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CrypticMirror

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Lover of 90s and 00s fantasy, living proof you can do new age gardening on a windowsill. Stop the cult of neat and tidy, let nature prosper! she/her they/them.

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@georgetakei

Fellas, fellas, lads, is it gay to eat dinner?

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@georgetakei

I would say that they like Harry Potter stuff in the current day and age is a red flag in and of itself.

big ol' red flag gif

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Perfect.

A tweet from “Governor Newsom Press Office” reads: “Quiet, piggy.” Below is a tweet from “Nick Adams” saying: “If President Trump called you right now… what would you say to him?” The attached image shows Trump sitting at a desk, holding a phone to his ear with the presidential seal on the wall behind him.
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@georgetakei

"yer a daft orange fanny, pal."

Yes, I am Scottish.

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Do something they can’t control or understand. Says Skeletor doing both
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I just laugh stuff off because prison doesn't have the food that I like. Says Skeletor thinking about all the violence he decides against.
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@skeletor

I'll admit that there are at least eight people walking this Earth simply because my distaste for prison exceeded their need to be murder by me. And a couple of them it was a close run thing.

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Ding-a-Ling-a-Ling! It’s your self-own calling!

A tweet from Republicans Against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) says: “Nearly 80% of voters in farming-dependent counties voted for Trump. Now, many of the farmers are on the brink of bankruptcy because of his policies.” Below is a screenshot from 60 Minutes showing an aerial view of farmland and silos in a small rural town.
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@georgetakei

Something something leopards/faces.

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What if Trump's new ballroom is just an excuse to build a bigger, deeper, stronger bunker underneath so he can hide from the angry mobs?

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-george-floyd-politics-a2326518da6b25b4509bef1ec85f5d7f

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@briankrebs

How do we convince him to go down there, and take Vance and Thiel and Musk with him? Then we can just concrete over it and get on with our lives in peace.

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We’re better than fear.

We’re braver than billionaires.

We’re bigger than ever.

And we’re gonna win.

video/mp4

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@indivisibleteam

And how many billionaires were hanged at the meeting? How many billionaire's industries were smashed, and damaged?

That's what I thought. A nice, polite, civil protest that can be easily ignored. Great moment you had there.

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@georgetakei Turning wine into water...

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@georgetakei

The word "almost" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, George.

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We went from 'don't trust everything you read on the internet' to 'my entire worldview comes from screenshots of tweets' in one generation and I'm not sure we should be allowed to have technology anymore

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@Daojoan

Hey, spoilers, man. We're not allowed to figure the year's big surprise twist when it comes to the Russia/Ukraine escalation for a couple of months yet.

Coming this Christmas: A high atmosphere EMP pulse.

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I forgot what I was going to say. Says Skeletor and then runs away.
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@skeletor

Fucking !

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Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.

https://archive.ph/3GGyU

Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist.

But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

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@dangillmor

To be fair, if I were planning to acquire and then spill all kinds of unauthorised state secrets that it was in the public interest to have in the public eye, I would sign that in an instant just to get the security clearance needed to get my grubby mitts on them.

I suspect that will not be the motivation the brown-nosers have for signing though.

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I revere the Guardian, which covers the political scene with vastly more integrity than the New York Times and other major US outlets. But like every other Big Journalism organization, it misuses the word "conservative" to describe extremism. Example:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/03/newsmax-fox-news-lawsuit

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@dangillmor

The Guarniad is also at the forefront of the rightwing attack on Trans people too, don't forget.

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Can we stop doing that to actors, being so terrified of , just give them the script and trust them to be able to make the creative choices. I'm sure, as our host, Mr Takei, you know that knowing the whole story can mean actors can choose to place a better performance.

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Wasn't Dubya Bush a Male Cheerleader when he was at college? And their Saint Ronnie, too.

Hypocritical overreacting thinskinned idiots.

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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

"What you’re talking about is super dangerous."

https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part

AI is an enormous pile of dangerous crap. It lies, lies, lies. Such an incredibly poor technology that's being sold as a god. When will enough people realize that AI is super-average and super-dodgy? The only thing it's really good at is destroying society.

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@gerrymcgovern I was diagnosed with a serious "slood" deficiency, and prescribed Dried Frog Pills by someone called "Redo from Start". I hope it isn't serious.

