Illuminatus

Illuminatus, 13 days ago to random Spanish

The "elites" are a bunch of degenerate, deranged, sociopaths who should be shipped to Mars without a return ticket. Good fucking gods. https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

Illuminatus, 13 days ago to random

Will he see prison? I don't know, but will it be expensive for him? I fucking sure hope it is.

Illuminatus, 17 days ago to random Spanish

Designating an area safe for refugees and bombing it later is a war crime. Bombing a refugee camp is a war crime. Sniping children is a war crime. That your "activists" attack aid-carrying trucks and transports to block their access to the refugees is a crime against humanity. Israel is committing genocide.

Illuminatus, 19 days ago to random

Every now and then I see (usually Yanks, but any English-speaking capitalist can do it) making comments about how the CCP and the PRC control (or cull) their population of millionaires and billionaires and how they suddenly "disappear" and all that, and I never see that connected to the "capitalists are at the heart of innovation and making things work" spiel. I mean, if you can disappear from one day to the next and the company keeps working on, maybe your contribution was not so important… 🤔

Illuminatus, 1 month ago to random Spanish

Reading some stuff about the Armenian Genocide (because I have made a comment about Jury Nullfication and that lead to the trial of the assassination of Talaat Pasha) and I feel fucking sad and fucking tired: the German foreign office knew about the Armeninan Genocide, and they didn't allow Walter Rössler to testify for the shame that it would bring them to be known that they knew. There was no doubt that what was done to the Armenians was monstruous, and yet, 21 years later…

Illuminatus, 1 month ago to random

I have just remembered that the man/bear debate was already settled, some years ago: https://www.incognitocomics.com.au/products/my-boyfriend-is-a-bear-tp

Illuminatus, 1 month ago to random

She's so stressed…
#Caturday

Illuminatus, 1 month ago to random

Walton Goggins is one of the best USAmerican actors of the last two decades. On this hill I shall fight to the death. #FalloutTV

Illuminatus, 1 month ago to random Spanish

I wish the gods conceded me the patience of a Ukrainian worker who doesn't reply to questions about late deliverables with "BECAUSE THERE IS A FUCKING WAR GOING ON IN MY COUNTRY, THAT'S WHY IT'S LATE!"

Illuminatus, 1 month ago to random

Her life is endless toil…

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random Spanish

Things we do not need in the year of 2024: for one, poverty porn.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/12/lola-movie-nicola-peltz-beckham

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random

Levels of dramatic proficiency (in ascending order):
-Asylum productions' actor
-Average copaganda show actors
-US soap opera actors
-Latinx soap opera actors
-Average Hollywood actors
-Average RSC actors
-A-tier Hollywood actors
-RSC actors who make it big in Hollywood
-Cats with half-full food bowls

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random Spanish

I have just read G.I. Joe referred to as "A massive group of Bi-Sexual stereotypes from the different military branches" and if I had been drinking, the drink would have exited through my nose in the middle of the laugh.

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random Spanish

LB: Oh, yes, I am sure that posh arsehole supporting the transphobe writer will not help the Scottish independence movement. At all.

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random Spanish

I am watching these days 'Parks and Recreations' and I am on the last season, the one with the plot of land and the "free" Wi-Fi company Grizzld, which is a very thinly veiled stand-in for Facebook/Meta and… not to spoil it, but fuck, did they have enough to see through their bullshit back in 2016.

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random

I have to say I have had some very good nights with @pluralistic novel. I never would've believed forensic accounting would make for a really engaging topic in a novel, but 'Red Team Blues' has proven me wrong.

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random Spanish

Hearing a review of '3 Body Problem' by one of the S&F&T youtubers I follow, who's a fan of the books, and how he points out the things I feel are good about the show and I suspected (I haven't read the books) that were positive changes.

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random Spanish

Just in case… Do you people believe in "meritocracy"? https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence

Illuminatus, 2 months ago to random

Unpopular take: when people say that a satire of fascism is badly made because the fascists don't feel ashamed or ridiculed by such satire work, they are missing the point completely; any satire of fascism will (usually) point at the ridiculousness and horror of those fascist beliefs, but you cannot ridicule or shame fascists based on that not because how the satire is made, but because the fascists embrace that horror. They want to be horrible and ridiculous people.

Illuminatus, 3 months ago to random Spanish

I swear to all the gods that the second worst fucking thing about the US of A after their fucking imperialism and its consequences is their fucking date system of MM/DD/YYYY.

Illuminatus, 3 months ago to random

@lilithsaintcrow Arrived today. I am trusting you here. :11117:

Illuminatus, 3 months ago to random Spanish

LB: Alberta, Canada, is a province with an economy terribly dependent on the tar sands and fracking industry, that is: fossil fuels in the form of aggressive extraction of hydrocarbons in a way heavily dependent on a tainting use of water ("fracking" is hydraulic fracture, water is used to retrieve the hydrocarbons, taintint that water forever, in human terms). Now they have the fucking worst drought registered and nothing useful will be done.

Illuminatus, 3 months ago to random Spanish

Alegrándome de que a Dani Alves le hayan condenado por su delito, no ya por la prisión sino por lo que supondrá para su carrera profesional el comerse cinco años sin poder salir del país por lo de la libertad vigilada (y que otros machotes privilegiados vean huecos en su impunidad), tengo que decir que me sabe amargo, porque ha tenido que ser un caso prácticamente "perfecto" para que la cosa llegue a este desenlace.

Illuminatus, 4 months ago to random

Savater y su tremendo cuajo de "yo lo que quiero es soltar mis sermones y que nadie me lleve la contraria". Pues haberte hecho cura en vez de payaso.

Illuminatus, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Whenever someone (usually an economist, because, you know) argues about how Globalisation and the interconnectedness of the world economy is a deterrent to seriously big wars nowadays, I am reminded of 'the Great Illusion', a book written by a guy called Norman Angell who argued the same thing about Europe. In 1909. That went well. Worse thing is, it was re-edited and people quoted it again for the same reasons. In 19-fucking-33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion