Awwww Yeah vol. 120

Awkward! Man, 21, reveals his grandmother mistook his silicon SEX TOYS for a pair of thermal socks and tried to wear them to bed - before getting them STUCK on her feet

Awwww yeah vol. 119

Read the Unsealed Sex Trafficking Charges Against Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein

Negation Aspiration vol. 168

Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors

Jeffrey Epstein is being held at the federal lockup in Manhattan, according to law enforcement sources.

THE HEAVY HOLE PODCAST: In The Hole w/Nick Cacioppo (The Communion, Crisis Actor, and Tunnel Nun)

About this Episode

Will and Tom invite Nick Cacioppo of The Communion, Crisis Actor, and Tunnel Nun to the studio for a truly thought provoking conversation.

Music Featured - 
The Communion - Split w/ Bastard Noise
The Communion - Unreleased Tracks
The Communion - Great Violence and Hidden Depths
The Communion - Demos 2004 - 2006
The Communion - Split w/ The Kill
The Communion - A Desired Level of Unease
The Communion - 2010 Sampler
Buttress - Brutus
Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk 
Deiphago - I, The Devil
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Neglect - Four Years of Hate
Koreisch - This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex

Negation Aspiration vol. 167

To insulate ourselves from these seemingly guaranteed failures, Millennials, and Gen Z after us, adopted irony as a cultural strategy. Irony allowed us to continue life under late capitalism while psychologically sheltering ourselves from the demoralizing reality. Irony as culture became: “The band I like will inevitably sell out, so I might as well buy-in early.” Irony as politics became: “The movement will inevitably be corrupted, so I might as well side with capital.” Ultimately, it was okay that a project failed because irony allowed us to maintain the plausible deniability that we “never really liked it to begin with.” Why resist, if alternatives are impossible?

In the mid-00s (or when Millennials were the age that Gen Z is now), the mainstream was wearing ironic T-shirts of bands they didn’t like. The enthusiasm may have been insincere but it was paid for in real dollars. This disingenuous mode of consumption was the first breach between the world of ironic aesthetics and social reality. Soon, irony didn’t so much signal active engagement as it suggested an underlying political nihilism, allowing one to disassociate from the real world effects of one’s own actions. The inertia of ironic consumption and production continued to accelerate right up until 2016—at which point the Pepe-style trolls of the Alt-right made it clear that irony had never been apolitical. Ironic propaganda functions the same as real propaganda. Ironic voting is just voting.

IRONY POLITICS & GEN Z
Joshua Citarella

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 190

A screenshot from the Facebook group, run with this text: “That's right bitches. The masses have spoken and today democracy won. I have returned. To everyone who knows the real me and had my back I say thank you. To everyone else? This is what I have to say.....”

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”

Awwww Yeah vol 118

Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off