The Secret Sorcerer Society
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Tag: rant

  • To anyone who thinks that raising a kid with the “right Christian values and enough love” will make them turn out “fine”,

    All of the love and Christian values in the world couldn’t have made me abled and normal. I survived a stroke at 9 months old that was a unique circumstance due to a series of cascading failures that began when a virus attacked my heart on Super Bowl Sunday in 1998, and my parents were…

  • A very sweary rant about the Sydney Sweeney ad campaign from a cripple with “good genes” by Western standards (TW: family death via overdose and cancer, mentions of abuse)

    This whole “good genes” Sydney Sweeney ad thing pisses me the fuck off. off. You wanna know why?? Because my existence was LITERALLY PLANNED OVER MULTIPLE GENERATIONS to create the smartest, most beautiful child possible. MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE PLOTTED AND SCHEMED AND SEDUCED to create at least TWO GENERATIONS of INCREASINGLY BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL…

  • AT Protocol Adventures

    So I got this nifty new app called Pinksky today because I was bored and frontstuck. It’s supposed to compete with Bluesky’s adjacent Instagram competitor app Flashes, and it’s also built on top of the same shit Bluesky is, the AT Protocol. I tried to log in, but it wouldn’t let me. So, in an…

  • The AI Elephant in the Room

    Hey, y’all. Lazarus here once again. I had some Thoughts while I was uploading the images from Hawthorne‘s board in my last post and some time on my hands, so I’m gonna write them out before I lose my train of thought. Therefore, y’all get a twofer here on Open Sorcery today. Wheee. I noticed…

  • Bread and Circuses

    Hey, everyone. Lazarus again. Recently Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and owner of several other apps, completely took his mask off when it came to his views on the LGBTQ+ community, and announced that, in essence, hate speech and discrimination towards people in the LGBTQ+ community is completely okay and allowed on his platforms. Here’s…

  • Episode YES: Insomnia Strikes Back

    Hello, cherished mothers and fuckers. Lazarus here once more with your daily Des Moines Cropduster (context below, thanks, Theo). I thought this prompt looked interesting and I have a few responses for y’all. If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? Here are my favorite contenders thus far: Ashley Halliwell’s Brainhole, New and…