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Essentially just 1d8+2 fandoms wearing a trenchcoat. For Science.
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August 8, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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"Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
Bonus: it was the one way Anakin could have attained the rank of Master. 😂
Bonus: it was the one way Anakin could have attained the rank of Master. 😂
August 2, 2024 at 6:41 PM
"Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
Bonus: it was the one way Anakin could have attained the rank of Master. 😂
Bonus: it was the one way Anakin could have attained the rank of Master. 😂
Look, you're either with Mark Hamill (seen here attending White Dudes for Harris, a zoom call that gathered over 100K participants and raised $3.5M for Kamala Harris) or you're on the wrong side of the Force.
I didn't expect politics and fandom to cross the streams today but here we are.
I didn't expect politics and fandom to cross the streams today but here we are.
July 30, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Look, you're either with Mark Hamill (seen here attending White Dudes for Harris, a zoom call that gathered over 100K participants and raised $3.5M for Kamala Harris) or you're on the wrong side of the Force.
I didn't expect politics and fandom to cross the streams today but here we are.
I didn't expect politics and fandom to cross the streams today but here we are.
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
"Confessions of a Republican" is 52 years old, uncanny, and completely real
In “Confessions of a Republican,” a self-described Republican voter vents about his party’s nominee, senator Barry Goldwater. “This man scares me,” he says, ...
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July 29, 2024 at 7:06 PM
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
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“Just a week ago, it seems, a new America began. I’ve struggled…to figure out what the apparent sudden revolution in our politics means…the more I think about it, the more I think…democracy happens the same way, too: slowly & then all at once.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-28-2024
July 28, 2024
Just a week ago, it seems, a new America began.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 29, 2024 at 3:58 PM
“Just a week ago, it seems, a new America began. I’ve struggled…to figure out what the apparent sudden revolution in our politics means…the more I think about it, the more I think…democracy happens the same way, too: slowly & then all at once.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-28-2024
American: *wins gold at the Olympics*
Me:
Me:
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July 29, 2024 at 6:19 AM
American: *wins gold at the Olympics*
Me:
Me:
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong." (cont)
July 29, 2024 at 1:34 AM
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong." (cont)
Especially with some fava beans, and a nice chianti amiright?
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July 26, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Especially with some fava beans, and a nice chianti amiright?
R2-D2: *bow chicka BOW bow*
July 26, 2024 at 1:55 AM
R2-D2: *bow chicka BOW bow*
Them: Star Wars is not actually scifi, it's just Space Fantasy.
Me: I know.
Me: I know.
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July 26, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Them: Star Wars is not actually scifi, it's just Space Fantasy.
Me: I know.
Me: I know.
Us: It's hilarious watching "back the Blue" folks vote for a felon.
Them: Oh yeah? You ACAB folks are voting for a cop.
Us: Nope, a former prosecutor. Like the one who got your guy convicted of 34 felonies.
It's not champagne as it's not from France, it's just... sparkling Proseccoteur.
Them: Oh yeah? You ACAB folks are voting for a cop.
Us: Nope, a former prosecutor. Like the one who got your guy convicted of 34 felonies.
It's not champagne as it's not from France, it's just... sparkling Proseccoteur.
July 26, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Us: It's hilarious watching "back the Blue" folks vote for a felon.
Them: Oh yeah? You ACAB folks are voting for a cop.
Us: Nope, a former prosecutor. Like the one who got your guy convicted of 34 felonies.
It's not champagne as it's not from France, it's just... sparkling Proseccoteur.
Them: Oh yeah? You ACAB folks are voting for a cop.
Us: Nope, a former prosecutor. Like the one who got your guy convicted of 34 felonies.
It's not champagne as it's not from France, it's just... sparkling Proseccoteur.
Helping others makes you a better person, which is also true because it makes you *not* a Libertarian.
July 26, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Helping others makes you a better person, which is also true because it makes you *not* a Libertarian.
*laughs in GenX*
Not mine, but "JD Vance is the Sarah Palin of Dan Quayles" is just so damn good
July 26, 2024 at 1:43 AM
*laughs in GenX*
"So are you here on Blue Sky to talk about science, politics, and Serious Stuff? Or are you just here to post GIFs and make your geeky references to Lord of the Star Wars or whatever?"
