Kid Mania

So...governments around the world are installing fascism to continue to do capitalism on a boiling planet, many are using AI tech in warfare (with devastating and horrifying consequences) and these wars are being started by the worst people on the planet...
But sure, let's blame the OP for posting a bit of dark humor.
🤦‍♂️ ffs

2026-03-05 13:22:40 UTC

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Sweeeet.
The cover to a spy novel, a sci-fi novel or a horror novel...

2026-03-03 17:38:57 UTC

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there's a bit of a 'timeless' quality to this one. I love stuff that makes me question what year it was created.

2026-03-01 23:05:39 UTC

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🙈 🙉 🙊
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/156/417/851/452/844/original/1ba0fb54bd2fa9ca.mp4

2026-02-28 20:44:09 UTC

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They say you learn something new everyday.
Even more astounding:
"Marital rape was criminalized in 1993. Yet, legal loopholes in many states fail to hold the rapist responsible."
🤦‍♂️ jfc
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mind-games/202203/marital-rape-is-criminalized-not-upheld

2026-02-28 14:49:55 UTC

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Well yeah...one thing about MAGA, they looooooove nostalgia.
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
"Although we may not think of credit cards as a gender equality issue today, it wasn’t until 1974 that women were allowed to apply for and own a credit card in their name. "
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/

2026-02-20 15:29:34 UTC

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Fair enough, Cory. You're gonna do what you want regardless of my accuracy or inaccuracy anyway. And maybe I've misunderstood this. The same way many many will.
But visualize this:
"Hey...I just read Cory Doctrow uses an LLM to check his writing."
"Really?"
"Yeah, it's true."
"Cool, maybe what I've read about ChatGPT is wrong too..."

2026-02-20 15:19:44 UTC

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I'll reiterate my response.
When you *alone* do it...no big deal.
When a couple of million do it ON THEIR OWN LAPTOPS...problem.

2026-02-20 15:17:03 UTC

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But hey, you do you, Cory.
I'm nobody...your Cory Doctrow.
Let's all do what Cory does...

2026-02-20 15:14:47 UTC

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Subhead quote from the article:
"The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next."

2026-02-20 15:12:03 UTC

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Missed the point, sir.
When one person does it...no big deal.
When a couple of million people do it...well, see the MIT article above.

2026-02-20 15:10:12 UTC

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"What is the incremental environmental damage created by running an existing LLM locally on your own laptop?"
I dunno. But how about a couple of million people?
The person who coins the term 'enshittification' defends LLM. Just...wow. We truly are fucked.
Let's all do what Cory does!
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Meanwhile:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20737314952&gbraid=0AAAAADgO_miNIDzn-BdCIXzZ6r87g94-L&gclid=Cj0KCQiA49XMBhDRARIsAOOKJHbvIzPACe0EdEyWK86TnS7rNlnUaePKc5y22qT0ZsfqUeGDe72zzc0aAhFFEALw_wcB
#doomed #ClimateChange

2026-02-16 19:57:32 UTC

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Quarantine Earth.
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"A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity."
- Thomas Ligotti

2026-02-15 15:05:31 UTC

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🤔
Why not green soap?

2026-01-29 18:03:16 UTC

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Too late. They already voted for it last Thursday.
Regarding the Dems...You Ever Get The Feeling You're Being Cheated...?
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These Democrats voted for the DHS funding bill despite ICE furor
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5702347-house-democrats-homeland-security-funding/

2026-01-24 17:42:46 UTC

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☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
Video: Minneapolis man shot and killed as ICE agents held him down
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/video-minneapolis-man-shot-and-killed-as-ice-agents-held-him-down/ar-AA1UTxCm?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=7d7c74ce0937454899d8ec88641f1341&ei=6

2026-01-22 14:48:33 UTC

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☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota

2026-01-19 13:54:01 UTC

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Filed under business as usual.
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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/922/094/592/331/274/original/90fa282929632022.jpg

2026-01-14 21:00:13 UTC

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...I think you mean gun.
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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/895/458/704/496/172/original/e8415d0624dc0d91.jpeg

2026-01-06 19:20:56 UTC

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THEORY:
I gotta wonder...how much of what's in the "Epstein Files" parted the sea for Trump to become prez?
Maybe it's possible he wants to hold certain files, not just because he was a predator, but also because he wants to keep his own blackmail dirt to use.
I dunno. Might explain some inexplainable shit. Just spitballing here.

