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@charles.capps.me

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Former and aspiring software engineer, homeless again. AuDHD, AvPD, TLAs, LOL. Leftist progressive radicalized by PHP, not kidding.

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Charles @charles.capps.me · Jun 13

oh no

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Jun 13

Star Trek Lower Decks scene. Captain Freeman is pictured in Engineering near the warp core which glows blue and red behind her. There's another crew member working in the background. With her back to the previously mentioned warp core, Freeman stands looking down & reading a padd she's holding. Closed caption reads, "Her medical opinion is that you are "a [bleep] pile of stress."

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 3h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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POKEY THE PENGUIN @pokeythepenguin.bsky.social · 9h

TEE HEE!!! IT IS TRUE

Constance Marianne @conniemouse.bsky.social · 9h

I made this for you, Pokey!!

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11h

Fun fact, in the original text of Exodus, the plural form is not used. It’s not a plague of frogs. It’s a plague of frog. A plague of frog that will cover all of Egypt. Frogzilla. One Kaiju frog.

Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 11h

This country needs a plague of frogs! 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

Charles @charles.capps.me · 12h

Yep that's PJ!

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 17h

taking credit for this. everyone who replied that this was unhelpful was wrong. going hard on these guys literally reduced the numbers of nazi forces.

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Charles @charles.capps.me · 16h

Also if you completely ignore all the technobabble being wrong, and also know all the lore behind how it became what it was, it's actually pretty good. If you don't know everything about what's happening though, oh my V'GER, you're going to be so lost.

Charles @charles.capps.me · 16h

I rewatched the director's edition of TMP last night. An addendum...

Decker command tip: If your XO countermands one of your orders, there's probably a good reason. Go with it.

Charles @charles.capps.me · 16h

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Charles @charles.capps.me · 16h

If anyone out there in the nutso conspiracy tracker crowd knows how to find a copy I'd love a pointer. I couldn't find it in the wayback machine.

Charles @charles.capps.me · 16h

Add in the simple ability to create like-minded groups and we get the recipe for both magic and madness.

I really wish that Prester Jane's "Compaction Theory" stuff was still online. Self-affirming groups can radicalize incredibly easily, and it was an amazing take on the phenomenon.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 17h

It really can't be emphasized enough how unlimited information access mixed with a constant firehose of bad news mixed with the expectations that getting likes and shares for your opinions makes your opinions worthwhile have combined to turn our brains into lukewarm pudding.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20h

Seen a bunch of different bits of content being like “it’s just paid agitators and bots trying to divide us“ and I’m like, no, I think people really are just actually that stupid

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 19h

postmodern finance theory

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 23h

All of this is to say that Portland political humor, which often makes the national stage via absurdist protests (like right now) or statements of solidarity that other groups find baffling (like the Wall of Moms during the BLM protests), is steeped in this same sense of creative frustration.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon has, as an undercurrent, what I would call the “libertarian impulse” — the need to say ‘f*ck you, I’m doing my own thing.’ That’s why, running alongside what people imagine to be the sort of hippy dippy stuff, are separatist movements/overt white supremacists. Cc: @sethcotlar.bsky.social

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 23h

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

A signup form for a dating site, showing two options under "I'm a" that are "Bouba" and "Kiki"
and below that, an "Interested In" section that has the options of "Boubas", "Kikis", "Both"

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

flared bases loaded

Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 1d

….is that

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

Charles @charles.capps.me · 1d

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

There is no dialectic, no synthesis between "reality exists and we're trying to deal with it" and the absolute rejection of reality and insertion of unreality, you stupid, conceited fucks.

There is no middle ground!

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to have a small meltdown.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

There is no dialectic, no synthesis between "reality exists and we're trying to deal with it" and the absolute rejection of reality and insertion of unreality, you stupid, conceited fucks.

There is no middle ground!

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to have a small meltdown.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Binary thinking is not always destructive,” Mark Edmundson writes. “But when all thought is binary, we are in trouble.”

Charles @charles.capps.me · 1d

I clicked, unclicked, came back here to warn everyone not to click, and *then* logged off.

Charles @charles.capps.me · 1d

wow what a goddamn tweet to log on to

thanks for the warning to log off, much appreciated

Charles @charles.capps.me · 1d

It was antifa and the feds that did all the violence, those loyal patriots totally didn't do anything at all!!!1

These people can look at the video of Ashli Babbit being shot and killed, with the full context, and still consider her a patriot and a martyr instead of a dumbass.