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The Tentacled Mr. Ripley

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"Oh, sure, I'll just plant some potatoes in the dirt and magically get more potatoes. It's NOT POSSIBLE!"

I am floored by the amount of people descending on my comment on YouTube that gardens are a good thing to have, because they truly believe that gardens are myths. That growing food is impossible.

You know how I started gardening? I hurled onion and garlic and potatoes in the yard and did nothing. It got more advanced from there, but it's literally dirt and sun and water. Kids can do it.

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Ask Me About Birds pin. Most of you probably don't know this, but I have a PhD in Birdology. Ask me any bird-related question and I will be happy to share my extensive knowledge of beaks and feathers.
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A round black pin with a bird on it. It says "ASK ME ABOUT BIRDS".
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@lowqualityfacts What are birds? Are they like analog drones?

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AI commercial:

"This romantic song I played at our wedding took me seconds to create. I just said, "Make a romantic song I can play at my wedding." The music that touches your heart is the music you make yourself."

I. Can't. Even. Begin.

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If you are worried that the white Christian nationalists have all of the resources of the wealthiest nation in the world at their disposal, and worry the rest of us are too poor to defend ourselves, don't be. Their wealth is going to be their downfall.

They hoard wealth and weapons because they can't do anything without them. Destroy the weapons, and they have nothing. Whereas we will have an endless supply of rocks to throw.

They only win if they scare us into submission.

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Nick Fuentes is calling for every woman to be imprisoned. He said they should be first to be sent to "the gulags."

The goal of all monotheism is to control the women, and White Christian Nationalism wants to win the religious war over the supply of women for "the west."

They want to control us because they want to enslave us, and because they fear if they don't, we will destroy them.

We should take that as a vote of confidence that we can, in fact, destroy them. (1/

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Your fitness goals this summer are not for fashion or the beach: they are about the possibility of combat. You are going to learn to run fast, crawl fast, and kick and punch with explosive power. You're gonna climb a tree, a mountain, a cliff, and practice throwing things with accuracy. You're going to learn to hunt. You're going to find every place in your town you can hide, and every place in town you can watch from, and every dangerous place you can lead the enemy to

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I went to a Valentine's Day (Friday the 13th) party, and my passive aggressive friend was there. She was all excited because she brought an activity for us all to enjoy. We would pair off and look at each other's faces and then draw each other from memory. WON'T THAT BE FUN? Oh, and she wants to be partners with me!

Every time this girl gets drunk, she calls me a bitch in a cute baby voice (no, I must have misunderstood !) and "accidentally" stirs the shit. Whoops!

So I had to leave early.

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Let's start the morning by jumping right into culture war controversy!

And here it is: If your version of feminism is attacking Christian trad wives, rather than trying to advocate for equitable marriages and their safety, I don't think you're a feminist. Yes, even if they have a lot internalized misogyny--especially if they do.

This is the position they find themselves in: They want love, they want a family, they want to be a stay-at-home mom, they might have a strong Christian faith. (1/)

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There is nothing wrong with these ambitions (I have issues with Christianity, but my issues aren't going to convince them. They feel it). But to get them, they have to be trapped by a man who is the sole provider. Because the feminist answers imply to actively seek these things "helps the patriarchy." What we should be doing is trying to advocate for better childcare, strengthening child support laws, strengthening alimony for stay at home moms--we should be making safety nets for moms. (2/

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We can't change another person's values, but we can give them options so they aren't beholden to abusive partners when things go wrong. We can work to make her role--and all jobs held predominantly by feminine people--as respected and well-paid as a man's.

That's feminism. It's not one ideology. It's defense of the feminine. Everywhere it needs defending.

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One time my mom was going to work, and the elevator door opened and the elevator was full of people. She said into jam-packed box, "Well, I suppose you're all wondering why I called you here today."

Nobody laughed. Then she had to just jam in there with them and ride up 20 floors in silence.

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He's my little baby man
sitting like a baby in a garbage can
he's a weirdo
(high voice)
He's a little weirdo!

He's a baby and he's got fluff
a baby's gotta do whatever he must
he's a weirdo
(high voice)
He's a little weirdo!

He's my little baby man
doing all the things that a baby can
he's a weirdo
(operatic)
He's a little weirdo!

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A female OpenAI executive who raised concerns about the upcoming ‘Adult Mode’ - which lets you sex ChatGPT girlfriends - has been fired for ‘sexual discrimination against men’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-executive-who-opposed-adult-mode-fired-for-sexual-discrimination-3159c61b

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@Crystal_Fish_Caves @GossiTheDog Absolutely not. The battle wages on. This isn't the last they've heard from us.

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Since we're poised for a gendercide, there is something I think abusive men should know. If you feel you've done a good job "keeping your woman in line," know that a big reason she stays is not because she thinks you're too big and strong to defy, but actually, she finds you too broken and pathetic to function on your own. She thinks, "I'm strong enough to take this, but he's too weak to do anything without me." You fucked her up, sure. But when you hit her, she thinks YOU'RE weak. Not her.

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In ten years time, the music industry will be entirely independent and zine based. Mark my words.

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If the Republicans pass a bill to disenfranchise millions of voters by requiring proof of citizenship at the polls, the citizens really do have to hold their own elections and rule the "official" elections as null and void.

A Real ID won't work. It has to be a passport or original birth certificate.

As of now, I have neither of these things on hand. I worry about asking someone in TX to send my BC to CA (of course I'll try).

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I have a shameful confession, even though there was really nothing I could do about it: I donated and stomped for Hillary, but I didn't vote for her. Or anyone. Because I was denied a state ID in South Carolina because my electric bill (proof of residency) was a final notice (as though that somehow puts my residency in doubt).

I don't know if that was a real policy or if the woman behind the counter just wanted to fuck with me or hated the poor. But MAGA is happy to disenfranchise you. (2/

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This is a policy that would instantly take out millions of people. The people who don't have their documents neat and tidy and ready to get to is almost all of us, regarding some thing or another. Slobs should be allowed to vote. I stand on that.

If this law passes, this election isn't real. Full stop.

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The Hunger Puzzles

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The Passable Mr. Ripley

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Monty Python and the Stainless Steel Travel Mug

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Brief Interviews With Two and a Half Men

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We Have Always Lived in Eureka's Castle

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Chico and the Man in Full

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The Facts of Life of Pi

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There are so many Americans that devote themselves every single day to untangling the slop that is our media and trying to tell each other the truth about what's really going on. Some of those people are wrong. Some of those people are conspiracy theorists. And some of those people know exactly what's up.

The important thing isn't that some are wrong. What matters is how urgent and important it is to Americans to advocate for themselves and inform each other so they can do the same.

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America is a fresh start.
The hope that any day
you may wake up
a newborn babe,
Blameless, with
everything awaiting you,
And you may be
any thing.

We want to be
forever young,
oblivious and hopeful
and so beautiful
the world will
always stand in awe,
despite their wisdom.

America is a fresh start.
We are born and born
again
from chaos.
Resilient and daft
and hopeful as
the Gerber baby:
Ever-fixed,
ever young.

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I dreamed Amy Pohler and I were at some kind of End of the World party in Chicago, and there everything was closed, so the party was on a ship--but like an old, scary, haunted pirate ship. We all were given a meal with fried chicken and curly fries, and we made fast friends. But then she got up to leave for hours, and I ate her fries. When she came up, she looked like I'd killed her mother. So I went out to find her more food, but everything was closed. I knew there would be curly fries at (1/

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the library, but for some reason the train kept going past the library stop. So I hopped out and ran, and got her curly fries, and ran all the way back to the pirate ship, and she seemed miffed I was able to bring her fries. She didn't eat them. And anyway, fuck Amy Pohler. I'm glad I ate her meal.

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If the tech workers REALLY want to stop ICE, as they proclaim, they would sabotage the machine.

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What's that classical (?) piano song that goes DUN-dun DUN-dun DUN-dun Dun, DUN-dun-Dun, DUN-dun-Dun, DUN-dun DUN-dun DUN-dun-Dun Dun DUN-dun DUN-dun-Dunnnn ?

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I'd really love if we stopped using phrases like, "wild sex allegations" or "girls as young as 14 recruited for sexual massage" in headlines. You're looking for the words rape, coercion, trafficking, kidnapping and murder.

A child is not recruited for sexual massages. She is trafficked and raped.

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They act like Trump sat down with the girls and their parents and said, "Have you considered sexual massage for your child after high school?" No. No. No. No. No.

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I'm rewatching , and I just got to the debate episode with Matt Santos and Arnold Vinnick.

It's an interesting episode, because West Wing, when painting Republicans, always asks first, "What would a Republican you can trust look like?" And then they make much better arguments for them than any Republican makes.

