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zota @zota.bsky.social · 12h

and I apologize for my unfunny inscrutability

zota @zota.bsky.social · 12h

And I was making a joke about how Porter is trying to avoid that fate by abusing her staff so persistently that she never holds elected office again

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 12h

It's what happened to Feinstein. She was voted in to office and and re-elected until she literally died.

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 13h

You think Porter is trying to avoid getting re-elected?

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 15h

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the people in his death cult enjoy images of American weapons killing brown children

zota @zota.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve found myself 1/5 of the way in to a bog standard gruit, struggling to reason myself into a fuller appreciation of twigs and prunes, suddenly dreaming of the over-sweetened bitter grits of a hazy ipa

zota @zota.bsky.social · 16h

That sounds fun and charming till you find yourself at the gruit bar drinking a mug of tea made from soaking a witch’s socks

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 17h

downloading a 10mb blob of React from a Node server the global monopolist's browser, just like Sir Tim intended

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 1d

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

put on the frog suit, loser

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

oh buddy

zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Metropolis with Leto as Maria

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Baudrillard would be so in to it

Derrida would be into it but would make you feel bad

Zizek would say it's a Stalin sweater

zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I am proud of out dicking a dick.

In *my* understanding of metaphysics, this can be a righteous act, but it's also filled with peril in that you may Become Dick. Star Wars, by way of Joseph Campbell, expressed this pretty well in Empire Strikes Back.

zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone thinks their version of the metaphysical basis of reality and the meaning of life is exactly the same for everyone else?

Interesting.

Have you ever thought about why you believe that?

zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Compare Rumi to JK Fucking Rowling? I will first annoy the living shit out of you and then I will find a way to haunt you.

zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

The Christian atheist and I have blocked each other. Since they're a fundamentalist, that was the only reasonable conclusion.

I am very annoying. But what I'm annoying *about* is the fact that no one knows. If you think you know? Got it all figured out? I am going to be sooo fucking annoying

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Black Bloc:
- Immediate target
- you look like feds
- 10% of you are feds

Frog Bloc:
- feds don't know where to shoot you
- deflection perimeter for less lethal rounds
- your respirator and body armor are hidden
- even if you are a fed, you're still a dancing frog

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

"We don't have a mythology—we're just speaking the truth, seeing the world how it really is"

This is a foundational mythology of the West.

I don't think we're really disagreeing

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Language is step 0 before even trying to understand a lived culture.

And yet.

zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

What I learned studying religion is that one of the central mythologies of the West is that we can understand everyone else, regardless of language, culture, experience, study, etc.

It's *painfully* common at all levels, in all fields.

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

Black Bloc:
- Immediate target
- you look like feds
- 10% of you are feds

Frog Bloc:
- feds don't know where to shoot you
- deflection perimeter for less lethal rounds
- your respirator and body armor are hidden
- even if you are a fed, you're still a dancing frog

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

They always aim rubber bullets and pepper balls at people's heads now. It's totally against policy and probably illegal, but they think it's funny.

So what if "head" is now frog??

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 2d

the cute inflatable suits are *also* armor against less-lethal rounds and allows you to hide your gear.

Frog is Tactical

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