Pete Schult
@peteschult.bsky.social
Tech librarian, folkdancer, nudist
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A thing I don’t enjoy in stories? Characters being mind controlled to act against their interests through magic or hypnosis or whatever. It’s so lazy. Especially since it’s clear from the world around us that people can delude themselves into believing evil shit all on their own.
March 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A thing I don’t enjoy in stories? Characters being mind controlled to act against their interests through magic or hypnosis or whatever. It’s so lazy. Especially since it’s clear from the world around us that people can delude themselves into believing evil shit all on their own.
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seen a lot of confusion about this, so: when you don't drive a car, you have to go to the store more often. hope this helps
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
seen a lot of confusion about this, so: when you don't drive a car, you have to go to the store more often. hope this helps
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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Is it ok if I share a bookish thought that may end up being stupid without y’all jumping me? (Kidding, do what you gotta. But I bite back).
Here’s the thing… is the only real difference between folklore and fantasy that white people can pretend they invented one of them? 🤣🤣🤣
Here’s the thing… is the only real difference between folklore and fantasy that white people can pretend they invented one of them? 🤣🤣🤣
February 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Is it ok if I share a bookish thought that may end up being stupid without y’all jumping me? (Kidding, do what you gotta. But I bite back).
Here’s the thing… is the only real difference between folklore and fantasy that white people can pretend they invented one of them? 🤣🤣🤣
Here’s the thing… is the only real difference between folklore and fantasy that white people can pretend they invented one of them? 🤣🤣🤣
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"Aren't you the country where people hang plastic testicles on their cars?" Ok wise guy, and where do people in your country hang them?
February 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Aren't you the country where people hang plastic testicles on their cars?" Ok wise guy, and where do people in your country hang them?
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Congress out onions The Onion
The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country
February 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Congress out onions The Onion
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![Since we're renaming things [map with canada and mexico but US is renamed Karen]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreigeutfyrzagg3ritzki2hs65chq5tzczcqcrbgubjp4uojb3oy5gm@jpeg)
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You do not give one inch to a fascist, period.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
You do not give one inch to a fascist, period.
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Nope, it's a small test to see who will go along.
February 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Nope, it's a small test to see who will go along.
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Disingenuous argument. Denali was Denali before it was McKinley. Gulf of Mexico was *never* Gulf of America. The author would have us accept Trump renaming the Atlantic Ocean to the Great MAGA Sea. It's just nonsensical. We have to fight stupid, because accepting stupid just invites stupider.
February 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Disingenuous argument. Denali was Denali before it was McKinley. Gulf of Mexico was *never* Gulf of America. The author would have us accept Trump renaming the Atlantic Ocean to the Great MAGA Sea. It's just nonsensical. We have to fight stupid, because accepting stupid just invites stupider.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Even when well-intentioned, the rhetoric of humanization desensitizes us to the violence it describes.
Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide
What two new books from Omar El Akkad and Mohammed El-Kurd tell us about the war on the Palestinian people.
themarkaz.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Even when well-intentioned, the rhetoric of humanization desensitizes us to the violence it describes.
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A sad and interesting take. A military annexation of Canada would destroy both the US and Canada.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.
theconversation.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A sad and interesting take. A military annexation of Canada would destroy both the US and Canada.
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
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“Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch.”
vancouversun.com/news/opinion...
vancouversun.com/news/opinion...
Opinion: Farewell to my American friends. It's over.
Pete McMartin: Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Read more.
vancouversun.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch.”
vancouversun.com/news/opinion...
vancouversun.com/news/opinion...
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So will I, emulating you, while thinking of it privately as the Gulf of Scalzico.
I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
So will I, emulating you, while thinking of it privately as the Gulf of Scalzico.