!foidmoment

NPR talked about it

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1250912188/honor-levy-my-first-book-short-stories-review

Here's a choice excerpt I randomly scrolled to in the epub

He felt like he was dying, smothered by xenoestrogenic alienation, forced domestication, a lowering of testosterone, depopulation, doom, the sun setting for the last time ever, a great ugliness, the end of history flashing before his eyes. Withered Wojak. Pink Wojak with bleeding eyes. </3. Cope or rope. He felt western civilization falling and bile rising in his throat, a microwaved McFlurry of remorse and half-digested animal proteins. He felt himself falling out of love. Falling to his knees in a Walmart. A poison arrow in his chest. MRNA mode. Blood of the Lernaean Hydra mode. Ow. Wow. Passions inflamed the middle layer of his heart's wall. Myocarditis. Oneitis. It's So Over, said his sinking swollen heart. The drywall called out to his fists. He punched the keyboard instead, kjbvkdesvdsbjvjkwbdvb jkldesblkdf. . . . Why would you ask that??? Ur a dumb slut . . . Just another whore. . . . . . . . . No. . . . . . No. . . . . . I said I wanted a tradwife not a tard wife . . . roastie . . . whore . . . I hate you . . . I hate you I hate you. Just before he hit send, it hit him, something sent from the beyond, a burning white light, a growing echo of music, the opening notes of MGMT's “Little Dark Age.” And then it began: images flashing, hyperspeed through his mind, the Intertwined Lovers of Valdaro skeletons in their Neolithic tomb, huddled face-to-face with their arms and legs intertwined in an eternal embrace, Orpheus and Eurydice in the underworld, every pair of lovers ever intertwined in eternal embrace, Odysseus and Penelope, Eloise and Abelard, Adam and Eve, Bella and Edward. At ever-accelerating nightcore speed, he saw nights and days, battles and births, blood, so much blood, beating hearts, cells dividing, code being written, oceans rising, blooming flowers, dying crops, the great flood, continental drift, the universe expanding, poetry, pain, the big bang, empires rising and falling, the birth of his ancestors, the death of his great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren, all of the ends and the beginnings beginning and ending and beginning and ending and beginning and ending infinitely. He saw what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. He saw a loop, a shining circle. He saw the way forward as he looked back. He hit the backspace button as he RETVRNed from this infinite space to his body, to his bedroom, to now. He understood now. No no i want you, he replied. Sorry for the late reply I was away from my keyboard. It wasn't a lie. He had been somewhere else. He wanted to reach through the black glass, through all the 0s and 1s, through the mess of wires under the ocean, through the cloud, to grab her, take her in his big gym arms and hold her, be one. He wanted her now as she was: messy and pure, bone of his bones, flesh of his flesh, this thing to be called woman. He'd reach through the wall before she hit it. He had to. It was a love story, it all was, everything is, and always has been.

My child who has always been the sweetest, kindest boy has fallen down the incel/misogynist rabbit hole @ 24. I honestly don't know what to do abt it either.

— Rachel Harville (@rach262003) May 14, 2024

Lol being 24 and ikwell posting at your mother is kind of cringe tho. !incels we aren't sending our best either

Very first job, in a room full of senior dudes, I was told to “make the elves sexier” and when I did that as elegantly as possible w max respect to established lore & worldbuilding I was told “no, like a stripper” and “I can send you reference lol” and I’ve never forgotten https://t.co/IeoLGGMkN0

— Nicholas Kole (@FromHappyRock) May 10, 2024

noooo you can't make me draw sexy elves in exchange for money

The US subsidizes dairy and beef, when in reality putting that money into subsidizing grains and vegetables is so much more beneficial for people in the long run.

Can you imagine getting 4 heads of fresh lettuce or kale for 1$, it could be so much better.

just plant it????

If you live in somewhere where it only snows a few times a winter, you can grow a lot of varieties IN THE WINTER

<- somewhat happy kale

...and if you live in Alaska or Siberia, you plant it in the summer

if you live in Miami or Mexico, then you need to plant it at the coolest time of year and possibly use a shade cloth

needing someone to grow your kale is peak bougie thinking, I am very unimpressed with lemmygrad rn. Even if they live in an apartment they should be demanding community garden or just take over an unused space and start adding kale.