2026-01-04 23:27:13 UTC

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A "democracy" where when the Constitution was signed (We The People) black people were still considered property?

2026-01-03 17:25:31 UTC

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When people look back at the Third Reich they talk about Germany....they don't say, "Except those Germans who opposed Hitler."

2025-12-08 13:46:22 UTC

Abstract Painting
Gerhard Richter
1991
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/684/249/892/910/200/original/ca3f920d71beedda.jpg

2025-11-15 13:00:37 UTC

Untitled (Cat Tower)
Adrian Ëmyl
2025
@npub1n8c…9lap
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/553/833/884/694/998/original/0c913bf764bc8504.jpg

2025-11-10 13:13:53 UTC

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As a Canadian, an outsider looking in, it's always been obvious the Democrats were complicit...
But yeah, way to go mask off, Dems.
For what it's worth, the two-party system should have been a heads up to anyone paying attention.

2025-10-29 15:22:25 UTC

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Dude, they don't even like the words of their own god. ☠️ ✝️ ☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak

2025-09-26 14:38:26 UTC

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Ummm...?
☠️ 🙈 🙉 🙊 ☠️ 🙈 🙉 🙊 ☠️
#doomed
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/271/105/635/585/883/original/8fa76ee10d31ce11.jpg

2025-09-25 01:16:16 UTC

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"US at its core is an incredibly violent country, long history of it; so it escalates from here..."
...and racist. You forgot to add it's also a fundamentally racist country. In fact, if one factors in racism, everything that has happened since Trump's election (and long before) suddenly makes sense.
So yeah, America is fundamentally a violent and racist country, built on slavery, and serving capitalism at the point of its many Bibles and many guns.
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
#doomed
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/262/284/844/131/214/original/50bf93ea4004af11.jpeg

2025-09-24 13:27:25 UTC

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I see it's time to break this out again...
🙈 🙉 🙊
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/259/501/880/007/922/original/682c3df47e973f92.jpeg

2025-09-21 15:05:39 UTC

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Sean, I get where you're coming from, but you do understand that showing sympathy to fascists is only viewed as weakness and just emboldens them...right?
🤔

2025-09-21 13:16:02 UTC

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"Someone should tell #trump that bad things happen all the time."
They do...and these days almost entirely because of him.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/242/461/990/192/730/original/599b15b34c1df578.jpeg

2025-09-14 13:57:13 UTC

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I can:
p a r a s i t e.

2025-09-08 12:36:11 UTC

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Naturally this incredible piece of art has been "concealed" by the Powers That Be.
Cos, by concealing it, this does not make people want to see it even more. I guess the next question is...Will They Destroy It...?
A multimillion dollar piece of art.
Concealed,
By the Government.
Because they don't like the message.
Well done, UK. Well done. (*slow clap*)
☠️ 🇬🇧 ☠️
Concealed Banksy artwork shows judge beating unarmed protester
https://www.perspectivemedia.com/concealed-banksy-artwork-shows-judge-beating-unarmed-protester/

2025-09-01 18:00:18 UTC

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My concept is more of just a bullshit thought experiment examining the irony of these fucking things being our legacy.

2025-09-01 17:58:02 UTC

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I was thinking more about the LLMs ("AI") themselves...not the human beings.
But your point certainly stands.

2025-09-01 16:08:08 UTC

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🤔
If humanity destroys itself via climate inaction (all signs point to this), then it's quite conceivable these LLMs may survive in some fashion. If they do, its fascinating to consider this might be our legacy for some future version of ourselves to ponder over...or some extraterrestrial race to discover.

