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Johann Lau
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November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I'm too stupid to prove I'm human LMAO

it's honestly a skill issue, I cannot get in

but I also can't stop laughing so there's that ^^
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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image by Made, 1996

32 colors!
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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from Twitter

no credit because fuck Twitter
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out. -- Traudl Junge
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Quelle: www.nybooks.com/articles/197...
> The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please. -- Hannah Arendt, Interview with Roger Errera (1974)
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Here's what I wrote about Trump on January 25th 2016, before his first election. I'm not saying this is super insightful, just that women and children don't have speshul insights.

More importantly, the Dems rested on not being Trump. That is NOT good enough, and it handed the election to Trump.
Like Hitler, "sacrifice" and destruction of others and self for the whims of a narcissistic sociopath is what his supporters signed up for. Him saying that out loud, and other people being shocked about that, doesn't just not phase the supporters, it turns them on. When people roll their eyes and say "Whatever will he say next?", to Trumps supporters that makes him seem like a bad ass. They love when their big brother scares or confuses the goody two shoes with their logic and words. And if "he won't win, he's too crazy" is the only thing between oneself and a country falling to fascism, that's not enough. I'm not sure if I'm worried about Trump yet, but how this is treated really irks me, like yet another crazy spectacle in a movie people just watch. That's how Germany treated Hitler and that's how Europe treated the prospects of Hitler starting another war, and that's not good enough. And besides, the people who support and would elect him will still be around, waiting for another führer. They have their talk show hosts and Ann Coulter's, keeping their dysfunctions raw and untreated and them primed to throw themselves at anyone who comes along and fits the bill. Sacrificing themselves for führer and fatherland against a horde of amorphous enemies and traitors, causing destruction and death while screaming "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!" all the time, and always finding/making new enemies... that's what they want, that's what a lot of people in a lot of countries want. That's the really scary bit, more so than individual people who exploit it. Trump is one of the symptoms of widespread ignorance, abuse and personality disorders, in a nutshell.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Biden promised one term, and then they lied about him being senile. Then at the last moment they've got a candidate that's condescending and promises to "stay the course" -- the one people are SICK TO DEATH WITH.

No: Listen to Mamdami.

There are women and even children who can understand this:
People are angry, frightened, desperate. This is actually pre-Trump. 40 years of neoliberalism have left the victims of this assault angry, resentful, isolated, contemptuous of government. It's in Europe, it's in the United States, you see it everywhere. That's fertile territory for demagogues who can say "I can save you, follow me." It's also fertile territory for conspiracy theories. People want some understanding of what's happening; they're not getting it from the media, they're not getting it from the intellectual classes, they're certainly not getting it from the government. So they search around for something that'll explain it. Why is this happening to us? That's the kind of situation in which you do get conspiracy theories. [..] When you're living in an intellectual environment in which there are no answers, no coherent answers available, you're suffering, you don't see why, you turn to, you grasp on to something. [..] It's happening all over, and I think you can trace a good deal of it to the effects of neoliberalism. It had a goal, remember: the goal of neoliberalism was the transfer decisions, authority, away from the public to the hands of private power, and to atomize the population. [..] no society, just individuals tossed out into the market that somehow survive for themselves. [..] The first acts, first acts, that both Thatcher and Reagan carried out was to demolish labour unions. [..] Did it right away. The labour unions had been smashed in both countries. Why? Well, it's one of the very few ways in which people can organize to protect themselves, so we've got to get rid of them. Eliminate public schools, but do it by underfunding, don't give enough funding so they don't work, then support private schools as an alternative. All throughout the society, eliminate the means for people to organize, act collectively, make decisions. Transferred into the hands of private power. And the results are predictable and perfectly plain. --Noam Chomsky
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"Sam Taking A Selfie With Her Robot Called Tom" by Facet, 1st in the Decrunch 2023 Amiga Pixel GFX competition

Only 32 colors! I miss pixel art so much. The beautiful kind I mean, not the "pixelated ugly indie game with square particles" kind.
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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lol & mowl & nie wieder ein Produkt von HP
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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sure thing
October 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The crucially important "ideas" in entertainment on Netflix et al, of which there are none. gOoD fOR YoU.
> When books or pictures in reproduction are thrown on the market cheaply and attain huge sales, this does not affect the nature of the objects in question. But their nature is affected when these objects themselves are changed rewritten, condensed, digested, reduced to kitsch in reproduction, or in preparation for the movies. This does not mean that culture spreads to the masses, but that culture is being destroyed in order to yield entertainment. The result of this is not disintegration but decay, and those who actively promote it are not the Tin Pan Alley composers but a special kind of intellectuals, often well read and well informed, whose sole function is to organize, disseminate, and change cultural objects in order to persuade the masses that Hamlet can be as entertaining as My Fair Lady, and perhaps educational as well. There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say. -- Hannah Arendt, "The Crisis in Culture - Its Social and Its Political Significance"
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Nepper. Schlepper, Bauernfänger
September 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I LOL'd
September 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I was going to link to the most wholesome thing on the interwebs but apparently it no longer exists, I tried all permutations :(
September 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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awwwwwww
September 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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"Wer seinen Frust kundtat und Anerkennung für die eigene Situation suchte, wurde mit langen Faktenchecks über Fluchtmigration ruhiggestellt."

Die Werbung dazu:
September 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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A total rug pull at the expense of users, including user-hostile design and making it seem like it's opt-in when it's really on by default.

I am so shocked! I would never ever have seen this coming in a million years.
August 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Why can't I find the lyrics for this anywhere on the web?
still of the music video showing youtube subtitles summarizing the whole lyrics as "foreign"
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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August 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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much pro

such trustworthiness
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM