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Existential imbecile exploring the absurdity of existence. Comics & illustrated essays: maxmurphy.xyz Video essays: https://www.youtube.com/@maxmurphyxyz
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there’s a stark contrast where typical liberals in the democratic party would deride you when you told them democrats were feckless losers that always capitulate, all these people seem to also be mad at the democratic party now. this is a great change. the party establishment needs to go

Goodbye Surveillance Capitalism, Hello Surveillance Fascism #fascism #resistance #latestagecapitalism #politics maxmurphy.xyz/p/goodbye-su...

Bruh all I wanted to do was make art and be a human but now I gotta become a communist revolutionary to get some damn healthcare.

Money can literally buy reality itself.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Not planning on it. I’m just waiting for the opportunity to hit her with the boot straps line. The schadenfreude will be euphoric.

My mom is a hardcore trumper: -Bought trump coin at the top -Is likely going to losing her federally funded job -Also losing her state pension she needed 18 more months to qualify for She still supports him. Still. Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue.

dIsRuPtErS get DISRUPTED #memes #AI #China

Congrats "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by @queline.bsky.social! (50s clip ⬇️) First Place winner of the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest. The short blends movies, images, music & text into a meditation on time’s passage. Full film & more ➡️ archive.org/details/2025...

Deepseek is proof communism works. OpenAI is proof capitalism doesn’t.

Holy shit

It hurts me how true this is

welcome home

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This is about to get a lot more relevant for anyone who works for a living. #politics #resist #denydefenddepose

I’m tired of my wellness being sacrificed for a share price to up.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Here’s to a new year with much more of this going on

Capitalism is a dictatorship but instead of a weird dude controlling everything, it is the abstract idea of money

The greatest website on planet Earth is @wikipedia.bsky.social The second best is The Marginalian

An entire day of meetings got me like

Wow, the guy who stole Reagan's slogan also stole his predatory policies too! Color me shocked!

I was 19 when I faced death for the first time—my father drank himself to death. It shattered me, leaving me lost in an endless void of questions. Ernest Becker helped me find meaning again. I created an illustrated essay to share that light w others lost in the dark 🧵 #comedy #philosophy #comics

I was 19 when I faced death for the first time—my father drank himself to death. It shattered me, leaving me lost in an endless void of questions. Ernest Becker helped me find meaning again. I created an illustrated essay to share that light w others lost in the dark 🧵 #comedy #philosophy #comics

good god what have we done