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July 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
"So are you here on Blue Sky to talk about science, politics, and Serious Stuff? Or are you just here to post GIFs and make your geeky references to Lord of the Star Wars or whatever?"
We have no bananaaas, we have no bananas, today!
Great thread on the dangers of monoculture, species extinction, and the impacts of capitalism on the cultivation of food crops. #science
Great thread on the dangers of monoculture, species extinction, and the impacts of capitalism on the cultivation of food crops. #science
Commercially produced bananas are propagated clonally through cuttings: we've engineered the seeds in the fruit to be tiny and edible vs. wild banana seeds (shown).
So, when "Panama disease" hit in the 1950's, it made all non-resistant cultivars commercially extinct.
Let's talk about it.
So, when "Panama disease" hit in the 1950's, it made all non-resistant cultivars commercially extinct.
Let's talk about it.
July 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
We have no bananaaas, we have no bananas, today!
Great thread on the dangers of monoculture, species extinction, and the impacts of capitalism on the cultivation of food crops. #science
Great thread on the dangers of monoculture, species extinction, and the impacts of capitalism on the cultivation of food crops. #science
Take the politics out of a classic novel:
* Lord of the Very Civilized English Schoolboys
* The Grapes of Economic Prosperity
* The Weenie Roast of the Vanities
* Moderate Expectations
* Lord of the Very Civilized English Schoolboys
* The Grapes of Economic Prosperity
* The Weenie Roast of the Vanities
* Moderate Expectations
"Just write the books, man! Keep your politics out of it."
My dude, have you ever actually read a book? I mean, actually comprehended it?
My dude, have you ever actually read a book? I mean, actually comprehended it?
July 23, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Take the politics out of a classic novel:
* Lord of the Very Civilized English Schoolboys
* The Grapes of Economic Prosperity
* The Weenie Roast of the Vanities
* Moderate Expectations
* Lord of the Very Civilized English Schoolboys
* The Grapes of Economic Prosperity
* The Weenie Roast of the Vanities
* Moderate Expectations
Meat's back on the menu, boys.
July 23, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Meat's back on the menu, boys.
If you reply to my awesome Star Wars reference with another awesome Star Wars reference, you're a keeper. #following
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July 23, 2024 at 12:35 AM
If you reply to my awesome Star Wars reference with another awesome Star Wars reference, you're a keeper. #following
For a self-professed Southerner, JD Vance has some rather odd ideas about the probability of success in a civil war.
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July 22, 2024 at 11:48 PM
For a self-professed Southerner, JD Vance has some rather odd ideas about the probability of success in a civil war.
* Intelligence is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster.
* Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster.
* Charisma is convincing your teacher you actually read the novel.
Any application to current events, including politicians who base their ideas on fantasy novels, is left to the reader.
* Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster.
* Charisma is convincing your teacher you actually read the novel.
Any application to current events, including politicians who base their ideas on fantasy novels, is left to the reader.
July 22, 2024 at 11:05 PM
* Intelligence is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster.
* Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster.
* Charisma is convincing your teacher you actually read the novel.
Any application to current events, including politicians who base their ideas on fantasy novels, is left to the reader.
* Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster.
* Charisma is convincing your teacher you actually read the novel.
Any application to current events, including politicians who base their ideas on fantasy novels, is left to the reader.
It is both gratifying and alarming to discover one's quiet youthful nerd-reading now qualifies me to comment intelligently and at some length on the underlying political theories of a major party's pick for VP, JD Vance.
In summary: *We hates it, preciousss.*
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
In summary: *We hates it, preciousss.*
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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July 22, 2024 at 10:38 PM
It is both gratifying and alarming to discover one's quiet youthful nerd-reading now qualifies me to comment intelligently and at some length on the underlying political theories of a major party's pick for VP, JD Vance.
In summary: *We hates it, preciousss.*
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
In summary: *We hates it, preciousss.*
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
TFW you're quietly exploring a new social media platform in July of 2024:
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July 22, 2024 at 10:24 PM
TFW you're quietly exploring a new social media platform in July of 2024:
So far, the best thing about Blue Sky is that it's like Twitter used to be, back in the Second Age* of the internet.
* Me, who predates that:
* Me, who predates that:
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July 22, 2024 at 9:22 PM
So far, the best thing about Blue Sky is that it's like Twitter used to be, back in the Second Age* of the internet.
* Me, who predates that:
* Me, who predates that: