Exercise in futility
November 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Exercise in futility
being over 40 means most game pitches now sound like:
- work at FAKE JOB
- toil for NOTHING
- unlock FUTILITY
- waste the limited time you have before DEATH
- work at FAKE JOB
- toil for NOTHING
- unlock FUTILITY
- waste the limited time you have before DEATH
November 6, 2026 at 9:17 AM
being over 40 means most game pitches now sound like:
- work at FAKE JOB
- toil for NOTHING
- unlock FUTILITY
- waste the limited time you have before DEATH
- work at FAKE JOB
- toil for NOTHING
- unlock FUTILITY
- waste the limited time you have before DEATH
Credit where it's due: this is an even better and shorter short story about tragedy and futility and loss than Hemingway's baby shoes one
Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.
November 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Credit where it's due: this is an even better and shorter short story about tragedy and futility and loss than Hemingway's baby shoes one
Wisdom is recognizing exercises in futility
November 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Wisdom is recognizing exercises in futility
Toss-up between “wore duct tape over my mouth in class for two days to protest the futility of language” and “got sent to the nurse because I couldn’t stop laughing at history teacher”
please delight me with your most on-brand story from your childhood
mine is that I quit Cubs after two weeks because it clashed with Coronation Street
mine is that I quit Cubs after two weeks because it clashed with Coronation Street
November 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Toss-up between “wore duct tape over my mouth in class for two days to protest the futility of language” and “got sent to the nurse because I couldn’t stop laughing at history teacher”
A moving piece of futility. Vendal reinvents the wheel again. thank you priestess.
In front of you is a drawer, Press A to open it.
November 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
A moving piece of futility. Vendal reinvents the wheel again. thank you priestess.
Last seen boldly attempting the summit of Mount Futility
November 7, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Last seen boldly attempting the summit of Mount Futility
I’m calling this race right now for Colom, despite the futility of this fascist delay. Game over!
November 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I’m calling this race right now for Colom, despite the futility of this fascist delay. Game over!
Discussing trans theory with people you genuinely respect and can learn from (particularly over coffee or a pint) is one thing. Online timewasters rehashing every last splitter argument of the last hundred years, with no awareness of the history and futility of those arguments, is another.
November 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Discussing trans theory with people you genuinely respect and can learn from (particularly over coffee or a pint) is one thing. Online timewasters rehashing every last splitter argument of the last hundred years, with no awareness of the history and futility of those arguments, is another.
Gerade die futility werte ich als Zeichen dass er das tatsächlich selber macht. Wahrscheinlich wenn er higher as the empire state ist.
November 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Gerade die futility werte ich als Zeichen dass er das tatsächlich selber macht. Wahrscheinlich wenn er higher as the empire state ist.
I feel my blood pressure rise a little every time remembrance day gets further reframed as like “serving in war is so noble everyone clap for war” instead of being somber about the futility and horror and waste of it all. it’s 11/11 because that’s the day the fighting STOPPED!
November 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I feel my blood pressure rise a little every time remembrance day gets further reframed as like “serving in war is so noble everyone clap for war” instead of being somber about the futility and horror and waste of it all. it’s 11/11 because that’s the day the fighting STOPPED!
Never Back Down vs. Feats of Enormous Stupidity
Somehow for all their gamification of politics we never get this formulation on futility
Somehow for all their gamification of politics we never get this formulation on futility
November 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Never Back Down vs. Feats of Enormous Stupidity
Somehow for all their gamification of politics we never get this formulation on futility
Somehow for all their gamification of politics we never get this formulation on futility
Inktober 29 - Tusk
Ersatz is amazing series
the futility and humanity in war, the visuals style, I love it so much please go watch it
#inktober #ersatz #warwick #ersatzwarwick
Ersatz is amazing series
the futility and humanity in war, the visuals style, I love it so much please go watch it
#inktober #ersatz #warwick #ersatzwarwick
November 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Inktober 29 - Tusk
Ersatz is amazing series
the futility and humanity in war, the visuals style, I love it so much please go watch it
#inktober #ersatz #warwick #ersatzwarwick
Ersatz is amazing series
the futility and humanity in war, the visuals style, I love it so much please go watch it
#inktober #ersatz #warwick #ersatzwarwick
Futility always brings tears to my eyes.
