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@dottiedino.bsky.social

My thibk is it’s more about the Ayn Rand deal. Seeing caring or helping as the worst kind of evil a human can do — that seizing everything is the only moral purpose of life; that the “looters and leeches and parasites” be destroyed. That anyone who thinks nicely of anyone else is vile scum.

November 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM Everybody can reply

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Doris 🇫🇷 #NAFO

@dorisfedir.bsky.social

170 000 rapists torturers looters evil minded for money.

Hope he contacted his connections 😃

Respect to him to be there

Shows it's tough overthere

November 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM Everybody can reply

Tgawsome121

@tgawsome121.bsky.social

Random thought:

Adventurer themes bar and grill called Looters. The only hire staff with big “chests”

November 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM Everybody can reply

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Shapeless Ink

@shapelessink.bsky.social

There’s no way off this rock for us without ships who’ll listen to our warnings. We’re all just as doomed by the current as each other in the end. The lighthouses will fall with us inside them, and then even more ships will steer towards the rocks, unknowing of the dangers.

What a senseless waste of it all.

All so that those same wrong men can loot the bodies that wash ashore. They’ll die too, of course. But they were richer than god while it lasted, so why should they care?

I care, though. That’s why I’m a lighthouse keeper. Or do I only care BECAUSE I’m a lighthouse keeper? Does the distinction even matter if we’re all going to be picked over by looters eventually? I don’t think that’s a productive argument to get into, but all things considered, probably not.

If we feel so strongly that things will only get worse then why do we even bother manning the lighthouses at all? Well, what else would we do? Some of us are too stubborn to stop, others care despite it all, still more have a point to prove, and for most of us it’s currently apparent that there’s nowhere but the lighthouses to go.

I don’t think any of us want to be in the lighthouses. Not if we could help it. But we can’t, and the lighthouses are far away places to put people you don’t like as punishment for their innate qualities.

It’s hostile on the rocks and the cliffs. We make do. But the blinking of our beacons fades into the night sky, until its just another star. People begin to treat us like white noise, and fixed features of the landscape.

The lighthouses are built strong and seem filled with an impossible perseverance but so many keepers died before they even made the swim. And the lighthouses aren’t immune to the weathering of the waves. It’s just a slow horror of realising that we’re the ones who were strong swimmers.

The small boats wreck first. Less able to withstand the waves already, they’re no mach of the pillars of jagged stone that dot the shore. But you don’t notice small boats, because they’re small, and maybe they’re far away.

Then on the news you see a bigger boat meet its end. Then another. Then another. But they’re not where you are. They’re not your ship.

And then your ship wrecks too.

Maybe you found this message in a bottle, floating by the board you’re clinging to. In that case we’ll do our best to fish you out of the water, and keep you warm in what’s left of our lighthouse. We’ll share our food, and commiserate together over the raging storm. We’ll secure the windows, and keep the light going, because what else would we do in a lighthouse?

“I told you so” is cathartic, sure. An earned response in many cases too. But why die in anger when I could die surrounded by love in defiance of the wrongful men, and the storm they profit off?

You have to appreciate the small things. The end is nigh, but at least I got correctly gendered that one time on King Street, I guess.

I never asked to be a lighthouse keeper. Most keepers don’t. We’re just not given any other option worth living. We make the best of the isolation, though. We have each other, and our beacons shine oh so bright.

That’s the real horror of this polycrisis, though. The fact that some of us have been yelling about it for so long and nobody listened, or at least nobody who had the power to stop it before it came for them, too. Are we so unimportant, or is humanity just doomed to the safety paradox? To assume that there’s no danger? Because “no ship has wrecked on this coast for generations, pay no attention to those lighthouses!”

I don’t want my world to end and the last thing I feel to be bitterness. I’m not ready, despite years of watching the ocean get more and more angry and threatening. I’m not ready to go yet because I’m still in the lighthouse and without keepers what good are these beacons?

Just dead towers slowly crumbling in the dark, their lights snuffed out, falling to the waves. This is not what they’re for.

I’ve been in the lighthouse so long now that I don’t know what life outside even feels like anymore. I don’t think I could go back even if that was somehow possible. I’m here now, in the lighthouse, a keeper among many and I’m so tired. We’re all so tired. It’s all I can do to keep the light lit and the glass clean, and the machinery oiled. Maybe someone will pay attention this time, and steer away from the rocks, maybe they won’t.

Maybe tomorrow we’ll pull another
survivor from the wreck.

The sea’s getting higher, craftily hiding the dangers just beneath the surface of “normality.” It’s frustrating sometimes that inexperienced boats boast about their ability to sail freely, unaware or uncaring that us keepers know the rocks, and are intimately familiar with their forms. But when a ship wrecks and we briefly yell “we fucking told you so!” It’s no sign or symptom of uncaring, we yell because we care and aside from the cultures and rituals we make for ourselves in the community of keepers, to the sailors we serve one purpose: To warn them of the dangers. And yet so many sailors have chosen to believe the lies of the looters on the shore that the keepers are all scheming liberal elite alarmists, backed by some unseen wealthy force who they can’t name but when pressed will say “you know the ones.” The reality is just that we had nowhere else to go.

Some of us used to be on the ships, washed overboard, lucky enough among the millions drowned to survive the currents to make it to a lighthouse. Some of us were rescued by other keepers and still so many more were born in the lighthouses knowing nothing else.

