Commie-perisian - La Capitainerie

Streets of Fire (1984)

Art by 小小鹿 喝多了

I do kind of think that we're past the point where new technological innovations can actually meaningfully improve life for most people in industrialized countries. Like I think the problem is social organization, not a lack of new gadgets.

enkidu. enkidu.

they do not know you

as i knew you.

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

thinking about the 81 year old man who came into the shop today with a shirt that read "BIKESEXUAL [insert raw skeleton on a motorcycle] I'LL RIDE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING"

working class

“Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate” (1849). Coloured wood engravings by J. W. Whymper (Whimper).