2025-08-20 12:55:47 UTC

The World Going Down the Drain
Pejac
2014
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/061/195/774/479/786/original/60471b773a639d6c.webp

2025-08-13 12:41:50 UTC

Boring Dolls (Langweilige Puppen)
Jeanne Mammen
1929
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/021/504/234/993/502/original/0643e32a02ca29e8.jpg

2025-07-26 12:24:26 UTC

Kittens
Léon Huber
1922
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/919/515/317/138/333/original/15f3d96a621378b6.webp

2025-07-25 12:51:24 UTC

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"... the US & Israel voted against a 2021 UN resolution to make food a human right."
Because of course they fucking did.
🤦‍♂️ jfc

2025-07-07 12:47:49 UTC

Drawing Hands
MC Esher
1948
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/812/023/462/930/591/original/cf25cdb4abc84a43.jpg

2025-07-06 13:10:56 UTC

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"...rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology..."
Sound A Lot Like...?!?!?!?
Dude described every tabloid I've ever seen.

2025-06-27 15:04:32 UTC

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☠️ ✝️ ☠️
The sin of silence
The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/31/feature/the-epidemic-of-denial-about-sexual-abuse-in-the-evangelical-church/

2025-06-26 23:33:20 UTC

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😂
I've never seen "Ligotti" and "cheer" in the same sentence before.

2025-06-26 16:33:54 UTC

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☠️ 🙈 🙉 🙊 ☠️
"Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page."
- Thomas Ligotti

2025-06-21 12:48:43 UTC

Cat Gathering (Night)
Inagaki Tomoo
1957
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/721/430/122/344/521/original/a28e15b076e9aa62.jpg

2025-06-18 12:53:12 UTC

The Moon Woman
Jackson Pollock
1942
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/704/460/402/917/517/original/d397ad76997e25bd.jpg

2025-06-14 16:16:16 UTC

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One of the best in the biz...
@npub12ks…yw4y

2025-06-13 14:45:02 UTC

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Right...?
Like, are we talking about the same Dems who had FOUR-fucking-YEARS to prosecute the Orange Mussolini but instead yawned while the Supreme Court of the Land gave him a golden ticket of immunity...? Those Dems?
Yeah. No.
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
The Dems are complicit: Whether by design or incompetence.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/676/587/013/593/998/original/dab2d3daa0d43419.jpg

2025-06-12 13:14:47 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/670/568/745/579/866/original/b3d512eb166798a7.png

2025-05-28 12:46:54 UTC

The Hand
Eva Oertli and Beat Huber
2004
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/585/527/113/339/215/original/2c7efd3c84a44bdb.webp

2025-05-23 13:10:54 UTC

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☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️ 🙈 🙉 🙊 ☠️
Well...yeah. But then again, this is what they believe...⬇️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/557/309/181/077/416/original/a7dfa24d484a4a95.jpeg

2025-05-20 16:40:35 UTC

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"I don’t want to come across like a woke asshole..."
'woke asshole'
translation: acting like someone who actually gives a shit.

2025-05-15 13:15:38 UTC

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For the life of me, I'll never understand the average person who becomes involved with crypto.
From the moment I discovered its existence my mind screamed, "SCAM". Nothing I've learned since then has changed my mind. On the contrary. That little voice has only become louder.
Today, it's borderline schadenfreude to hear these stories.

2025-05-08 14:17:14 UTC

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From the ClickHole article:
"The tragedy occurred just a few moments ago during a debate about politics [...]. Out of nowhere, the most loathsome person you’ve ever met in your whole life chimed into the argument with a completely valid and irrefutable point. Every attempt to formulate a rebuttal to just the most insufferable asshole on the planet failed miserably because, for the first time ever, that piece of shit’s logic was entirely unassailable."

