Really? What’s it like?
Really? What’s it like?
Same as you. I have avoided it this far. I think Imma back up for a little while. I cannot, cannot see that shit.
I’ll just go outside and read a book.
Ooh I like that! I wish there was more. What do the nuke-eaters look like?
Are you serious? Holy shit. I haven’t seen any at all. But just the thought that someone is posting it. I hate people sometimes.
Well damn. Thank you. Saving this! I have Ublock origin already. I’m excited about the other suggestions too!
Pinterest is half the fucking google image search. Bye! And the other half is shopping ads. Google can kiss my grits.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/child-labor-is-on-the-rise
Apparently child-labor is on the rise. More kids, more money to make in their cheap exploitative labor. 14 states have proposed or enacted laws rolling back child labor age restrictions.
That game still looks so good. Recently played it. It aged well.
(This is horror)
I sat in the laboratory and waited for everyone to leave. Then I withdrew the primitive book of death from my rucksack and set it upon the table. Such a silly human book. And yet the obsolete thing held power.
Within its pages a promise; an ancient curse with no specifications written to entice the willing. The ravaged. Someone wicked such as myself. All it said was to sacrifice one hundred. Of what, there was no directive. The only qualifications were that the more powerful the sacrifice, the more powerful the ritual and curse. The closer to the ritual the sacrifice was, the more powerful. I could achieve both.
I never thought my plan would come to fruition so easily. It was as if a lightbulb had gone off over my head one day. I possessed all the power of the monkey’s paw in my own hand.
I was no fool. I knew that such an easy curse would indeed have the consequences like that of a monkeys paw. But I was counting on it to hold those deadly cards in my favor. Those mutations of luck. Any negative side effect would please me. I did not care about anyone. Not even myself. Whatever happened did not matter to me.
If I were going to kill everyone on earth, I needed something rare and deadly, similar to what my curse would do.
I had no desire to bloody my hands with humans. I misliked their ilk. They were weak.
I walked to the fridge in the back, swiped my keycard. I had worked hard to get access to this very fridge. Years of working. Of rubbing shoulders. Schooling. Of unsavory things. And I had made it. For a moment, I sat staring at the little glass door. So innocent looking. And able to take down weak humans with ease. The ending to my journey on this accursed planet.
I pulled open the door and let the woosh of air hit me. Then, I hummed as I picked through each Petri dish. Eventually I found my bounty. I made to grab it and use the bacteria as my sacrifice. But then… I could try something else. I had wanted to start a plague. But…
I slowly replaced the bacteria and looked upon another. I pulled that dish out, very carefully. It was one of the most powerful and terrible things one could hold.
I looked around the lab until I found a butane torch. Then I opened the Petri dish. Fire was indeed the most sure way to kill these short of a lengthy process of denaturing. I had no desire to do that. I had waited long enough.
I recited the incantation as I burned my sacrifices. “May the humans in this world take on your curse as air is breathed through the lungs. As sustenance is taken into the mouth. As you die, let them become as like you, a sick perversion. Let them fold themselves into unnatural shapes until their bones crush. Let their touch entice the those unbending to follow suit. Let them fold.”
A puff of acrid smoke rose from the Petri dish of prions. I waited a moment before paging my superiors: “It is done. I am ready for extraction.”
The message scrolled across my pager. “Affirmative. Proceed to the roof.”
I left the room, not bothering to lock anything up. I heard screams emanating from the halls. So quickly.
I walked up the stairs, glancing in stairway door at the first landing. The sight was quite humorous to behold. A man was literally folding into the most disturbing shapes. I shuddered in delight. It had been cruel, using prions as a sacrifice rather than the yersinia pestis. It was almost cheating, certainly.
A group of people tried to help the man, but the very sight of him caused them to convulse and fold into strange ways. A mere glance.
My heart pounded in delight. I rushed up the stairs and burst out into the open air. More screams filled my ears. I dropped my disguise and walked toward the edge of the building, air exploding around me from the extraction ship. A ladder descended from the sky. I grabbed it and watched the carnage play out as we entered the atmosphere. It was like a perverse collection of origami.
I climbed the ladder. My superior grabbed my hand and pulled me inside.
“You are quite cold Tark,” he said, unfeeling. “I never would have thought of this. A literal interpretation of a prion. Very creative. This suffering pleases the queen with its cruelty.”
My voice caught. Even the queen was impressed? I allowed myself a rare smile. And then banished it.
—END
Every time I learn and encounter more of what’s happening, I feel sicker and angrier. Especially for the women. I just done even know what else to say.
I use all three (Voyager/WefWef being the third)! Sometimes one does something better than the others or has a feature I need.
I never used my account. I hate twitter. However, I love hearing about the failures of Elon Musk.
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Imma be honest. It sounds like you’re describing a hotrod lol
I love it. This is really cool!
Oh yeah! Platinum member over here! 25% concessions is great!
We see a ton of movies all the time. I buy other people tickets and send the QR and they send me the cash because I save on fees.
My membership is so worth it.
We go to a chain called Cinemark and the tickets are far cheaper than AMC. I think for 6 people on opening night with heated D-Box seats (the kind that move and shake and vibrate) directly in the middle of the theater cost me $100. Plus I have a membership so free tickets and no fees too.
If we went with regular seats we would have gotten them at around $10 per person. Heated recliners all around.
I feel spoiled honestly.
The darkness was tangible, electric, making my arms prickle.
The US over here was supposed to be that way, with the separation of church and state.
As you have likely seen—due to the ceaseless amount of news about the US everywhere—that is a fucking joke now. Our country is overridden by the devils evangelical spawn.