wreybies.bsky.social
(He/Him) Secular humanist, polyglot interpreter, scribbler of stories, maker of maps, deeply aggrieved that I'll never know the true nature of Neanderthal language.
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He absolutely will do this. The report is officially out, but every one of us on the island of Puerto Rico knew only a fraction what had been allocated ever made it here because of him.
He will do it because he has done it.
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There's a 1988 South African/American Sci-Fi film called "Space Mutiny" that uses unaltered Viper and Cylon raider flight sequences lifted directly from the original late 70s Battlestar Galactica. You can see the old-school Cylon raiders in the movie poster.
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Superior! Apparently I already follow her too via a starter pack. :)
Thank you both muchly for the hard work.
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Wait, wait... Are you the Elizabeth Bear who co-wrote "A Companion to Wolves"? š„¹
How I loved the Iskryne books. ā¤ļø
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Their Masters, just like every other news organization in the USA. America only cosplays as a Christian nation, and very poorly at that. No temple in America sees more regular, pious devotion than the Altar of Mammon.
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Little Edie's was the coat of coats. :)
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The āhow life expectancy actually worksā folk share a Venn circle with the āViking helmets didnāt have hornsā folk and the āthe universe will rip asunder if you call a trebuchet a catapult or a wyvern a dragonā folk.
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Iām certain itās just a mauve-tinted leaf, but at first glance, this lovely natural arrangement of primrose and club-moss appears to include a brain there to the right. :)
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Join the club. My noggin is so big, when I was in the USAF, had my garrison cap been a quarter size larger, Iādāve had to special order it. I looked like a Portuguese man-o-war with my big blue sail. š¶
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They started making weed legal just before all of this. I have a feeling thatās as close as we get.
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I mean, yesā¦ But also how gross is it that the appeal most likely to work is ādonāt hate on queer folk because moneyā?
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Atlantic Time Zone here in PR. Itās me and Bermuda, and the Newfies up north. This aināt no generic Eastern Time Zone. Donāt get it twisted now. š
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It was tremendous fun! And at this point in my little jaded Gen-X life, keeping the āfun widgetā genuinely running for a whole film is no mean feat.
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I am so thankful I live in a culture where masking is automatic. No one needs to be told. Small tropical island, large population. We understand math.
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You said 1920s gangsters, right? You spelled moiduh wrong. š
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As much tenure is the endogenous retroviruses now permanent residents of my genome? š³šš
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And I have it to understand that there are many more squatters living in my metaphorical monastery than actual monks! š¶
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If anything, Thanos represents the idea of āat least having your hand on the wheel when the correction event arrivesā vs ānot having your hand there and letting naked chance decide.ā
But the Avengers need us to see it differently.
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Thanos. If we say āwhen resources are limited, growth cannot be unlimitedā that sounds perfectly sensible and obvious. An axiom even. But when Thanos puts it into a real-world dynamic, suddenly everyone owns very clutchable pearls.
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And while weāre at itā¦ Catwoman has recently been rehabilitated as an antihero, but in the majority of her depictions, whatās her sin? That sheās congenitally unmarried? That she constantly rebuffs Bruce Wayne / Batman? That sheās *clutch the pearls* a cat lady?
It never endsā¦ š
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Having trouble selling that Swasticar? Try holding on to it! I mean, even VW Bugs - the original Swasticar - eventually got rehabilitated by hippies. Maybe you'll luck out!
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Swasticar brought to you by End-Stage Capitalism
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The result is an utterly compliant population of people who fantasize themselves as the complete opposite. I mean, if I wanted to control the masses and have them both do my bidding and never question, there are worse places to start.
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And those same systems of pedestalized hyper-self-reliance and the well-fed mythos of the suburban frontiersman do help to keep people from organizing all while giving them a kind of gritty idealism that gets regularly boosted in American films.
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They didn't. Maniraptoran theropods are everywhere and comprise one of the most diverse groups of extant modern vertebrates currently doing the do.
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Swasticar owners literalizing the idea that a law for which there is only a fine is not a law but rather a pricing schedule.
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Same reason DC wants us to see billionaire Bruce Wayne / Batman as the good guy and Poison Ivy as the baddie. He represents the line society wants us to toe, pushing money uphill. She represents a naturalistic rejection of the aforementioned.
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Now just imagine the Ebola strains being given the mathematical wiggle room they need to become just a teensy bit less lethal so the victims last just a hair longer before dissolving, getting a chance to touch even more people.
Imagine that, if you will.
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Iām oldā¦
My mom, a very long time ago: āA butterfly? Thatās stupid.ā
Me: āSheās a moth, and sheās not stupid. Sheās the only of them that can be relied on to be peaceful and sheās sorta kinda Godzillaās wife, so she keeps in him check and everyone needs to be happy about that.ā
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There have been OTHER parties here. And I donāt mean independent candidates who, if they were to win, would have to shed their independence and hitch their wagon to the Rs or the Ds.
I mean whole, complete replacement parties with whole complete legislative bodies, not just candidates.
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The reasons and events that led up to it may be wildly different, but I do understand today the dynamic that led to a Tea Party takeover of the Republicans. Democrats NEED to fear the rustling in the reeds. They need to know what I already do - parties are replaceable.
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In vernacular dictionaries contemplating Puerto Rican Spanish, his photo is right next to the listing for "mamabicho."
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Besides the fascist part, which is bad enough all by itself, end of, can we please all agree that āA.I.ā isnāt remotely actual āA.I.ā yet? Like, at best, itās at the stage of ārobotsā we saw in Robot Wars, which were just violent RC cars. How/Why are people treating it like itās HAL9000 already?
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At the risk of getting banned from even this site, we need to start training queer operatives to purposefully "get sent" to these places and then physically immolate them from the inside once the prisoners are set free.
But ONLY the prisoners. No one else.
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I can't stop thinking about the 2013 film "Her" that seems to be about "What if you could buy a real A.I. at the mall?" but turns out to be a film about all the many, many ways flesh and blood humans are aggressively abysmal at relationships with other flesh and blood humans.
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My question is: Say you already found another job after being brusquely and summarily fired by Captain Emerald Mine and the Incel Crew.
Would you go back?
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Hobbit Moms be like, "These are my daughters: Daisy, Lily, and Rose. And these are my sons: Chungus, Mungo, and Dildo."
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The real question is: Is it even possible to scream louder than American racism for long enough to decouple it from its power source, the concept of manifest destiny and everything that sentiment implies?