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Re-watched The Last Unicorn due to my latest book idea. This is only the second time I’ve seen it. Basically a proto-Ghibli movie, given some of the crew who worked on it. Beautiful, excellently acted and, as you may know, I love me a bittersweet ending. Just a great piece of art.

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I’m pissed for my trans friends. I’m pissed for my queer friends. I’m pissed for me, queer and bipolar and autistic, because these people think I’m a mistake/should be in a camp. Just pissed!

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McCormick was born in 1968. One reason he did not remember seeing people with autism at the time was autism did not have a diagnosis separate from schizophrenia in the DSM until 1980.

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it should be lower than this, no one should travel to america for safety reasons. bankrupt us! destroy our tourism industry

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On the Delfino Airstrip in Super Mario Sunshine, there is a Strollin' Stu that is doomed to walk off the pier and die 14 seconds after the level loads. However, by moving quickly enough, it is possible to reach him before this happens and divert him from his path, saving him.

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there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

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Old enough to remember when 30 campus speaker disinvitation attempts were a grave threat to free speech

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My only take on the 4Chan leak:

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It drives me crazy. To dare to talk about protecting the Earth when all you're doing is a PR stunt that pollutes the equivalent of a decade of a Westerner's life who already pollute a lot. I love space exploration, but space tourism for selfish rich people is a cancer.

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pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

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Hi, this is Marshal Philippe Pétain. I hope you're as outraged by the Nazis as I am, with their reckless and brazen flouting of the law. Together, we can tell those Nazis that they're not welcome in our democracy! That's why I'm texting you tonight to ask you to chip in $5, $25 or whatever you can.

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Just the concept of taking on 50-100k+ in student loans so you and an underpaid lecturer can sling slop back and forth is so goofy

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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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i never understand how people take orders that are pure evil and rationalize it. how do these people live with themselves. if i forget to say goodbye to a friend at a function before leaving i feel like a monster and these people simply shrug off crimes against humanity lol

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Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."

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‘They shouldn’t have been deported because they were here legally’ ‘They didn’t have criminal records’ Can we all see how this sort of carceral thinking made this all possible? And how easily a fascist state expanded it?

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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

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a child holocaust victim, you say? one question: how’d she vote 😏

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ATTENTION: he is trying to Post Through It

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2045. i weaseled my way into a fascist bunker and i’m living among them while they try to enslave each other

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(stoically chopping wood at a remote cabin) Subway franchise manager: strange place to find the world's best sandwich artist me: ..that's the past. I left that life behind

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In ZDoom Wars 2, you gain Mana from generators built on capture points, and Favor (hero mana’s new name) from the capture points themselves. Only 1 unit in the game doesn’t require favor (the common flemoid), so no, you can’t just rush your opponent and throw monsters without capping a point or two.

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Boss Makes A Dollar, I Make Him Die

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Why Do The Shark And The Eel Get A Unique Name But The Manta Doesn’t

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"is this your first time holding a trophy?" uhh no definitely not check this shit out..

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one bonkers new thing my phone started doing is: when I text a short phrase with an exclamation point, it creates a custom emoji with those words and suggests I use that as the next thing I type

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What part of fascism are we in where people are asking for help hiding from special police who will kidnap them and send them off to camps with no due process

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free idea: a CAPTCHA that makes you identify a joke

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“Trump is illegally disappearing people. He is proposing abducting Americans. He must be removed from power. He no longer has authority.” And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.

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i work at the factory that makes resealable snack pouches making sure the “tear here” label is too high above the ziploc thing when you rip it off. every day i leave work i get shot at in the parking lot by a half dozen guys wearing shirts tucked into jean shorts

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buddy, they won’t even let me break the trophy

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"Mad at no longer being advertised to" is tbh the root of a lot of 'anti-woke' rage, or "mad that people not like me ARE being advertised to"

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we’ve solved the Discover tab issue turns out it’s all matty yglesias sock puppets

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they stole my uncle's human barbeque grill and turned the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit

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Everyone on Bluesky making sure their mutuals aren’t the Matt Yglesias sock puppet account by making them write a good post

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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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Damn. They fucked up the grand scheme of things

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“When god closes a door, he opens a window.” - Eric Clapton

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do you guys think vance ever had it in him to be a lovable oaf? like if his life had taken a different path? that would have been so much better and sometimes i feel like i get glimpses into that world

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"Ma'am, they're shipping the characters. Yes, it's happening again."

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cringe aside if you are someone who makes a living arguing about ideas and it’s revealed you’ve been running sock puppets to buy those ideas credibility online, you straight up have to retire

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Literally the only acceptable post of a matty y screenshot is him embarrassing himself so hard it gives me full body cringe lmao

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Had a new book idea last night. A fable inspired by, in particular, Legend and The Last Unicorn. Already got a rough idea and put it in my writing queue!

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We have fallen so far from the proud day when Obama closed Gitmo.

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Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

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anyone who is acting like the US and el salvadore simply accidently deported the wrong people and can’t find them is lying because they don’t want to admit they rather like that fascistic deporting of political enemies into death camps is essentially legal now

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