Dare Arkin 🔞

@darearkin.bsky.social

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This be my account for perusing smut, comics and other stuff. Be warned, it might get weird. Bi guy. Almost 40. Kinda figured some of this stuff out. Still working out a lot of it. I'll dispense free advice- it may be terrible but it will be free.

You really have to stop and wonder how the hell everything can be so expensive when all we've done for 40+ years is give corporations the tax breaks they swore they needed to hire workers, cut prices, and give everyone raises.
I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy...censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. — If This Goes On— (1953) Robert Heinlein
The Strait of Hormuz, with Bill Murray from "Groundhog Day" reporting "The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Again."
A poster for Fantastic Voyage.
A cheeseburger rotates over tinsel, in a vaguely surreal way. Look it's from a short Spongebob cutaway gag, what more do you want from me?
namina.forna: Imagine making life so difficult and unpleasant people don't even want to make new generations anymore pynchonsdog There was a biologist I saw the other day who said something similar along the lines of "do you have any idea how badly you have to abuse a mammal for it to stop reproducing?". And I've not been able to get that out of my head since.