the garbage store boy

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sipping kombucha and playing a video game with his wife - The NYT New Hampshire he/him

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the garbage store boy@screaming· 21d

Patrick Bateman pointing at a hi-fi stereo with a look pure enjoyment on his face as it starts to blare Huey Lewis and the News

the garbage store boy@screaming· 21d

Yeah, it's frustrating how so much of it is branding, which we can thank Lee Atwater and the George Bush Sr. campaign for. This is from a book published in 1990 called "Sleepwalking Through History". At the time, the strat was kinda novel

By "issues," Atwater meant negative attitudes about an opponent identified through extensive polling. This information then would be used to create negative impressions about him in the minds of voters. Through constant repetition as campaign themes, these discovered negatives could destroy the adversary. That was how Atwater had operated throughout a spectacularly successful political career that had begun in college in South Carolina while Nixon was in the White House and the new ultraconservative and virtually all-white Repub-lican party was on the rise in the Deep South. "Republicans in the South could not win elections by talking about issues," Atwater ex-plained. "You have to make the case that the other guy, the other candidate, is a bad guy."

The Bush operatives presented a strategic campaign plan for his approval. * Bush must go on the offensive, they said, stress the power-ful peace and prosperity themes that worked to his advantage, and, by constantly attacking Dukakis as an ultraliberal out of step with mainstream America, drive up his negatives and destroy him. They explained that those negative themes with which Bush could defeat Dukakis had already been found.

the garbage store boy@screaming· 23d

this is how deaf my poor old cat has become

the garbage store boy@screaming· 26d

Socrates was such an edge lord

Quote of the Day One of the famous quotes attributed to Socrates is, "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people"

the garbage store boy@screaming· 27d

pretty sure this scene from Space Jam is Pete Hegseth's exact logic about giving testosterone to the military

the garbage store boy@screaming· 27d

*sniffing back tears as I place kippers on a grave* "Happy St. Swithin's day, Aunt Helga"

the garbage store boy@screaming· 29d

the Right trying to resist concocting a conspiracy theory from anything, even when not doing so would benefit them

A cartoon white guy trying to resist a power in his hand

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 11

BookTok needs to read something that exercises their fucking brains once in a while. Jesus

The "BookTok" table at the local bookstore. It's covered in fantasy garbage

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 11

my wife and I watching The Furious right now

Thomas the Tank Engine saying, "Thomas has never seen shit this good before"

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 10

that's a proper fire-roasted pepper, baby

A pic of a red pepper I roasted on the grill, nicely charred

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 8

jesus christ. this is something any Victorian era novel could have told you. a fortnight down in Brighton wasn't for nothing

A headline from The Guardian: The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 7

it's here #synthsky

A pic of my new Prophet 6 synth in a case

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 6

I somehow didn't know that the "JAV Titles" Bluesky account profile banner was this Loony Toons porn ass image

A Japanese girl crashed through a wall and looking kinda sad about it. Her upper-body is stuck on one side and her lower-body on the other

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 6

KING OF TROY: Who is that handsome fighter there? HELEN OF TROY: I miss my home and wish I were dead, but to answer your question, sire...

Snippet of text from The Iliad by Homer that reads:

tell me the name of that tremendous fighter. Look, who's that Achaean there, so stark and grand? Many others afield are much taller, true, but I have never yet set eyes on one so regal, so majestic...That man must be a king!"

And Helen the radiance of women answered Priam, "Irevere you so, dear father, dread you to0- if only death had pleased me then, grim death, that day I followed your son to Troy, forsaking my marriage bed, my kinsmen and my child, my favorite, now full-grown, and the lovely comradeship of women my own age. Death never came, so now I can only waste away in tears.

But about your question-–yes, I have the answer. That man is Atreus' son Agamemnon, lord of empires, both a mighty king and a strong spearman too, and he used to be my kinsman, whore that I am! There was a world...or was it all a dream?"

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 5

hey have you all seen any pics of fireworks yet?

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 4

shit day to be on the completely uninhabited and treeless Prince of Wales Island in the Arctic. woof

Big red streak of terrible air quality flowing from northern Canada into the Arctic Circle. I assume because of forest fires

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 4

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jul 2

playing Yakuza 0 for the first time, and wow what hilariously ugly character

The aging foreigner in Yakuza 0. He's a sickly looking white guy with sunken, dark eyes. He's wearing an ugly suit, scarf, and derby hat. He's a real cast aside nobody you would see desperately clawing the empty air as they suffered at the gates of hell

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 30

there's not a locker small enough to shove these sadistic nerds into archive.is/nRg3w

Screenshot of Atlantic article:

On a Friday in April, I hopped into an Uber to a fish market in San Francisco with a couple of tech founders on a mission to buy lobsters. Not for dinner, but for science: The duo dreamed of one day altering human consciousness, but they would start by toying around with some crustaceans. They intended to perform neurosurgery on the lobsters in the hopes of controlling them with an AI bot.
Leading the way was Elliot Roth, a bearded 32-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with Longevity printed across the chest and a silver chain with a double-helix pendant. To push the boundaries of the five senses, Roth has implanted a magnet in his left ring finger. He told me his nerves have grown around the magnet, giving him some sort of magnetoperception—he can feel when a microwave turns on in another room and sense when a radio tower is nearby. In the car, Roth took off his watch and allowed it to dangle, magnetized, from his finger.

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 30

Barnes and Noble employees

WSJ headline: They're in their 60s and their student loans won't let them retire

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 29

this is the worst whiff in the history of video games and it had to be me. holy shit

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 25

legitimately love this use of LLM models

From Cory Doctorow's new book:

Communities of open-source developers and model users have pushed and pushed and pushed the boundaries of wha these "toy” models can do while running on your laptop or phone, like hardware hacker Pete Warden, who's demoed a voice-prompted, talking manual for small appliances that runs on a chip so cheap and low-powered that it costs less than $10. This model can understand your questions about troubleshooting a dishwasher, locate the correct trouble-shooting instructions in a stored manual, and walk you through them-on hardware so cheap it could come with a singing greeting card off a spinner rack at a Walgreens

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 24

they're big time panicking after last night lol

Headline from WSJ:
Trump Abruptly Cancels
Signing Ceremony for
Bipartisan Housing Bill
The president says the bill is 'of minor importance,' adding he wouldn't sign it until Congress takes action on his voter-eligibility legislation

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 24

lmao jesus christ

Letterboxd reviews for There's Something About Mary:

olivia
This is why men shouldn't make movies Tylah
Cameron Diaz really had to go through all of that... damn.

emma
all i got from watching this was a reinforced message that men are the absolute fucking Worst

jerry
carrying around photo of a girl you only talked to once in high school should send you straight to prison.

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 21

Screenshot of Legolas from Lord of the Rings with the gigachad filter on him

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 19

when you break the delta 9 barrier and hit delta 10

Screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager of a gruesome Tom Paris after he breaks the warp 10 barrier

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 19

this is AI. someone generated this for Instagram a while ago as some design idea

Instagram screenshot from an AI artist on Instagram with the posted photo and the AI info visible

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 18

Ancient Onion article headline:

Despite Repeated Attempts
To Tear It Down, Massive
LeBron James Mural Keeps
Reappearing

There is a pic of LeBron looking to the sky with his arms wide open is a sort of victory stance

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 18

it's awesome how just a few days of cardio can lower my baseline heart rate by several beats. two weeks of shooting hoops for 20-30 min every other day will have me back down in the 60s

the garbage store boy@screaming· Jun 18

"Snake Plissken returns in 'Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago'" is a perfect set of words