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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

You outta think this through
You outta think this through
Think this through
Cause if you get me started
If you get me started
There’s no telling what I’ll do
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Take A Swing

YouTube video by Scrawl - Topic

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

Yes I did research this take before posting BUT I was already aware of the whole "can you eat violets" and poison risk thing due to curiousity about why Choward's Violet candy was a thing.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

Guess I found my limit in class struggle: eating a pile of cloves on bread in solidarity. Though, of course, the upper class managed to find something even less palatable (and leaving themselves open to being poisoned by purple lesser celandine).

Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 3h

Violet sandwich vs clove sandwich, a legendary and bloody battle in the class wars

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

Guess I found my limit in class struggle: eating a pile of cloves on bread in solidarity. Though, of course, the upper class managed to find something even less palatable (and leaving themselves open to being poisoned by purple lesser celandine).

Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social · 3h

Violet sandwich vs clove sandwich, a legendary and bloody battle in the class wars

The Longton Gleaner
Fri, Sep 29, 1911
Sandwiches made of finely chopped
violets spread over thin slices of but-
tered bread are being sold in New
York grill rooms. Evidently cloves
are too plebeian for some of the New
Yorkers.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2h

it's really funny how often people react to posts of mine that piss them off by assuming I am too stupid to make or understand jokes and so I must be serious and they should react accordingly. do you dumbasses think I actually think there is a dungeon under the white house

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

"What's wrong with making out with burnt tree stumps?" asks the Ent home from the Destruction of Isengard.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

That should say "pushes" but you get it.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

"You should be careful, do you catch my drift?
'Cause what I really want to know is can you catch these fists?
...
I know all too well just what you're like
I don't want your love, I just wanna fight"

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Wet Leg - catch these fists (Later... with Jools Holland)

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 1h

Have only experienced community screenings in ad hoc not strictly legal spaces advertised by flyer orsocial media, but they still have some of the frission of this amazingly skilled & organized physically underground operation.
Because people want art that pusues physical boundaries as well.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 2h

Those mad at Cait over this valid observation are willfully ignorant about the basic functions of democracy.

The good news is they're a fraction of bluesky, thus an even tinier part, mostly no part, of those who matter offline. Centrists are furious because their irrelevance grows daily.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 3h

Sucks how she won in part due to low turnout plus many people refusing to vote in that race at all.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 3h

It sucks that the Petersons have glommed onto a very real problem and marginalized it with their crank bullshit.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 4h

revealing the sort of babble used to lure in the kind of young men willing to have their blood drained by a plutocrat

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 4h

She jailed a child on a coerced confession and defended the cop who framed him. She's created a "pilot program" in black neighborhooda that allows cops to file felony gun charges without prosecutor approval. She's total police state in every situation.

chicagocrusader.com/states-attor...

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 15h

171.
Challenge: choose cool cover versions of great songs. Only one per day, if not every day, for as long as one can.

No explanations, no reviews

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 15h

Not a tin pot dictator but a disposable bedpan one.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 17h

Sad to hear that, but not entirely surprised as the investment firm that bought the place seemed to have issues.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · Jun 23

"The Wardobe In The Taco Bell Parking Lot" was not the comeback CS Lewis ecpected it to be.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, the third entry in the C.S. Lewis "low fi Narnia" reboot almost won me over, but still not going through that portal.

Picture of an upside down cabenit and what might be a dissecated christmas tree from "The Chair Which Wasn't Silver But A Good Ikea Piece With Few Stains"

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 18h

Stanley Tigerman did this with a Jewel Osco in Uptown that include a set of 2 floor aparments with faux 2 flat home facades.

www.artic.edu/artworks/233...

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 18h

But perhaps we expect too much from what I hear is a really good long form NIN music video.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 18h

But also: who could have preducted a not good movie from the guy who directed the 5th Pirates of the Carribian movie & the bomb sequel to Maleficent and mostly written by a guy whose career is half uncredited touchups to films like Eragon?

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 18h

The well off will embrace violent authoritarians as not all that bad rather than allow any hint of lower class power has been true for over a century. Since the late 1800s really but most brazen since the late 20s.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · Oct 14

And here is the NYT Editorial from 9/27/1930.
"If it be true that a watched pot never boils, the menace of ADOLF HITLER has been grossly, exaggerated." The editorial insists the German people don't actually believe what he says and also implies it's the fault of communists.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 18h

A reminder that in the 1930s the NYT's primary German correspondent was a Nazi sympathizer who constantly downplayed their extremism to the point other American correspondents, who were often not brave in their criticism, still complained about his bias.

Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · Oct 14

"Guido Enderis, was known to sit in the bar ...spouting “a loudmouthed defense of Nazism,” ..the Times had no intention of doing anything about Enderis ...it valued his close connections to the Nazi government, as it had throughout the 1930s."
www.tabletmag.com/sections/his...

The New York Times’ ‘Nazi Correspondent’

As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and then embarked on his program of world conquest and mass extermination, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief was busy slanting the news in his favor

www.tabletmag.com

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 19h

Playing the hits

Germany's Election

HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.
* Share full article

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Sept. 18, 1931

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 19h

Because at least Hobbes kind of recognizes that all against all can be the upper class which is why Marx respected him despite fundementally disagreeing with him.

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