A Sickness Generated by Too Many Maps

me = he || 34 goddamn years old || huge Simon Winder fan || proud yet bumbling father of Manorpunk

[girlmostlikely]

Jaw on the floor

[afloweroutofstone]

Foods costs are expected to rise at some point in the coming months once the shipping industry fully runs out of fuel reserves and wholesalers run out of existing stocks, causing the full inflationary impact of the Iran War to emerge. Shortly after that, on October 1, a new set of SNAP food aid cuts from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 will automatically go into effect. I think there is a real chance that hunger will emerge as a political issue by the end of this year (and if it doesn’t, then it should.)

One explanation I’ve heard for why the stock market has been so nonchalant about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is that they are fully convinced it will end before any of that happens. Someone (I think it was JP Morgan?) said in a recent release that the assumptions for their short-term inflation expectations are all based on the idea that Trump will pull back from the war at the exact right second and miraculously reopen the Strait in full. In their mind, Trump dragging the war out any longer than that would be committing economic suicide right before an election, and Trump as a rational actor would not allow that to happen. Buddy, do I got some news for you

[firebendinglemur]

JP Morgan sees Brent staying in low $100s even if Hormuz reopens in June

JP Morgan's revised framework assumes that ‌the pace ⁠of ⁠oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the Strait to reopen "one way or ano

JP Morgan expects Brent crude to remain in the low-$100s for much of 2026, even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens in June, as accelerating inventory draws and logistical bottlenecks keep the oil market tight, the bank said in a note. JP Morgan's revised framework assumes that ‌the pace ⁠of ⁠oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the Strait to reopen "one way or another," ​with the bank's base case anchored on a June 1 reopening following a ​credible announcement confirmed by both sides.

[stealpeanutbutter]

i feel like i do 25% of what an average person does in a day and still it's too much

[ceausescue]

the kind of autism that makes you confucian

[yorickless]

confucius had this

[deadgenerations]

the main lesson of the amazing digital circus is to not make anything at all for the young adult/emotionally stunted crowd because they will always be horrible people who make your life hell. make things that repell these 'people' from your work instantly so they never even form their parasocial relationship to it and to you in the first place.

[zoesupreme]

we're for real gonna be telling stories about this man for centuries

[zoesupreme]

yall I feel like I'm floating right now

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[lesserknownwaifus]

The mascot from Sampaguita ice cream

[guelwaar]

honestly i get why elizabeth holmes is convinced she got martyred because you have to think about it from her perspective, literally the entire valley runs on guys just running their mouths until another guy buys them out and turns their scamup into a data services provider and then eventually that guy sells it to jeff bezos, why couldn't it happen for her too? oh suddenly the medical establishment is too good for a para industry of scam bespoke home lab testing that tells you nothing validated? suddenly everyone has not been caping for the mormon dna race science or the gut microbiome fascists or the psychiatry fandom spit testing? it's so much worse to give your blood to a blonde woman recreationally? vengeance for her & anna delvey.

[cleo-fox]

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

[maple-seed]

Both options convey that he's horny

[cleo-fox]

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

[apricops]

Richard Dawkins saying he thinks AI is conscious is so hilarious to me because I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I will bet you a shiny nickel that he spent five seconds talking to ChatGPT and it gave him some generic fawning response and he went “it knows that I’m the smartest special boy in the world! it must be conscious! :o”

[apricops]

the duchy of Normandy was created because the Danes (aka the Vikings) kept raiding northern France so much that eventually the French king was like "hey we have this new thing called 'feudalism,' it's kinda like raiding except you get to stay home"

[ell-does-stuff]

shadow quiz is about to go crazy

[w00dzt3r]

WHOS THAT POKEMON

[toyota-supra]

hey. good luck with everything, okay? [cutting the rope connecting your boat to the dock] just good luck. [starts pushing your boat further towards the stream] just have a good luck out there

[aokozaki]

[not noticing I'm drifting out to sea] Meow meow meow meow! Meow meow meow~

[toyota-supra]

good luck! good luck!

[apricops]

I genuinely thought this was cgi until like five minutes ago. how did they make Willem Dafoe look like a world of warcraft character

[apricops]

every chapter in the history of Chicago politics is like “James ‘Crispy Jim’ Blubgonk was elected vice-burgomeister after running with the campaign slogan “[slurs redacted]” and spent his fifty-year tenure using city funds to buy birthday gifts for his three hundred nephews. he was universally beloved by his constituency”

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

things to say after fucking up egregiously

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)