Long established brand with a huge marketing juggernaut behind it, mostly.

Advice for new BlueSky users:

This place is a message and part of a system of messages.

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here.

I'm pretty sure the complete archives of stormfront have leaked several times.

Well yeah it's obviously a bit embellished but it's one of the best accounts of the Third Age going.

A lot of the actually good stuff is fanon and ridiculous niche bs like GorkaMorka or the TTRPGs. GW just wants to sell beakies, so if you go looking at the main page you're gonna get a lot of beakies. Try /r/Sigmarxism out.

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I don't think so. Given Martin's age its actually pretty likely GW cribbed some of his stories. But "terrible parenting creates big divine mess" is a recurring theme in mythology with like the titans and stuff.

I've just been trying to convince people that voting is a very low level political action and they need to figure what theyre goinna do for the 1200 days theyre not voting. Hasnt made me popular at parties.

He's such a bad dad! If he'd just thrown a ball around and told his sons he loved them the iniverse would be like thirty times worse (because hed have won, which is worse).

No yeah thats pretty much it.

It looks like blue sky is dying because of management decisions... unless we can put on the best talent show that this town has ever seen

Listening to Miley and I actually forgot the drop-G version of Wrecking Ball wasn't the OG.

I got nothing this is beyond parody.

That sucks. I hope, idk... But I hope this is minally mbad I guess.

Man this recap of the Thargoid war is so compelling I *almost* want to re-install Elite.

Yeah we all know that's why we're asking people to stop being like that.

It's the shopping cart test, except if you don't return the cart to the cart corral then sooner or later you're gonna kill someone.

and causing infection. And since it was an all girls night they they decided to fight topless for, basically, safety and hygiene reasons.

Allegedly it did happen one time, over flower arrangements, and it was a first blood thing. Supposedly one of the women who was party to the dispute was up to date on medical science and told everyone that a frequent cause of death in duels was fragments of fabric being carried in to the wound

The United States is in material breach of over five hundred - yes, 500 - legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations.

And lest you say that's because of Trump, we were in breach of at least 350 under both of the last two Democratic administrations.

So yes, we are an illegal occupation.

Xeno's Paradox but for Fascism.

Weren't you gonna mute me or something?

The state of the world today Istg called every lumberyard in town and no one has spear shafts.

literally anything else that happens in this pathetic rotten excuse for a nation state.

where violently murdering anyone who tries to do anything for social good is the highest virtue. I love it here, I really do.

Nevermind that, like, cops routinely just decide they don't like someone and then use nuisance complaints and petty code violations to hound people out of their homes, or