You can stand by your friend while also condemning his behaviour. In fact, that's what a real friend does.

I've heard a few interviews with Corgan where he says something like "I was there for some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that most people don't know about, I won't go into it, but it's because of these magical secret things that I think the way I do". It's like his get-out-of-jail-free card when he's challenged on anything. It's some "my girlfriend goes to another school" shit.

He's also buddies with Alex Jones and thinks kids are having gender 'ideology' forced upon them, so yeah...

Fun fact: My first and only lawyer letter for piracy was because I downloaded Angel Heart from eMule. Nothing happened in the end, but it scared the FUCK outta me. Been using a VPN since then with no issues, and that was over 20 years ago.

There was an ad on TV for Knorr's soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzia7sJtVM

Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it's being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭

If your kids are able to parse a political ad, but are not able to explain what transgender means, you've failed as a parent. Your kids are actively and deliberately being denied basic information if that's the case, because you can't not know what transgender means if you're a person in the world in 2026, certainly not if you go to a normal school or use the internet. It's next to impossible. Unless you're homeschooled and surrounded by Orwellian reality editors, which this daft cunt seems to be.

How is this cunt still alive?

I was around at the time, and there were half a dozen other platforms that took centre stage once Napster closed its doors. Morpheus, KaZaA and eMule were my main ones. Free music was as available as it ever was, so in that sense all Metallica did was lose fans and annoy everyone.

The basic concept is still around today in the form of Soulseek, which is where I get 99% of my pirated music from (such as Metallica's). BitTorrent mostly supplanted these kinds of programs, though.

If at 53 I'm sending tweets like this to female celebrities half my age, please humanely euthanise me at your earliest convenience. For my sake as much as everyone else's.

At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.

On a related note, it's hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don't think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.

This is somehow more offensive to my brain than if they'd simply said "electricity is god". The way they completely muddy the issue, making the reader not just misinformed but made to feel complacent, like there's no correct information to be found, is way more grotesque. It shuts down the mind of the reader. It's anti-education.

What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it's a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit. In fact, we've been pretty direct about how much we don't want it.

It's exhausting.

Imagine using Chrome in 2024.

The ad industry is truly one of the most reprehensible and insidious things humans have ever invited unto themselves. It's beyond dystopian how much of our ability to move through the world is now contingent on us allowing our brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

I believe conspiracism is the root of all evil. But ads are gaining on conspiracism like they're Usain Bolt being chased by an angry bee.

I have to hand it to those soulless fucking devils though, they might have pulled off one of the most brazen but successful mindfucks I've ever seen: they convinced lots of people that seeing ads about topics they were interested in was some sort of concession from the ad industry, like they were begrudgingly implementing measures to make ads "relevant" to us, and that we were somehow gaming the system because of it. It was a "win" for us to have the ads being served into our eyeballs and ears be tailor-made for us. "I'm so sick of seeing ads for products I don't even care about! I wish there was a way to make the ads be relevant to ME" said no cunt ever. But they managed to convinced us that everyone else was saying that, and that we'd won some sort of victory against them to have their advertising have the precision of a sniper rifle, versus what it was before, like some sort of shotgun fired from 150 feet away in the dark.

An entire species of marks.

I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn't been there (which they were) they'd undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That's a hell of a way to lose a parent.

The fact that he died while in the middle of talking about trans mass shooters being a huge problem certainly makes it feel like cosmic karma at work. I struggle to give a shit about the man himself being shot dead. But I do worry about political violence... it's a very rare occasion when murdering someone sitting in a chair talking is a good idea. Not a single person in his right-wing sphere of repugnance is going to do any self-reflection and change their ways, they'll just become even more rabidly anti-everything left of Hitler. Shit like this doesn't go unanswered too often. Violence is a contagion with no cure except time, and the clock gets set back another decade every time someone retaliates. I'm sure we could chain all of these assassinations together into a causal sequence. But even if they're all independent events, the narrative-makers will be hard at work making it sound like a grand battle of the ages, so the result is the same either way.

Source: History, memory...

P.S. Any bets that the shooter was a MAGA nut? Seems to be the trend 👀

11:59:59 December 31st 1949. Fuck the olden times.

CONOR MCGREGOR IS A RAPIST

Has good points... decides the best way to bring those points to the world is planting bombs.

Adam Lanza had some good points about autism (remember when he called into that radio show?). His subsequent expression of his feelings about the world was less than optimal. There's no need to give the cunt kudos for his insights.

This is some "say what you like about Hitler, but at least he made the trains run on time!" level of vacuous.

We're getting to the stage where normal everyday traits are being attributed to neurological dingleberries. It's like when people say "only those with Asian mothers know about keeping lots of plastic bags in a larger plastic bag in the cupboard under the sink" even though this is something everyone does.

How to explain away the signs of rough gay sex to your wife.

So this is surely enough grounds to sue, if not criminally prosecute, this cunt.