ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

I was the smashy kid in high school, and if I encountered this dystopian bullshit I would have smashed it with a glow in my heart

Apparently the origins of standardized testing are surprisingly dark even for what it is: in the leadup to WW1, they wanted a way to separate the brains in the bunkers from the bodies in the trench.

I gotta finish reading Palo Alto

I like to imagine that when the Black Eyed Peas came up with the lyric “let’s get it started” as a replacement, it was like the end of a moon landing movie. The airlock door to the writing room unseals with a hiss, the band members walking out in slow motion to a cheering crowd. Moustached men in mission control high fiving, hugging each other and chainsmoking. Clusters of big vintage news cameras flash. The solemn yet hopeful horn music swells. They did it.

Seriously if that shit happened in the US, the national guard would call in an A-10 gun run on the crowd