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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 1d

postmodern finance theory

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 1d

OoT

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Peggy’s Sugarfoots @sugarfootsribs.bsky.social · 6d

Lately

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 2d

pigs are catholic and I think cows are buddhist. apricots are armenian orthodox of course. but plums are confucian. fish and aquatic grasses are taoist. ants are calvinists.

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 2d

root vegetables are eastern orthodox. I think birds and cedar trees follow shinto. flax, some mushrooms, and caterpillars are quaker. dolphins have some sort of death cult humans don't know about. legumes are sikh. dry grasses with long stems are hindu.

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 2d

see I think cats are very muslim, and dogs are some sort of evangelical protestant. raccoons are progressive catholic. frogs are buddhist. horses are mormon, maybe? not sure on that one. bees and sesame follow the ancient egyptian religion. moths, and sheeps, are franciscan.

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safety james @scampdastard.bsky.social · 2d

"burger meat hot dogs for me and my father, who hates me" is entering my lexicon

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 3d

Cough.

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 3d

I think a sloped writing surface helps?

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 4d

look at that boiga

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 5d

amelia earhart just flew into the side of my house

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 5d

this sucks ass, man. every day is such a huge bummer now. can somebody deal with the problems please

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 5d

I took many sculpture classes in college, so I am qualified to say: these rule, 10/10 art

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17d

You don't have a delivery guy from the pizza place, you have an app

You don't talk to customer service you open a ticket on zendesk

platform logic works by replacing direct human relationships with mediated transactions

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 6d

I love Chicago

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Daz @beepbeepster.bsky.social · 7d

There was something inspirational growing up in this era, so much hope through science and cooperation

Which is why is feels so awful becoming an adult when anti-intellectualism and pride in lacking empathy have taken root

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 7d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Ibn Bassal @ibnbassal.bsky.social · 7d

Did you get a chance to try their risotto? It's one of my favorites

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 8d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.