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"Trump doesn’t need to declare martial law. The Congress of the United States just passed a law that gives him over $100 billion to put thugs on the street who mask themselves and hide their identities and use guns and camo costumes to intimidate their way into cities, neighborhoods, businesses, and homes and kidnap people whose skin color and native language is different than that of the likes of Stephen Miller and Donald Trump."

Hey Big Journalism, wake the hell up.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/ice-gestapo

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@dangillmor

Nice to see Republicans finally learn the value of Big Government though, and how to make the system work. Now if only they could that in a nonevil way.

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This is the saddest July 4 in my memory. The United States is plunging into vile right-wing dictatorship, in large part because once-vital institutions -- including Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed.

It's not too late to reverse our decline, but it's close.

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@dangillmor

It isn't too late, you can always vote to return to the fold and rejoin under the British Crown. Then you'll just have -scum lite, instead of the full fat version you have over there.

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I know that Stephen Miller gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out.

I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.

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@lowqualityfacts

I dunno, I am only capable of so much hate. My reserves are really stretched thin right now, and I need to keep some back for every time gets her ugly fizzer in the tabloids too.

I think we all need to work on finding fresh reserves of hate, for all the very hateable and punchable faces coming out of the woodwork each month.

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Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.

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@georgetakei

This was the finding of the UK Government's way back in 1980. It was suppressed by the Government because they didn't like the finding, but has been both upheld and suppressed again and again by every government since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Report

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Conservatives, of all stripes, cannot abide the concept that other people may have different ideas to them.

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Donald will never be well hung.

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@georgetakei

People said the same thing about Mussolini, but in the end they managed it.

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That seems like the gayest thing ever.

I gotta be honest. As a Queer person, I kinda wanna go to HetFest here just to see how gay it ends up being.

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We saw the storm brewing a mile away.

A tweet from Side-Eye Pinkie Pie Read Pr... (@NYPoliticalMom ) reads: "YES. I read Project 2025." It quotes a tweet from Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated ) posted 1 day ago: "Be honest. Did you expect the U.S. to become an authoritarian state this quickly?" The profile image for Side-Eye Pinkie Pie shows a person with red hair holding a tumbler, and Claude Taylor's profile image shows a person with glasses.
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@georgetakei

I'm surprised it took so long. I called it on Sept 12th, 2001.

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Yes, yes this is in fact what they did.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from James Tate (@JamesTate121 ). The tweet reads: "Great job MAGA you voted to raise your own taxes." Below the tweet, there is a headline from CNN Business that says: "Americans will pay $6 trillion for Trump’s tariffs — the largest tax hike in US history." The CNN Business logo is displayed to the left of the headline.
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@georgetakei

I heard it was just a Temporary Refund Adjustment.

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We in the U.S. could learn a thing or two.

The image is a screenshot of a social media post by Tim (@trouble_man90 ). The post reads: "You see how other countries don’t play bullshit games with their corrupt politicians???" Below the post, there is a screenshot of a post by BNO News (@BNONews ), posted 13 hours ago, which states: "BREAKING: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen banned from 2027 election after embezzlement conviction." The accompanying image shows Marine Le Pen with a blue background.
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@georgetakei

But if you don't punt critical decisions to the electorate, how will Milquetoast politicians avoid controversial policies?

Ugh, Britain and the US have the same neoliberal hellscape because of shit like this.

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This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

A screenshot of a post on X by user Suzie Rizzo (@SUZIERIZZO1 ). The post includes a text graphic with an orange background and black text that reads: "WHEN did America become a place where people take joy in suffering? Celebrating job losses, cheering immigrant arrests, ignoring terrified schoolchildren, and applauding when neighbors lose public assistance—what happened to basic human decency?" Above the graphic, Suzie Rizzo's comment reads: "Anyone want to answer this??? "
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@georgetakei

September 12th, 2001.

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No horror is too low to go for them.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Cait (@CaitCamelia ). The post reads: "This tweet was supposed to be a joke." Below this, there is a screenshot of another post by Cait (@CaitCamelia ) that reads: "We’re like 3 days away from child labor being legalized." Included in this post is an image from FactPost (@factpostnews ) dated 2/4/25, with the headline: "Rep. Andy Biggs introduces bill to abolish OSHA and completely eliminate federal workplace safety protections." The image shows two men in suits, one sitting at a desk and the other standing, with an American flag in the background, alongside the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) logo.
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@georgetakei

Apollo lobs the dodgeball again.