Kale is almost like Radishes it's so easy to grow, literally one of the easiest things to grow. A six year old can be taught to plant, water, and harvest kale.

just look out for these frickers:

My favorite kale is Red Russian kale

less ruffles, less bugs, easier to wash

Now here's a real praxis idea:

you know those stupid parkinglot landscapings? (expecially if you live in North America?)

kale that shit up

Take coffee grounds (nitrogen = huge leaves) and kale seeds and make it all kale. It would grow easily, and it would be an aesthetic improvement.

Kale is one of the most beautiful plants in existence.

🤡 pic.twitter.com/B843dLVhCE

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) May 15, 2024

The new Biden doubleganger looks very fake tho

Here same video posted on official Biden Twitter account

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1790713878248038478

So they ether created supper drugs or cloned Biden and this is a Solid Biden

I’ve seen others post about this. So I tried it myself - YES it’s real, BAPHOMET

Mirror one of the images, and piece them together. Look closely

Then also flip that image upside down, look closely

Then also piece together on opposite sides, and look

0.00% this is coincidence pic.twitter.com/vWOpy7vU2x

— Jimmy Corsetti (@BrightInsight6) May 15, 2024

Last pic comes with a longpost:

!schizomaxxxers

The governor signed HB 2342 into law. This makes the carrying of all deadly and dangerous weapons perfectly legal. The law makes it so that as long as a person is openly carrying any type of weapon, including switchblades or butterfly knives, they can do so.

If you see somebody… pic.twitter.com/LapZ5207kf

— hawaii firearms coalition (@hificoorg) May 14, 2024

Three federal lawmakers from Massachusetts signed onto a letter urging a national probe into how ShotSpotter is being funded amid concerns that the technology Boston Police says is critical to saving lives is ineffective and racially biased. https://t.co/o5jYr2ibz7

— Boston Herald (@bostonherald) May 15, 2024

!kino !bookworms thoughts?

KINO - 6 votes

Slop - 19 votes

The Soviet Union FREED the World from Fascism, Imperialism and Colonialism. pic.twitter.com/Qgf2my3JRe

— Pamphlets (@PamphletsY) May 14, 2024

https://news.sky.com/story/bumble-apologises-for-adverts-appearing-to-mock-celibacy-13136239

🚨India will soon start making its third aircraft carrier; we will not stop at that; we will make five, six more, said Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. pic.twitter.com/zsBTr505hu

— Indian Tech & Infra (@IndianTechGuide) May 15, 2024

>45,000 tons

Come on man I want 5-6 more 100K tons with nuclear propulsion and catapults. These two can be the cute brothers on two flanks in the group pics but rest better be full flatchads

/r/natalism is the more positive (but still weird) antithesis to /r/antinatalism, the most doomer subreddit there is. Naturally, the losers of /r/antinatalism cant stand people actually wanting to bring children into this world, so almost every thread is filled with drama.

Some dramatic threads back and forth on both subs:

The Antinatalist movement makes me anxious

https://old.reddit.com/r/Natalism/comments/1bsp999/genuine_question_for_the_people_here/?sort=controversial

Bonus antinatalism posts:

I'm really sad my best friend is pregnant

BREAKING:

EU adopted the Migration Pact today

It introduces a “mandatory migrant relocation quota system” forcing all states to receive some of the migrants arriving by boat to the EU or be fined EUR 20000 for each migrant rejected

Only Poland, Hungary & Slovakia voted against pic.twitter.com/GpG87svXVr

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 14, 2024

Thing is it's legit cheaper to pay them off because the implicit cost are HUGE, like yesterday I seen a refugee pissing on broad day in front of tourist spot and some shady gypsies walking around looking to pick pocket someone one. They basically decrease amount of tourist that would want to visit the country by giving them bad experiences and making the country look like shit so their presence indirectly hurt the country by millions. People now making haha about Sweden and don't want to visit it when a 9mm cost only 40 cents