Josh

Constructed and contextual. Librarian of Babel. 色即是空，空即是色. I like talking about horror, music, philosophy, and games. T1D. He/him 🧙‍♂️😴🧛‍♂️🧟‍♂️🎃🎮

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

I hope birds become our radios in the post-apocalypse, so they can tweet "Hollaback Girl" outside my window at 4AM beneath a dying red sun.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

@WriteOnSteph I hope you like it as much as I did! It really rented out my head for a long time lol

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

@WriteOnSteph I think I've probably read it something like 3 times, as it's one of my all-time favorite books and I'm probably due for a revisit any day now.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

@WriteOnSteph Yeah, my favorite part is how the narratives overlap and how the unreliability of the characters causes some wild stuff with those narratives intersecting. I think it's very much a book that appeals to people who dig postmodern stuff, and The Backrooms is massively indebted to it

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

@WriteOnSteph There's a lot of layers to things and bits that are hidden here and there, so the more you read and dig into it, the more you'll find, and it feels very cool how it sort of mirrors the experience of the protagonist and yourself in some ways.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

@WriteOnSteph I would say absolutely read it. If you do, I'd recommend getting a hard copy, since there's some fun stuff that happens like the page with the author's name intentionally being poorly bound so it falls out, stuff like that. I think it's a book that rewards obsession.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

In any other context, the amount of red flags something like this would throw for someone reading it would be astronomical. Capitalism is washed up as fuck. This is straight up cult shit lmao

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Viral ‘dopamine sites’ are letting users shop without actually spending money

The sites feature nonexistent products, reviews, and promotions, and let users checkout and track their “courier” all without actually buying anything

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

Still chuckling weeks later after someone told me she believes some propaganda about this fuckin' loser scoring like 170 on an IQ test. I'm almost certain that shit is a pseudoscience like phrenology, and also as racist, but he'd be lucky to score like 60 at the highest.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

The stuff with the reflecting pool is just such a bullseye, on the nose commentary that it feels like even the universe is desperately trying to point how stupid this all is.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

The consequences of not having this RX is at best hospitalization and at worst death. I'm just expected to have backup plans to account for the system being maliciously useless. Somehow this isn't medical malpractice and there's no accountability. Fuck me, I guess.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

Every single link in the chain of my health insurance is absolutely fucked. A staggering level of incompetency from the insurance company to the mail-order pharmacy they *force* me to use, all the way down to the shipping they use. About to start praying to Saint Mangione.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

Insurance company: Broken websites, wrong information, keeps claiming to be secondary insurance (they're primary).

Pharmacy: Waits over 9 days to fill a critical prescription that keeps me alive.

Shipping: Receives package on the 1st, stops updating, only tells me 'its delayed'

[DOJA CAT @DojaCat]

@elonmusk put the audio post feature back on this app. Thanks, you hairless no-neck havin, chimpanzee. Face look like it was drawn from memory. When u swim on ur back at the beach shit look like a man o’ war. Hourglass ankles. Not tryna be mean though sorry.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[DOJA CAT @DojaCat]

hey elon if u see this please put the audio post feature back on here. Thanks, u frog build looking bitch. Barrel chested ewok u look like u eat sand.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

@borrowNOTrent @leftypol_org There's also a very popular horror fps/RPG game series based on the film. I wish they had pulled more inspiration from the book, because aliens littering technology everywhere like people on a roadside picnic and changing human civilization forever is an incredible idea.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Katherine Argent wrote a masterpiece of a tweet. We turned it into a dramatic one-take short film.

This is “Everything is Fine.”

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

The monologue she does from the shadows about how it would feel for him to leave stays inside me like a knife made of ice stabbed into my heart. People love to demonize BPD, but never consider the suffering that is being trapped in longing for love you aren't able to actualize.

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

I think part of what makes Obsession such a great movie is that there's layers to the text. I think for sure there is a reason why people watch it and think "borderline personality gf" immediately, but I never see anyone mention "avoidant personality disorder bf".

[Josh @Auth0rityCTRL]

Truth be told, I don't think the movie is intended to comment on mental health, I think it's about the difference between love and desire, and how our selfishness can make us oblivious to how we hurt others and miss connections that are right in front of us.