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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social
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Systems theorist trapped in a David Lynch establishing shot. German Idealism, recursive wounds, occult cybernetics, haunted feedback loops. Part-time philosopher. Full-time moonrot.

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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Evolution has started dreaming in machine code, but it still screams in mammalian.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The right doesn't just criticize California. It needs California to fail. Otherwise the mythology that government is always the problem begins to unravel.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The secret ingredient is class consciousness. 🤭
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My solipsistic brain occasionally convinces me that if I'd just punched my ninth-grade bully, history itself would've corrected course and spared us President Biff Tannen.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
How many facelifts will make me whole? How many surgeries before the empty soul quits haunting the face?
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For decades we've been propagandized by the right that government is the problem, taxes on billionaires are immoral, and markets should rule everything. That's not the next stage of capitalism. It's the old feudal hierarchy rebranded. Neofeudalism wearing a business suit.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Republican playbook: Step 1: Deregulate. Step 2: Crash. Step 3: Blame government. Repeat.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Beausoleil! Beausoleil! Reagan's Disneyland darkens beneath your yuppie-killer smile.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is what your mind sees when you've had three espressos, two Lacan seminars, and one minor psychotic break. #JacquesLacan
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ideas rarely create extremists. More often, they organize wounds that were already there. I grieve, therefore I am.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Most culture wars aren't about truth. They're battles over who gets to define normal.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Capital has a remarkable trick: it turns someone else's tragedy into somebody else's quarterly earnings.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Chuck Grassley - the walking fossil who enjoys first-rate taxpayer-funded healthcare while working to make sure you don't - was born around 1933. #UniversalHealthcare
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The "multiculturalism doesn't work" crowd online...
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My occupation is building new homes. I once tried finding common ground with a serial arsonist. He found common kindling instead.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Soylent Green wasn't really about cannibalism. It was about capitalism reaching its final efficiency: Commodity → Corpse → Commodity
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails." - John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A lot of the hardline Cuban exiles who voted for Trump came out of the same anti-Castro movement that, years earlier, included people who wanted JFK dead. If Oswald had help - and that's far from established - my money's still on them in cahoots with rogue elements of the CIA.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You've been Colin Farrelled! 😄
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Conspiracy brain activated: What if Anton LaVey was a CIA op, not to promote Satanism, but to market neo-liberal narcissism in gothic packaging?
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I read Dave McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon. No great revelation. Power conspires. Bureaucracies conspire. Intelligence agencies conduct covert operations. None of that requires believing history is a single screenplay written by Langley. Interesting evidence, overextended conclusions.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reagan flapped his butterfly wings in the 1980s. Forty years later the fractal reached full resolution.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The last album you listened to from start to finish.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
When I traveled through the American South in the '90s, it was made abundantly clear that many White Protestants considered themselves biologically and culturally superior. Strange how easily a sense of entitlement can mutate into grievance once history stops revolving around you. #Hubris
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The deepest conservatism isn't political; it's neurological. It's the tendency to defend familiar models long after reality has outgrown them. Authoritarian thinking is a pathological atavism. #PoliticalPhilosophy #authoritarianism #conservatism
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The goal was never certainty. Spinoza knew that. Consciousness continually revises its models to become more adequate to the world. Wisdom is simply what that process feels like from the inside. #Spinoza #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #PredictiveProcessing #Phenomenology #KarlFriston
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
#Nietzsche hits the mark here. If consciousness understands the wound through which it predicts the world, the "why" and the "how" cease to be separate questions. Certainty was never the point. The evolution of recursive consciousness through increasingly adequate models was. #PhilosophyOfMind
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Pretty Hate Machine wasn't an album. It was a developmental stage.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is how it begins. Someone with no particular talent becomes famous and wealthy simply because of their last name, while a click-driven press happily manufactures the celebrity. Grift isn't a bug of late-stage capitalism, it's one of its most profitable business models.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Ding•A•Ling Ice Cream Truck only appears to children who have already become adults. It doesn't sell ice cream. It dispenses forgotten personalities in cracked waffle cones. Every flavor tastes like the memory of someone else's first existential crisis. 👻
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Italian giallo makes horror so beautiful it feels like dreaming through a knife wound. #giallo
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I wish.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Black pride emerged in response to oppression. White pride emerged in defense of hierarchy. It's not the same thing.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The first revolution is political. The last is perceptual. ☆Bewusstseinsrevolution☆ #Kant #Hegel #Bewusstseinsrevolution #Philosophy #Consciousness
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The greatest rock genius? For me, it's Frank Zappa. Paul McCartney may be the greatest melodist rock music has ever produced. But #Zappa could write first-rate melodies too, while also surpassing Paul in lyrical wit, compositional complexity, stylistic range, and sheer originality.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
One of the sharpest diagnoses of performative morality I've read. #ProFetus #Abortion
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
George Carlin warned us about mass stupidity. MAGA turned it into a political identity. 😄 #GeorgeCarlin
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Every fascist dreams of a society too polite to stop him.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me... He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor." — Gospel of Luke
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
FDR will always be my favorite president because he did something truly extraordinary: for a brief moment, his policies made millions of Americans forget how deeply classism and greed were embedded in this country. Then Reagan restored the old operating system.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Every age has its Qliphoth: polished shells animated by appetite, mistaking emptiness for authority. #Qlipoth #Kabbalah
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's as if they have no souls. #EmptyVessels
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You wanted the health of the oak, yet cursed the roots because they disturbed the soil. Every strengthening first appears as discomfort. Even your intestines demand a philosophy of becoming. 👻
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Morality is simple once you leave the jungle. A civilization matures when compassion ceases to be charity and becomes infrastructure. #Mamdani gets it.
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PRETTY GθTH MACHINE @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
#Zizek taught me that ideology survives even when we know we're betraying it. That's why right-wingers can call themselves a Christian while repeatedly acting against the teachings of Jesus. Identity often proves more durable than conviction. 🤡 The mask survives the face beneath it.👹 #Ideology
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