mark fisher predicted the current cultural stagnation and how it would infect people's thinking too: a society where the populace is hyper-judgemental, rigid and rejecting of any true deviance from the norm. but even he probably didn't anticipate just how blind people would be to their own lameness. at the time he talked about how leftist spaces had turned into moralizing purity tests that would suffocate discourse, but this mindset isn't limited to the libs anymore, everyone is in on it now too. the political consists of fake resistance; libs calling people names and nazis (drumpf, elmo), chuds spamming wojaks and pepes like its the 2012 reddit rageface era.

the culture industry isn't exactly new either, but it's impressive how it keeps optimizing itself. the biggest pop culture movement is swifties - the most boring, anti-art, corporatized fandom phenomenon in human history. mediocrity has never been more carefully distilled and refined than in her person. rap, once a supposedly vital genre, is currently making headlines for rappers having small peepees and being addicted to bussy and porn. the best youth culture can come up with is either idolizing already dead millenial culture or mass producing brainrot.

mass culture has been trapped in endless nostalgia loops for years, but even the internet - which used to be a wild, chaotic place - has finally been reduced to either hyper-policed, corporate-moderated mush (reddit dot com) or irony-poisoned wastelands where every conversation either degenerates into the same three wojak memes (ding ding ding, this is where we are right now) or is suffocated by asking of the reader to withhold their habituated responses.

this isn't just stagnation, it's full on social decay. if it took on physical form we could observe the brain worms slowly digesting our frontal lobes. I thought I could deal with cultural stagnation but I honestly didn't expect it would become this authoritarian and that its rulers would be this lame.

!vampires

I am not. Wouldn't be caught dead.

I was kind of here for "Espresso" as a song of the summer, but now it's like you had your 15 minutes and you're still here???

This new track is just godawful, reddit-hornyposting tier...

>Come right on me, I mean camaraderie

>Where art thou? Why not uponeth me?

>And I bet we'd both arrive at the same time

>And I bet the thermostat's set at six-nine

GET IT???

Has anyone ever said "bed chem"? Is that a real thing that zoomers say?

Fricking get the frick out of here. Honestly will take Chappell Roan over this shit.

FULL TIMR WORK FULL TIME SCHOOL PART TIME MHSIC PRODUCTION I HAVENT HAD TIME TO HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS IN MONTHS I CANT LIFT WEIGHTS TO SUPPLEMENT DRUGS AND FRIENDS BECAUSE OF INJURY AND WHEN I DO HAVE LITTLE TIME TO HENG OUT WITH FRIENDS THEYRE' BUSY!!!! YOU GOTTA BOOK THIS SHIT LIKR A DOCTORS APPOINTMENT WHEN YOU HIT YOUR MID 20S IM GOING FRICKING CRAZY ON THE INTERNET I DONT CARE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP I DONT CARE WBOUT ELON I JUST WANT REAL CONNECTION I FRICKED A TINDER B-WORD AND I DIDNT EVEN CARE LIKE IT FELT TRANSACTIONAL I NEED TO RELAPSE ON XANAX

だしって…なんかホッとしないですか？
CV：市ノ瀬加那 @ichinose_1220#ひとりのよると赤緑 pic.twitter.com/G8IZ3I2dtM

— 【公式】東洋水産株式会社（マルちゃん） (@toyosuisan_jp) February 6, 2025

Utah is one of 17 states included as a plaintiff in Texas v. Becerra, a lawsuit opposing changes to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 made in May 2024 under the Biden administration. The changes, known as the Final Rule, included adding the term "gender dysphoria" to the definition of a disability protected under Section 504.

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 grants protections to those with disabilities from being discriminated against by institutions or programs that receive federal financial assistance, such as schools, hospitals and government programs. All public schools and many private schools are required to provide 504 plans to students with disabilities. These plans can include a variety of accommodations such as extra time on assignments and tests, modified textbooks or learning materials, or a specific seat in the classroom.

While the lawsuit seeks to declare the Final Rule as unlawful, the legal document also includes language that many are interpreting as an intention to get rid of Section 504 as a whole. In the list of complaints, Count 3 states, "Section 504 is unconstitutional," followed by a separate count that claims the Final Rule specifically is unconstitutional. Furthermore, under the document's demands for relief, it requests that the court "declare Section 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794, unconstitutional" and that the court "issue permanent injunctive relief against defendants enjoining them from enforcing Section 504."

The T is on the verge of destroying insanely important legislation for the disabled

KFC is moving their HQ from Kentucky to Texas pic.twitter.com/8ZE1oqq1B9

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) February 19, 2025

I hereby renounce the Democratic Party pic.twitter.com/bCI7Gq5r3Y

— Isaiah L. Carter (@IsaiahLCarter) February 6, 2025

I feel like #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld is a film people are going to watch themselves today, and realize that it’s not nearly as bad as the RT score suggests or the narrative around it has been

It’s an Iron Man 2 level film, an enjoyable cohesive film, that’s also a bit messy pic.twitter.com/tlTaEGjyio

— Rayyan*🇵🇸 (@RayyanTCG) February 13, 2025

And how many slices should you have?