#2020’s

[nightmare-grass]

Signs of the Apocalypse

As it pertains to The Magnus Archives

- The Lonely: the eradication of third places, the rising costs of nonessential services and recreational activities, the stagnant wages and rampant poverty forcing people to work and stay home, the way every piece of news about the suffering of our fellow man is too overwhelming and we shut down, shutting out the suffering and the people with it

- The Spiral: the rise of AI generated content mimicking human creations and human faces, the companies overwhelmingly turning to AI so they don’t have to pay real people for real work, the spread of misinformation and disinformation at rapid pace across the internet

- The Slaughter: the increasingly extremist right wing policies taking over governments across the world, violently suppressing any differences or dissent, inspiring acts of violence against the oppressed

- The Eye: increased prevalence of data collection and AI surveillance, government surveillance, targeted advertising, increasing amount of social media posts documenting the private lives of strangers and the lack of social awareness for what’s right and wrong

- The Buried: the widening wealth inequality gap, the unrelenting pressure on employees to perform when understaffed and underpayed, the humanitarian disasters that arise from global warming leaving people trapped in rubble, drowned, the mass graves

- The Corruption: the lingering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Antivax movement, the resurgence of diseases, the price gouging of life saving medicine, we still haven’t cured cancer

- The Desolation: the bombings in Palestine, the destruction of Ukrainian civilian areas by Russian forces, the rampant forest fires and brush fires

- The Vast: the increasingly worrying trend of billionaires focusing on space travel while everyone else knows they’ll be left behind if they can’t afford the ticket, the fear of what may be lurking out there, the fear of everything that could go wrong, malfunction, fall apart like a Boeing plane

- The Web: the overexposure of advertising, the worry that your life is no longer your own as you live only to work, make money, buy products to get by, then work some more

- The Extinction: the way companies and governments willfully ignore global warming, the way they let catastrophic wars continue, and they let the people suffer from it

- The Stranger: AI tools taking real peoples faces, voices, and creations, only to repurpose them into mashed up semblances of whatever a user indicates they want to see

- Currently can’t find much evidence of The Dark, The Hunt, or The Flesh in our modern world but having so many of the entities at play at once is still concerning.

[dailylicenseplates]

License Plate of the Day 0012

State: Minnesota

Run: 2002-present

Type: special interest

Reinvest in Minnesota, Critical Habitat

One of ten different critical habitat plates offered, since their introduction in 1996, they’ve raised $19 million for land conservation. This one features a common loon, the state bird.

Image Credit

[yippeecheapdvds]

Two weeks ago I watched "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" (2024) Adventure/Sci-fi

I don't usually like apocalypse/post apocalypse stories, but i heard this was really good so my family and i went to see it in theaters. It was pretty good, the effects and environments were amazing, i liked the characters and i thought the themes and messages were interesting. it makes me exited to see the next movie and interested in seeing the previous movies.

met my expectations, 8/10

[dillweed1236]

Billy Strings and Marcus King play Summertime live at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, 2019.

[current-earworm]

A white dove symbolizes peace and pacifism

A white dove is a pigeon, you muffugas is bigots

[avida-heidia-5]

Last 10 songs I listened to

I saw @schumigrace doing one of these and thought I’d join in! 😁

1. My Secret Friend by IAMX feat. Imogen Heap (2009)

2. Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode (1990)

3. History In Black by Priest (2017)

4. Fighter by Sneaker Pimps (2021)

5. Wandering Star by Portishead (1994)

6. Black Milk by Massive Attack (1998)

7. Running Up That Hill by Placebo (2003)

8. Insomnia by IAMX (2016)

9. Every Day Is Exactly The Same by Nine Inch Nails (2005)

10. Without You I’m Nothing by Placebo feat. David Bowie (1999)

Just as well I did this today and not yesterday as this list would’ve been full of nothing but Depeche Mode and IAMX songs! I love them that much! 😅

Tagging @hurricane-heatt, @racingliners, @skitskatdacat63 and @twinkodium, but only if you want to. If you see this and you’re not tagged but would like to do this, then feel free. 😊

[tothefullhiltofmyheart]

Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

[clarabowlover]

(No.127-130)

Taylor Swift attends the 65th GRAMMY Awards on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

[wrathsquader9]

Fuck this

[buddiebeginz]

Beetlejuice (1988) | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

[dailylicenseplates]

License Plate of the Day 0182

State: Tennessee

Run: 2001-present

Type: special interest

Annual fee of $61.50, $35 of which goes to the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Image Credit

[yippeecheapdvds]

The day after Halloween I watched “Emesis Blue” (2023) Horror

Uhhhh yah this definitely isn’t for me. I had very little idea what was going on. My brother, who suggested this, is very into tf2 and also has no idea what any of this ment. It was very dark and violent, the story was confusing, and i didn’t understand the point of it all. I liked the part with the time travel talking to cyclops, I thought that was interesting and clever, but that was about it. I could not explain what this was about or what it meant, but I’m sure someone could.

A lot of work was clearly put into this, the visuals and voice acting is pretty good for non professionals, but the story and its meaning are confusing and unfortunately drag the whole thing down for me.

I didn’t get it 4/10

[zerotosixty]

Logan Sargeant — Never Have I Ever With Our F1 Drivers! | Episode 1

[current-earworm]

I need space, I need stars

I need no one

I need the place where the no ones are

[movie-gifs]

Don't let that crybaby back in here. Oppenheimer 2023 | dir. Christopher Nolan

[tothefullhiltofmyheart]

Lana Del Rey via Instagram, 2021