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internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
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My discussion with meme anthropologist Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social is a close read on internet memes as a legit art form. He also emphasizes the importance of remaining active online and within SM as activists. LINK: tinyurl.com/28yxobmq

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Dear Manager, Last week I built: 1. two vast and trunkless legs of stone 2. a shattered visage (half sunk) 3. frown, wrinkled lip, sneer of cold command 4. pedestal 5. inscription on same (cc Ozymandias)

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here you go, my weekly spoonful of slop for the content feed, please enjoy this you lovely animal: open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

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nothing hits harder than a skillfully cooked potato. grace, simplicity, crunch

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what elon’s done to the doge meme is the equivalent of resurrecting kabosu from the grave and killing her a second time

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what happened to trains in america. we used to lead the world in train. they’ve turned all the train tracks into bikepaths now. bygone era. choo choo. you couldn’t make a show like thomas today, the kids just don’t remember

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all of our villains are freaks. we used to make elegant, evil, genteel villains. problem for society, among several

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Talked with the wonderful @woodruff.bsky.social about skibidi, memes, activism, and all else under the stars! www.frederickwoodruff.com/p/the-art-an...

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For now, outside of the moderators of the Skibidi fan wiki (who appear to be literal children) I am the world’s leading expert on Skibidi Toilet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qmT...

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long-anticipated Skibidi Toilet comprehensive video essay has dropped youtu.be/4qmT05ILtAs?...

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they can imagine flying cars and colonies on mars, but can’t imagine you having affordable healthcare. you can’t outspend or outgun them, but you already are braver, kinder, and more creative

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Was honored to talk memes with @slate.bsky.social podcast ICYMI! Had so much fun with the wonderful and perceptive hosts Kate and Candice!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

“an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual”

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rally at 5 PM on Tuesday at the Treasury Department

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 27 days ago • 4414 comments

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

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What ties Quandale Dingle, QAnon, Goncharov, Floptropica, and the SCP Foundation together? Meme Lore, a developing form and literary genre. howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/is-meme-lo...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

last time trump was president, these guys were in zoom covid-era high school with the other tab open looking at truly ghastly radicalizing memes

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yet again, mike duncan’s “the martian revolution,” despite being entirely fictional, manages to perfectly describe Everything happening currently

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been playing the social democracy simulator game too much. i’m now on Alfred Hugenberg wikipedia article learning about newspapers in the 1920s

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1

submitted 32 days ago • 781 comments

planning a series on tiktok about “international memes.” this week it was french cat brainrot. next week, germanrot. do you have any suggestions?

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the only limit is what they can get away with, and they will always try to get away with as much as possible. so predictable.

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I'm back.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

New career peak: I believe I am the first person to lecture on Skibidi Toilet at an Ivy League Institution

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Weird that Substack is so into Aaron Parnas right now and gave him $25k. Worrying sign about alt media -- if it really wants to succeed, it can't repeat the mistakes legacy media made, like shallow reporting and giving cushy jobs to former henchmen of politicians www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcete...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t log off. If you’ve landed here from X or TikTok, quitting the internet isn’t the answer. Become a true digital citizen instead.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment