You’re looking for amphetamines, I think

Make it a wombat and they can be conveniently stackable

See also: loose dried fruits

That’s just the next thing you do when praying the gay away doesn’t work.

if they just kept their heads down, stayed in the middle of the herd and moved in a naturally sheeplike way, they could have gotten away with it. Which makes one wonder how many make it through on this route.

Man who walks on his hands will have crack up

I once lived across the street from a dipshit teenager who went through a phase of playing the do-it-like-Discovery-Channel song on repeat. It more or less convinced me that Americans shouldn’t make synthpop.

LaVey got his shtick from Ayn Rand, and his Satanism was basically opposition to the hippie peace-and-love stuff. Nowadays, its attitude is indistinguishable from mainstream Republican Christianity.

The Satanic Temple were (AFAIK) a prank/art project based around the thought experiment of “if Christianity is about cruelty and domination, what if Satanism was about niceness?” The people running it are allegedly somewhat problematic, though its existence did spawn a raft of sincere Satanic-themed social-justice movements like the Global Order of Satan.

Bro-phomet

“Don’t mention the war” doesn’t seem to have made it to Japan

It is an unwritten social rule that prison is a place of punishment for transgression, and as such separate from the free population. Opening spare prison cells to free people in need of shelter (whether the unhoused, or paying tourists/seasonal labourers, or low-income tenants), with some residents having different privileges than others, would violate this separation and the symbolic significance of prison.

A similar policy would be to make housing double as a low-security prison: have the locks be configurable so that apartments can be reconfigured as cells. This would make it too easy to go between freedom and imprisonment, though: in a free society, this process is meant to have a lot of friction. Of course, there is currently due process meaning that your leaving-the-house privileges can’t be revoked summarily over, say, unpaid bills, though they are now a matter of policy and can be changed as such.

It goes around in cycles, and “postmodernism” is just the name we gave to the idea of borrowing superficially from movements of the past without submitting to the deeper totalising meanings that the aesthetic/stylistic details in question emerged from, at that point in history. (It was so named because it contrasted with 20th-century high modernism and its belief in overarching systems and the possibility of universal meanings.) Looking back in history, you find postmodern-style epochs of stylistic appropriation/recontextualisation at various times, such as the rediscovery of classical aesthetics during the Renaissance.

It could be argued that postmodernism emerged from an unspoken universalising ideology: the me-first individualism of the baby-boom generation and the market-oriented neoliberalism that took charge in the US and UK at the start of the 80s and proclaimed its victory for all time when the USSR fell (as in Fukuyama’s “end of history”); to wit: there are no universal truths, only individual opinions, all overseen by the invisible hand of the market. Since then, history has loudly restarted, and the eternal consumerist utopia of the 90s feels as retrofuturistic as an episode of The Jetsons. Parts of postmodernism will be absorbed into what follows where useful (i.e. the idea of novels having metanarratives, or sampling/appropriation by mechanical reproduction as a creative tool), others will become a stereotypical period feature, in the way that that art-deco font signifies the 1920s or angular motel signs the 1950s, and the cycle will resume.

Having said that, with history having restarted, various kinds of Romanticism and/or Neue Sachlichkeit-style realism could emerge; though, of course, not in the same form as past versions.

Once you take the leap of faith and accept that a housecat can have opinions about days of the working week, anything can follow.

Malcolm McLaren was one of the great admen of the 20th century.

Or, to use the scientific term, chesticles

They forgot about fish-benders

If there are correlations between queerness and neurodivergence, walking faster could be explained by ADHD

The sword and hammer should be crossed diagonally, and the sickle balanced beneath them, IMHO.

Given how Facebook aggressively guard their assets (i.e. their users’ contents and relationships), I imagine keeping this working would be a constant game of cat and mouse.

TCF = Terminate and Catch Fire?