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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 6h

I thought J.G. BALLARD was a writer of horrific speculative fiction but I'm 100 pages into KINGDOM COME and it's just Life In Britain

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 10h

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TECHNOPOVERTY READS: LORD DUNSANY - THE FORTRESS UNVANQUISHABLE, SAVE FOR SACNOTH

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Skip Intro @skipintroyt.bsky.social · 11h

you gotta admit, dementia trump is hilarious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 15h

CASTLEVANIA (NES) x AMERICAN PSYCHO

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 15h

CASTLEVANIA (NES) x AMERICAN PSYCHO

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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 16h

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Metal Castlevania Medley - Scourge of 1691

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 21h

If I was in charge of a Godzilla movie I'd make Shin Godzilla 2 but this time Godzilla shows up with Mothra and they are FUCKING (nasty style) and a bunch of politicians gotta call in experts to see if Godzilla and Mothra can procreate and

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 18h

Special shake up HAUNTUESDAY today, Lux will be absent. I'll leave you hanging in suspense on the game but here's a hint, can you name this book?

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 21h

'Peak' was a term describing quantity not quality you fools

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Pixel Pushers BOOO!!nion 512 @ppu512.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine, at this point, caring how the fascists frame you.

The GOP thinks the Dems are ardent communists, for crying out loud.

Relying on the acceptance of your opposition is a great way to neutralize your effectiveness & end up having an angry parade w/ clever signs & no measureable outcome.

Nicole Adrienne @nicoleintrovert.bsky.social · 21h

You are correct that cops will fight anyone, however, optics are a thing whether we like that or not. Black blocs are great, but they also feed into the "radical leftist" imagery this administration is foaming at the mouth for. Not giving it to them is somewhat satisfying.

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d

We found your section in the library

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Lemon what in the fuck is this

Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 3d

I'm LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/donlemon

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d

We found your section in the library

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d

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An inter-dimensional stream bringing together books and video-games, every Monday and Thursday @ 7:30pm cst, Shin Megami Tuesdays @3pm cst.Older episodes on our YouTube channel.

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d

We're on to Dunsany and Borges on tomorrow's HAUNTUESDAY!

Here's a thread full of nifty links to full texts for those that want to read along with Henry and Lux!

TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 11d

For those reading along through Hauntember with us, here's what @tailboi.bsky.social recs for our Tuesdays:

1. The Hell Screen - Ryunosuke Akutagawa

2. How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon The Gnoles - Lord Dunsany

3. The Aleph - Jorge Louis Borges

4. In The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d

We're on to Dunsany and Borges on tomorrow's HAUNTUESDAY!

Here's a thread full of nifty links to full texts for those that want to read along with Henry and Lux!

TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 11d

For those reading along through Hauntember with us, here's what @tailboi.bsky.social recs for our Tuesdays:

1. The Hell Screen - Ryunosuke Akutagawa

2. How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon The Gnoles - Lord Dunsany

3. The Aleph - Jorge Louis Borges

4. In The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 11d

For those reading along through Hauntember with us, here's what @tailboi.bsky.social recs for our Tuesdays:

1. The Hell Screen - Ryunosuke Akutagawa

2. How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon The Gnoles - Lord Dunsany

3. The Aleph - Jorge Louis Borges

4. In The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d

(Finishing off?) HEARTWORM tonight! Curious how things will tie together, we'll have some special holiday related reading surprises as well!

7:30pm cst

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone else use Backloggd?

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Keep a virtual backlog of your video game collection, then rate and review the ones you've played to share with your friends!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

These are all sourced from “A People’s History of the United States,” and I struggle to think of a more prescient page from a history book that I have read than this one:

useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiro-shima and Vietnam, to save Western civiliza-tion; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save social-ism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all-that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth.
We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly.
The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress—is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as it they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they—the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lin-

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 1d

"pre-crime" is the new "pre-cum"

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It's Illegal to be Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Christianity Now

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 1d