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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 17h

I will never understand the disdain so many so-called "leftists" have for eating Spaghetti-O's on the toilet

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 3d

Punk rock has always been fundamentally bonapartist

nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 4d

dougepisodes getting deleted was a greater loss than the library of alexandria

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, you CAN say it, there's no one stopping you

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 8d

An attribute I find endearing about Alan Parsons as a singer is how like. When we describe men as having a "divorced" vibe we usually mean that they seem like, scuzzy or slovenly or vindictive. And Alan Parsons has a divorced vibe in more of a Kirk Van Houten racecar bed way

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 8d

Bad Luck Brian top text "tries to read One Piece" bottom text "it's too long"

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 8d

Boner Kings Pornography Atelier is up for sale, says parent company Bain Capital

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 9d

She just kinda looks crazy fork when she's in drawer

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 9d

Thank goodness a machine can distill all the attributes I associate with this place and time, real or imagined, into a single glossy package. otherwise I might have to look at stuff actually from that place and time and confront the fact that it might be different or even worse than I remember

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 9d

honestly there's something kind of powerfully ironic about ai nostalgia slop bc like. if these things had actually existed in the way you want to remember them you wouldn't need to synthesize a video of them from whole cloth. like literally any media from that time would do

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 11d

Bizarre dream last night in which the hot new thing was to reply to Bill Simmons tweets with screencaps from old CRPGs

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 12d

Unwittingly torrenting a version of Paprika where Mediational Field has been replaced on the soundtrack with Go West by the Pet Shop Boys

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 12d

MAHOGANY????

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 13d

One year of living with the silliest and sweetest baby kitty on the planet

The soft baby tortoiseshell Marzipan lying on our bed

The funny little tortoiseshell Marzipan sprawled out on her back

The wonderful tortoiseshell Marzipan lying on her back with her paws up, looking at the camera upside down

Rook holding the chunky tortoiseshell Marzipan in its arms

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 14d

Pros of canvassing:
• often pays pretty decently
• helps get people involved in politics, even if it's only in a small way
• exercise
• the chance to meet people and see neighborhoods you wouldn't have otherwise
Cons:
• your phone will forevermore ask if you want to open text files with minivan

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 16d

Ohhh I get it. It's called dubai chocolate because it sounds like "to buy chocolate"

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 16d

(it's not actually graphic but I marked it as such for spoiler reasons) (it's not really a spoiler spoiler either, more of a thematic spoiler, if that matters to you at all)

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 16d

I'm also thinking about the final staff room segment from Matsuribayashi. It's so hard to put into words how this makes me feel, this admission of "I know what I've written doesn't perfectly reflect reality, and that's on purpose. This is, in a small way, an escapist fantasy."

"In other words, can you see that in the worlds of Higurashi, anything can be overcome when people talk to each other and help one another?

Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in reality...
Helping each other creates friction, and often times, working alone is a lot simpler.

However, we always hope that we can connect with other people and understand each other, so that we can face any difficulty...

In that sense, this world is a fantasy.

That's right. In the worlds of Higurashi, there is one magical rule.

That is to talk to others and accept help from them. Then you can defeat anything.
With that, it is possible to make a miracle happen."

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 17d

Thinking once again about his afterword from the (highly underrated imo!) spinoff sequel manga Higurashi Rei. As dubious as it is to make character judgments about someone through their art, there's no way to ignore the sincere sense of compassion in almost everything ryukishi writes

"Nowadays, thanks to smartphones and the internet, we live in an age where people can communicate constantly, regardless of distance and time. But on the other hand, it's very common for people to never greet their neighbors at all, where nobody in their immediate vicinity aside from ows their name. In other words, you could say it's a conspicuously black and white era, where we can communicate more easily and more frequently with people of the same mindset and interests, while not communicating at all with the people who do not, regardless how physically close they may be.

Would a Keiichi-style approach of aggressively getting close to people and pressuring them into friendship still work in an era like this? That was the starting point for the concept of "Higurashi Rei."

Back in the Showa era, it was a world where your neighbors were your people, they went to the same school, lived the same sort of life, you knew the faces of every single family around you, and everyone's personal values were mostly aligned, so I think Keiichi's approach would work there. But today, people with various conflicting values and beliefs live in close proximity to one another, it's an era where people must coexist by respecting one another's diversity. In times like these. Keiichi's approach may work on some people, but there are also others who may view his approach as a form of harassment."

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 18d

expand on this

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 20d

People in discord servers in 2027: I dunno if anyone else here has listened to the new San Francisco Football Giants but I did and it really gigaflushed me down the megatoilet ["gigaflushed me down the megatoilet" is the hot new way to say "caused me emotional distress" in 2027]

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 20d

free emo band name: San Francisco Football Giants

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 24d

Is Fire Walk With Me supposed to be parsed as "hey, Fire, come walk with me" or "hey, come fire walk with me"

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 26d

Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven ate mile....

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nevie styx @flannelcat.bsky.social · 26d

I'm sorry to say that the fandom posting will continue until morale improves

Customs Agent: Name?
Yang Wen-li: Me?
Customs Agent: Yes, you.
Yang Wen-li: It's uhh...
Yang Wen-li: Quattro Bajeena.
Customs Agent: Come again?
Yang Wen-li: [quieter] Quattro Bajeena.
Customs Agent: Your name is Quattro Bajeena?
Yang Wen-li: Mm-hm.
Customs Agent:
Julian Mintz: Could you excuse us for just a moment, please?

Julian Mintz: Admiral. You had TWO WEEKS to think of a name.

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