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in the 90s I used to be like "the idea of digital drugs is kind of a dumb sci-fi conceit" and now in the 2020s I'm like "everyones high on GPT and its giving tehm severe brain damage"
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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mikepie.bsky.social
1896: Oh no the train is coming right out of the screen!
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
adriandaub.bsky.social Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Feb 6
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Cover by Paul Murry.
Walt Disney's Donald Duck #34 (1954). The cover shows Donald covered in yolk from broken eggs that he spilled from a box he was delivering.
January 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
I feel it's a good move not to eat or drink foods or beverages designed by something that itself doesn't eat or drink.
December 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
It is remarkable that there are still people who believe that the reason hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to live is that we haven’t made having nowhere to live unpleasant enough.
December 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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goldenagecomics.bsky.social
“The Weird Tales of the Wee Males!”

Captain America Comics #69 (Nov. 1948). Cover art attributed to Charles Nicholas.

Weird, indeed.
In a scene out of Gulliver’s Travels, the “Wee Males” surround a “giant” Cap lying unconscious on the ground. A huge had extends from a dark cave reaching for Cap while the Wee Males look on.
November 27, 2024 at 12:57 AM