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shitlibs fuck off back to Twitter | games, music, wrestling, feminism and intersectional socialism | use the fucking pronoun labeller | no seriously blue maga needs to stop ruining this hellsite
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you're unironically doing a Skinner lmaooooo
Principal Seymour Skinner, not finding Bart Simpson at the 4-H Club (which is now extremely dilapidated and disused), going 'Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.'
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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same vibes
A scene from Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, where Birdman is visited by the Jetsons, who are extremely disheveled, having walked twenty steps to Birdman's desk from the door. Transcription as follows: PEANUT: You guys from Florida? GEORGE JETSON: No. We're from the future. ELROY JETSON: Yeah, the 21st Century: GEORGE JETSON: The magnificent far-off year of 2002! (Harvey Birdman looks at his desk calendar. It is 2004.)
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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no good Dynasty except wrestling shows called Dynasty
The poster for AEW Dynasty 2024, prominently featuring Men's World Champion Samoa Joe (who would that night wrestle Swerve Strickland). Around him are Women's World Champion 'Timeless' Toni Storm (I can't remember who she wrestled that night, but it was Timeless), Continental Crown champion Eddie Kingston (I think that was the night he wrestled Kazuchika Okada idk), International Champion Roderick Strong (did he wrestle Ospreay that night or was that the month after aaaaa), TNT Champion Christian Cage, TBS Champion Julia Hart, and Trios Champions The Acclaimed and 'Daddy Ass' Billy Gunn (I can't remember who any of them wrestled but it was a really good show okay) A poster for NJPW/AEW/CMLL Wrestle Dynasty 2025. Card was as follows: -Kenny Omega vs. Gabe Kidd (singles match) -Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet (singles match that became a title match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship the day before) -Mina Shirakawa vs. Mercedes Moné (double title singles match for the RevPro Women's Championship and the NJPW Strong Women's Championship) -Tomohiro Ishii vs. Konosuke Takeshita (singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship) -Persephone vs. Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Athena (International Women's Cup 4 Way Match) -David Finlay vs. Brody King (singles match) -Yota Tsuji vs. Jack Perry (singles match) -Great O-Khan/mystery partner vs. Matthew & Nicholas Jackson (tag team match for the IWGP World Tag Team Championships) -Shota Umino vs. Claudio Castagnoli (singles match) -Dustin Rhodes/Sammy Guevara vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru/SHO (tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship) -Lucha gauntlet match A poster for AEW Dynasty 2025. In the centre is Kenny Omega, who was defending the International Championship that night against Ricochet and 'Speedball' Mike Bailey. On the left edge is 'Timeless' Toni Storm, defending the AEW Women's Championship against Megan Bayne on the right edge, and in the back are Jon Moxley and Swerve Strickland, and the former was defending the AEW Men's World Championship against the latter.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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do you think the Greek anarchists were wrong to beat up that ancap for being an ancap

(you have almost certainly seen this before, but source anyway www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Ca...)
Eventually one of the guys spoke up and I thought he was Greek, but he spoke English perfectly so he may have not been. He said he knew what anarcho-capitalism was and that we were basically fascists. He asked me if I thought everything should be private. And I said yes. And he asked me if I thought people were unequal. And I told him yes. And that not everyone would have equal rights. I said everyone has the right to own property and not be done aggression against. But that not everyone had to be treated equally by the owners. He said what about immigrants and racism. And I said that would not happen in a free market, but yes property owners could be racist if they wanted to. They had to respect property. Then he called me a fascist again, and someone else said I was a fascist. And then they basically all started shouting fascist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me." Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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that is centrism
Fishhook theory: because centrists love the far right infinitely more than they love the far left.
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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reclaim the calendar!
Stewart Lee, with confetti on his head, talking about how he was in Granada, Spain, on 911, the 9th of November, reclaim the calendar!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinbor...

okay, this is a whole new rabbit hole.

