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@gnostichippie.bsky.social

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day shift nurse. recovering CVICU. go 🍁. staunchly anti-kidney. former Poster. war thunder forum leaker (arrested). he/him

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mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · Oct 21

brief reintroduction thread:

hi, I'm Mark. I'm an ICU nurse. I used to be a very, very active poster on Twitter but 2020 ruined my ability to obsessively track daily news

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 4h

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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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sick and tired of my internal monologue being in Hindi, a language I do not speak or understand.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 7h

So twitter seems to be going well

onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 1d

these bathroom sinks are the best because usually i want one hand really hot and the other hand really cold

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

the magic: the gathering card "bagel and schmear" from the spider-man magic: the gathering set. Yes this is a real card that is legal to play

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 2d

went to tour the labor and delivery unit and the nurse's station had football on lol

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 2d

If you need a go-to Wikipedia page this is a great one

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of inventors killed by their own invention - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

maybe an unpopular opinion but I don’t care for the inflatable holiday decorations you see more and more these days. lazy, feel like cheating. the halloween ones aren’t spooky at all

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 2d

Today I went to pick up my foster dog, Glizzy, after a weekend back at the shelter while I was away, and I walked in at the very moment a sweet retired nurse was filling out the paperwork to take him to his NEW HOME!!!

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 2d

I have a vague theory that American literature often has the problem of being very rooted in times and places that just don't make much sense to modern readers, because our culture is so geographically diverse and changes so rapidly

LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 2d

The Great Gatsby sucks.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 2d

If it wouldn’t be a good story if you told it in chronological order with a single narrator, it cannot be made a good story by jumping around in time and switching narrators every chapter

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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ceej @ceej.online · 3d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 3d

real heads are already engaged in guerilla warfare

mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 3d

I'd start to be deeply suspicious at double digits. even >$7 but I'm a cheapskate

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

Am I just being a Puritan?

I think it’s bad enough that the MLB allows betting advertising in between innings, but putting up an ad with the betting line or whatever in a graphic on screen during play?

Given the prevalence of problem gambling it’s IMO inexcusable.

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Gearomatic @gearomatic.bsky.social · 4d

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

I love RPG shops. Going over to some dumpy looking peasant and being like “Here’s 50,000 gold pieces. I need a tome of necromancy, three scrolls of fireball, a potion of invisibility, a dagger, an axe, an amulet of feather fall, and no questions asked,” is such a mood.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 3d

One of the worst parts of this crop of billionaire ruling-class crybabies is how their money forces you to have to listen to their ideas, which sound like the kind of thing you’d hear on Thursday night at the DKE house. These guys are not smart.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 3d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 3d

please morty, they have to report back to their faculty advisor. we should unlock the supply closet soon

mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 3d

here's a card I haven't seen in... 30 years Jesus

mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 4d

my "Discover" feed is a land of starkest contrasts

A post about Diane Keaton followed immediately by a grim one saying to buy a gun

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