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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 3h

You know what's funny is that bears are super doggo coded even though they're not canines.

There was one at my local zoo named Skokie who literally begged for treats, every day. He was so acclimated to humans they would have had to destroy him if there hadn't been a zoo space available

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 3h

Ooo, meretricious is my new word for the day. That's a good one! I didn't know there was a single word for 'superficially appealing but vacuous'.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3h

His initial claim was absurd. His fallback claim is fatuous and false. And his manner of defending both is meretricious.

dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 4h

I mean he's picked a particularly stupid fight tonight and if nothing else I'm amused by it

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah don't take this personally but I'm not relitigating the twelve verses of that whole saga.

Suffice to I personally engaged with that account at the time, and I'm pretty confident the person running it doesn't really understand why normies would find their behaviour repellent. That's kinda sad.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 4h

To my mind it progressed from funny to sad when the person running the account managed to get themselves fired and somehow figured that was Stancil's fault

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, I just got the 'disc horse' thing. Can I have a medal, now?

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like this video is a test for people's formative internet epoch; you've posted it several times, and I can't for the life of me understand why it's funny.

Or, maybe I'm just old and grumpy now. Also possible.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 6h

Tbh there's definitely a kind of person who would have spent all their time posting about Claudette Colvin if social media had existed in the '60s

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 6h

I liked how Brazilian Army forces fighting in Italy in WW2 had a shoulder patch of a snake smoking a pipe.

Second World War Brazilian Expeditionary Forces patch of a green snake on a yellow background smoking a pipe. The word 'Brasil' is at the top in white letters on a royal blue field. The entire insignia is bordered in red.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 11h

What the fuck lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 11h

Seriously, all this discourse about how the youth are turning right and a lot of these people are uh

Not young

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 11h

Boys* will be boys**!

* 40 year old men
** outright Nazis

dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

People like their kitsune (kumiho?) gooning

dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

I still can't believe they managed to get people to buy a $500 skin for her. And not a few! I've seen that skin way too many times lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Passionate advocacy for masking as a moral imperative at the expense of public attention paid towards air filtration does seem like a bit of a tell

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna know why Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel all LOVED Eliezer Yudkowsky, right up until they ignored him?

It’s because he was USEFUL to their efforts to attract funding and talent to their new companies.

If you think futurism is about accuracy, then you’re the sucker at the table.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I'd struggle to come up with a compelling reason why this could be an important field of study beyond 'it would be theoretically interesting to better know', and the perpetual obsession with creating genetically pure superbabies makes me uncomfortable offering even that

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

For once, I mercifully don't know who this person is, and further you can't force me to find out

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder about the degree to which this is a field that we're simply not able to conduct robust research in for intractable cultural reasons, offensiveness of the hypotheses be damned.

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Real monkey's paw ask there

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

You know I've honestly always been so repulsed by Fujimori's conduct that it somehow never occurred to me that Fujimori isn't exactly a stereotypically Peruvian name lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Any double-take inducing heads of state or government?

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Does it bring in Cloud at an appropriate level instead of 1

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Why are all the banner guests on a cruise sponsored by Young American's Foundation pushing 50

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I also appreciate the charity being extended here and feel vaguely guilty about not being able to understand the explanation lol

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 2d

Any idea what prompted this?

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