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Jason McGlothlen
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Master of Science at the intersection of light, matter + time
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The thing about getting all your buccal fat removed is that you're gonna end up looking like Billy the Puppet from Jigsaw
Sylvester Stallone and Paul Stanley standing behind Donald Trump forcing a rictus grin. Stallone and Stanley look like bizarre wax mannequin caricatures of their former selves, real undignified shit going on here. Billy the Puppet from the Jigsaw movies
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Frank Gehry died and all I can think of is this passage from Charles Mudede on the politics of quirkiness.

www.thestranger.com/features/201...
So what exactly is wrong with quirkiness? First, it has nothing to do with diversity. It is instead that white guy in the bar jiving with the immigrant's exotic hat, or Donald Rumsfeld with a chopstick balanced on his upper lip, or the wacky people who flash-mob the light rail in their underwear, or whatever enters and exits the mind without a thought. Secondly, even an arrogant warmonger like Rummy can be quirky. It's fun to be quirky because it means nothing to be quirky. And something that has no meaning is striving for political neutrality. And political neutrality is the desired result of projects funded by those in positions of power, like developers and pro-business associations. Political neutrality promotes the idea or illusion that there are things in capitalist society that are universal, natural, that can be shared or enjoyed by all with no consequences. Those in power want us to believe that such neutral social spaces and practices actually exist within the limits of the market, as this shows that the market is only about itself and is wholly outside of the sphere of daily social struggles. And why do those in power want the public to see the market as neutral? Because if you fail in the market (fail at getting a job, fail with the credit agency, fail at keeping your home), you will have to conclude it has nothing to do with the market but everything to do with you. For the neutral market to reward you, you need to work harder, do more, invest more time and energy. This is what the emptiness of quirkiness provides the system. This is the beak of the scupper opening its mouth. This is also, by the way, the architecture of Frank Gehry.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Same energy
Michael Palin as Jack Lint wearing the gross baby mask in the torture chamber at the end of Brazil (1985)
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Text from an old Warhammer 40K Dark Eldar sourcebook that reads: BEAUTY RELINQUISHED 717.M38 A new fashion sweeps the spires of Commorragh, and soon every member of the noble houses has paid to have himself horribly disfigured. The suddenly fashionable Haemonculi consider it to be a very good year, but the trend is predictably short-lived. The time of Reparations proves even better for business, and suspicions abound.
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Absolutely wild that Fresno County voted in favor of Prop 50
Stephen Stucker as Johnny in Airplane (1980) talking to reporters in the scene where he says “Fresno? Nobody goes to Fresno anymore”
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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BREAKING: Dr Emilio Lizardo has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of NYC
John Lithgow as Dr Emilio Lizardo from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Black Hole Sun, won't you come, and wash away the RAINNNNNN!
Lady with the demented distorted smile and cleaver from the Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" video.
November 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Probably not the outcome they were aiming for
Text Message: Vote NO on Prop 50. It is against democracy and rips away the power to draw congressional seats from the people and lets the politicians who failed California draw safe seats to rig elections. Stop Sacramento's power grab and vote NO on Prop 50. Reply STOP to end. Paid for by VoteNoProp50.org. Top funders: No on Prop 50 Congressional Leadership Fund & Kevin McCarthy for Congress My response: I'd forgotten all about this. Thank you for reminding me to vote YES!
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Mamdani never actually said that, but never let a convenient lie prevent you from ignoring an inconvenient truth
Idiotic post that reads: I mean, if Mamdani can say "Globalize the intifada" and we can turn the other way after he apologies, you can do the same for a Nazi tattoo
October 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Quote bubble so it looks like the quoted post below is being said by one of the Kanamits from the "To Serve Man" episode of The Twilight Zone, who is smiling at a man who has stepped on a scale
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates "understandable, but I guess was silence not an option"
October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Stephen Miller's awakening Dragon
Tom Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter (1986)
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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I was like, "where have I seen this before" and then it hit me.
