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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 15h

As it has always gone. Because without an enemy to fight, they have nothing to offer.

Fascists must ALWAYS have an enemy, the entire system is predicated upon that one fact. Without an “other” to fear and use as a threat, it collapses.

This doesn’t mean don’t fight them though. Just fight funny.

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 19h

Hey fellow white people.
If you weren’t paying attention before, you better wake the fuck up.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 19h

This is a test. We repeat, this is a test of the “can we start snatching white people off the streets for no damn reason now too?” non-emergency fascism system.
Do not adjust your set, this is only a test. We will get to you soon.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 19h

Amen brother.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 20h

I am not having a good day.
I am incredibly angry, sensitive, and stressed out. The slightest things are rubbing me very very wrong.
My paranoia is HIGH.
I didn’t get very good sleep, but this is more than just that.

I feel dangerous and not in a fun way.
I need to be SUPER careful today.

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

That IS useful, thanks!

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter Does Dallas

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

If MTG goes “woke” it’ll be both one of THE most hilarious political moments ever, and one of the least trustworthy.

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely beautiful.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

#Predictions I don’t like making:

Hamas & Israel will exchange prisoners. Hamas will release all the hostages. The minute they are back, Israel will violate the ceasefire and commence the elimination of Palestine as both a geographical area and an ethnic group.

Netanyahu is an antisemite.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

I know follower count doesn’t mean shit, but I like nice round numbers - maybe a bit of the ‘tism peeking through there.

Just need 11 more. No more, no less, and I’ll be at 300. Why is this important? It’s not.

But that 289 is makin’ my teeth itch.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

I have matured as a human and a consumer.

I am no longer buying my silly plastic robot toys off Amazon, but am
Now using #Siebertron and #BigBadToystore to find and source.
#davastator will be mine.

Please clap.
#transformers
#botbuddies

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

I think realizing that TinTin had SO MANY problematic aspects was my first encounter with “all your favorite things are bad”. All I saw back then was a kid like me who had adventures.

On the plus side,didn’t Hergé or his publishers own up to their mistakes? Or am I misremembering?

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 1d

Dear fellow #Californians…
If a #billionaire is spending millions to get you #vote against something, that is a good sign you should vote FOR it.

In unrelated news: Charles #Munger needs fifteen angry flaming robot stoats shoved up in him.

YES ON 50
#YESON50

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

/ stability and control now. The paroxysms of violence and conquest and repression. It’s because the old guard knows, on a fundamental level, that their time is pretty damn near nigh.

Worst game ever.

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

And Gene Control?
So many diseases gone, to say nothing of the potential for human empowerment.

And no government on earth is even remotely capable of handling this. They are all solely concerned with their own hegemonies and provincial beliefs. We’re seeing the beginning of this loss of /

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

Quantum Computing will:
Bring about gen Ai that is functionally indistinguishable from AGI. Which is going to be problematic
Make crypto both useful and not a planetary ecological crisis (see “Ministry of the Future” for how that might look)

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

Two things that are right on the knife’s edge of being common:
Quantum Computing
Genetic Modification

When they do become common, they will fundamentally reshape everything.
Massive computing power + control over our biology?

It’s gonna be freaky.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

…and now I know for sure, I will NEVER sub to #paramount+ because good art should never be the exclusive province of one company.

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

I played the hell out of Marathon, back in the day. I never played its successor HALO though, I don’t like multiplayer shooters much.

Gotta say though, the #HALO show on #netflix has me hooked. Dorky start, initially cheap cgi sets, but as the layers are peek long back it is getting so good…

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

Best feeling ever. For sure.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

You are never responsible for the choices assholes make. Neither is your partner.

I hope you both have a good night.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit. There is SO MUCH to unpack there. And none of it is good.

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The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 3d

*note: I am ALSO. A Fat Guy, so give me no shit about the MTS reference.

The Magenta Oblong is not a 🎃 @emptymind.bsky.social · 3d

And Furries are tough. They weather all KINDS of abuse, plus, you need to be pretty resilient to spend hours at a con in a fursuit. They’ve weaponised their own insanity and have ZERO fucks left to give. In a war of optics and messaging like this? Furries would 100% be the elite shock troops.

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