adwright

adwright, 22 hours ago to random

Today, in Oh Cool.

Paid work's dried up. Fun.

I can do free work. People will use it like it's a natural thing that grew unbidden without acknowledgement.

If I can believe Twitter, I can shove a gas pump nozzle up my ass while masturbating in public and monetize the video for cash.

The 21st century is absolute rubbish and this whole garbage mess cannot collapse soon enough.

adwright, 22 hours ago to random

That thing where you live in the last low cost housing in the area and rich developers want to tear it down to build rich people housing and the narrative is that the poor people are rich and selfish and that the developers are selfless providers of shelter.

This is why affordable housing on the peninsula is all vacant empty lots, having been torn down, yet no new affordable, let alone low cost, housing is in the pipeline.

If you get rid of people using the law there's no fuss, dictatorships.

adwright, 23 hours ago to random

It seems clear that the business of religion is to implement repressive social control.

The Gilead States in the US, the entirety of the Middle East, the forthcoming European battlegrounds, Asia; the continent of Antarctica is about the only place on the planet without graveyards full of victims of religion.

God, whatever form Him/Her/It chooses to take is invariably unhappy with us and in a mood for smiting.

It's a poor craftsman blames his tools, pal.

Smite away, folks, you're still wrong.

adwright, 1 day ago to random

It's now online.

The definitive high resolution exhibit #001 of 126 of my great big graphics project is now up.

Lovingly restored from two exceedingly rare original sources, color corrected, twice the resolution of the version posted previously, this edition includes two images not included with the previous version and now represents a complete exhibit #001 in every detail.

In the usual spot.

adwright, 2 days ago to random

Around 3/4 done the high resolution remastering of exhibit #001 of my great big graphics project.

I'm taking all the lessons learned from five years making the 126 main exhibits and applying them to this ultimate version of the first.

I guess the lesson here for me is I'm not a fit for my time. I'll keep working on things and making things because it's the right thing to do, even if I'm the only one sees it or gives a crap about any of it.

It's all frightfully discouraging. Day ending in y.

adwright, 2 days ago to random

That thing where you realize that the only people you talk to are people you are handing money to.

I guess this is ultimate late stage capitalism triumphant; everything is commodified except me and anything I make.

adwright, 5 days ago to random

Spent the day working.

It's the only way to keep myself distracted.

Today's kind of more about grief and loss and love now passed on for me.

So I work. For money, I create order.

For myself, and eventually everyone else, I create beauty.

Funny how those are distractions, huh.

adwright, 5 days ago to random

That thing where you just hang in there.

adwright, 6 days ago to random

It's also not much of a prediction to say that our oligarchic providers of basics will continue to grind us all into paste in pursuit of extra profit and that the stressors from that and the related factors like just affording the basics will wreak all manner of havoc with both people and larger society.

For more and more people, daily life will be like walking on broken glass barefoot. They'll vote for disinfo because it will be the only thing offering relief.

All lies, of course.

adwright, 6 days ago to random

It's not much of a prediction Canada will be a land of fire this summer, for example.

It's not even mid-May yet and that's already started in the North.

We'll blame everything except our own policies for this. Disinfo will use the chaos to farm rage into fascism. It will work so well 2024 could very well be the year disinfo will just dominate the communications and replace what the 20th century thought of as "news".

Maybe 2025 in Newfoundland. ;-)

adwright, 6 days ago to random

That thing where you read the day's news and it's all going so very badly both in the far away outside world and in the bits of that which touch on your own walls and curtains and chair world that you can imagine yourself as this giant scream, condensed into this two-legged walking talking person.

The screaming now so normal that it's like a drop of scattered water in a rain shower. Everywhere and nowhere.

Everything is looking bad. All the forerunners knocking in the wee hours are grim faced.

adwright, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

Sorry, zombie raccoons are now a thing?

Oh, goodie.

According to today's Coast mailout canine distemper virus is moving through the raccoon population causing them to zombie out, acting like they're drunk, standing on their hind legs, falling on their faces.

It's not been seen locally yet in Halifax but if you do, get the fuck out of Dodge. Don't hang about.

To the TikTok crowd, don't stand there filming it.

adwright, 7 days ago to random

Working on the rebuild of my life.

Got a paying gig.

Got a free gig.

Not yet taking care of myself as I ought to.

Trying.

Surviving is so much bleaker than I ever could have imagined when I was young.

adwright, 7 days ago to random

He's been a complete asshole carrying water for the worst elements of the Canadian oligarchy for the past thirty or forty years.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Bonus point: B-y-y-y-e-e-e-e.

adwright, 8 days ago to random

That thing where you discover an update to software that disables all earlier versions still on your computer that you were still using.

adwright, 9 days ago to random

It's the next day.

The next week.

The next fortnight.

Everything not numb is still in shock.

I started the high rez redo of exhibit #001 of my great big graphics project because it was rote work, stuff I'd done creating more than 20,000 images. It took me 2 hours to create the first 3 images.

I'm rusty. Distracted. Zard.

Echoes from the before times are superimposed on the increasingly hostile now like a translucent overlay.

Recalled to life because I'm the survivor. Feeling cored.

adwright, 10 days ago to random

I am recalled to life.

I'm not feeling real chatty for now, lots and lots of real world stuff going on.

Posting here will be catch as catch can for the time being.

adwright, 25 days ago to random

"I thought we had more time."

adwright, 26 days ago to random

Why me and logic don't get along as well as one might hope.

There's this robot who only tells the truth and this robot only lies--

Um, why would anyone build a robot only lies? Why would you even want to do that? If it's a security measure, it only's gonna keep out certified thickies, and in the meantime everyone's gotta put up with the robot's literal bullshit.

Like, if you were planning for the eons, wouldn't it make more sense to ask, say, "Give me a good reason to open the Vault of Ages"?

adwright, 28 days ago to random

H, I, J, K all done. :)

adwright, 29 days ago to random

For my great big writing project I'm coming to realize that I'm never going to be fully prepared to interview the principal parties but if I don't just go ahead and do it anyway the window to do so will close and make the whole notion academic.

Besides, I'm already, like, no one, so if I look like I'm thick(er), like, who shives a git?

I should edit the 125 exhibit pages on the great big graphics project first. Yeah. Tuck into that, I should be done in a day or two or one real long one.

Yeah.

adwright, 29 days ago to random

That thing where people are complaining about not tearing down where you and a hundred or so other people live.

I love you fucklechucks too and has it ever occurred to you lot that having strong opinions on shit where you clearly have no idea wtf you're talking about might be considered, you know, stupid?