November 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Futility always brings tears to my eyes.
An exercise in futility
November 2, 2026 at 5:42 PM
An exercise in futility
It’s 60 votes, then it’s 67, then it’s 78, then it’s 88… theres always a magic number to excuse the Democrats’ futility in getting anything done. Nobody is content with “can’t” anymore.
November 4, 2026 at 7:09 AM
It’s 60 votes, then it’s 67, then it’s 78, then it’s 88… theres always a magic number to excuse the Democrats’ futility in getting anything done. Nobody is content with “can’t” anymore.
4 November 1918. Wilfred Owen (aged 25) was killed in WW1, a week before the conflict ended. He was a leading poet of the “Great War of 1914-18”. His war poetry on the horrors of the trenches included Dulce et Decorum est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Futility.
November 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
4 November 1918. Wilfred Owen (aged 25) was killed in WW1, a week before the conflict ended. He was a leading poet of the “Great War of 1914-18”. His war poetry on the horrors of the trenches included Dulce et Decorum est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Futility.
I mean, the songs are upbeat, she sounds happy singing them compared to how she sounds singing something like Futatsu no Tsuki, Kamisama Baka and Sophie. Compare the lyrics. All of these songs are an interrogation of Hatsune's sense of futility. Imprisoned XII even interrogates this in ep10
November 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I mean, the songs are upbeat, she sounds happy singing them compared to how she sounds singing something like Futatsu no Tsuki, Kamisama Baka and Sophie. Compare the lyrics. All of these songs are an interrogation of Hatsune's sense of futility. Imprisoned XII even interrogates this in ep10
Only guillotines restore all accountability…voting in an inherently corrupt system is an exercise in futility, as we can see again and again and again
Jefferies and Schumer are weak, out of touch appeasers who are going to demoralize and anger the Democratic base. They will deny the very agenda Democrats cast their ballots for.
November 7, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Only guillotines restore all accountability…voting in an inherently corrupt system is an exercise in futility, as we can see again and again and again
In 2020, in Mississippi, I was masked in the long line to vote. The line was outright hostile as they assumed, by the mask, that I was voting left. I felt so alone in that line. Voting in MS seemed a futility, like shouting into the void. Coming this close, no matter what happens, is astounding.
November 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
In 2020, in Mississippi, I was masked in the long line to vote. The line was outright hostile as they assumed, by the mask, that I was voting left. I felt so alone in that line. Voting in MS seemed a futility, like shouting into the void. Coming this close, no matter what happens, is astounding.
This is a great choice. Literally invented to demonstrate the soul-crushing futility of capitalism.
November 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This is a great choice. Literally invented to demonstrate the soul-crushing futility of capitalism.
It is also a lesson in the futility of a vision of the Democratic Party that rests on large numbers of working class white people becoming Democrats over economic policy. I'm very pro-labor, but I don't expect political rewards for it. It's good policy, but those white folks vote Republican.
This is a whole essay on labor and identity in one image.
Angie Nixon calls out Sean O'Brien of the Teamsters for voting for and endorsing an anti-union Republican over a union organizer who walked the picket line with him and Teamsters
November 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
It is also a lesson in the futility of a vision of the Democratic Party that rests on large numbers of working class white people becoming Democrats over economic policy. I'm very pro-labor, but I don't expect political rewards for it. It's good policy, but those white folks vote Republican.
Then the whimsy serves as a reminder that you will never truly attain your goal of uninterrupted misery, the futility adding to your desired misery.
It's a win/win!
It's a win/win!
November 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Then the whimsy serves as a reminder that you will never truly attain your goal of uninterrupted misery, the futility adding to your desired misery.
It's a win/win!
It's a win/win!
