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Don't talk to me or my son ever again
A mustachioed man holding in his hand a monito del monte
desiderratum.bsky.social
It's very funny how Michael Morbius exists as a "scientific" vampire in a continuity that straight up has Dracula in it
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alexblechman.bsky.social
The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups
desiderratum.bsky.social
Fried tribbles? Beam me the fuck up!
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Spin lattices cogitate like this 👋
Transformers cogitate like this 🤞
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That said, when it comes to people like Juniper, that actively mock the plight of Ukrainians, I think it's safe to assume that they are not really in it to end the suffering of Palestinians
desiderratum.bsky.social
So it's possible for someone to be genuinely unantisemitic while nonetheless being horribly prejudiced against Israelis, although in practice antisemitic ideas are apt to seep in
desiderratum.bsky.social
E.g. It conspicuously wasn't directed at the Chinese, that time around
desiderratum.bsky.social
I think there's also something of an analogy to how Japan was an imperialist aggressor in WWII, which made Japanese the subjects of venomous racism from Americans. This racism didn't appear ex nihilo (see: The Yellow Peril), but it was nonetheless a novel strain
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ligerlillie.bsky.social
Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —
An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.
desiderratum.bsky.social
Or "You and the Atom Bomb", with its talk of the world being reduced to 3 great powers & a new epoch of oppression
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snowden.st
Gonna boost Orwell’s critical essay on Charles Dickens as a great example of his ability to give you a lot to think about, and pushes you to consider things more deeply, even if you don’t agree with it all.
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Election-Twitter alumni reading this discourse
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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
Whoa. Check out this new ZX Spectrum game "Cubix". 👏
desiderratum.bsky.social
Poppycock! With his Phrygian cap, Papa Smurf is clearly an avatar of Reason & the revolutionary spirit!
desiderratum.bsky.social
Yeah. Also, FWIW, Doctor Who in the 70s produced 2 scenes in that vein, one of which (in Genesis of the Daleks) was an intentional homage to the Seventh Seal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4IF...
Welcome to Skaro | Genesis of the Daleks | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
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"I love drinking Coke Cola while browsing the infosphere on my cyberphone"
desiderratum.bsky.social
It feels like a sign you're in an alternative timeline
desiderratum.bsky.social
Yeah, or literary classics

But yeah, TLOU2 is an interesting case, & from what I can tell the discourse mutated from an article in 2020 criticizing it for having a naive, equivocating view of the I-P conflict to people thinking Neil Druckman supports settlements in the West Bank
desiderratum.bsky.social
People like to bemoan the failure of audiences to detect subtext, but you don't see much discussion of the opposite mode of failure, namely deceiving oneself into thinking that an author didn't hold the deplorable views reflected in their work
desiderratum.bsky.social
Something that I'm kicking myself for not realizing sooner is that halfway-decent AI videos are actually more convincing than AI-photos, because movement of any kind acts as slight-of-hand for their defects