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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 5h

Other than the Naval facilities, it was to be a huge expansion of the Strength Through Joy program called Reichseevolktourisme and it was to be filled with resorts for vacationing Germans.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, but what's less known is that the Nazi effort to revive Carthage was part of a larger Speer-Hitler proposal to go East, link up with Italy coming north from Ethiopia, and occupy the entire Med/Red Sea coastlines between them.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 6h

This is bringing the heat, gotta say

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 6h

I'm less about "candy wall" and more about "bulk bins of Pixie Stix filler to parcel out to nieces and nephews whose parents annoy me"

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 6h

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 8h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 6h

They can hang with Concerned Ape in the "Rich Indie Game Devs That Apparently Aren't Assholes" club!

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 6h

And hey, if I ever won the lottery, my self-indulgence would be on display with a baller personal astronomical observatory.

...and becoming the billionaire the right imagines Soros IS.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 6h

Broadly agreed, this was the momentary "pitiable" stage of Notch's life, before he turned hard shitbag

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, is it even POSSIBLE to invoke a trope more broadly understood to mean "I'm an out-of-touch dork that everyone laughs at" than the hoary old "Kids these days and their wacky fashions, amirite?"

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

Oh my God, it's absolutely hysterical that they have Kid Rock doing an Abe Simpson impression.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

And while part of me is jealous of "next door," I also think that might bankrupt me.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

I live a few blocks from Asia on Argyle in Uptown. (But also that looks DELICIOUS give me some)

a cartoon character wearing a blue hoodie is standing in front of a fire .

Alt: Louise Belcher laughter in front of flames

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

The vocal equivalent of hearing a horn honk and frantically checking to make sure you didn't do something that made YOU the asshole driver.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

No, I think that was Groverhaüs

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

A candy wall. Like in candy stores that do bulk candy.

A tweet from Dec 18, 2014, by Notch (the creator of Minecraft), showing him, or at least his feet, as he lounges in his $70mm mansion. In the picture is a “candy wall”, mounted floor-to-ceiling bulk bins of candy

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

Go full Notch and build a candy wall to get infested with pests due to your lack of friends.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 7h

Man, we really fucked up by not lining the road from Appomattox to D.C. with hanged Confederates, huh?

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 8h

The Predator Handshake meme, with “Frogs” and “Axolotls” as the arms and “Amphibian solidarity for social justice” as the handclasp

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 8h

With the devastating impacts that tariffs and China soy purchases are having on American soybean farmers, I have secured a strategic stockpile of Szechuan peppercorn and am willing to go all-in on mapo tofu.

What’s the LD50 on Szechuan peppercorn, anyway? I don’t want to feel my face until 2029-ish

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 8h

It just means that I’m jealous of you getting to discover the axolotl for the first time.

a small axolotl is walking on a piece of paper .

Alt: a small axolotl in an aquarium appearing to smile

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 10h

"...the new world is...is waiting to be bor-NO, hatched...n-n-now is the t-time...*deep, steadying breaths*...of giant f-f-f-frogs-*dissolves into helpless giggling*"

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 10h

My only comfort right now is that they're showing themselves incompetent at authoritarian consolidation as they have at everything else.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 10h

But will the depressed price of tofu offset the increased cost of the Szechuan peppercorns?

I don't want to feel my face until Jan 20, 2028!

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 10h

And as others have pointed out, those people that were gone were never "colleagues" to him, no matter what he might have said. They were enemies, and he was working within the enemy camp.

It's gobsmacking that people STILL fall for this shit instead of recognizing the infiltrators for what they are

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 10h

When we're hitting levels of "Soviet humor under Stalin" we gotta take a step back.

...I mean, to figure out good distribution methods for modern samizdat in a digital surveillance state, of course.

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