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Tabula rasa. Friend to two freeloading dogs--one epileptic half border collie and neurotic Kelpie. Sometimes art person, sometimes research person. I came here to kickass and beat cancer, and I'm all out of cancer 🥳👊🏼 (Remission since, 1/24).

Mostly, too tired for the wrong kind of nonsense (but always up for the good kind of nonsense). Professional library critter.

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2025-04-02 05:58:00 UTC

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I'm from the US and support this message.
Musk is said to be stepping down, so it's clear that there's at least some hope in boycotts and protests.
Starve the monster. You'll be helping people in the US, too, ultimately. We'll protest and boycott and push back from within, but pressure from without can only be a good thing right now. The oligarchs are a common enemy to ALL people and ALL life on this planet.

2025-02-23 16:48:08 UTC

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These people have been saying "Whoops, I accidentally Nazi'd" too many times to be believed. I've never accidentally Nazi'd. I've had 40-some-odd years on this earth and I've never oopsie-daisied into posting a picture with Nazi imagery, or golly-gosh-whoopsied a quote from Hitler or Mussolini.
I think maybe, just maybe, when people talk like Nazis, act like Nazis, and salute like Nazis that POSSIBLY the most reasonable excuse is simply that they are ABSOLUTELY 🤬 fascist, 🤬 genocidal, 🤬 evil NAZIs!

2024-12-18 23:09:05 UTC

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https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/113/676/343/207/461/084/original/d05f13ed65592f54.mp4

2024-12-01 17:12:16 UTC

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I remember those days and the lousy DJs that would talk over the beginning and ends of songs just to thwart us would-be pirates.

2024-12-01 17:10:23 UTC

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That image is a whole mood. 😂

2024-12-01 17:00:42 UTC

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Terry Pratchett has a cameo. Ian Richardson is Death (because if anyone is going to speak in all caps, right?)

2024-12-01 16:54:08 UTC

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In my opinion, yes, but I am unusually fond of anything Discworld or Terry Pratchett related. 😄
It's an old two part miniseries from Sky Arts based on the book The Hogfather, which is a book about the Auditors (of reality) trying to assassinate the Discworld version of Santa Claus.
Required viewing in this household. 😉

2024-12-01 16:46:07 UTC

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I can appreciate Christmas decorations with a menacing touch. 😂
It's almost time to bust out The Hogfather for a rewatch.
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/113/578/572/589/814/707/original/140b0834865e690b.mp4

2024-12-01 16:36:30 UTC

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I don't know about Klingon, but he definitely looks grumpy enough and certainly not someone prone to asking people to sit on his lap to inquire about presents.
Being on his naughty list feels especially unwise. 😳😂

2024-12-01 10:21:05 UTC

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Unrelated, but if the Yule Lads isn't the name of a football club somewhere in that region I'm going to view it as a dirty shame and missed opportunity 🤣

2024-12-01 04:41:17 UTC

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Recommended reading: Six to eight black men by David Sedaris

2024-11-29 14:52:11 UTC

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Much like with manslaughter, the victim is no less dead.

2024-11-22 17:09:58 UTC

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"Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.[1][2][3]"
I hope it's a joke but I have no reason to think this couldn't be real, either.
In other news... What does an aneurysm feel like? Asking for, well, myself. I no longer have friends. I have abandoned all hope and humanity has lost me as a participant in its proceedings. 😭

2024-11-13 21:11:57 UTC

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Fair, but from the context of bronze-age goat-herds, I think they did a better job than expected. Also, I grade on the curve (not that anyone on earth cares how I rate world religions). That said, humans understand reality through narratives. That's the framework we're wired for...good or bad. You could rid the world of religion but you'd never shake myths and beliefs.
We're the stories we tell ourselves and the games we play. I just wish we'd tell better stories and play cooperative games rather than these zero-sum nightmares we seem to insist upon.
I only really care if people are trying and I find Evangelicals as a whole infuriating because they tend to outsource all their thinking duties. But, they're not alone. I've met plenty of people who don't try from every major religion and those who identify as atheists.

2024-11-13 20:20:03 UTC

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I think, as a construct and a narrative, the Christian story is good, at least the New Testament part. There's a lot in the Beatitudes that's laudable and groundbreaking for the time and place.
Where it all goes to hell (which has a really interesting history of how people conjured all that imagery) is the fact that in the US (and many other places) people are superstitious and in the US also ahistorical.
But, I'm a weirdo. I think consciousness is fundamental to the universe rather than an emergent property. Not everyone looks at it that way.
I certainly think there are heavens and hells, but most of the truly awful things come from a misalignment with higher purpose and principles.
But this is getting deep, so I'll stop there and just say the Evangelicals are especially dumb. We can all agree on that 🤣

2024-10-30 15:32:51 UTC

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That's the most accurate Zeus depiction ever.
I also feel the need to mention Jojo Rabbit. Taika is awesome.
https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/113/397/095/547/718/676/original/99383cb2c678ceb9.mp4

2024-10-22 22:41:07 UTC

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Meanwhile, I'll be working my butt off in the opposite direction. Tuck Frump.

2024-09-14 01:42:31 UTC

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It's a tough old world, I tell you.
The trees block the view of the forest and you try to talk to God about the predicament, but all you hear is the sound of your own voice.
It just never ends.
🤣

2024-09-14 01:37:10 UTC

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Something about motes or splinters and planks comes to mind.
Some folks have the whole Lowe's lumber section in their eyeballs and want to go around lecturing people about seeing an ophthalmologist.

2024-08-03 03:05:36 UTC

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Dare I ask? 😱

2024-07-09 16:46:22 UTC

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It's a nice thing to say, it just has a weird history and is tied to things most of us would consider strange in this era.
All good. I still say it.
Of course, I also say, when someone sneezes multiple times "I'll bless you again, but more than three times and you probably need an exorcist"
Some people find this amusing. Most people look at me strangely. I'm fine with both.

2024-07-09 16:25:26 UTC

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From what I've read it's some weird mix of Protestant prudishness and some "stars upon thars" levels of class signalling nonsense.
But I don't think people know why they feel that way. It's like an echo of old beliefs. Like reflexively saying "bless you" when someone sneezes. 😂

2024-07-06 13:15:54 UTC

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We have a different perception of time.
Example:
Kid - "Mom, can you pick me up?"
Me - "I thought your dad was?"
Kid - "He said he'd be here in 10 minutes."
Me - "Oh. I'm on my way then."
.......
Calls husband, I ask where he is, he tells me some vague location that is at least 30 minutes away from the pick up point.
......
See also in the car with husband: "Relax, it's close, we'll be there in like 5 minutes." ((Arrive 20 minutes late.)) "See I told you we'd be on time."