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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 1h

"Crush your eggshells before composting them"

in reality: they compost quicker and are less hassle for tiny shell eaters to get a meal, think about the tiny critters

in superstition: same effect but "WoooOOOooo~ Witches will use the half egg shells as tiny boats and will summon a hurricane"

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 1h

On a couple of my threads of thought today... "Hard science fantasy" is this a thing?

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

Some of the jokes haven't even changed! They were doing "black people are monkey memes" in orange county back then www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q8s...

Obama-ape emailer won't resign - 2011-04-20

YouTube video by Orange County Register

www.youtube.com

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

Literally every single radio show in popular culture was racist as hell lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmF8...

Imus Calls Girls Nappy Headed Hoes & Jjiggaboos!?

YouTube video by thejakester1

www.youtube.com

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

This is how racist the country was overall, this radio host was shocked she lost her job after this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jq...

Dr. Laura's N-Word Rant To Black Woman

YouTube video by Greg Hengler

www.youtube.com

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sorry but there's not MUCH of a material difference to them fake joking about needing to do the trail of tears or rhodesia to changing to fake joking about the holocaust.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

It's destroying my brain that other than Gwen Snyder and Jude Doyle, every single person who went nuts and attacked Chapo for being 'crypto fascists' in 2016 is now doing republican apologia nonstop lol

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 2h

10 years ago, Amanda Marcotte was calling Bernie supporters a bunch of racist, sexist, spoiled rich kids and now she's trying to launder the history of the Young Republicans. el oh fucking el.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 3h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 2h

Don't spill the salt
Don't directly hand any one the salt
Crush your egg shells or a witch will stir up a hurricane
Never put your bread upside down unless it's for the damned crown's black hooded butchers

🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly, learning about the roots of superstition is kinda morbidly antifunny.

Just "oh... Well that's where that bit of family tradition came from" and it's British age of sail naval etiquette from the age of witch hunts & chatel slavery

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 2h

Awoo <3

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly, learning about the roots of superstition is kinda morbidly antifunny.

Just "oh... Well that's where that bit of family tradition came from" and it's British age of sail naval etiquette from the age of witch hunts & chatel slavery

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 16h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16h

George Floyd should still be here to celebrate his 52nd birthday. His life sparked a movement, and our fight for justice, accountability, and humanity continues. We’ll never stop saying his name.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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BeJohnSay @bejohnsay.bsky.social · 17h

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

How Apples Go Bad

From 2020: The closer the fruit is to rot, the more rot it spreads.

www.newyorker.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h

Hochul is very much a centrist; kind of notable she's willing to be this direct about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 2h

Woo! Maybe someday I'll be able to attend again, it's been too long since I've been to a con lol

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 2h

😳

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 3h

So... He wasn't joking about plenary power, huh...? 😬

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 3h

Or Anthrohio if that's still a thing

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 3h

It's also Marvel, and a series as old if not older than the actors we're thinking of. I lost count how many stand alone time lines X-Men alone has had.

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 3h

Let this happen and let them kiss. May the potential cast and crew not get screwed over by the executive class brown nosing for censors and fabricated presupposed "audience surveys"

Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 3h

The next question is who would be Magneto, and here’s a suggestion: Alexander Siddig

Coliseum of Comics @coliseumofcomics.com · 21h

Laurence Fishburne wants to play Charles Xavier in MCU's version of the X-Men

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🔞🎃Mx Wred's haunted brain🎃🔞 @mxwinifred.bsky.social · 3h

gAI wouldn't be able to generate an iota of what those two could do together on the silver screen.

I think it might even top the Sirs.

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