently said something that jammed itself into my brain like the worm in Robert Kennedy Jr.'s brain.
This BFT supporter and friend of the publication and its fourth most popular blogger (me) said when you log off – when you close your phone or shut your laptop or eat your tablet – and go outside, it's essentially 2005. In the offline world, where people still do the things people have always done, not a whole lot has changed – beyond everyone's necks craning to get little jolts of dopamine from the magic machine in their hands that creates their reality.
I was highly skeptical of this claim. How could it possibly be true? The world has changed so dramatically over the intervening twenty years – as I wrote about in my Sad Dad essay – that it must be different, even if one is able to break away from one's mind control machine, now with a sleeker design and a better camera, as Zoe Saldana tells us on the TV.
The Machines Are Making Us SickGhosts of 80s culture telling people to “come back” to 1985 sounds like something invented by a tech-savvy suicide cultBad Faith TimesDenny Carter
I tried for a few days to hold that thought in my mind as I interacted with the wider world and made a concerted effort to spend at least a little less time ingesting the poison of social media, that poison I seem to enjoy. I found it to be mostly true. If you're able to ignore the hellish sense of FOMO that comes with ignoring the dopamine-drenched show that is the Trump regime, real life – life outside the phone – can feel like it did way back then.
It reminded me of biting feedback I got from my BFT blog post on wildly disturbing AI videos urging people to return to the 1980s. These AI monstrosities, a BFT subscriber said, might be nothing more than the manifestation of people's desire to return to a more real time, a more authentic life experience than the one we have today. It might represent people's desire to be rid of all this tech-heavy shit.
> It’s pretty galaxy brained to simultaneously (correctly!) rail against the mass poisoning of humanity by TechnoCapital while shouting down people’s instinctive desire to return to pre-brain poisoned times. It’s vital that people understand things don't gotta be this way, and that elements of the better world that’s possible are evidenced by the past in which those elements hadn’t yet been destroyed by Blackbox Algorithmic Profiteering, and people were happier for it. ... It's stupid to lament the all-consuming atomization of humanity then when people start tapping into awareness that might change it say, “No, not like that!"
These AI slop videos, he said, could even be leveraged for good if you added a more diverse cast of fake people. I'm not entirely sold on that idea, or that AI can ever been good for any reason, but I get the point on an intellectual and emotional level. No one likes how we live today. Being online can be a soul-killing process even if it doesn't feel like one. It can make you laugh and smile sometimes. It can make you feel like you're Doing Something, that you are someone. You know on a deeper level that none of this is a viable replacement for face-to-face interaction with other human beings.
I don't know when it was decided that traditional human interaction would go the way of my DVD player – and the DVDs on which I spent a small fortune as a broke freelance writer during the second George W. Bush administration – but it was never going to be a workable substitute for the Real Thing. Maybe it was a collective decision during the darkest parts of the COVID shutdowns. Maybe our collective consciousness in March 2020 said it's time to move life online, that it's easier this way. And it is easier, that's the thing. It's empty though. It's void of the Real Thing.
A couple weekends ago I went to a nearby beer farm – a place where libs go to drink fancy, pricey brews – with a group of family and friends. It was a wonderful atmosphere, the weather was just right, and the 2.5 light beers had made me just tipsy enough. Any good feelings I had evaporated as I stood in line to order pizzas for the group. A young guy standing in front of me had been talking with a couple buddies, and within three seconds of his buddies leaving the line to return to their table, this guy ripped his phone from his jeans and opened TikTok. He proceeded to watch a dozen videos in a matter of 30 seconds as he waited in line, just mindlessly whipping through #content. These videos were nothing: A monkey doing some kind of trick with a ping pong ball; a lady complaining about her car radio; an AI clip of some fantasy world from a comic with which I'm unfamiliar. It was all fucking slop. He kept scrolling until the moment he had to order. It made me sad. It made me even sadder when I realized I had done the same with my Bluesky app.
The other day at my daughter's bus stop I was reminded of the Real Thing that can never be replaced by the magic, evil little machine in our pockets. I stood there for a few minutes and spoke with a fellow dad, a guy from Haiti, who had recently moved to the area. We talked about the weather and the school and how late the bus had been lately. His son, an adorable kid no older than six, chimed in and laughed and smiled and joked. The bus pulled up and this little boy hugged his father around his waist before turning to me and doing the same. I was taken aback, only for a moment. It had been so long since I had experienced such an unplanned social interaction, especially one with a relative stranger. I patted the boy on the back and said see you later buddy, have a good day at school.
There are still a million human moments every second of every day. They're often small enough – fleeting enough – to escape your attention. They exist though, even as it feels like the entire world exists only on the screen holding the algorithm designed to hack your brain and keep you scrolling and make you anxious and depressed. These machines are _designed_ to make you sad. Someone in Silicon Valley is paid handsomely to go to work every morning and figure out new ways to make you hate your life. Remember that.
Little human moments are the opposite of all this, the antidote, the cure. They can be, anyway, if you let them. So let them.
_Follow Denny Carter on_ _BlueSky at @dennycarter.bsky.social_ _._
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Theta is relaxed in a great big tub, covered up mostly by bubbles, and her hair up in a wrap. She is attended by her usual henchmen, Fly, who holds a tray with a large martini glass, and Atlas The Man Moth, who is pouring excessive bubble bath into the tub with her.
THETA: The nerve of that red RUNT... Just wait until I settle the score with Crimsonheart closer to HOME!
Theta spitefully pops a bubble floating in the air.
THETA: The next time I see hero boy running off in his blimp, I'll...!
A view out of a hole, high window shows the Cloud Zeppelin pulling away, drawing Theta's attention.
Both henchmen look at Theta expectantly as she grimaces.
FLY: Your robe, MiZztreZz?
Theta simply sinks deeper into her bath and pouts. Atlas looks on, cluelessly holding up a large purple robe, as Fly nods acquiescently and offers the martini up more pointedly.
THETA: I just got IN here...you KNOW how I feel about getting OUT of the tub!
FLY: Of course, MiZztreZz
This page concludes chapter 4! We're taking a little break, so it's a great time to catch up on all 120 pages of the #webcomic if you haven't, already!
liegedoomveil.thecomicseries.com
07.03.2026 18:09
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new page of "a ghost story", book 3, chapter 2, page 154
www.aghoststorycomic.com <- read free online
www.patreon.com/aghoststory <-support the comic page by page
www.ko-fi.com/beesmygod/ <-support the comic with a one-time donation
click thru for a list of things ive read and watched this week!
07.03.2026 15:31
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i helped troubleshoot the questions for this survey and would Love for you to fill it out!
07.03.2026 16:27
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I will say people who dress their kids up as Jawas and Pokémon never fucking miss
07.03.2026 00:22
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me: aw I should cosplay again
me: or I could go to sleep
07.03.2026 00:21
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nothing makes a bitch feel old like going to a big convention
07.03.2026 00:21
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“watch him get bigger and bigger until he pops”
I’ve been on the internet too long
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Pop the Pig, a game I just learned about that I imagine is very popular among certain furry groups
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Please repost if any of your followers might be able to connect me with a smallish, non-official dog rescue type group in the Los Angeles area. Los Angeles proper, the actual city. Looking for folks who might be willing to approach a family with neglected dogs and negotiate purchase/rehoming/etc.
05.03.2026 21:15
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bump
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lol
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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
05.03.2026 05:17
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IMAGE: a stylized cell phone with flames coming out of it. TEXT: Delete the Starbucks app off your phone.
Seriously.
Starbucks is the biggest violator of labor law in modern history.
We have the power to tell them union-busting is bad for business.
Don't shop at Starbucks until they do better by their baristas!
If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders.
Our call to action is simple:
📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp
bit.ly/deletetheapp
03.02.2026 02:09
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
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like I think America is too spread out and huge to eliminate car travel entirely, but we can maybe PLEASE REGULATE THEM A LITTLE BETTER
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my feelings on cars are complicated in the sense that I have generally lived in places where it’s necessary to own one, but I do wish they were smaller & less shitty for the environment & that all communities were more walkable in the day to day
01.03.2026 20:40
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we’ll work on praxis when he’s taller than the hood of an SUV
01.03.2026 20:39
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just another little parent soul death as I explain to my young child that he needs to stay on the sidewalk because “the street is for cars” and “they can’t always see you” and frankly might not care even if they do
01.03.2026 20:36
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Posted this late last night:
01.03.2026 17:46
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all the worst and most evil decisions are being paid for by children and it’s just not fucking fair
28.02.2026 16:49
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I love to read news that makes me instantly burst into tears
28.02.2026 16:48
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Twin Peaks logo font over the road into town saying
April 1805
Napoleon is now master of Europe.
Only the British fleet stands before him:
Oceans are now battlefields
28.02.2026 02:03
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aka 'the children sound like children and not adult women'
27.02.2026 20:33
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yeah!!! tbh I think some people may have watched the English dub and gotten a bad impression. the original Japanese really is leaps and bounds better
I feel the same way about Asuka
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