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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine

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I'm a plucky lump of plankton and my name is Planky Smith! Origin of my display name: https://youtu.be/qv6OOuPI5c0

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · Aug 24

Posting has ruined my life

Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · Aug 15

lol for me, imo

Hans Moleman saying "posting has ruined my life. I'm 41 years old!"

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 12m

Bald man with a turtle shell

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11d

Development files for Super Mario Kart show that the earliest sprite for Koopa Troopa did not have his eyes visible from the back, making him appear like an unknown bald man (left). The eyes were made prominent in the finished version to avoid this (right).

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 10d

Due to the unique way Super Mario Bros. stores its maps, its level designers were at the mercy of the decorative hills and bushes when placing bottomless pits. While the pits can be placed freely, the decorations are non-negotiable and dictate the level design.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 8d

Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this was made due to an inside joke at the studio, though the exact nature of the joke has been lost.

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 13m

lol

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 4d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2d

Two well-known voice clips from Super Mario Sunshine are Mario saying "Aren't I done yet?!" and "There's more?!" in an exasperated way, long presumed unused. However, there is actually a way to hear them in-game, as they have a chance to play when he enters a level at low health.

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 13m

As God intended

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2h

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 1h

Doing research in 2025...

A Google search for the etymology of "cheugy"

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 14m

I really want to reply or comment on a wild take I just saw, but knowing how reactive people are on here, I'm trying to restrain myself

Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 17m

Do you think Israel is a democracy and treats non white people, particularly Palestinians, with fairness?

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 4h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 21m

They have spent so many years in service to rich benefactors *and* getting themselves and others into hysterics that their enemies on "the left" are similarly funded and directed by "left wing" rich fucks, and also they're insane, that they can't entertain the thought that maybe they're wrong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 5h

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“Fiction.”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 4h

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4h

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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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Garibaldi day to all who celebrate

Giuseppe Garibaldi, founding father of modern Italy. Leftist revolutionary. Presented here with sword and flag in hand after landing on a beach. In the background there are ships and the silhouettes of soldiers.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4h

This is the guy who wets himself at the thought of riding the 6 train.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Biscuits (Chad Noonien Singh) @drunkandcoding.bsky.social · 3h

Supreme Court justices hate this one simple trick!

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J.S. Grump @impcus.bsky.social · 3h

They keep calling this guy a "respected" originalist. Do real legal scholars respect originalists, or is the "respect" just the respect of other originalists? Because if originalism is something taken seriously by the legal community at large the discipline is dead

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