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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 8h

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

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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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 1d

Cockroach Wife Syndrome strikes again.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 3d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).
That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive.
They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.
So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 1d

Not saying that people in colorful costumes can’t be disruptive, but also, if there’s no push-back at all from the system, then they don’t feel threatened and if they don’t feel threatened then the impact is going to be limited.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhat disagree. See: the Women’s March at the start of Trump’s first term. Huge marches, entirely peaceful. Accomplished fuck-all. Protests that aren’t disruptive aren’t going to be effective.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 7d

What I should be doing: sleeping. What I’m actually doing: eating avocado toast and watching K-pop Demon Hunters for the ??th time because my brain is full of anxiety bees.

That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 12d

I turn 50 in two days and I’m honestly not sure how to feel about that.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 12d

One of my favorite things about ebooks is that I can highlight a word and click Look Up and get the definition without leaving the page. I used to have to pull out a physical dictionary! (Also walk to school in the snow, uphill both ways, etc.)

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13d

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know

learning is good

That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 12d

Candy corn is great is you’ve ever smelled a candle and thought “Dang that smells good, I want to bite it.” Which, to be fair, is a thought a lot of people have had.

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 12d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 13d

Black people actually did call all of this, so did Indigenous people. White people just thought we were exaggerating because you were fine with the violence toward communities that you thought wouldn't include you. But the thru line from eugenics, bleach, and Ivermectin to here was incredibly clear

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 13d

This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 14d

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 14d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 17d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · 19d

I am prepping to spend the last two months of the year staying with my parents in Hawaii. Autumn is my favorite season, so I have five weeks to fit in all the autumnal activities before I'm off to the tropics where there's no crisp, frosty mornings and crunchy leaves.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25d

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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Ouroridae | Springeddon>Brisnova>Comic Fiesta @ouroridae.bsky.social · 29d

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · Sep 13

A reminder that one of my favorite ways to frame the economy for most people is that they are *never* three good months away from being rich, but *always* three bad months from being homeless.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Sep 12

I got yer timeline cleanse right here, folks. A whole clutch of teeny tiny snapping turtle behbehs emerged one at a time from their underground nest and crossed the gravel road while I and a couple other humans watched and made sure they were safe from anyone else coming along.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia

#birds #nature #hummingbirds

A small hummingbird with shimmering purple, blue, and green feathers perched on a branch against a soft green background.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · Sep 12

Given the state of the timeline I am once again promoting the blood-pressure lowering Tranquil feed. Art, birbs, flowers and cute animals when you need a break from The Horrors.

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That Darn Jess @thatdarnjess.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s not even more efficient. You’d spend more time and money rebuying and shipping items than you would paying the bag fee and waiting at baggage claim. It’s merely a psychological exercise at that point.

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