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A nuclear warhead is on the way to your location

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 13 “Ideology and Terror” (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41683/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #conviction #convincing #experience #fact #falsehood #fiction #follower #reality #subject #totalitarianism #truth #unreality #delusion

Attention pranksters! Due to disruption of international supply chains, April Fools Day this year is CANCELED.

We are hoping that a return to normal in the international comedy markets may allow us to reschedule a day of pranks for early May, but this remains far from certain. We will keep you updated!

#unreality #excecptactuallyrealrealitysomehow

as an eastern¹ european (i.e. paid actor), i can confirm eastern europe is even less real than the rest of europe

1. some people may say that poland is central europe. those people are incorrect

Natural Phenomena of Ambaland Series: The Stretching: A fascinating vibration of the atmosphere, which only seems to happen around magnetically abnormally charged mountains and monuments, which there are quite some around the more forested areas of Ambaland.
#unreality #fiction #worldbuilding #fantasy #writing #Ambaland

Introducing ATumblrPub, the new decentralized micro blogging protocol. It's like the feediverse except you can edit other peoples posts.

I'm coming for your shoes :)

Baning @puppygirlhornypost to make it a more realistic experience

to clarify:
Nuclear Missile (with nuclear payload in it)
Nuclear Missile body (no nuclear payload in it, but it was a nuclear missile at least once)
Nuclear Engine (the engine made of nuclear propulsion)

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-01), “Over the Teacups,” No. 2, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aging #delusion #dementia #henoed #oldage #reality #unreality

A quotation from Victor Hugo

At a certain level of wretchedness a kind of spectral indifference takes over, and you see human beings as ghostly presences. Those closest to you are often no more than vague shadowy forms, barely distinct from life’s nebulous background and easily reabsorbed by the invisible.
 
[À un certain degré de misère, on est gagné par une sorte d’indifférence spectrale, et l’on voit les êtres comme des larves. Vos plus proches ne sont souvent pour vous que de vagues formes de l’ombre, à peine distinctes du fond nébuleux de la vie et facilement remêlées à l’invisible.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76374/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #depression #detachment #ghosts #isolation #misery #poverty #shadows #unreality #withdrawal #wretchedness

Trust is the infrastructure that allows us to have a society. It’s the roads, the signs, the painted lines that let us move through life without constant renegotiation. Institutions—courts, elections, schools, the press—depend on this infrastructure to carry meaning, decisions, and responsibilities from one place to another.

Now imagine waking up to find the asphalt torn up in chunks. Lane markers repainted to nowhere. Street signs vandalized or missing. Tires burning under overpasses. Nothing catastrophic. Just relentless small-scale sabotage—enough to make every trip harder, slower, riskier. At first, people are angry. They demand answers. They call for repairs.

But soon, the complaints start to shift.

“It’s too expensive to fix all of it.”
“We’ve patched that stretch three times already.”
“Maybe people shouldn’t rely on these roads so much.”
“Everyone’s got GPS now—just find another way.”

Some even say the damage proves the roads were poorly built to begin with. Not worth saving. Not worth trusting again.

And so the city adapts—not by fixing the roads, but by redefining what counts as a road. People buy heavier vehicles. They treat breakdowns as personal failures.

That’s what weaponized unreality is doing to public trust. Not erasing it, but warping it. Making the broken routes seem normal, and blaming anyone who still expects the roads to work.

#Unreality #trust

#door #reality #unreality

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com
#ycombinator #mystery_flesh_pit #worldbuilding #horror_art #unreality #found_object

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

Yeah, I'm transgender too.

If any of you are considering a move, please be aware that the images you see on realtors’ websites may bear only a slight resemblance to the lived experience.

Yesterday I wanted to compare the way my apartment looks now to the way it looked when I bought it, so I asked my realtor for the photographs that had been used in the real estate listing.

After I received them I was surprised to realize how different those images were from the actual spaces in my apartment. They had used fish-eye lenses and “virtual staging” of furnishings which combined to create a very attractive fiction. When I was taking photos for comparison today, I stood back as far as I could with my iPhone but could not recreate the depth of the realtor’s photos.

Here is the living room and dining area. A large table would fit in this space only if there were no chairs on the right of the fireplace.

The realtor’s picture of the main bedroom shows a greatly exaggerated situation. The bed in their virtual staging can be only about 3 ft long. My bed, by comparison, is queen size. The space beside the window, though, is larger than the realtor’s image suggests; it provides enough room for my painting table and easel.

The second bedroom shows an even greater contrast between the realtor’s image and my own. In fact, what they have virtually staged could not be staged in real life. The window wall is not wide enough for anything larger than a twin bed. It is also where the baseboard heater is placed, so putting a bed there would block the only source of heat in the room. The walls on either side of the window are at an angle, making the placement of bedside tables awkward.

As it turned out, I didn’t feel I could use their photos as comparisons, but I did get a valuable lesson in image manipulation.

https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2024/04/20/trust-but-verify/

#attractiveFiction #fishEyeLens #imageManipulation #Photography #realEstate #technology #unreality #virtualStaging

Eurgh... Potions are lookin' tastier than usually today... X^)

T'was playing a Pokémon simulator and one of my 'mon fainted. :^(