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Dark Academia otter

@acerbicotter.bsky.social

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In the War on Empathy, I am choosing to fight on the side of empathy. Opinions are my own & definitely do not reflect those of my workplace. Given the bad faith actors on here, unless I know you or we share a mutual, I will probably block you. Sorry.

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11d

display name does not necessarily imply endorsement in case you're that kind of person going to @ me about how it's classist and eurocentric.

I am an academic, and my mood is frequently dark now, so....

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 19h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 55m

LOL when you mainly listen to music written a couple hundred years before you were born this isn't necessarily an experience you have

LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 1h

what's the album anniversary that makes you feel old?

Mine is Green Day's Dookie turning 31, because I bought it with my own money after walking to the record store down the street before basketball practice when I was 11.

Late Registration turning 20; because it came out after college graduation?

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

basically "won't someone rid me of this troublesome priest" having several ways that could be achieved....

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

I just remember Thanksgiving break when my niece was a good bit younger and the other relatives her family visited gave her a cheap plastic recorder and she took it back to my mom's house and tormented everyone with trying to play on it for HOURS

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

courtesy of something that came across my Pandora feed:

has anyone tried having marching bands with those plastic student "recorders," the more variable the sound quality, the better, for protests?

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

same. like there are folks talking about "but why aren't you Naruto-running at the concentration camps and getting yourself killed for your trouble, that's the only way to fix things" (you first, then, guy)

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

It's good to see Yarvin getting dumped on and then him getting all p*ssy and flouncing.

Good grief but the ones who think of themselves as ubermenschen are big whiny babies.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

It sure shaped a lot of my worldview.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

I would argue anyone with too much unbridled power/too many sycophants is going to be a problem.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know why someone in a monarchy should get to dictate what we can or cannot say about our soi-disant king.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

Like, I am An Old and I grew up watching Schoolhouse Rock, and here it is:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1t...

No More Kings - Schoolhouse Rock Boston Tea Party

YouTube video by Schoolhouse Rock

www.youtube.com

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

"No Kings" was *why the US got started*

I don't know why people have problems with it as a message

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 💀 @unfitz.bsky.social · 2h

“Aarp” groaned the aging pirate.

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

Call them what they are: concentration camps.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

I hate this so much. Just the naked greed and quid pro quo.

the greedy and the bullies really have won, and the rest of us just have to live (or die) in their world, it's like the end of f'ing ancient rome

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3h

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

I remember this being in the news. Same year as Chernobyl. 1986 was a haunted year

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

This is insane

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 1h

my fear is it'll wind up like a combo platter of The Reign of Terror and the Cultural Revolution and I'll be offed because I have a degree or maybe even because I wear eyeglasses.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 2h

I've long said we should maybe have a Foreign Minister, a Home/Prime Minister, and then a figurehead head-of-state who like shakes hands and goes to state funerals.

No one person can be both good at foreign policy and domestic policy.

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 3h

@ej23.bsky.social hardest hit

apnews.com/article/cypr...

Cyprus has a cat problem: One feline for every resident

Cyprus has a cat problem. Officials estimate the small island nation in the Mediterranean has about one cat for every one of its approximately 1 million human population.

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 3h

a cat with a blue tag on its collar stands on its hind legs

Alt: Cats having a slap fight, as they do.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 8h

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4h

guy who reports every teams meeting invite as a phishing attempt

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Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

it's true.

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 5h

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

*shrugs* Either way I'll still be dead, the security forces will just become their own army and will slam the bunker doors on everyone else.

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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