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Spicymancer @spicymancer.bsky.social · 1h

#bonktober69 catch up: Day 13, Get Lucky!

One man's treasure...

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 3h

now I desperately want to say to someone, serious-faced, in my best earnest Discourse voice: We Live In A Snuff Basement,

Dr. Vivi "vivisection" Section @ars-synthetica.bsky.social · 3h

I guess I'm interested in the latter for this line of thought. Understanding and extrapolating.

What is society if not one large snuff basement

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 3h

how the fuck do you write alt text for a picture and factually misdescribe a scene YOU DREW

new frontiers in "what the fuck do you even think you're doing"

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 5h

Cozy boy

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 5h

...I was killing time in a campus library with an academic text wildly unrelated to my little STEM nerd course load about 25 years ago; I cannot even begin to guess at the source

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 5h

Now for another day of reading people on the internet blithely laughing that trans girls are, like, WEIRDLY prevalently into fucked-up shit amirite,

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 5h

One of the saddest, most human, fucked-up facts I ever read was that, in post-WWII New York, there was a distinct market for the services of pro dommes willing to don SS uniforms

...and the clients for those services were Jewish men who'd survived the concentration camps.

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 9h

Weird, innit, that the ChatGPT tech fascist, flailing around for plausible use cases to keep the bubble from popping just a lil' longer, can outright go "yeah it's for porn now" and yet Mastercard doesn't debank him 🤔

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

of course what the cat's actually doing is "CAUGHT THIS! Now to lay it down where I can grab it, if it tries to wriggle away while I have this easily-accessible non-running-away food — WHERE D'YA THINK YOU'RE GOING, PREYBITCH—"

so what I'm saying, fingers evilly steepled, is: dollgirl tea party,

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

ad at first glance it's, yeah, reminiscent of a small kid with a plushie going MR. STUFFY'S EATING DINNER TOO NYAM NYAM

and I nodded and went, mhm, something something dollgirls tea party, whatever, back burner, what was I doing—

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

So there's this video doing the rounds, of a cat carrying its toy snake over to its camera-equipped feeder (hello, IoT security nightmare device) and propping the snake's head end in the food bowl as the cat eats — repeatedly, as it keeps slipping off

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

You know the saying about the impossibility of getting a guy to understand something, when his job relies on not getting it?

Nerds are like that, only instead of getting paid, they're endlessly, enthusiastically *paying* to do it

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

Real easy to tell which comic artists on your feed are cis; they're they ones cheerily boosting official Batman art wthout a qualm

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

The Head of Empire (XII) #writing#SpaceOpera#Starship

The Head of Empire (XII)

Her Effulgence, Axle of Authority, the Worth of Coin, the Weight of Justice, true and rightful Empress of all known space, seethes like a water-splashed cat...

brain-implant.tech

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

The answer is the identical resounding whine of "but I don't wannaaaaaaaaa"

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

"It's time to cancel your Spotify account. Because of the ICE ads"

This is about the thirty billionth Reason It's Time To Cancel Your Spotify Account; saying so is as futile as telling middle-aged cis women to stop throwing money at Harry Potter

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

oooh, no, AO3 fanfic, ten *feet* tall is an impractically imposing interior door, you uh — you don't mean ten metres.

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

Basically, that chart a guy on Twitter made a few years back, which diagrams the fact that all editorial-level jobs across all British media are filled by an incestuously tight-knit circle of hard-right nepo babies (with massive overlap with British politics)? explains British TV comedy entirely

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

The three laughs you *remember* having at The IT Crowd, or Black Books, or Father Ted, or anything else Glinner did, are because they were the only three laughs in the entire thing; every single project Glinner touched otherwise consists of exactly the same bigotry-flavoured unfunny pap throughout

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

Glinner literally cameos in several Darkplace episodes.

and if you have ever, *ever* liked or boosted a "there is no ethical way to consume Harry Potter" post, what's your fucking excuse for rewatching a Glinner project anyway

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

It remains perpetually fucking weird to see people go "oof, rewatching [Glinner-headed TV series] is rough these days" and have people recommend Garth Marhengi's Darkplace instead.

ooh, it's got an extra layer of irony between the viewer and the same bigotries! so that's okay then!

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Cintamani @amuletmaiden.bsky.social · 2d

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

How can I possibly *not* be a romantic when you can see that and instantly go "I know that exact accusatory tone—"

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

there's nothing quite like a reader testimonial 😇

Well, fuck, there's my head blown clean off the hinges for the day, you horrifyingly chisel-pecking romantic.

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d

Spider-man, Spider-man, does whatever a spider can,
Covered in hairs which urticate,
Making it hard to masturbate—
MJ! Don't fuck the Spider-man!

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