I think my original thesis still works. Hang on.
Members of the Eriez, Iroquois, and Cornplanter Native tribes were the first known inhabitants of the area that is now known as Edinboro. These nations called the region Conneauttee, meaning "land of the living snowflake". William Culbertson moved to the area in 1801, building a gristmill near Conneauttee Lake.[6] From 1801 to 1825, the roots of the town were formed when congregations of Presbyterian and Methodist churches began moving to the area and building houses and churches, some of which are still standing today. The first settler, William Culbertson, built the first school around 1825. The first post office was built around 1837 when it was included in the Erie and Crawford counties' postal routes. The farms helped the area grow during this time, and the area was incorporated in 1840 with a population of 232 at about 500 acres (200 ha). A turnpike between Erie and Meadville was constructed in the 1840s; it was made of wooden planks, and completed in 1852. In 1857, an academy was started, which was renamed the State Normal School in 1861, and which would eventually become Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro.
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Where in West Africa was the term 'obeah' first used? I don't know, but it came to have multiple definitions and associations across what is now Ghana and Nigeria. Highly recommend this essay on the subject (transcriptions of excerpts in alt text) jeromehandler.com/wp-content/u...
Wherever the term was first used in the Caribbean, linguists and other scholars agree that the term itself ultimately derives from some African language or languages. Cassidy and Le Page tentatively note that the derivation of ‘Obeah’ is ‘probably multiple’, and give words, with malevolent meanings, in Efik and Twi as possible sources. A Twi (Gold Coast) origin, with its implication of witchcraft/sorcery, is more commonly given, and this etymology, with its negative implication, is often accepted, albeit uncritically, by scholars who rely on secondary sources in the British Caribbean literature for their information.13 Yet, as Richard Allsopp has recently noted in his Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, ‘no precise origin [for the term] has been determined, but some items esp[ecially] in W[est] Afr[ican] lang[uages] suggest a connection.’ Deriving his information from English dictionaries of several African languages/language groups, he gives words in Twi, Efik, Igbo, and Ibibio that refer in one form or another to evil magic or sorcery/witchcraft although the term means ‘practitioner, herbalist’ in Ibibio.14 With the exception of the Ibibio word, virtually every discussion of the etymology of ‘Obeah’ traces it to a root with socially negative or malevolent meanings. In an earlier study, Bilby offered a very different perspective of the etymology of the term and the variety of meanings attributed to it. Although agreeing that the term derives from an African language, Bilby rejected most conventional interpretations and made a case that there is simply insufficient historical or linguistic evidence for assigning an original meaning in which ‘we can have reasonable confidence’. More significantly, Bilby argued that the meanings often attributed to ‘Obeah’ derive from assumptions in the primary written sources that it is ‘essentially malevolent witchcraft; [thus] it is not surprising that etymologists looking for parallel words in African languages have focused their search on terms that are usually translated into English as “witchcraft,” “sorcery,” and the like.’ But, Bilby’s argument continued, ‘what if the search had started from a different initial assumption?’ Since etymologists have started with the assumption ‘that Obeah denotes evil sorcery’, they ‘have predictably succeeded in finding words in a number of African languages that are phonologically somewhat similar to ‘Obeah’ and have meanings related to witchcraft or sorcery’. However, if etymologists were to view Obeah ‘to begin with as a kind of neutral or positive spiritual force’, then etymological discussions might go in another direction and find the roots of ‘Obeah’ in other linguistic contexts and languages.15 13. Cassidy and Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English, p.326; Orlando Patterson, The Sociology of Slavery (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967), pp.185–6; cf. M.J. Field, Religion and Medicine of the Gã People (London: Oxford University Press, 1961), p.137. For acceptance of this etymology, see, for example, Bailey, ‘Obeah’, p.551; Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, p.620; Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting Zion (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.56–7, 224 n.112; Alan Richardson, ‘Romantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797–1807’, in M. Fernandez Olmos and L. Paravisini-Gebert (eds.), Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah and the Caribbean (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997), p.190. 14. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p.412. The specific African terms given as possible etyma in Allsopp’s entry are: Twi o-bayi-fo ‘witchcraft man’ (also given in Dictionary of Jamaican English); Nembe obi ‘sickness, disease’; Igbo obi a ‘this (particular) mind’; Ibibio abia ‘practitioner, herbalist’; and Efik ubio ‘a charm put in the ground to cause sickness’ (also in Dictionary of Jamaican English). Other published etymologies proposed for Obeah include: Edo obi ‘poison’ (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1963); Twi abia ‘a creeper used in making charms’ (Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, 1967); Ga obeye ‘entity within witches’ (Patterson, Sociology of Slavery, p.186); Akan abayide ‘sorcerer’ (Ian Hancock, cited in John A. Holm and Alison W. Shilling, Dictionary of Bahamian English [Cold Spring, NY: Lexik House, 1982], p.145); KiKoongo (o)b-bi ‘evil’ (Hazel Carter, cited in Dictionary of Bahamian English, p.145); Awutu obire ‘charm’ (George Huttar, ‘Sources of Ndjuka African Vocabulary’, New West Indian Guide, 59, 3 & 4 [1985], p.59). 15. Bilby, ‘Strange Career of “Obeah”’, pp.24–6. The challenges presented in Bilby’s paper to a number of conventional assumptions in modern scholarship concerning Obeah, and the larger perspective it offers are, we believe, also fully supported by the ethnohistorical data from Barbados examined by Handler. One modern author who early recognized and emphasized the largely positive functions of Obeah, as well as the way the term and its referents have been negatively redefined by those in positions of power in the Caribbean, is Kamau Brathwaite. Going against the most commonly held views at the period of his writing (in the early 1970s), he noted how ‘Obeah ... is an aspect of [healing and protection], though it has come to be regarded in the New World and in colonial Africa as sorcery and “black magic” ... The principle of obeah is, ... like medical principles everywhere, the process of healing/protection through seeking out the source or explanation of the cause ... of the disease or fear. This was debased by slave master/missionary/prospero into an assumption, inherited by most [West Indians] … that obeah deals in evil.’ See Edward Kamau Brathwaite, ‘The African Presence in Caribbean Literature’, in Sidney W. Mintz (ed.), Slavery, Colonialism, and Racism (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1974), p.75
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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In West African folklore, the obeah, also spelled 'obia', is a massive creature sent by witch doctors to kidnap young girls from nearby villages so they can tear off their skin to use as a coat.

