Wing Writing

Carbon-based life was a mistake.

So much going on here.

Love it.

“Just in case”.

Quick Question - Feb. 17:
@danielobrien.bsky.social: I’m going to do a Last Week Tonight about AI advertising.

Quick Question - Feb. 28:
@sorenbowie.bsky.social: I’m going to do an American Dad! about kidnapping Gonzo.

Middle glass

Extremely cool. (Scroll up & read the posts above for the short version, but the article is 100% worth it.)

A Norman Rockwell painting ("Freedom of Speech") in which a man in a brown jacket with a paper rolled up in the pocket—at what appears to be a town hall meeting—stands with all eyes on him, & gazing upward with an expression of idealistic determination, makes a declaration.

"Are you winning, son?"

When telemarketers call, ask for some rando, & upon learning I'm not that person still try to sell me insurance or whatever, it's so hard not to be pissy at them.

I know they're not the actual apparatus I'm mad at, just someone with a shit job. But fuck.

I feel so justified & so guilty at once.

That take kinda presupposes that Carol’s not low-key the villain in the story.

If your brain spills out onto the floor, absolutely yes.

If your brain spills out onto the floor, absolutely yes.

A Norman Rockwell painting ("Freedom of Speech") in which a man in a brown jacket with a paper rolled up in the pocket—at what appears to be a town hall meeting—stands with all eyes on him, & gazing upward with an expression of idealistic determination, makes a declaration.

“We should start a new social media app. One for just this meme. The image will attach itself to every post automatically. And everyone who wants to keep doing the meme wrong can go do it over there.”

What are we, breaking ciphers here?

Folks should focus on every word in a sentence, not just those two.

Yeah so if this is going to impact you, you should be looking at after Xmas sales now to replace.

I know someone is going to be like 'just install a different OS' and people who can do that, know how to do that, can work with that...have done that already I'm sure.

Your use of the white reminds me of the very last Calvin & Hobbs panel.

Jingle All the Way is an action movie!

Or I suppose I mean, she’s prioritizing her comfort in the situation of her life over humanity‘s right to self-determination.

But, is it not still humanity? If it is—if it’s just humanity having gone through a change—she’s try to change everyone back to the way she wants them to be, rather than what they want to be.

…literally everyone in the world because she, individually, liked things better the way they were.

It’s a critique of conservative thought.

(But who knows where they’ll take this thing.)

I feel like (especially given it’s creator) it’s cleverly & invisibly set Carol up the actual series villain (at least so far?)

The world’s changed in a way no one previously wanted, but it has. And everyone’s happy & prefers the life they have, now

But she wants to take that away from…

1/

Hedwig and the Angry Grinch

The whole franchise is hopaganda.

How vintage?

“There needs to be a conversation between image & text—a TENSION. The joke isn’t ‘Everyone’s doing a thing so Imma do it too!’ The joke is the desperate tones of its media; It BEGINS there then evolves in further conversations with previous iterations. Aping it outside its themes dilutes the juice!”

A Norman Rockwell painting ("Freedom of Speech") in which a man in a brown jacket with a paper rolled up in the pocket—at what appears to be a town hall meeting—stands with all eyes on him, & gazing upward with an expression of idealistic determination, makes a declaration.

"This meme only works when the declaration above my image is somewhat mundane, & apropos of nothing, yet its expression is elevated and a little self righteous. Just slapping my picture under some opinion you have, isn't anything."

Rockwell freedom of speech meme

"We're all standing. I'm just very tall."

Far less eloquent than your description, but also, that song goes way harder than you expect it too until it’s in your ear.

The Norman Rockwell painting where a man in a brown jacket with a paper rolled up in the pocket—at what appears to be a town hall meeting—stands with all eyes on him, & gazing upward with an expression of idealistic determination, makes a declaration.

“Am I the only one who sees Clive Owen peaking out from my 4:00?”