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Reading a post-apocalyptic novel, and it was really stressful until the main character stumbled upon a small, welcoming collective of close-knit idealists. Thank goodness!

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 17d

Comic panel of Donald duck being grabbed by Mickey Mouse.

Donald: Everything that we know and love is reducing to the absurd acts of chemicals, and there is therefore no intrinsic value in this material universe.

Mickey: Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you they are chemicals. All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 18d

...so, cops?

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 21d

Saturday morning cartoons really gave me an unrealistic expectation for how many problems could be solved through turtle power.

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 24d

But if you put cat ears on a drawing, Mastercard gets to delete your bank account

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 24d

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 24d

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”

Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 26d

What is based?

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 15

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26d

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 28d

that's a relief

Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 28d

in this imagined scenario I am also relevant

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 28d

Gotta wonder, if I'm ever assassinated will there be national headlines trying to sincerely explain the distinction between a 'breadtuber' and a 'debate-bro?'

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Sep 11

conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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