Stephen GilbertYou ever tell a joke online, and no one responds, and you have to wonder, Did no one see that, or was that somehow mean? Was there some cultural thing I didn't know about? Was it just not funny? Did I just change the way my friends think of me? Have they always thought I was sometimes funny, but sometimes a real jerk? When I see them again, are they going to ask "Hey, what the hell was that about, man?" Just me? #introvert #DownwardSpiral #mybrainhatesme
Sebastian Schley 🥸If the USA 🇺🇸 seize Greenland 🇬🇱🇩🇰, NATO 🪖 will be obsolete and EU 🇪🇺 on the brink of implosion. #downwardspiral
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Thomas De Quincey
For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope
De Quincey, Thomas - Essay (1839-11), "Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289 | WIST Quotations
For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man…
LukeThis one flew under the radar for me. But the Redux of Downward Spiral has been released.
https://album.link/t/455677253
Wondering what all the NIN-fans think of this.
#industrial #Redux #DownwardSpiral #NineInchNails
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessDHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years/
DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
Eli K.P. WilliamThe only solution appears to be having an AI summarize them.
Soon enough the internet will be an ocean of intolerable slop from which only machines can bear to sieve meaning for us.
#AI #slop #enslopification
#information #degradation
#semantic #downwardspiral
#machine #assistant #armsrace
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AKs 4 Sustainable BudgetsWhether K-12 or Medicaid, it's always disappointing to see some urge con't spending for "the children" at the very same time the #akleg is financing the govt through deeply regressive PFD cuts on the backs of those very same children and their families. #DownwardSpiral https://www.adn.com/opinions/2025/03/03/opinion-our-members-of-congress-must-protect-medicaid-for-alaskans/
Metal InsiderNine Inch Nails Photography Exhibition by Jonathan Rach to make U.S. debut:
#NineInchNails #NIN #JonathanRach #DownwardSpiral #MorrisonHotelgallery
StockbridgeArchEnjoyed the overall spiralling effect formed by the foliage and shadows. It worked best in black and white. #downwardspiral
