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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 4h

After the Usuals, clearly I am going to free the Muppets from their Horrible Oppressors at Disney in exchange for One Favor

Thats right.

THE MUPPETS' ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 21h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 2h

the classic "I can't do the kind of performing I used to get my Attention from.... WRESTLING TIME." move

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

the flatness freaks me out, but that's not a people problem lol

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

the logging truck is VERY valid. Being on a small wind-y country road with one of those when they have somewhere to be can be butt clench time. I haven't ever run into midwestern farmers to rate the level of Men Being Awful in comparison to my experiences around here so I can only believe you there.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up in logger Oregon (also a woman), so I can't speak to the safety vibe difference except to acknowledge that our woods are full of death and darkness. Loggers are my uncles, so they feel comforting and familiar.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

a misanthrope who uses the r-slur, oh no what will we do if he thinks badly of you?? how can we cope

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

It's not trying to excuse the terrible things they'll say and ways they'll vote, it's just kinda an observation about How It Is.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

Rural Oregonians are very Like That about a lot of "liberal" things. They'll bitch and moan about it all as a concept and then break out their chainsaw to clear the road for those lesbians down the street when a tree falls 'cause those are neighbors, not liberals.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

I had an English teacher in High School who was from Mississippi who told us about how in the South it was very common to hear people express racist hate for a group and then be like "Oh, not Jon though. He's a good guy, he's my neighbor. My kid mows his lawn, his wife makes the best cookies."

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh 100% I was raised in super rural Oregon & we just fuckin hate being told what to do. As long as it doesn't affect the community as a whole (privatizing public land, putting in gas pipelines) and you're an ok neighbor, what you do is your own damn business.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 2d

It's so annoying! I just like my trashy history and my occasional "wow people really out there doing things" dips. I don't wanna get clickbaited into god knows what by these weird ai fiction videos.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 2d

Like all super Taboo Yikes porn too."The daughter of a plantation owner was locked in a barn escaped enslaved men and then THIS happened..."

The new version of ElsaxSpiderman youtube sure is something, I'm just saying. Luckily they're all JUST that side of "uhhhhhhh" so I don't actually get fooled.

Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 2d

Youtube has discovered I will click on videos about out of pocket reddit stories and also out of pocket History videos (like, say, a video about mollasses murdering people in Boston or Weird Shit Medieval Ascetics Did) and started feeding me AI generated ones. And half of them sound like porn.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 2d

as someone who gets songs like that absolutely entrenched in my head and has some echolalia, I can sympathize with the kid.

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 2d

odd and off-putting girl october

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly! I wasn't even born yet and grew up in Southern Oregon, but it was such a big deal that I can confidently say that it affected my world view and everyone knew someone who was directly affected by the ash at minimum.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

They had a book where visitors could write recollections about Mt St. Helens in, which I thought was a neat way to remind the public that the contributions of your average joe can help paint a better picture of Big Things

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

James Bond IS pretty smarmy but you're right. He's so good at it

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

Rocketeer is fun!

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

But I'd already taken a pic so here it is

A museum display of commemorative jars and bags of Mt St Helens volcanic ash. The labels and jar tops all have a blue & white theme

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

I went to the Columbia Gorge Museum in Stevenson WA & they had a little corner about the eruption.

My Autism Spectrum ass was like "I need to tell my friend Mount St. Helens in 1980 that I saw something about their special interest today :D!" but remembered that following on bsky =/= friendship.

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

Defender of her domain!!

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly she's so strong to have survived

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Useless but interesting @casualruffian.bsky.social · 3d

You brought in monsters!!

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