Meditations on Grief

Sketches from Hell Year

The 2020s are Objectively the Worst Decade to be Alive

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Benjamin D. Muir
Aug 02, 2025
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“Actually, my favourite part of the Sabrina Carpenter performance was this thing she does on the song ‘Juno,’”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah, so like, she says this line about ‘trying freaky positions,’ and then usually she does a suggestive pose, but yesterday, instead, she just immediately enacted seppuku, spraying viscera and bile all over the faces of the tweens in the front row while she grunted Mishima quotes in a perfect fuckin’ Kurosawa’s ‘Throne of Blood’-style Samurai voice …”

“Bro. I don’t think that was a Sabrina Carpenter show you watched …”

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