Yachiru Kusajishi from Bleach, with tiny wheels on the bottom of her scabbard.
September 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Conservatives discovering that Nazi Charlie Kirk was killed by a nihilistic far right Groyper
Scene from The Big Lebowski: "SAY WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT THE TENETS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM, DUDE, AT LEAST IT'S AN ETHOS" -Walter
September 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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"Why do people hate Gavin Newsom?"

Because we have pattern recognition, object permanence, and basic morals.
Jared Keeso as Wayne from Letterkenny, caption reads: If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
September 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Gary Gnu looking absolutely horrified by something he just read
September 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Gavin Newsom wants feedback
Screenshot of a Mac OS Messenger window: *Black and white picture of Gavin Newsom pointing his finger at Donald Trump* +1 (916) 536-6484: Gavin Newsom here, asking if you can reply to a simple question: Can we count on you to vote YES on Prop 50? Just reply Yes, No, or that you’re unsure. There will be a volunteer – a real person - waiting for your reply when it comes in. Donald Trump asked Texas to redraw their Congressional maps to find him five seats. It’s a deeply unfair attempt to rig the 2026 House election in his favor. California will respond by redrawing our maps, but only if voters like you approve the measure in an election coming up in a few weeks. So, can I count on you to vote YES? Just reply to let me know. - Gavin Paid for by www.stopelectionrigging.com. Top Funder: HMP. Stop to stop. McGlothlen Jason: I'm going to vote for Prop 50 but I want you to know that I think Gavin Newsom is a cynical, soulless, transphobic piece of absolute shit who believes in nothing but his own advancement and doesn't care who he has to sacrifice in order to attain power. He should not be allowed anywhere near the Presidency and I will fight tirelessly to make sure he is not the 2028 Dem nominee. Please do not contact me ever again.
September 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Extremely telling that Ro Khanna posted this shit on X but not here. There's an entire wing of absolutely soulless centrist Dems who desperately want to legitimize rank transphobia because they think they can surf on top of what they view as an inevitable wave of extermination to get back into power
@RoKhanna •@Glinner arrest is an offense to anyone who supports free speech. I guess UK has not learned from the time prosecutors read passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray to convict Oscar Wilde.
September 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I was gonna say it's okay that Rudy Giuliani got in a terrible accident because he probably kept his underwear on the whole time but then I remembered that was Alan Dershowitz who did that while getting massage from Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre and yep all these guys are just disgusting sex pests
Rudy Giuliani in "Borat 2: Subsequent Moviefilm" in a hotel room. He's laying back down on the bed and has his hand shoved down his pants while looking at the actress Maria Bakalova who played Borat's feral daughter, who he'd been informed was 15 years old.
August 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Ralph Wiggum: (chuckles) I'm in danger.
August 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Team Hakeem thought they were texting my Dad, so I took the opportunity to holler at 'em:
Text from Team Hakeem Jeffries: That's why l'm asking you to make a critical decision at this moment: We can either let billionaire donors funnel cash into battleground districts across this country, blanket the airwaves with lies about Democrats and sabotage our chance to flip the House... Or we can stand united, launch our own response ASAP and send the right-wing extremists back to the minority. I'm asking one last time Leonard: Will you confirm your 2025 Democratic Membership in these final hours to counter these attacks? >> jeffries4ny.com/secure_actblue_12? t=D7A93v Keep the faith, Hakeem Text STOP to quit My reply: Endorse Zohran Mamdani and stop calling every new fascist attack and military deployment to our cities a distraction. You are grotesquely failing to meet the moment and need to be replaced asap. One last thing, don't ever fucking text me again.
August 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk
August 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Sonic Youth Goo album cover with text modified to read: In college, I worked at @CrackerBarrel in Tallahassee. I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot.
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Hayao Miyazaki in three panels saying: "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself" "I feel like we are nearing to the end of times" "We humans are losing faith in ourselves …"
August 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM