kontextmaschine:

also me: you realize “travelers who recognize you from your writing visit you when passing through town” is like, the real, historically well-precedented step of being a guru before “people come to town specifically to meet you”, right?

me: oh if we’re doing Jesus fantasies here who’s my John the Baptist?

also me: DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN SCOTTSTARCODEX CAME THROUGH TOWN AND AT THE CULT GATHERING THAT FORMED AROUND HIM HE PERSONALLY TOLD YOU HE THOUGHT YOU WERE ONE OF THE ONES WHO MAYBE COULD DO THAT TOO?

(time passes)

me: oh when I was telling him how to recognize me I should have mentioned the cane

also me: YEAH YOU’RE JUST SOME WIZENED-BEFORE-HIS-YEARS SPACE GENIUS WITH A CANE AND A HALF-OTHERWORLDLY MIND THAT PEOPLE FROM AFAR SEEK OUT, NO WAY IS THAT WEIRD

Like do you guys appreciate how hard it’s been to maintain an understanding that I’m not the main character of life when a global era-defining pandemic plague sweeps in to resolve all of my issues specifically in the most cartoonish possible way?

kontextmaschine:

Even given that Star Trek was like the ur-nuts fandom and its place within broader SFF fandom and fiction scenes made it culturally central to a huge number of authors and author-aspirants, this sentiment seems like the kind of absolutely Marvel-brained shit you’d never have seen before the 2010s.

God, I wish normies who wanted to be part of something big and dumb and universal and transcendent would just go back to the church

Oh you know what, I bet some of why it’s been so slow going down creatine scoops lately is since I started maul smashing I’ve had such an energy hit for muscle building and baseline use of the new stuff it’s taking up most of the energy budget the recovery of aerobic generation was giving back.

Which means that if I calculate it out there’s a chance I’ll end up past “Slim” and into the “Thin” state, but with really built muscles, which is about where Hollywood leading men are these days.

…which is exactly the A-1 grade of bullshit we’ve come to expect here at Casa Kontextmaschine, so fuck it, sure. Sure.

…

…Karafuto. I guess Karafuto is “Casa Kontextmaschine”.

Just left my chair by the side window and went to piss and looked out the bathroom window at the backyard and holy shit, this place is really coming together! Real payoff for not making compromises all those years — or rather, the compromise was putting up with the previous squalor until I had all my ducks lined up to take the next step towards final state.

Realizing from growth rates that the two trees out there in the upper backyard were younger than I’d thought when I moved in, and combining with what I know of the previous residents’ plot arc, “tended by a methhead until he left his methhead girl and kid and she ignored it for a decade” actually explained the shape they were in pretty well.

It’s kind of weird that it presents as a “goth” variant the same as mid-90s Hot Topic, but that that presented as the same thing as Victorian poetry queers listening to The Cure had been weird to start with. Still, it’s for the best that there’s now a popular idiom for young women to have a personality like a softened Jane from Daria and draw attention to how they look and act like really fuckable normies.

(Though stuff around the “big titty” thing makes clear that it’s really more in the lineage of the aesthetic that was passing as rockabilly for a while)

2022 in Review

Some dumb new stuff, but none of it anywhere in range of hegemony, looking, at most, likely to catch up a bunch of mooks and set them to expending themselves on grinding down some other mooks doing some other dumb stuff.

Your LibsOfTikTok/Matt Walsh/even Wesley Yang types clearly operating off a memory of the “Moral Majority” 80s backlash in going after schools over trans stuff but there’s real differences.

The mainstream may have come out of the 70s practicing a “teenagers and gays should FUCK” ethic but they never really preached it as a congealed ideology, whereas there really had been a culturally conservative “sex should only be within male/female marriage” ideology the whole time.

In contrast today, as libs enjoy pointing out, the lumpen right doesn’t even practice “adolescent students shouldn’t be treated as sexual beings by adults”, but “everyone should be comfortably affirmed in their chosen gender identity” really is commonly preached as a component of middle-class morality.

Likewise I’ve seen rightists put forward some parents who understand school-pushed gender modernity as something to protect their children from, but I’ve honestly seen more parents supporting their child’s gender transition and seeking an affirming environment for them as an act of child protection.

And anyway just like “teens should FUCK”, “people born with dicks should be understood as boys, who grow into men” was always treated as implicit, while much like 80s cons with “Christian morality should be followed”, modern libs really do hold “sex and gender individuality should be respected” as something schools should teach children.

It doesn’t concern me the dollar value of armaments being sent to Ukraine because like, “fighting Russia to prevent them from recovering geopolitical influence and mass they lost in 1991” was always what those armaments were for! What, we’re not going to have them to use on Russian tanks in the future? Russia won’t have the tanks they were used on!

