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Doctor Memory

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Just another bozo on this bus: please deflate your shoes before entering. The artist formerly known as dr_memory@twit (and same on livejournal, remember them?) and currently also known as @[email protected] on mastodon. Banner photo by @lifewinning.com

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 2h

Also a decent-ish early 2000s FPS game!

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 6h

Croissants are an industrial food product and I’ll die on this tiny and uninteresting hill: the best croissants anyone has ever made were all made with an industrial dough laminator and trying to do it by hand is self-abuse.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 6h

“I could fix he—“ *is dragged offstage and beaten with large sticks*

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 6h

The 90s were wild. Pictured: one of the hottest women you have ever or will ever see, a woman that anyone sexually attracted to women would crawl over glass for.

Caption: check out thunder thighs here!

(And the British tabloids were vile even by the standards of the time.)

A picture of a young Mariah Carey in an extremely skimpy dress which she is absolutely pulling off because she is hotter than the sun itself.

The caption text reads: Fashion victim of the week. Oops! We forgot to put Mariah Carey in our "Fat Thighs" story! On those porky pins, the pop princess is no dainty "But-terfly." Her va-ya-va-voom Versace couldn't be much shorter— it's barely bigger than a T-shirt! Why doesn't the suddenly single songbird just go naked?

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 6h

Killing USAID will have the biggest body count in the near to medium term, but slapping 50% tariffs on most of Africa will be a strong second if not a come-from-behind winner once the century is out.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 6h

The gentiles are not okay.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 6h

SURFACE DETAIL (Iain M. Banks, 2010)

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 12h

*narrows eyes*

@abbysyarns.bsky.social was this you? I feel like this was probably you. 😂

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 13h

If you think the bullshit is hip deep now, just wait until intactivism hits the national discourse.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

The single least probable face turn of just about anyone from the class of 88-92. Still kind of a hot mess but it seems like he found some peace and good on him.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

JFC TIL

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

The single worst discovery I ever made about myself in college was that I tended to get _better_ grades on the papers I wrote that way— if I survived the process. At around 4am and the third nodoz I’d hit perfect flow state where my forebrain was no longer getting in the way of my fingers.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Still remember people yelling at me on the old site for saying this guy specifically was likely an agent provocateur. They're out there!

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

People think I’m joking or exaggerating when I say that “New Yorkers against New York” is a large and identifiable constituency within New York City.

If anything I’m underselling it.

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

Next commenter: someone against more density on Fourth Avenue. “We are not Manhattan.”

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

They want it back? I have some suggestions, still involving Bibi, but they’re verging on tasteless even given the thread contents so far.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

The only appropriate memorial to this nightmare would be to drag Bibi from the Knesset and dump him into whatever unmarked grave in the desert they left Sinwar in. Plow the earth over both of them and build something useful on top.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

Hey guys? Great mountain of corpses we built here. All-time work. The blood god was surely appeased. Just one little question: WAS ANY OF THIS NECESSARY? Whose life was improved in any way by any of this?

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

"We will product our local Jewish population by ending acceptance of minority cultures in a country that has repeatedly expelled its Jewish population" is certainly a thing that one could choose to say in public, if one were both remarkably stupid _and_ remarkably unpleasant.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 2d

Pynchon is apparently friendly with his niece, Tristan Taormino, so the amount of weird online shit he could be aware of or even into is… unsettlingly large.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 2d

An Irishman, trolling? Well I never! This is unprecedented!

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 2d

Deadwood. 🤣

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