Terrifying. Also, given the quoted story in the OP, somewhat familiar.
The obeah, or obia, in West African folklore. Depicted here as a giant, furry quadrapedal creature with a xenomorph's head (no eyes, massive teeth) with blur lines for speed. It is going to kidnap your daughter.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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So the immediate question is, what does the Hobyah have to do with the West Indies practice and religion of Obeah?

Well, nothing really, they're two completely different things.

In confirming that, however, I found that the term 'Obeah' originated in West Africa.

Stick with me here.
The lithograph print 'Negro Superstition' by Richard Bridgens, depicting an Obeah practitioner in what is attributed to 1836 Trinidad, wrapping several leaves or feathers around the neck of a young boy, while his brother stays behind with his hands tied, and the rest of his family (another young boy, a mother, a father, a grandmother, and a grandfather) pray around him.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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@rubenbolling.bsky.social had a really good cartoon about this
A Tom the Dancing Bug comic called 'LUCKY DUCKY PRESENTS: POVERTY LINES THROUGHOUT THE AGES'. Most of it is spoken by a big dog in a top hat, ie. a rich dickhead, except when noted. Transcript as follows: 1800: You can't be poor! You've got a shirt! (Lucky Ducky in an empty room with only a shirt on, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1900: You can't be poor! You've got a bed! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1950: You can't be poor! You've got a radio! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed and a radio in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1975: You can't be poor! You've got a TV! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, and a TV in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1990: You can't be poor! You've got a VCR! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, a TV, and a VCR in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 2007: Okay, you keep insisting you're poor-- I'll give you something! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, a TV, and a VCR in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') BIG DOG IN A TOP HAT: There! I paid a think tank to come up with this. You can't still say you're poor! LUCKY DUCKY: I am! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, a TV, and a VCR in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'temporary food shortage', and the big dog in a top hat pointing at the sign) BIG DOG IN A TOP HAT: Lucky Ducky! I just gave you a $10,000,000 euphemism! LUCKY DUCKY: Gotcha! (The big dog in a top hat clenches his fists in horror, Lucky Ducky points at him)
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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as always, I defer to Tom Leonard
A poem by Tom Leonard, the second in his sequence 'Unrelated Incidents'. Transcription as follows: ifyi stull huvny wurkt oot thi diff- rince tween yir eyes n yir ears; —geez peace, pal! fyi stull huvny thoata lang- wij izza sound-system: fyi huvny hudda thingk aboot thi diff- rince tween sound n object n symbol; well, ma innocent wee friend—iz god said ti adam: a doant kerr fyi caw it an apple ur an aippl— jist leeit alane!
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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do you know of any northern (or otherwise) poets who take after Tom Leonard and write in their local accent

