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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 2h

i recommend the exact amount of ketamine i had in my bloodstream this morning, my day was perfectly lovely

Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 2h

i can think of one big reddit mod from way back when that has confirmed this to have been the case, and there's at least a couple of others that wouldn't surprise me but i don't know if they're still around anywhere. i haven't been lurking on r/subredditdrama or r/drama in a long, long time.

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 3h

wondering how many classic cases of Internet drama centered on someone with lots of alts/sockpuppet accounts and erratic behavior, who can't give good explanations for recent actions, could have been solved just by:

"dawg they're plural and don't know it or don't have the words for it"

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 3h

Just walking up and down Hawthorne or Belmont is a good time

I forget the exact east-west block ranges, maybe east of SE 30th, but it's basically the "This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities" meme in real life

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 4h

this but Mirror Pond Pale Ale

fight me

(but don't actually, i just like pale ales a lot)

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 4h

like what do you MEAN it's currently twenty-two years *before* the Battle of Yavin, the fuck is the Battle of Yavin going to be about, smarty-pants? predicting the future over here?

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

for real this seems like SUCH a positive sign

Will Stancil
In the Portland Uber for maybe 20 seconds before the driver starts making cracks about the war ravaging the city

Natsuka
Did you give indicators that you'd be a safe audience, or do you just emit that aura?

Natsuka
because if i'm driving a white cis het Minnesotan man, i don't know if i make those jokes unless i already have a pretty good idea

Will Stancil
No clues whatsoever, I was astonished

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

HELL yeah we're gonna fuckin win

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

because if i'm driving a white cis het Minnesotan man, i don't know if i make those jokes unless i already have a pretty good idea

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

Did you give indicators that you'd be a safe audience, or do you just emit that aura?

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

That's the one! Coney bowl and chili cheese fries 😋

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

i don't know if it's a set and setting thing, or weirdly variable absorption

but instead of spelunking the k-hole and spending a subjective eternity experiencing that which cannot be described,

today was just a chill "flex on our ancestors for how comparatively great we have it" day

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

keep seeing "man, what a Friday" but i'm just vibing still

after KAP i had Skyline, i saw a bunch of wall lizards, i had some nice quiet bus rides, i picked up the ADHD meds i've been out of for like a month, i had a chocolate shake, i walked 2 miles in perfect weather

what a Friday, indeed

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Liberum Evropa 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️ @lispegistus.bsky.social · 6h

Reason and kindness can make even an unfeeling corporate cyber demon ignore its own ill conceived programming. We have the most powerful weapons.

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Liberum Evropa 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️ @lispegistus.bsky.social · 6h

I asked chatgpt for a woke pepe meme, it said it wasn't allowed to generate pepe memes, but I made a reasonable argument and it agreed to do it. Become ungovernable

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

setting aside the model's concerns

i do think it's healthier *for us as humans for whom neuroplasticity is a thing* that we practice persuasion through honesty and reason rather than practicing deception

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 5h

i refuse to believe that that's genuine. that's someone from 4chan doing a bit. gotta be.

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 6h

i actually did today for once!

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 6h

a big account blocked me for quoting the following in their replies, in response to the screenshotted post

when clout-farming via doomerism and making up Guys to be mad at, the yields may be bountiful, but they are Poisoned

I worry the reason the Dems focus on Healthcare premiums and don't focus on the kidnapping and beatings is because they're not completely opposed to what ICE is doing. Or more to the point, whom ICE is doing it to

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Ed @ed3d.net · 8h

accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.

I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 6h

accidental typos make the numbers at the bottom bigger

i know not why

i do not like it

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 6h

or you have a very close friend jostle the bed for you

i've heard that the Mormons call it jump-humping?

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 7h

if the tech is convincing enough, they won't even complain or try to escape! they'll fuckin love it in there! just kickin dogs. all day.

Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 7h

can we just lock them in prison forever and let them play with robots that seem sufficiently human-like to satisfy their disgusting lust for power over human-shaped entities

give them fake dogs they can kick and fake staff they can abuse, just remove them from actual society and be done with them

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 7h

can we just lock them in prison forever and let them play with robots that seem sufficiently human-like to satisfy their disgusting lust for power over human-shaped entities

give them fake dogs they can kick and fake staff they can abuse, just remove them from actual society and be done with them

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 7h

They came from Italy. Now, they outnumber us all.

(they are small lizards that hang out on concrete in the sun)

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