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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. I'm actually kinda stunned how much better this sounds

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Loeko @loeko.bsky.social · 1d

here u go www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ-b...

Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia but without the extra 5th measures

YouTube video by Loeko's Dumpster

www.youtube.com

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 1d

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 2d

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 4d

Can someone make a version of The Fate Of Ophelia that removes all the fifth measures?

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 4d

read this in a british accent instinctively

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 4d

Big news for employed people

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 6d

If only it took him to The Studio where he could rework the mixing and maybe take some weird stuff out

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 6d

Nice list, just swap Locked Out Of Heaven with Adorn

Then swap Locked Out Of Heaven with Mirrors

Then swap Locked Out Of Heaven with Counting Stars

Then swap Locked Out Of Heaven with I'm Different

Then swap Locked Out Of Heaven with Demons, and you've got a really really solid ranking here.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 8d

REPORT: Princess Peach’s New Album, “Life of a Toadgirl” Features Track Entitled “Pipe” That Describes Mario’s Penis in Excruciating Detail.

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 8d

Listening to Wood makes me realize that "I Love Having Sex With My Boyfriend And You Know His Name And Face" type songs are just... really easy to screw up by saying too many words.

Shoutout to Ariana Grande, she always got it right. "His dick is huge, he fucks me good." That's all it needs to be.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 8d

Travis Kelce just scored a touchdown, and I'm glad for him, he needed a win this week

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9d

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 9d

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 10d

Someone got something backwards here because this exchange doesn't scan.

I know what it's referencing and what it's supposed to convey, but the post at the top of the chain takes place at a Waffle House, so "WAFFLES" is the immediately relevant item. This post should say "PANCAKES" right?

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 11d

The song is gonna disappear from the zeitgeist very quickly, so I don't feel as bad as I usually do when I point out that the title track to "Life of a Showgirl" has the same chorus melody as "Cool" by the Jonas Brothers.

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Kayla 💛 @kobcritic.bsky.social · 13d

excited for Wood by Taylor Swift

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 12d

8% of Labor voters on their way to tell YouGov dot co dot uk that they think the government is doing too much to reduce carbon emissions

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 12d

Strong agree on Cashin' Out by Cash Out. Really adorable little song. So catchy. Couldn't ask for a better one hit wonder. Don't google what he's been up to in recent years.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12d

[after tenting my fingers for one month straight] more like stupid tha very idiot

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12d

Weeks after Charlamagne tha God mocked Hakeem Jeffries calling him “AIPAC Shakur,” Jeffries responds with his own nickname: “Charlatan the Fraud”

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 13d

I'm noticing an increasing amount of advertisements using the "it's not just X, it's Y and Z" trope and I'm not too pleased with what that suggests.

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camz / jade 🌸 @camzcer.bsky.social · 14d

he is the one ... he found me ...

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 16d

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 16d

I miss "pop music is a cash grab and I'm done making it" Doja Cat. I want that version of her back.

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. @itsethanyaboi.bsky.social · 16d

Gotta say, just listened to Take Me Dancing by Doja Cat. It's absolutely rancid. I think 80's throwbacks might be over, guys.

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