because Leonard was so fucking good at writing in a Glaswegian accent
A poem by Tom Leonard written in a Glaswegian accent. Transcription as follows: GOOD STYLE helluva hard tay read theez init stull if yi canny unnirston thim jiss clear aff then gawn get tay fuck ootma road ahmaz goodiz thi lota yiz so ah um ah no whit ahm dayn tellnyi jiss try enny a yir fly patir wi me stick thi bootnyi good style so ah wull
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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oh, no, that was the part of the song they DIDN'T get

not that they got many of the lyrics right anyway, but the one actual swear word in there? Nope lmao
The FBI's attempt at transcribing the song Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. It is wrong. Transcription as follows: Oh, Louie, Louie, Oh, No, Get her way down low, Oh, Louie, Louie, Oh, Baby, Get her way down low, A fine little girl awaiting for me she's just a girl across the way Well I'll take her and park all alone She's never a girl I'd lay at home (Chorus repeat) At night at 10 I lay her again Fuck you girl, Oh, all the way Oh, my bed and I lay her there I meet a rose in her hair. (Chorus repeat) Ok Let's give it to them right now! She's got a rag on and I'll move above It won't be long she'll slip it off I'll take her in my arms again I'll tell her I'll never leave again. (Chorus repeat) Get that Broad out of here!
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Mini 'Último' Moné

-Black
-made by one of the best wrestlers in the world to diss another of the best wrestlers in the world, thus awesome
-extremely queer coded (purple hair, confident eyes, association with Harley Cameron and Mercedes Moné)
-is clearly the greatest puppet wrestler of all time
Mini Moné, next to Harley Cameron, being an absolute badass
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Eleanor The LNER Puppet

-white
-TERF coded (wrinkles, earrings, stupid hair)
-smug eyes
-made to advertise a train company that's intentionally being run badly by the British government so they can privatise it again and nobody outside the left will complain
-simply awful
Eleanor The LNER Puppet, being a smug jerk in front of a stall full of chocolate bars for members or something I mean wtf is this picture
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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the virgin Eleanor The LNER Puppet vs. the chad Mini Moné
Eleanor The LNER Puppet, who sucks and is bad Mini 'Último' Moné, the absolute best puppet in the world
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I will rephrase then

one major problem of FPTP is that it allows for marginal seats, ie. seats which are elected via a plurality of votes rather than an absolute majority

ranked-choice voting attempts to address this by redistributing higher preference votes until you achieve an absolute majority
look it is 2am and I do not have the spoons to do proper alt text for the third page of the preferential voting comic I'm sorry, tl;dr: votes are redistributed until an absolute majority is achieved, sorry, search 'You Can’t ‘Waste’ Your Vote!' for this comic, idk if it's accessible aaaaa sorry
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Sam Reich on the set of Make Some Noise, a show where the OP could easily be a prompt
October 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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lmao you're doing the thing
Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds, a Nazi, shouting 'Oh, so everyone you don't like is automatically a "Nazi"'
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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everyone in Springfield glaring daggers at Krusty after he's come back from being in Reno for six weeks
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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giving 'boycott modern warfare 2' vibes
a Steam group named 'Boycott Modern Warfare 2 (WE WANT DEDICATED SERVERS)', where a significant amount of people in the group are playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
August 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Super Mario, of course
Mario from Super Mario Odyssey, pictured in the Lake Kingdom with the diver costume, which includes a snorkel and - most crucially - a pair of swimming goggles. Next to him are two Volbonans, also with a snorkel and swimming goggles.
July 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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what an odd thing to say
the nth (@notmyfifth.bsky.social): maybe i did a good thing letting blockenheimer lapse if this is the people who relied on it (screenshot of someone saying thay they used Blockenheimer to get rid of blue maga shitheads)
July 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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let's not forget, it allowed Shostakovich to sign his work
The notes D, S, C, and H (or B natural if you're Molly raging against the German music system), being a musical signature of sorts for Dmitri Shostakovich.
July 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM