Verdx - Verdx

“ExcUSE me?!”

Yeah, try again and not be frustrated at first, of course, but when the podcast is mentioned, entrepeneurship comes to mind, and, just to remember it, you cant do the 100th podcast(or any entrepeneurial bullshit) if your rich parents haven't paid for the first 99

It's fucking great, it looks as if it has been taken from Disco Elysium, where it represents some genocidal, very much aristocratic monarchy, why the fuuuuckk would they like, publish it?

the thing is the king charles portrait is genuinely incredible and exactly how I would execute a portrait of a member of the british royal family but also I literally cannot fathom why the british royal family would have it made

Ominous howled rendition of "Silent Night" recorded in the woods at 1AM this morning.

in 2019, i crashed my bike, and since then have adamantly refused to drive a bike even for a second. today i lent out a bike and drove 50km without breaks all because i saw a sign that said "are you up for a challenge?" with a little map under it, and now my legs feel a way that makes me understand why horses get shot. all i am saying is this is why people like me shouldn't be unemployed

Wow, putting ravenous gnomes at the edge of trails as if it was the way a videogame told you not to get off the path would actually be a great idea. I cannot depend on my personal responsability to not go explore The Outlands on protected places.

(In my head they eat you gruesomly, but you directly appear on the nearest path point)

God I hate how normalized not being in control of your own devices has become. My phone updates in the middle of the night without asking me shit or getting my consent for anything and its like "Oh hi I'm your new AI, please enjoy this forced overlay that you can't exit out of until you go through my tutorial"

"Great fuck you, I would like to uninstall you" "Oh I'm sorry you can't uninstall me! I'm a core system application and if you uninstall me your phone won't function correctly despite the fact that I did not exist yesterday and your phone worked fine" "....." "You can disable parts of my functionality but I will always be here and I will pop up notifications asking you to re-enable me unless you figure out how to disable those too! Then I will still show up in a different color at the top of your settings application telling you that you need to 'fix" a 'problem' with your phone, that problem being that I am disabled. Does that help?"

Like, you know what I can do on my desktop? "sudo pacman -Rdd linux" , this will just fucking remove the entire linux kernel. Fundamentally breaking my computer until I boot up a live disk and chroot in and reinstall it or whatever, and the computer will go "Are you sure (y/n)" or whatever and i'm like "y" and it will just go "Ok you got it boss"

But its mine, I get to do what I want with it. I control the computer, the computer does not control me. I refuse to cede control to my phone or anything else. The thing is a lot of people will joke that like "Oh I love just letting the machine tell me what to do, I don't know what I'm doing, it knows best" or whatever but the thing you have to realize is that when you say that you are abstracting away that "the phone" or whatever is not some value neutral logic driven robot like from sci-fi, it is a collection of the the capitalistic and fascistic desires of the tech oligarch fuckwits that are burning the world to the ground right now. You aren't submitting to the phone, you are submitting to Musk, Bezos, Nadella, Pichai, Cook and all those other evil bastards.

Fuck them, fuck their little AI toys, and fuck this.

Senator Palpatine to Anakin Skywalker, circa 19 BBY

"A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS HIVE PARASITE" (2022), a story of a lone artist, attempting to carve out a space for himself in a vast, unfeeling hive...

This tale is one of the main ones you'll be able to enjoy in the deluxe hardcover book I'll be kickstarting next month, "A STAR CALLED THE SUN"! The pre-launch page is now open, so be sure to sign up to be alerted when the campaign goes live!