I said I don’t want to die bitter but how else can I be? you’re heading for the rocks you stupid bastards! We’ve been warning you all this time and still the ocean will claim more... and I can’t help but wonder if it’s too late for most of the ships I see from the tower now. They’re already so close to the murderous shallows, and what was once Cassandra-like prediction and is now well worn experience, tells me that a lot of them are going to wreck.

November 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM Everybody can reply

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November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM Everybody can reply

Randall Patton

@randallpatton.bsky.social

Hope your Halloween loot was as...bountiful as these Skeleton Looters from Effin' Cool Miniatures.

#ttrpg #dnd #pathfinder #paintedminiatures #spookyseason

November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Andy Jackson

@azjackson.bsky.social

An #Otwituary for film-maker #PeterWatkins

The content of this Otwituary
has been judged to be too
horrifying for social media;
no firestorms burning through
Home Counties, no fallout, no
looters shot on the street, only
this nightmare, filmed as truth.

November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM Everybody can reply

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libbutterfl1es.bsky.social

@libbutterfl1es.bsky.social

Rand’s dystopia shows “looters” demanding unearned benefits, killing innovation. Today’s push for “free” healthcare or UBI feels like her prophecy—entitlement over merit. Butler herself acknowledged that she borrowed the phrase from Reagan’s campaign. So was she talking about Trump? Or Reagan?

November 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM Everybody can reply

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ace ✨

@overdrumatik.bsky.social

Happy Halloween to the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing! 👻🎃😂

November 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM Everybody can reply

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃

@thegreer.bsky.social

*works great for the looters, pillagers, and would-be authoritarians, not so much for Americans or the world, in general.

November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Arnie the DXman

@arniedxer.bsky.social

Help just can't easily reach areas COMPLETELY destroyed by #HurricaneMelissa, like Black River. Saw a helo or two on YT, but that's way not enough.

So people resort to scavenging everything left of buildings & shops, simply to survive.

TVJ calls them looters.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oray...

24 Dead from Hurricane Melissa | Widespread Looting Reported in Black River

YouTube video by Television Jamaica

www.youtube.com

October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Mike R.

@mikeug.bsky.social

The whole neighborhood should be out yelling at these gangs. Remember when the George Floyd “looters“ were out and everyone was on edge? But nobody cares about the literal SS on your front lawn? The louder we are with more bodies, the less they will encroach upon us. But I guess y’all voted for this

October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Phantom of the Funky Dynamite

@sweavart.bsky.social

Saw a meme with a picture of Ash from Army of Darkness in his S-mart uniform firing a shotgun that said “Walmart greeters on Nov 1st”. Implying Walmart is going to be overrun by looters & rioters who lost SNAP benefits. The irony (lost on the poster) is the greeter is 100% on SNAP benefits.

October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Brian Doherty

@bwd1970.bsky.social

Trump would call these folks looters and demand they be shot on site

October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM Everybody can reply

Frank

@frankieboy1964.bsky.social

LIARS FOR CORRUPT LONDON LOOTERS.

October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM Everybody can reply

Frank

@frankieboy1964.bsky.social

The Anti-Scottish Media & Press, who we are all fighting against, not just the SNP, that's why we'll need Indy Support, supporting SNP in this Next Hollyrood Election, with Feet on the Streets, telling Scots the Truth, not the London Looters Lies.
SNP BOTH VOTES for INDY.

October 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM Everybody can reply

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leostra.bsky.social

@leostra.bsky.social

...because, the truth hurts??

The liberal party is in whole a treasonous and anti-American party.

There are NO good democrats left; only scum, looters, crooks, liars and commies.

SICK Bastards and America hating A holes- ALL

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 2d

It’s perhaps important to again emphasize just how dangerous it is that Trump is calling any dissenting language from his opponents “treasonous.”

October 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM Everybody can reply

SatanicPanDick

@satanicpandick.bsky.social

Wow, I can't believe a Ronald Reagan speechwriter who called for the public executions of "looters" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina would be so afraid of mild democratic socialist policies...

October 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM Everybody can reply

Dede

@dedeexploringpnw.bsky.social

They think they can intimidate & divide us. But history shows what happens when Americans are pushed too far. They’ve mistaken patience for weakness. Our families came here on board boats, on foot, and through rivers. Give me a fucking break, they’re the looters, not the builders of a better nation

October 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM Everybody can reply

Lainey 🇨🇦

@emewm.bsky.social

All if this is so unconscionable.
Why is one side moving with the speed of gangster looters yet the other side is slow walking into the abyss

October 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM Everybody can reply

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sigh

@maliwaka.bsky.social

the axis looters this time around are a strange group. i dont doubt this but its the tech bros i have my eye on most.

October 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM Everybody can reply

Red Scarf Fella

@redscarffella.bsky.social

It is solely about reducing the American population to 100 million pure-blooded white rapists, traitors, and looters.

October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM Everybody can reply

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Simon Acerton

@simonace.bsky.social

Ending tariffs is something the Left should not support if they care about workers.

This just means less jobs for Americans piled on top of AI job losses.

Its the Looters that like the,

Tariffs are being handled badly to be sure but need reform not ending

October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Parker Hardison

@parkerhardison.bsky.social

No one got that $50k, by the way. It's spread out over years. And nobody will end up getting that full amount because these wealth hoarding looters have a tendency of stiffing everyone they meet.

October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM Everybody can reply

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normbnyc.bsky.social

@normbnyc.bsky.social

Trump wants a physical fight. This is why he is now starving people. He wants food riots to deploy armed troops with orders to shoot "looters".
Control the food, control the people.

October 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM Everybody can reply