snugglefuzz

3 minutes into Star City, and … why do they have british accents??? i was expecting Russian accents (and hoping for Russian language).

finished first two eps … who benefits from this lifeless, desaturated portrayal of Soviet life?

A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumptions requires the unlimited production and consumption of images. - Susan Sontag, On Photography

burnout is when you run out of fakin-it juice

But I haven’t made it yet. Surely I can just run off the juice fumes.

no. hopital.

This is what reminded me to get my car’s oil changed btw

yknow i used to do my own oil changes i might start again shits expensive

can yuo post a tutorial

Also, not gonna lie, it is so refreshing to have a major cultural moment that's just FREE. You don't have to pay a cent to watch this on NASA's YouTube. There's not a single ad, not a single sponsor plastered anywhere. It's just smart people doing cool things.

So we're all gonna let the new Harry Potter show die on the vine, right? No hatewatching. No thinkpieces. No videos about how bad it is. Deprive it of oxygen and let it wither away unremarked-upon and unprofitable; make HBO lose their entire investment and prove to the corporate entertainment sphere that the entire IP is poison. And spend that time doing something that brings you joy instead.

Ants have the most badass lives of anything in the animal kingdom, life as an ant is like warhammer

Ants are a fun way to look at cosmic horror, because they make complex decisions plus the whole eusocial thing, but most ants weight 1-5 milligrams, is the thing, and the human brain at a couple pounds or so is like without exaggeration a million times heavier than a whole ant. Imagine just... a brain, a whole brain that's a Boeing 747. But if you step back further, human lungs and circulatory system are so alien to most small arthropods. Pushing blood around in tubes would sound demented. Communicating by sound predominantly without pheremones, it would be cacaphonously loud to an ant, our scents would seem like babbling madness. The whole relatively isolated condition of human life must seem like the void is staring back, a being completely unable to see or comprehend the sights and language of insects that holds the power to destroy them all effortlessly. The vastness and total blankness of humanity to the insect is a cosmic horror to me.

Are any of you guys (planetary) astronomers? Maybe some kind of astrophysicist? If so; can I bother you for an indeterminate amount of time? About something stupid?

The tumblr update is rolled back. I return to my desolate blogscape and hold out my arms. I clap. a swarm of my followers come forth and take little nibbles of me like those fish that eat the dead skin off your feet. Ahaha stop that tickles. Haha. Ow. Owww. Stoppp. (At this point i am naught but a wicked skeleton in a leather jacket. The leather jacket was there initially but you guys ate around it bc it gets stuck in your teeth.)