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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 8h

Not to mention the flag with 11 stripes

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 8h

DANCE CHANGE
DεR WINIß
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LOVE WΛL

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 1d

lol it's 10x that now

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 2d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a can of soda and says yes very sad anyway ..

Alt: GIF from the TV series Loki: Loki (Tom Hiddleston) says "Yes, very sad. Anyway..."

media.tenor.com

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 2d

a man with a bald head is laughing with his eyes closed and his mouth open .

Alt: A GIF from the movie The Princess Bride: Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) laughs and suddenly falls over, dead

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 4d

Or he keeps watching the video and setting off the alert on his son's phone

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 5d

With great responsibility often comes very little power

a close up of a spider man hanging upside down in front of a gold background

Alt: GIF of Spider-Man hanging upside down, giving a thumbs-up sign that points downward and changing it to a thumbs-down sign that points upward

media.tenor.com

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 11d

No pirates left in the valley

www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 19d

I wish the real #BlueApron was on here so I could tell them how much the "new Blue Apron" sucks... I had to settle for telling some poor customer service agent who probably doesn't even know the email address of anyone who could actually do anything about it. That and canceling the subscription 🤷‍♂️

Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 20d

Does she think the gold bars are, like, peaking out from behind the gray bars in prior years? Like it's actually a 3D bar chart but viewed straight on and with no perspective?

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 21d

I had to read it three times before I realized it wasn't an @alyankovic.bsky.social video

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 25d

Back to the Future had some lessons on how to deal with bullies

Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 25d

youtu.be/KHbrNz1RUVY?...

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 26d

Having read it now, I would also suggest "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 26d

That's Good

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 26d

Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 27d

Disney+ should offer a livestream of Jimmy Kimmel for the people stuck in Sinclair or Nexstar markets, especially if they're planning to announce a price increase in the near future

Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 27d

Looked up my local Nexstar stations, and… it would have been quicker to list the stations that are *not* owned by Nexstar

Screenshot from Nexstar TV stations list, text follows:

AFFILIATION:

CBS
FOX
ABC
MyNetworkTV
FOX
MyNetworkTV
lon Television
Bounce
LAFF
AntennaTV

Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · 29d

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
@artbutmakeitnow.bsky.social

"Liberty Leading the People" («La Liberté guidant le peuple») by Eugène Delacroix, 1830.

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X (r. 1824–1830). A bare-breasted "woman of the people" with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied by a young boy brandishing a pistol in each hand, leads a group of various people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen while holding aloft the flag of the French Revolution—the tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these events—in one hand, and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne. The painting is sometimes wrongly thought to depict the French Revolution of 1789.

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · Sep 14

Has #SpiritAirlines ever had a flight depart on time from MCO?

My experience would indicate they have not

Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · Aug 27

Discovering the cat threw up

by stepping in it

in the dark

in socks.

Taking the socks off

cleaning it up

turning the lights off again

and discovering that wasn't the only place he threw up.

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · Aug 20

I'm beginning to suspect this isn't the official account 😅

Screenshot from bluesky:

Blue Apron @blueapron.bsky.social • 2m
* Reply to you @blue-apron.bsky.social get your shit together

Blue Apron reposted your post • 3m
Congrats to @blueapron.bsky.social for finding a way to raise prices by ~$50/month and market it as a discount

Blue Apron liked your post • 3m
Congrats to @blueapron.bsky.social for finding a way to raise prices by ~$50/month and market it as a discount

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · Aug 12

Meme: Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) from Parks and Recreation, with text superimposed that says "I don't know what a LABUBU is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask"

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · Aug 11

Congrats to @blueapron.bsky.social for finding a way to raise prices by ~$50/month and market it as a discount

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Eric Wilson @digitalsimulacra.com · Jul 28

Feels like it's time to watch Goldfinger again

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