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It is rather grotesque, isn’t it.

A screenshot of a post on X by Comrade Sisko (@Pinko69420 , 19h ago) with fist bump emojis. It includes a reply by Elon Musk (@elonmusk ) to @catturd2 : "Retirement age in France is too low. That’s a legit issue." Below, a post by The French History P. (@FrenchHist ) reads: "The richest person in the world saying French people don’t work enough is serious Louis XVI vibes." The French History P. post includes a French flag emoji and a logo in the bottom right corner that says "PSEXPRESS.
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@georgetakei

I never drink it either; fish fuck in it, you know.

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@georgetakei

Fellas, fellas, are hands gay?

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@georgetakei

I thought these guys didn't support Gender Affirming Procedures?

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Any remote sign of life among congressional Democrats?

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@dangillmor Nah, they are all keeping their heads down, still convinced that Trump's support will collapse on its own, and they'll be able to come out the other side and claim victory without having had to risk anything personally. And having claimed a fuckton of lobbying fees for their silence.

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@georgetakei

I mean, how much time ya got?

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Sign me up!

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@georgetakei

I've been screaming into the void so much that the void took out a restraining order. I tried staring into the Abyss, but it stared back and then asked if I needed the number of a therapist.

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Well... now I can.

A social post from u/SkinMuffins that says: "Imagine if spiders giggled when they ran away from us."
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@georgetakei

.... .... .... I'm gonna need more booze to not think that now. A lot of booze, stat.

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Keep us posted!

A social post from u/deloisivete that says: "Just got an alert that my 9yo downloaded Google Slides, so I know some kind of presentation is headed my way."
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@georgetakei

Take my advice, whatever it is they are about to ask for. Just give in. You don't want them to step it up to a full powerpoint presentation or a multimedia briefing.

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Not the worst idea...

Screenshot of a social post by '@MoMohler' that says: 'Why do we only have lifeguards around water? I could use someone keeping an eye on me around escalators.'
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@georgetakei

Honestly, I could probably use twenty four hour supervision. I'm definitely a hazard to myself.

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It did feel that way...

Screenshot of a social post by '@NotTodayEric' that says: 'Feb: I have 28 days this month. Jan: I had 28 days each week.'
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@georgetakei

....it is not still January? I just assumed it had annexed the rest of the year.

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If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.

A tweet from user "karaswisher". The tweet reads: "Board member of Meta asks the right question. Maybe explain it to Mark." Below this, there is a quote tweet from user "John Arnold", The quote tweet reads: "So what happens when the executive branch just ignores a judicial injunction, because that's the inevitable endgame here. US Marshalls are supposed to enforce contempt of court orders but they're under the executive branch. How is this going to play out?"
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@georgetakei

What happens when the executive ignores the judicial? You get your face on the $20 bill.

As said:
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

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Fair!

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@georgetakei

They also don't like when they ask what I hope to achieve in the next six months, and I say a lottery win.

Did not go over well.

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Imagine?

A social post from @VicVijayakumar that says: google sheets just froze up (for everyone) on a call and i said guys i think we all just got laid off people do NOT like that joke
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@georgetakei

Remember in the nineties when you learned you got laid off by the morning news, or by turning up for work and finding the security shutters locked.

Yeah, that wasn't funny.

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Lots to unpack here...

A social post from @BobGolen that says: Man collapsed on the airport luggage carousel. Authorities think he'll be alright. He's slowly coming around.
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@georgetakei

They do have strange Customs.

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No worm for you 🪱

Screenshot of a social post by '@zuza_real' that says: 'proverbs are so mean. like i don't deserve any worm because i woke up at 11am? like no worm at all'
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@georgetakei

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 🐭 🧀

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Facts 🤣

A social post from @blahdevivre that says: Remember, when a package says "sharing size", that's just a guideline. They have no enforcement mechanism
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@georgetakei I'm sharing it with me, myself, and I. That counts as sharing.

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🔺

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@georgetakei

Relatable. Not a day goes by where I don't look up into the sky and wonder "how do I get abducted my aliens?", and occasionally I wave a towel at the sky too.

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Let's fondue it!

A social post from @midwestern_ope that says: 1. Go to party 2. Eat all cheese at party 3. Leave party
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