I can’t tell you how much I hate the article I wrote about here and everything it stands for. Talk about how to harm women (and the world) greatly in three easy steps.

I sent this article to a friend of mine that I was planning to photograph and her reaction was, “Those half-naked photos I wanted you to take of me have now changed to be at least three-quarters naked.”

Yep, I understand. I understand perfectly.

Watching a dumb action movie on the plane and it got me wondering: when assassins in movies assemble their rifle from a briefcase or whatever, how do they know it’s zeroed right?

— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) December 9, 2021

You zero it elsewhere. Re-assembling it doesn’t change that much. Anyway, most of the shots assassins in movies make are so close in that I could make them without optics, just iron sights. Zeroing doesn’t matter much when your target is 50M away, as is often the case in movies.

For instance, I fired a non-zeroed M-16A2 at 300M targets in the army and hit 9 out of 10 times. That was with a rifle I just randomly picked up. People who can shoot well can do things to regular people that seem impossible. At 75M, I could’ve fired that puppy from the hip and hit most of the targets.

Mohammed conquered the middle east in self defense.

— Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy) December 10, 2021

This is also why I must conquer the galaxy.

the correct answer when someone asks you to explain the utility of joy to them is "no❤️"

— visa is doing final edits ✍🏾📖 (@visakanv) December 11, 2021

A billion libs are bereft now. The “utility of joy” is a poison and vulgar phrase in and of itself. Visa is perfectly right to attack it mockingly. Why is so much of the lib ideology these days about attempting to quantify the utility of joy? I will never understand.

maybe it was just the timing for me – it felt like the matrix really changed something in the world. I didn’t watch The Truman Show until very recently (interesting that it came out just a year before), nobody discussed it in Singapore. but The Matrix was everywhere

— visa is doing final edits ✍🏾📖 (@visakanv) December 11, 2021

I don’t think The Matrix itself changed much, but it was coincident with and an exemplar of many large alterations that occurred in society at that time (and that many people still insist did not occur, strangely). The internet was picking up its pace of adoption in normies’ lives; online forums and social networks were really starting to attract regular people for the first time. (Yes, Gen Zers, there were indeed social networks well before Facebook. LiveJournal launched in 1999. Also, chat apps and forums functioned as social networks long before this.)

For the first time regular people realized (even if they didn’t conceptualize it in such integral terms) that they were surrounded by the skein of an informational environment that underlaid everything they did and were, that defined them and constrained them with avatars of data that were often considered more real, more meaningful, than they themselves were.

The Matrix refracted that realization through art and artifice; that’s why it hit so hard at the time. And because it wasn’t didactic about it, it had all the more effect. It felt true because it, like a religious experience, injected the mind with something false but revelatory.

People like Ian Welsh for some harebrained reason insist that the internet changes nothing. The reality, though, is that the internet changed everything and The Matrix was one of the first real attempts to artistically grapple with the consequences of this tectonic shift which we were all experiencing and are still undergoing.

Surfer Courtney Conlogue training with a big damn rock on the bottom of the ocean:

The first ten on today’s playlist:

The Courtesy of Covering Up.

Fuck this prude apologism. I mean, this all started with delusional feminist mooks attempting to convince us that burqas were somehow feminist. And a lot of people bought this bullshit. Some small number of them even joined the very feminist Isis as a result.

The essay to which I linked is very poorly reasoned, but it’s like catnip to self-hating modern feminists. It shows how “progressive” they are by embracing the intolerant and oppressive while reframing it as liberation. Which is something I need to write and think about more, and to read my Adorno again. This is how you get to Gilead, by the way. This is that path.

Destroy prudishness and self-hating libs. We owe it to ourselves.

A lot of people like Ian Welsh (and other lefty types) think Covid is the apocalypse they’ve been hoping for, and have now pinned all their misguided desires on Omicron.

But they will be disappointed again.

Common liberal claims that I reject:

• There is no no need for social interaction, especially for men.
• There is no need for sex.
• There is no human nature.
• The past is always bad and wrong.
• Biology doesn’t exist.
• Our moral intuitions and certainties du jour are obviously 100% correct and anyone who says any different is evil and racist.

These aren’t the only reasons, but are some of the main ones, that liberalism is failing.