2025-04-29 12:13:50 UTC

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...unless another conservative member gives up their seat to force a by-election then PP steps in and 'poof' he's back in the HoC.
Unfortunately...it will take more than this to get rid of the little shit.,

2025-04-24 12:44:55 UTC

Maya and Cockroaches
Barbara Porczyńska
2024
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/393/001/010/017/944/original/c4016d8a69e5eb1a.jpg

2025-04-14 12:41:23 UTC

Military Target
Boris Grokh
2024
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/336/363/625/949/270/original/7fc8758ceea4b63a.jpg

2025-04-12 13:07:32 UTC

La Dame au Caracal
Manesenkow Tania
1995
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/325/141/789/994/314/original/549dfcc597ede798.jpg

2025-04-01 15:24:50 UTC

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Fuck. I knew in my heart it was too good to be true.

2025-04-01 12:38:22 UTC

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Quite incredible.

2025-03-28 15:23:24 UTC

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And for good measure.
☠️ 🇨🇦 ☠️
C'mon, Canada. Don't be this dumb.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/240/742/318/795/468/original/1ea27f99bbc9f4c2.jpg

2025-03-28 15:21:58 UTC

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You can't spell 'poiLIEvre' without the word 'LIE'...it's the middle word in his name for fuck's sake. ☠️ 🇨🇦 ☠️
[yeah yeah rogan and jones are reversed. there's a little hand and arrow indicating. it's like the author recognized the mistake and said, "Meh, fuck it...rogan - jones same dif.]
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/240/731/197/864/157/original/4af0d7ab9873d55f.jpeg

2025-03-15 12:25:42 UTC

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"Covid, 5 years on: what have we learned? "
We learned people generally suck. That asking for even a modicum of empathy for their fellow human beings by wearing something as innocuous as a mask can be met with immaturity and even hate. We learned that people are selfish beyond measure, and we learned the next will be worse because "I don't gotta wear that."
☠️
But hey, at least it wasn't airborne Ebola...this time.

2025-03-13 13:12:43 UTC

Untitled
Simon Stålenhag
2016
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/155/293/101/504/326/original/b6d623edb9fad547.jpeg

2025-03-02 14:30:18 UTC

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Amazing.

2025-02-24 20:37:47 UTC

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☠️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/060/774/804/776/372/original/0a4d71056282aae1.jpg

2025-02-24 14:00:19 UTC

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"I believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion."
What a fucked up timeline where this is some sort of big ask.
🤦‍♂️ jfc
"Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone."
--Thomas Ligotti

2025-02-21 14:12:13 UTC

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Wow. This is a New York Post headline?
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
Trump *MIGHT* have actually fucked up.

2025-02-04 13:56:27 UTC

Shelf of Memories
Jan Is De Man
2024
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/945/960/570/974/851/original/2106ab053c4372dc.webp

2025-01-18 13:49:16 UTC

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☠️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/849/669/084/451/698/original/c97a71001f282747.png

2025-01-12 14:29:37 UTC

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"The sharp cold of the night is gradually being replaced by the promise of another clear day. The rising sun kisses the clouds with pink, and the silent mountains wait for any warmth..."
😎 👍

2025-01-09 16:36:13 UTC

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"Trump pissed (good)"
Harsh punishment indeed. Trump pissed. That's some intense shit, there. But he'll still be a president with complete immunity...right?
"show him to be the vile POS that he is"
If you didn't know that by now, you voted for him.
"enlighten the public"
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
End.
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2025-01-09 16:34:57 UTC

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"But this will provide more details about what he did, keep it in spotlight, make Trump pissed (good), show him to be the vile POS that he is, and enlighten the public more than previously."
Oh, okay.
January 6, 2021. FOUR fucking years ago...right?
"But this will provide more details about what he did, keep it in spotlight."
Details about what he did. Cool, So he'll be going to prison for being the treasonous bastard he is...right? RIGHT?
1/

2025-01-09 14:33:29 UTC

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Mentally prepare yourselves for nothing meaningful to come of this. 🙈 🙉 🙊
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/798/883/116/375/827/original/2afcb37c98ab8c77.jpg

2025-01-03 16:05:56 UTC

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No, no they weren't.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/765/272/844/881/336/original/938c5d5da7c4dd87.jpg

2025-01-02 11:59:58 UTC

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"...The dude with 150 IEDs and an illegal short-barreled rifle in his home has a bond set lower (exactly 1/4th, in fact) than the woman who told her health insurance company “Deny, defend, depose”. ‘Murica. Freedom. Woooooo…"
🤔
Bear in mind this is the same country where a man who should obviously be in prison for treason was made President.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/758/644/576/838/871/original/8639650e31469a2f.jpg

2024-12-22 14:26:21 UTC

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"... please i’m on my hands and knees. do not accept this form of internet..."
This person has A LOT more faith in humanity than I do. That's probably a good thing.
Meanwhile...
"To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work."
- Thomas Ligotti

2024-12-21 15:19:22 UTC

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I feel for you.
This said, your state certainly likes your new king.
https://lailluminator.com/2024/11/05/trump-louisiana/

2024-12-21 13:41:43 UTC

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Elon is NEVER going to be arrested. Forget that. It's a waste of mind space. America as she was known is dead. Died on July 1st 2024 when they made the president a hybrid-monarch.
Musk isn't even in country legally. Yet he heads an increasingly important government department named after his bit coin while his new Trump toy enjoys complete immunity from the law.
And remember...America voted for this.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2024-12-17 13:32:39 UTC

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"It's more than ideology at this point."
You could certainly be right re: kompromat.
This said, never underestimate fanaticism and religion. Neither are enemies to turn your back on.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/668/408/701/893/354/original/c97b76dce2e92e37.jpeg

2024-12-11 13:18:46 UTC

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"Confusion in her eyes that says it all
She's lost control
And she's clinging to the nearest passerby
She's lost control. . ."

2024-12-10 16:17:20 UTC

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"Do I agree with the TV and newspaper pundits that violence is never the answer?"
😂 😂 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 😂 😂 craven fucking assholes 😂 🤣 🤣 ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo

2024-12-10 16:11:21 UTC

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"climate conference"
Riiiiiiight.
I think the accurate term is "oil and gas convention".
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/08/cop29-ceo-filmed-agreeing-to-facilitate-fossil-fuel-deals-at-climate-summit

2024-12-04 17:05:53 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/595/638/304/185/027/original/52d7a3474e571758.mp4

2024-12-02 23:00:02 UTC

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"...They are not afraid of consequences...."
😂 😂 Well no...why would they be?

2024-12-02 02:01:33 UTC

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"As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings."
- Thomas Ligotti

2024-11-30 17:08:08 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/572/999/997/737/803/original/3714e57c76547f5d.jpg

2024-11-27 17:20:30 UTC

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Also fascinating:
She was the daughter of Byron.

2024-11-24 14:46:28 UTC

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"Delusion"
Narrated by Jon Hamm.
https://youtu.be/sgnM1KY4y0Y?si=Zt_Z3i812ZQnvefe

2024-11-23 13:56:31 UTC

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Cruelty IS the Point.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/532/608/893/145/081/original/d93a772db92f7e61.jpg

2024-11-22 02:52:00 UTC

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Nothing technical about it.
He straight up bought America.
Why not? It's always been for sale. Hence a man who should be in prison for treason is currently the President.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/524/333/499/111/999/original/5d26fdefaba7753c.jpeg

2024-11-13 17:56:29 UTC

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"We have access to all the knowledge on the planet via a little piece of metal and glass that we hold in our hand."
For better...or for worse.

2024-11-11 16:19:44 UTC

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It really was wild.
🏈

2024-11-08 19:02:25 UTC

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If you wanna fight with fascists on a platform they literally own, that's up to you.
No matter which way you slice it, on Twitter, they will always win...
After all, they have the owner backing them up. They get checks from the owner, remember? You, on the other hand, get ulcers.
But you do you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

2024-11-08 17:25:01 UTC

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"... They'll just continue to invade our spaces if we just leave. It's fine if you don't want to stay and fight back, but don't look down on people who do..."
I hear you, but the reality on Twitter is they have not "invaded" the space. They literally bought it--lock, stock and barrel. There is no fight to be had--there's only being counted as a number to sell ads. By interacting with them, you boost them. You are not "costing them money". On the contrary.

2024-11-06 17:45:37 UTC

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