Really it seems like a successful version of what we tried in Iraq or Afghanistan, or “Vietnamization”: we provide the materiel to achieve our goals, but someone else spends the lives.

That said I do not get the sense Russia is even trying to win on the battlefield at this point, just keep the question open by spending obsolete materiel and population fractions that could become a threat if the regime is weakened: national minorities, but also just surplus young men in general.

And that the real play is the “gas weapon”, cutting energy to European NATO, weakening their economies and generally making life unpleasant in ways that raises the Tension Meter and enables future induced or organic disruption, with the ultimate goal of chipping countries from the alliance or at least leaving them less productive contributors to it and object lessons going forward.

They’ve already substantially split the Visegrád Group – which as a bloc having strained the EU might actually leave the Western alliance structure in a stronger position – by differentially relating to their historical memory – and to the still-the-same geostrategic positions that history arose from. Poland still understands “expansion from the east” as chief existential threat but has no such sense regarding Western alliances that recognize Poland as Poland.

Whereas Hungary takes up the Hapsburg heritage of not-Russia but also not-Germany (as it might plausibly understand east-towards-Ukraine force projection), thinking of itself as the natural leader of East Europe (if not pre-Trianon possessor – recall it still reminisces about parts of Ukraine’s land and population as truly Hungarian) in this role.

There’s no smooth path to stable normalcy from here, there’s at least one major shock left before things settle.

comatose–overdose:

guerrillatech:

birlinterrupted:

The guy from Weezer having an AI bot run his Twitter and it resulting in a promise of a weezer femboy song

Along w it going rogue and coming out as trans

Is like one of the funnier things to result from the current machine learning craze

poipoipoi-2016:

2022 ME, staggering out of time machine. “In the wake of Kanye West’s praise for Hitler on Alex Jones’s show, the Anti-Defamation League and actual white nationalists are in a race to win over the Black Hebrew Israelites”

2015 ME. “oh no, in the future I’m insane”

goncharoffs:

@pscentral event 10: best of 2022 | 2022 tumblr memes.

barthel:

markets:

the repackaging of old misogynistic ideas that younger generations think they’ve outgrown into buzzword-filled tik toks and tweets that will be pushed towards young impressionable people is extremely dangerous. But also extremely funny like you can’t get this anywhere else

So some context on German bishops breaking with the Vatican to create validating rituals for same-sex unions:

• In recent history Germany is mixed Catholic-Protestant, both identities more a matter of regional heritage than theology
• The Protestantism is of the North/Baltic Sea type that remained a matter of historic identity largely by shifting with the population over the 20th Century
• German Catholics therefore have direct experience of Christianity being made compatible with post-heteronormative norms
• The Catholic Church’s failure to keep pace is therefore understood as an unforced error embarrassing German Catholics before their Protestant compatriots
• Tension with the Vatican is not understood as undermining the bishops’ authority; Catholic Germans never considered themselves Catholic by virtue of being aligned with the Pope, but by virtue of being Bavarian, etc.

lanadelreyvisualaesthetics:

I haven’t seen a girl with no tattoos in a while. 

floofshy:

any parasocial relationship you have with a vtuber is thousands time more real that any relationship you might have with God. For one, if you pay her a hundred dollars she will likely read your name on stream, maybe even reply. God won’t do that.

evilmario666:

horseabortion69:

evilmario666:

evilmario666:

Prominent anti-porn homophobic conservative christian furry and former Flipnote animator “Peacewolf”, manager of the haven convention for Nazifur group “the Furry Raiders” known as “Free Fur All”, has left her anti-porn homophobic christian furry husband and children to be in a polycule with infamous fascist furry porn artists “Jasonafex” and “Kabier”. Now both conservative christian furries and leftist furries on Twitter are united in their hatred for the fallen Flipnote animator. 

In case you didn’t know.

Very important additional information!! She told her husband she was leaving him by leaving a whiteboard drawing, with kabier and jasonafex leaving behind a cuck counter of all the times they fucked as a throuple

How could I forget the Cuck Counter

birlinterrupted:

this is the same thing as that one ‘satanic’ concert that they were all freaking out abt or shit like wayfairgate. not much to do other than to mock them, and i’m not sure there’s really anything an individual can do in their day to day life that is going to make a difference w this sort of moral panic

Yeah, you just mock them to lower their status and to signal to other not-them that there’s a robust enough consensus against them to continue on without trying to accommodate them and instead durably constituting them as an out-group to be coordinated against or at least without reference to