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Laura K@cakeylaura.bsky.social |
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
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Anil Dash
@anildash.com
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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I found myself agreeing with Andrea Stella’s assessment. Verstappen has been taught by past leniency that he can get away with this kind of racing.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Yeah, I suspect this behaviour never really went away, he just hasn’t been pressed so hard for such a long time.
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Mike Drucker
@mikedrucker.bsky.social
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America is like a television show in its last season and the showrunner has a deal somewhere else so they’re just trying to rush through to the end
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grg
@grgd.bsky.social
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Dr. Disrespect was also calling trans people groomers while solicitng a trans sex worker online, promising her a media partnership in lieu of money for videos, and then blocking her once he was satisfied
x.com/leenalovepro...
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I cannot even begin to touch on the psychological impulses behind his constantly dressing up in Michael Jackson cosplay.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Sitting here thinking about how tired I feel, and how I’d love a bit of sugar for an energy boost… when as if by magic my sister materialises with a pack of jelly babies. Truly the universe provides.
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cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw
@self.agency
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it’s weird how the people who insist they love jews and israel want to get rid of all the books teaching their kids that it’s wrong to mass murder us
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I know what you mean. Sometimes I feel in a really weird place about it. I’m very online, but always agonisingly aware of how different the real world is to the stuff I see here. So I understand it, but I also see how insane it would look to a normal person.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I really, really think Europe is about to take a hard right-wing anti-immigration swing, and some of the discourse I’m seeing from my fellow euro lefties is giving me an intense fiddling-while-Rome-burns feeling. Wake the fuck up.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I’ve absolutely nothing against anime at all. It’s just a medium, like any other. But we all know about the sort of guys online who’re way *too* into anime girls.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Just to take it to a darker place, I think the most unsettling way you see this played out is in the explosion of young men convinced their partners want to be choked in bed. And pressure them into it, or even just do it with no prior discussion. Borderline abusive stuff.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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When the Lara Croft redesign looks manly to you, that’s a sign from above that it’s time to stop watching ten hours of anime a day.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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The older and crankier I get, the more I’m convinced that our fancy monkey brains just cannot cope with the internet. We’re just wired wrong to deal with it healthily.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I’ve just found out about the Lara Croft redesign controversy and it’s staggeringly depressing. The redesign is pure pin up stuff. She looks super fun and sexy. And it’s still somehow woke to these mouth breathers.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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When AOL and Prodigy started taking off in the early 90s, our neighbor bought a bunch of cement slab and busted it up and sold it online as "Real Pieces of the Berlin Wall" and "Real Pieces of the Great Wall of China" and that guy realized what the internet was gonna be before everyone else
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️
@ashleylynch.bsky.social
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David Simon is GOAT.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"The poll questioned 75,000 people in countries representing almost 90% of the global population. It found a large majority (80%) wanted their countries to strengthen their climate change commitments, with only 5% saying their country should weaken its action."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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José
@acabybara.bsky.social
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Posting this randomly and not for any recent headlines or whatever
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I wish I had the guts to do that! Many years ago a friend of my grandfather had the police called on him because he locked up and left his car on a narrow country lane rather than reverse for some berk who could’ve easily pulled into a lay-by. Ridiculous, but I rather admired the chutzpah.
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Chris Terry-Enescu
@cjterry.bsky.social
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Absolutely losing it at Boris Johnson's publishers advertising his memoirs like he's a serial killer being released on parole
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
@belalugosisdad.bsky.social
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As both a professional archaeologist of 10 years and a political activist, this is fucking dumb, but if this is the thing you're mad about just know that if the A303 judicial review fails this year we're going to dig a 2 mile long tunnel through the site and get it stripped of World Heritage status.
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Nate Schenkkan
@nateschenkkan.bsky.social
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This cartoon has not been improved upon. August 29, 2016
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I don’t think communism works and a lot of angry people online assume this means I must think capitalism *does* work and I don’t think that either.
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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More and more I'm coming to believe this one thing is the root cause of so many problems that are often blamed on other things.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Reasonable morning I suppose.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Create an elaborate daydream alternate life to disappear into when the utter banality becomes too much to bear. Or else, decide it’s all pointless anyway and insofar as life has any purpose, it’s to enjoy the small pleasures that seem insignificant but are actually everything.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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And then when they do meet somebody else down a narrow county lane, they just stare blankly at them until the other person reverses off-road in their two door renault clio to get out of the way of the ridiculous pavement princess.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Two things can be true at once. 1) the internet has allowed some smaller cultures to find each other and flourish in wonderful ways. And 2) it’s scrambled a lot of people’s brains and got them addicted to the tiny screen in their pocket.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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She’s riding high on karma finally coming for Timberlake.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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My dad speeds a lot. He does it because he’s a prick.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Justin Timberlake getting caught drunk driving feels on brand somehow. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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tremendous
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
@djdynamicnc.bsky.social
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People who say "it sounds better on vinyl" are mostly making it up; modern vinyl is still pressed from a digital master, so there is no difference. Old records were pressed from analog tape and did sound nicer though!
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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I teach in schools and I have never seen young men as radicalised by the far right as they are now. I have never been so often warned by teachers about students before taking their classes. There is a level of rage there that is startling.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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It’s going to sound faintly ridiculous, but I vividly recall the dog piling of Lindsay Ellis a few years ago, and the utterly deranged vitriol I saw from some accounts I’d thought were nice people. It was like they’d been granted social permission to unleash a tsunami of rage on this random woman.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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That entirely meh performance from France has me feeling a little better about England tbh.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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True. I was thinking more how they’re good at spray and pray using high capacity weapons, but I’ll certainly concede that as soon as anything requiring skill or having two brain cells to rub together is involved, they’re as useful as a chocolate teapot.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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It took me a couple of gos to pass, and that was very expensive and my parents struggled to afford it. But you know what? The hard truth was, I was not a good enough driver when I failed. I would’ve been a liability on the road.
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Nonfic-Jen
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It's pretty incredible to think they somehow spent fifty BILLION dollars on this as of a year or two ago and not only can I not fathom where that money went, but we barely even talk about it because it's overshadowed by even stupider wastes entirely by guys named Sam.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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My father texted me to grumpily proclaim that England couldn’t score even if Serbia left the pitch, roughly twenty seconds before Jude Bellingham did just that.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Wait until the last episodes. That’s when it hits the wall and explodes like a truck full of slurry.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I also hate how much this sounds like Republican rhetoric, but sometimes the truth is the truth. In a full societal breakdown the people’s battalion of solidarity is getting taken out in ten minutes by five neo-Nazis armed with assault rifles. It’s a power fantasy, nothing more.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I swear half of them will post about guillotining a politician and then immediately post about having crippling social anxiety and getting tone policed. Like, be real with yourself here. In ‘the Revolution’ you’re getting stomped by the gun nuts.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I see a lot of yearning for the violent revolution from people I’m absolutely certain would get killed five minutes into a violent revolution. You’re not going to win that fight. The people armed to the teeth are going to win it.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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I’ve always imagined he spends 90% of his day trying to figure out a way to use money to cheat death. He just really strikes me as someone aghast that mortality applies to mega wealthy “geniuses” too, and petrified of it.
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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Jesus christ I have been so hungover all day I hope tomorrow brings sweet release
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Laura K
@cakeylaura.bsky.social
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A lot of new Star Wars isn’t for me. Some is good, but I find a lot of it to be bad. My revolutionary method of dealing with this has been to stop watching new Star Wars. It’s remarkably easy.
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