“If Things Got Really Bad Someone Would Fix It, So Things Won’t Get Really Bad” versus “Oh God Oh God Someone Tell Me How to Fix It”
08.03.2026 06:43
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“If Things Got Really Bad Someone Would Fix It, So Things Won’t Get Really Bad” versus “Oh God Oh God Someone Tell Me How to Fix It”
The cover of RUN Magazine from September 1988. It pictures a man daydreaming at his keyboard imagining he was a superhero (that looks an awful lot like the Captain Britain of 1988). Headlines include "You Can Become A Power User: How To Turn Your Fantasy Into Reality", "Attention New Users: Guidelines On Getting Started", and "recreate Famous Battles On Your C64", plus subheadlines "Inertia Mania Arcade Action", "Card Shark 64/128", "Spelling Challenge", and "C-64/128 Vacation Checklist." Artist: Istvan Banyai
You CAN become a POWER USER!
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:
Jesus fucking Christ dude what do you even say about this
There is no Hell hot enough
They’re saying nobody has ever done a national suicide as beautiful as mine. They say to me, eyes full of tears, “Mr President I’ve never seen a country kill itself as bigly.” And I smiled to myself. Think of that. Killing yourself. I’d do it. Maybe I will do it right now, who’d stop me? I wouldn’t.
fit
Bluesky school of philosophy
Drawing of Elite four Rika and Clodsire. Clodsire is chewing the tip of her tie :)
What a year, huh?
if you play as a girl in video games, have a fascination with feminine clothing, and "wish you were a girl", i have some news for you: New Look At Jeremy Allen White As Rotta The Hutt In 'MANDALORIAN & THE GROGU'
I hated Elon Musk before it was cool because I was always a big railfan growing up and I clocked ten years ago that Hyperloop was an obvious fraud because I knew the first thing about how railways worked
Drawing of elite four Rika from Pokémon in her valentines (palentines?) outfit alongside shiny quagsire
Don't get intimidated or anything
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
Reminder that northern canada is extremely desolate but also filled with genuinely absurd fantasy terrain
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
uber has now sent me four identical emails over a five-month period claiming my account will be deleted if i don't use it within 30 days
CaBi dominance
Pokopia having you direct your mons to perform menial labor ironically makes it a Palworld knockoff
i wish i had some dramatic story but cassidy evolved from a gibberish username i used on my old fandom twitter account and cypress i found in a reddit thread of gender-neutral names
THE TIME HAS COME
do i need to pull the chart out again
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003
