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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

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Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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In honor of David Lynch (1946-2025), some quotes about how his work on Twin Peaks influenced the Zelda series.

#DavidLynch #TwinPeaks #Zelda
PEOPLE: - Kensuke Tanabe, age 35. Link’s Awakening Writer. - Takashi Tezuka, age 38. Link’s Awakening Game Director. - Yoshiaki Koizumi, age 30. Link’s Awakening Writer. QUOTE: "Tanabe: When I started [on Link’s Awakening] I was given a list of requirements by the director, Mr. Tezuka, such as no Triforce, no Princess Zelda, no Hyrule, and a closed field. ... Mr. Tezuka requested a world full of strange characters like in Twin Peaks, which was a popular show back then. I then wrote a script that fit my vision of an egg hatching on a mountaintop ending the world with Koizumi’s ‘Your dream? Or someone else’s dream?’ Koizumi worked on the main thread of the story and I did the odd characters. " PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 49. Director of Link’s Awakening. - Eiji Aonuma, age 46. Director or Producer of various Zelda games. - Satoru Iwata, age 49. 4th President of NIntendo. QUOTE: "Tezuka: Oh, right, about Twin Peaks... Aonuma: Whoa, here we go. [laughs] Iwata-san, do you know about Twin Peaks? Iwata: No. Bring me up to speed. [laughs] Tezuka: We were talking about this before you arrived. I was talking about fashioning The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening with a feel that's somewhat like Twin Peaks. At the time, Twin Peaks was rather popular. The drama was all about a small number of characters in a small town. Iwata: Okay... Tezuka: So when it came to Link's Awakening, I wanted to make something that, while it would be small enough in scope to easily understand, it would have deep and distinctive characteristics." PEOPLE: - Mark Frost, age 70. Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Twin Peaks. QUOTE: "Q: [Interviewer asks about his meeting with Nintendo developers, who were reportedly inspired by Twin Peaks for Link’s Awakening] Frost: They were talking to me about a Twin Peaks game, and they mentioned Zelda at the time. They said, ‘One of the things we love about your show [Twin Peaks] is how there’s all sorts of sideways associations that can drive the story forward.’ They asked me about that as they were thinking about expanding the Zelda universe. ... I’d played lots of Dungeons & Dragons when I was young, so I was familiar with the kind of story they were thinking about. I think I said, ‘Don’t be afraid to use dreamlike, Jungian symbolism. Things can connect thematically without having to connect concretely.’ It was things like that that I was urging them [to consider]." PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Producer of Ocarina of Time. QUOTE: "Miyamoto: I didn't want to tell a story [in Ocarina of Time] so much as I wanted to have a lot of people appear around the main character and portray their relationships. Some years back, a television show called Twin Peaks was popular. When I saw that, the most interesting thing wasn't the ins and outs of the story, but what kinds of characters appeared. … I think those suspicious and odd characters alone are interesting. I'm more interested in their presence than who is whose cousin and whose parents were sworn enemies way back when. … What's important is what role that person plays and how they contribute to portraying the main character."
January 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
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January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Given how it’s becoming more & more challenging to share LGBTQ people’s art, I want to introduce you to a gay Irish man who was painting at a time of overwhelming discrimination & under threat of arrest for being gay.
January 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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catandgirl.bsky.social
The Great Deskilling 1
Girl: The assembly line is a conspiracy to make manufacturing look like unskilled labor Cat: You say conspiracy Girl: The U.S. is a conspiracy to make governing look like unskilled labor - Cat: I say MAGIC! Girl: HMH Into Reading is a conspiracy to make teaching look like unskilled labor. Girl: Celebrity chefs are a conspiracy to make labor previously considered unskilled into skilled labor now that rich guys with sleeve tattoos are into it! Girl: Netflix is a conspiracy to make entertainment look like unskilled labor Girl: Our whole economy is a conspiracy to make as much labor as possible appear unskilled - so we can pay people less and replace them at will - all the while profiting off their knowledge (Cat is unable to find anything in his top hat) Girl: No human is replaceable - and all workers can be replaced - ergo - workers are not human Cat: It’s not working Girl: What are you trying to do? Cat: I have to do it? Cat: I BOUGHT THE HAT! Cat: I thought the trick came with it.
January 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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yelmelnobrainer.bsky.social
two things I'm proud to have completed this year, both through intense teamwork:

1. 50 units of affordable housing for seniors that is at the vanguard of energy efficiency (battery backup electric!)

2. self-publishing the first in a series of card games about famous concerts
A residential building cards splayed on a table
December 31, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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catandgirl.bsky.social
Every Christmas.
Girl: When we say Christmas is about traditions - we mean it's about the past Cat (in Santa costume): Christmas is a time loop / Girl: The perfect Christmas is the one most like all the other Christmases that have already happened Cat (shaking): The same food - the same music - the same conversations / Girl: Every past Christmas is happening all at once Cat: I've been wearing this suit since 1978! / Girl: Creating a past - not full of complicated people with their own motivations making discrete decisions Cat: I've gone DOWN the chimney - I've gone UP the chimney / Girl: But an undifferentiated mass - a blur of vague feelings and images Cat: There's no escape / Girl: The grey goo of history - stripped of specificity - that we pretend to find value in - while only looking - really - to see a reflection of the present. / (They look) / Girl: I can't wait for December 26 Cat (downtrodden): See you next year
December 24, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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learnedleague.com
11. Memory Lane; Time, Tequila, & Therapy; Happy Endings; and an eponymous LP are albums by what chart-topping and award-winning country band, formed in 2007 in Nashville but named after the state of Virginia, where the band members have a connection?

CHAPPELL ROANOKE

#LL103 #bestwronganswers
December 23, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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seandavidross.bsky.social
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So. I made another thing. Dominoes again. This one is a blend of Trifle, Skellington, and Martini (by @indigopotter.bsky.social ).

It's light but still a little crunchy...
Pavlova
Pavlova PLAYERS 2 players DURATION 15-30 minutes AGE RANGE 8+ Introduction Pavlova is a may-follow, trick-taker played with dominoes. The relative strength of the suits may change from trick-to...
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December 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM