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The Orchid Show

@theorchidshow.myatproto.social

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He/him. Lapsed writer/musician, guerrilla archivist, socialist, et Jew sans frontières. COVID-consciousness and community care-forward. Death to power. Also at https://mastodon.social/@theorchidshow.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 6h

The lion's share of the significance I've found in life has been parasocial and that's really bumming me out.

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 8h

I don't finish most of what I start because I'm bad at games and also lose interest quickly if something truly sucks, but I fucking abhorred my Final Fantasy IX experience and got through the end of that somehow.

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 15h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

My most unhinged(?) take:

This is not just 70s nostalgia

I think we should go back to glass bottles & jars for packaging ALL pre-prepared food & drink.

Glass is near-infinitely recyclable and the improvement for both human health and the health of the environment would be significant.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 21h

There are a couple things things about him that rub me the wrong way, sure, but he seems like someone that's genuinely interested in learning from his mistakes as well as the world around him and I bet there's a lot we'd be able to have a really nice chat about.

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 21h

Man, there should be far more What's In My Bag? videos like Henry Rollins' where he's buying the same shit to fill niche holes in his collection that he would pick up if the cameras weren't on him instead of all of these 'these records I clearly already own are integral to telling my story' PR ones.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 21h

ISO the petite heavily-tattooed redhead Jandek fan who couldn't stop talking about her septate hymen from my dream last night.

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 1d

It's cool when you watch a video of a metal show and you see a metal guy in the audience and it's like "yes, the guy is doing the thing that they exist for."

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 2d

He lost me after Bass Communion.

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 2d

Big ‘I can do the thing!’ guy; virtually no sense of ‘should I do the thing?’ about him.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 2d

He is an amazing technical mix engineer but his gimmick is extreme track separation and that does not flatter old records whose strengths were having bed tracks cut in one room by bands who could deliver.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 2d

Partner finally listening to Larks' Tongues In Aspic tonight after five years of pestering them to.

(The late '90s Simon Heyworth remaster, obviously; Steven Wilson needs to stay away from all the records that benefitted from everyone playing together in the same room.)

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

Quote skeet this post with someone you wish was still alive

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

Gotta get that ceiling television so I can watch Charlie Kirk getting shot on a loop while I fuck.

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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 3d

There is a picture of a cat and above the cat's face it says "Every time you repost this image" and below the cats face it says "A trans girl gets hormone treatment and a transphobe dies"

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

"President Trump is a lot of things (all great), but he isn't a pedophile. Unless it turns out that he's also that, in which case, it would be fine. Ephebophilia is when you want to have sex with your daughter's friends, which is normal. He's also a hebephile, which means that he supports Israel."

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

NEW YORK TIMES
OPINION

It's Time To Set The Record Straight: Ephebophilia And Hebephilia Aren't Pedophilia

Bret Stephens

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

NEW YORK TIMES
OPINION

It's Time To Set The Record Straight: Ephebophilia And Hebephilia Aren't Pedophilia

Bret Stephens

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

Teaching conservative youth to make their teeth stronger not by way of queer-codedly 'brushing' (penis) them with 'toothpaste' (semen) but instead by biting into cement as hard as they can.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

Imagine thinking Tai Shan is the worst Rush song when it’s preferable to 90% of the tracks on every subsequent record they’d make (100% of everything after Vapor Trails).

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

I love how she dressed in that film.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

This is how I found out. Sad.

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

NEW YORK TIMES
OPINION

The Left Claims To The Support The Arts But Now We Won't Ever Be Getting A Lostprophets Reunion Because Of Purity Test Culture

Bret Stephens

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The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

"An overwhelming amount of President Trump's critics on the matter of his pederasty, which we must remember was a foundational custom of ancient Greece (and, by proxy of this, philosophy itself), also oppose Israel. Ergo, it's not a stretch to conclude that it's antisemitic not to molest children."

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

Looking forward to Bret Stephens' post-Epstein Files op-ed 'I Like That The President Puts His Penis In Children'.

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 3d

Looking forward to Bret Stephens' post-Epstein Files op-ed 'I Like That The President Puts His Penis In Children'.

The Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 4d

Makes things lonelier, maybe? It's not what it was. Fascism has stolen all the good.