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23 Squidoo

@23squidoo.bsky.social

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Anti-imperialist, guinea pig enthusiast, old-timey cartoon fan. Undercover Brella main in Splatoon.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · May 30

Stuff I'm into for algorithm purposes
- video games (mainly old Nintendo and Sega stuff)
- reggae and electronic music
- guinea pigs and rabbits
- cartoons (mainly Golden Age animation)
- justice and human rights
- Y2K aesthetics
- Bauhaus design
- history and social sciences
- urban planning

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aetherclaw.bsky.social @aetherclaw.bsky.social · 3h

the "job creator" argument doesn't really pan out when they refuse to pay their human workers enough to even survive, rarely ever hire new people, and outsource as much of the work as they can to robots and plagiarism software.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's kind of telling that all the Democrat politicians who turn out to be Republican plants try to run on progressive messaging, suggesting that Republicans know how to appeal to Dem voters better than "real" Dems do.

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 3h

So the Louvre is really no different from a typical CVS? Everything behind glass but there's only two employees on staff and people are just constantly walking out the door with stolen stuff anyway.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

GOVERNMENTS DON'T ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE BECOME FASCIST
THEY ANNOUNCE THAT THE ANTI-FASCISTS ARE ENEMIES OF THE STATE

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 18h

Just hauled out my old PS4. Sitting through half an hour of mandatory updates and network connection error troubleshooting just to play a DVD is reminding me why I had this thing stashed away in the first place.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 1d

"planning the economy doesn't work"

Apple: plans a supply chain across 6 continents

Amazon: predicts what you'll buy before you buy it

Walmart: ships containerized goods across the world just in time for them to fly off the shelves

There's plenty of planned economy.

It's just not democratic.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 22h

And their leaders will replace them all with robots anyway.

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think Pokémon should even have animated cutscenes in the first place. Nothing the series aims for narratively couldn't be done with old-fashioned static text boxes and character portraits. I've never watched a cutscene in a Pokémon game and felt like it added anything to the experience.

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 1d

I miss when Pokémon characters had type-related pun names in the English localizations. There are just so many to keep track of now, and it's way easier to recall that "Brock is the guy who uses Rock types" than trying to remember which NPC was the one arbitrarily named "Celery" or whatever.

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1d

Alternate title: “asshole who benefits from taxpayer funded insurance wants to take away your insurance”

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...

Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance

'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.

floridapolitics.com

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 1d

Can't escape the same flag in this country. There's one plastered within every square foot, it feels like. You know, in case you ever find yourself taking a few steps and forgetting what country you're in.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

THE GREATNESS OF A NATION IS MEASURED BY HOW IT TREATS THE LEAST AMONG US

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I lived in the reality where Democrats were as radical, and Republicans as "reasonable", as conservatives paint them as, but sadly, real life tends to be disappointing.

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 1d

And the fact that these people are so incredibly off the mark with that worldview despite basic observation easily dispelling it implies that they're living in an entirely different reality. You can't debate with it or reason with it. You just have to live with it, which is utterly exhausting.

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so tired of dealing with people who insist that every milquetoast Democrat is a communist while also insisting that calling Republicans fascists is hyperbolic.

The first party is disowned by actual self-identified Marxists while the other is endorsed by Klan members and dictators but okay.

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about modern Simpsons is so weird to think about. The legacy characters make no temporal sense for the archetypes they represent. Feel like the show would've worked better as a period piece instead of having a floating timeline, with the bonus of being unable to chase trends for plots.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite is the old "Leave it on the ground directly in front of a trashcan" bit. At that point, it's not even laziness. They're putting in extra effort *just* to inconvenience others.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 2d

Totally deliberate for some people. Had a neighbor whose dog used to take giant, nasty shits on our lawn, and after we asked him to pick up after it, he started stockpiling dog shit and dumping it on our grass every morning. Another neighbor called him out on it and he threatened to shoot them.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 2d

*Destroys economy and the job market* "You can't find work because immigrants and DEI took all the jobs. If that makes you angry, we've got the perfect job offer for you."

Horrific timeline we're living in.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 2d

"President allegedly may have shared video that appears to show him dropping feces on protesters, critics claim"

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 2d

In ANY other job, if someone showed even a fraction of the same incompetence, workplace sabotage, disregard for official policy, refusal to answer for their poor performance, or disrespect toward those they report to which US elected officials display on a daily basis, they would be fired on sight.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

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23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 4d

It always comes back to this. The political attention spans of most people tend to only include the past 4 years at best. Historical illiteracy and revisionism inflicts the average Democrat voter just as it does conservatives. Both parties foster and rely on it. Folks have already forgotten Bush...

23 Squidoo @23squidoo.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, if they cared about public opinion of law enforcement in the *first* place...