trenchant social commentary 2

If they lived in their cars, they would have been home by now

there's nothing remotely as disturbing as the thing in stranger things but ymmv as i am a 35 year old man who is still mortified by some of the scenes in the thing and find it legitimately hard to watch

― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:18 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kids today will have inevitably seen worse on network tv and YouTube.

― Sly Bradbury's The Marion Cobretti-cles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:21 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's worse in the white house

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most of the country cares about their phones, period.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 16, 2019 7:45 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lol coming here to post that

My aunt sent this to the family group chat pic.twitter.com/ZmXhk9DtiR

— society understander (@mywifecameback) July 23, 2019

kinda cool graphic though

Twitter, more like Shitter

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 24, 2019 11:55 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EExYZxOWkAA2-wd.jpg

^ kinda clever tbh

Millet's (idealised + virtuously grafting themselves to death in their sunday best) peasants were bad to start with imo. But juxtaposing new stuff over old iconic paintings has been done to death and isn't really that clever is it?

done to death

When it comes to social media I live a sheltered life, I guess.

Didn't mean it in a snarky or judgmental manner ftr

is mad magazine social media

CB radio is as well, good buddy

also duchamp

postcards?

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

http://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Abest/DJ_Shadow_OPA_album_artwork_skjbju/dj-shadow-our-pathetic-age-release-date.jpg

man, I don't say this lightly given that Endtroducing is one of my all time top 10 albums, but DJ Shadow sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgW-2orQQg

Endtroducing is so fucking good

man, I don't say this lightly given that Endtroducing is one of my all time top 10 albums, but DJ Shadow sucks

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, October 4, 2019 5:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I haven't listened to anything of his since Private Press, which was a bit of a let-down at the time, but the new track Rosie is pretty good, imo.

https://hyperallergic.com/521125/banksy-opens-london-art-shop-same-week-he-sets-12m-auction-record/

'Murica über alles.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:54 (six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i know you did this on purpose lol but i still have to

Aw yissssss.

I'm waiting for a "C/D: Friends with babies that grew up to be teenagers who are only interested in fast-tracking themselves to be an influencer or a entrepreneur because anything else is 'too much work'"

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, October 9, 2019 3:52 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Anti homeless art + boomer art. Rare combo! pic.twitter.com/Lmy2rhQOJN

— 👹 spawn of seitan 🎃 (@soi_girl) October 27, 2019

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/74531604_10157098359873172_2455861861766135808_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_oc=AQkbcQVGDXjJbhGId-e8GFUXU8AmlXmsl6xfXVw2VVtkl0mYb-od1fPb-agQiEmSTOk&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=7109ed587927584aaed91cfb475f5f99&oe=5E5EFB9A

love 2 buy five iphones per semester

if my parents had netflix production values

Apples 'not orange enough!'
Oranges 'just the right amount of orange!'

Everything in life is about meaningless, bad faith comparisons.
What do you want if we order Thai tonight?

that's not trenchant social commentary, that's some asshole dad passive aggressively criticizing his wife and children on social media

...instead of screaming at them in person, as a good father would have done back when men were men

why would an asshole dad want the family members he is abusing to pay for a therapist?

that's probably the gay conversion therapist he keeps pushing on his children

ohhhhhhhh undoubtedly worth every penny

nah that’s clearly aimed at the wife

nah but if the wife went to therapy, the therapist would tell her that she needs to stand up to the abusive POS that is her husband, or else like ... leave him? or maybe he's a narcissist and wants both of them to go to couples therapy so his wife will be forced to pay even more attention to him, and there will be yet another person who has to listen to him complain?

https://i.imgur.com/DUDtcCS.jpg

(And I shouldn't have to say it, but yes, that's an altered version of the original.)

RAP BAND

Sure nails the private equity looting that trashed Sears

Sure nails the private equity looting that trashed Sears

― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 November 2019 10:27 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

the comics journal DESTROYS new yorker cartoonists
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/everyones-a-critic-the-ultimate-cartoon-book/

Why criticize when you can lean back and laugh with a gentle, anesthetized, uncritical blandness?

https://media.giphy.com/media/9EwnzGNjvmIG4/giphy.gif

https://theoutline.com/post/8406/worst-takes-of-the-2010s-bret-stephens-david-brooks-megan-mcardle

TCJ review otm

although watching people get insanely angry about NYer cartoons is also very entertaining, imo

https://scontent.fphl2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49175660_1136193793209826_4839775277498236928_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=pOpKgSmavTEAQl5uAwfNkGVT4705IMzmxIiTHiFsDtlCoSwznKURsecww&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-2.fna&oh=96ec4fee0813e91fb7613c385a6f7ed1&oe=5EB34822

pretty sure drones have ceramic parts unless it's all composite these days
pottery

The trenchant commentator is correct. After all, "capitalist enterprises" make up (does some quick, back of the envelope calculations) nearly 100% of the economic activity in capitalist societies and STEM expertise seems to result in marginal improvements to basic manufacturing that generate increased profit margins more reliably than having the ability to throw pots.