But the way they do that? They take the abortion question off the table: They make Vinnick pro-choice.

Because to be anti-choice is to not view women as human beings.

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But the Republican party is inherently of the belief that women aren't human beings.

Because here's the thing: Vinnick argues that climate change is a hoax. He argues that tax cuts for the wealthy are a good thing. He argues a free market solves everything. But because he's played by Alan Alda, and it's very well written, in this universe, he obviously won.

If dropping one issue makes them infinitely more appealing, why wouldn't they abandon it?

Because the party exists to oppress women.

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If your state said they were going to war with the federal government, would you sign up to serve?

I'll delete this poll when it's done.

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What if instead of trying to determine what alternative energy (all of which have pros and cons) we should mass invest in once we've ousted the dictator, we just focused on getting one town in each state entirely off the grid with a mix of each, to see what's working and what's not in different regions. And then other towns in the state could follow their example, and in so doing, create tangible results the people covet, eradicating the debate?

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115936406050802415

I just called him to tell him I notice he supports Trump and that we will regard him as the same person as Trump at election time and ever after. I told him how insulted we are that he thinks the American people are this stupid, and that we've already begun organizing around new candidates so he should pack his bags. Let's make that true. These fuckers are not on our side.

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Do not, for one second, listen to anyone who tells you we have to accept that American democracy is over. I honestly believe if that's your attitude, then you're a fucking nazi and you're on their side. Don't be weak. Democracy is ONLY kept going by the citizens. It never has been and never could be something that is handed to you. The fuckers in the White House are occupyers. Accept that they have nothing to do with America and that it's up to us. That is the only thing we need to accept.

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When I think about you
I touch my elf.
(Featuring Mrs. Claus)


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Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.

Screenshot of a tweet from Cory Archibald on X.com criticizing claims that young people are “hoarding” devices. The tweet says Boomers spent years telling young people to save money, and now blame them for not buying $1500 phones and for “costing the economy” by living at home. Below is a tweet from unusual_whales stating that $12 billion a year is being lost because younger people spend less on housing, transportation, and food due to living with family.
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@georgetakei It's so easy: Pay more people more money, and they will spend it.

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“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” announces President Trump in a Sunday morning social media post.

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@w7voa Cool. Let's pool the money and use it to start The People's Government to take on this fraudulent, fascist regime.

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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

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@fesshole Regardless of what she meant, I still hope you take the true meaning of the phrase to heart.

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Man, I abso-fucking-lutely guarantee you we could pick the entire executive branch out of the phone book and end up with better outcomes than you're getting with the Trumpenreich administration.

I just dunno what we're "saving" if it's a system that could produce a leader like Trump (or quite frankly, most of the rest of those assclowns that have occupied the office in American history too. I'm not saying Trump isn't the worst, just that the past you venerate paved the road to him.)

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@AnarchoNinaWrites At this point I genuinely favor a lottery system for choosing representatives. We could not have worse results than what we have now. And this way everyone would have to live like they might have to personally save us, and have to face their neighbors after they serve.

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No. No they should not. And California has had it with unaccountable, anonymous federal officers.

A tweet from @micah_erfan with an image showing a person in tactical gear, including a mask and cap, standing behind another person with their hands against a wall. The tweet reads, "Federal agents should not look like this." Below it, a tweet from @NBCNews-1d states, "California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom," with a link to nbcnews.com.
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@georgetakei If a person is dressed like this and actively holding and kidnapping to frighten and intimidate everyone, he is a criminal, and a terrorist. The citizens, as the stewards of our own country, should halt them. They are not the law. We are. This is our country, and when law enforcement does not serve the people, the people must not recognize their authority. It's as simple as that. We stop these horrifying terrorists or we don't have a democracy ever again.

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Your voice matters in every election, not just the presidential ones. 🗳 This , take a moment to be sure you’re registered and ready to vote. To register or confirm your status, visit the Legal Defense Fund’s resources at https://voting.naacpldf.org. Our democracy depends on us all.

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@georgetakei Just so long as you didn't vote for Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee, sure. And just so long as one of the candidates isn't "finding votes" with the help of evil tech overlords, sure. "Your vote matters every election." Are we ever gonna stop pretending that Donald Trump was fairly elected in a free election? That shit is already over, unless the people assemble, start over, and create new voting systems for themselves.