On the Coming Semiquincentennial
…or the Quarter Millennial, or whatever we’re calling it. As I write this, the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Shot Heard Round the World, and the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (and William Dawes, for the sake of historical completeness) has just passed. Next year, supposedly, we’ll be celebrating the […]
Flipping the Pages of Reality: Escaping the Dumpster Fire of Life Through Books
Fellow seekers of Brighter Days, if you’re reading this, congratulations! You have successfully survived another day in the grand cosmic joke we call existence. Perhaps you’ve already attempted some of our other recommended escape routes—gaming, meditation, scream yoga—but now, let’s talk about the OG method of fleeing reality: books. Yes, books—the magical portals that let […]
CECOT: Where American Justice Sends Its Skeletons — With No Return Label
By Dr. Jess, High Priestess of AbsurdityCult of Brighter Days Dispatch, April 2025 Abiscoridism: the philosophy that laughs in the abyss, flips off authoritarianism, and balances chaos with gallows humor. Welcome to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center of El Salvador—a gleaming concrete coliseum of despair, where souls go to disappear under fluorescent lights and iron […]
Beans, Bikes, and Boomerangs: A Gen X Spellbook for Late-Stage Capitalist Survival
This is not a guide. This is a chant. A banishing ritual. A chaotic invocation wrapped in polyester and laced with secondhand sarcasm.Dedicated to the latchkey prophets and cassette shamans of Generation X, this document is meant to ward off economic dread demons and summon the ghosts of practical absurdity—armed with bean cans, frayed denim, […]
This Is Not That Kind of Cult: A Love Letter to Weirdos with Boundaries
Let’s talk about the word cult. Yeah, that word. The one that instantly conjures images of bunkers, matching tracksuits, and one very intense guy named Gary with a messiah complex and suspiciously expensive sandals. We know how it looks. We named ourselves The Cult of Brighter Days, and some of you flinched. We get it. […]
IT Architect, AI Consultant and Founder
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On Time, or the Persistent Delusion That Any of This Makes Sense
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The Risk of Mistaking this for Enlightenment or an Excuse to Give Up
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On Failure and the Art of Eating Pavement with Style
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On the Unpleasant Reality That Some People Get Away with Being Awful
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