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Keep Calm and Carry On.
#politics #memes #politicalmemes
A version of the "I guess we doin circles now" meme, except political. The top image has someone with a Progress Pride flag for a head picking up a strange new object from a conveyor belt and saying: "fascism?? in my country?? disgusting!! i must use every power in my disposal to scrub this from the system before the entire thing falls apart!!" The bottom image has two people, one with the Democrat donkey for a head and one with a newspaper for a head. They watch the object go by and say: "i guess we doin fascism now"
August 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
bryancrain88.bsky.social
The word 'minion' comes from 'mignon' - 'lover, favorite, darling' - a word used to describe the pretty and foppish young men that Henri III liked to keep around him.

450 years later, and we're still using it to describe beings who are twink-y.

#lgbtqia #etymology #shitpost
Some Minions from one of the Minions movies. I know nothing about Minions except that they look like Twinkies.
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
bryancrain88.bsky.social
Ralph Waldo Emerson on GenAI:
A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Compensation" from 1841: "The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative. The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power."
July 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The opening paragraph of Bleak House is fantastic, BTW. #charlesdickens
"London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest."
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
bryancrain88.bsky.social
"There are no men like me."
"There are always men like you."

One old man standing up to fascism while everyone around them bends the knee.
Top: The scene in The Avengers where the old German man stands up to Loki. Bottom: U.S. Representative Al Green standing up to Trump (photo by Win McNamee).
March 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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-An artificial human with a good soul who's tragically misunderstood.
-Created by a madman who despises and disowns him.
-Just wants to befriend little girls and animals and kindly old men.
-Hates fire.
Frankenstein's creation Frosty the Snowman
December 19, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Introduce yourself with four video games
Final Fantasy XIII Life is Strange Mirror's Edge: Catalyst The Longest Journey
November 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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The closing speech from the Twilight Zone episode "He's Alive", about Hitler leading a group of neo-Nazis in America: "Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? "Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry, he's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. "Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. "He's alive because through these things we keep him alive."
November 6, 2024 at 7:02 PM