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nabil anani, "palestinian folklore," 2020, acrylic on canvas

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a professor told his class “consciousness doesnt exist. there are only neurons”

a student stood up “would you eat a raw egg and then drink oil and vinegar?”

“no” the professor replied.

“would you eat mayonnaise? perhaps on a sandwich or with some fries”

“of course” the professor replied, unsure of the purpose of this inquiry.

“mayonnaise is made from these very things and yet when combined, new properties arise.”

the professor was astounded. “what is your name?” he demanded

“shadow the hedgehog” said the student

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The night is cool and balmy.

Your SECURITY GNOMES are raising an alarm.

> define 'balmy'

Balmy means "pleasantly warm."

Your stock of DICTIONARIES has decreased to 31.

Your SECURITY GNOMES report BANDIT ARTILLERY!

> observe night

The night is cool and balmy.

Your SECURITY GNOMES have entered COMBAT DELIRIUM.

> resolve temperature discrepancy

You haven't acquired enough THERMOMETERS to notice the discrepancy.

Your SECURITY GNOMES have activated the MEAT THRESHER.

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you have to listen to loud music . it scares the evil creatures from your head

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The Upward Spiral

1. Mr. Self Develop

2. I Want This

3. Repairer

4. Big Man With A Smile

5. Heal

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Teh cursed sword comic

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Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of the deadlocked state and try again.

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tgirl goes to the doctor. she says, “doc, all my friends have so much care and attention for other girls and their problems, all the while insisting their own problems aren’t a big deal, they just suck and they should get over themselves. it’s depressing as shit.” the doctor replies, “you’re in luck. the circus is in town, they’ve found the one girl who is all the world’s transmisogynist projection made flesh, whose body consists of sin and death and her psyche mere radioactive decay. we’re going to kill her day after day after day to sustain the world by the reactive force of her abjection. take your friends to see her, that should clear everything up.” the girl bursts into tears and cries, “but doctor,

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Feel the Urge

I did this post recently and you know what, let's make it a theme, "people make it weird with Greek roots in English". I will never get over how weird it is to have this narrow appendix to the language where every word comes from the internal jargon of either

early Christians,

Neoclassicist humanists, or

modern scientists

There is such a particular cultural connotation at the intersection of those things; raw Greek in English comes off as the native language of an esoterically mystical managerial professionalism.

So on that note, the -urge suffix! This one is really funny because (and perhaps I'm overgeneralizing from my experience here) you first notice it via goofy words like "thaumaturge" or "demiurge", maybe "theurge", terms of art for people who wear cloaks. So you start out thinking of it as a term that has to do with mysticism, and then it's like, okay, wait, hang on,

technically a demiurge is just a craftsman and the word got kidnapped by esotericists (compare "freemasonry")

and also there's "dramaturge", a playwright,

    which is not any sort of a pun on "thaumaturge",

        but quite unrelatedly the "thauma" part is cognate with "theatre"

"surgeon", right, that's from chirurgeon or "hand-worker". (I'm so mad that "people-worker" is a craftsman and "hand-worker" is a surgeon.)

And then I guess due to the aforesaid group's penchant for abstraction, there's a lot of -urgies where the corresponding urge is disused: metallurgy, energy, allergy. (Allergy means "other/foreign work" and was coined by analogy to energy, which feels like something New Agers should be using to better effect)

Similarly, liturgy, this also means "people-work", but differently. Goddammit. I think demos is like people as a body politic, and laos is like burlap sack randos, and then Christians developed this modified sense of "burlap sack randos (affectionate)".

After physicists co-opted "energy" they went on a bacchanalian rampage and did a bunch of direct borrowings like erg and ergon, but those are dumb and I count them as part of the wizard/philosopher subgroup.

...and, uh, hm. is that it?

    OK so technically, bear with me, "George" is actually geourge, "earth-worker" (a farmer). This one is actually my favourite because it has "passing privilege", it can just walk past all the wankery its siblings are pulling and pretend not to know them

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they should invent 7 hours between 10pm and midnight

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they diagnosed me with i love you and it’s incurable

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CRASH [1996], dir. david cronenberg

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It's really just not fair how obviously the world devalues arab lives. All these news stories call the pager explosions as "impressive"... it's just not fair. I don't know how else to say it. It's not fair that arab deaths are celebrated on an international scale.

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wow what the fuck? CNN just interviewed Solrock