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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 7h

My most regrettable right wing phase was voting for the Australian Labor Party, we most certainly the fuck did not

Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 7h

Some of them are clandestine but if his story is true that he went in and saw this design on the wall? Absolutely guarantee it was up there with swastikas, iron crosses and sonnenrads.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 9h

Legit if you go into a lot of tattoo places with a decent story about "and now I want this shit gone" they'll do it cheap or for free.

Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 9h

The thing is the shop he walked into would also have had a bunch of swastikas, sonnenrads, iron crosses etc. because it was an Ustase tattoo shop.

Even if you're drunk, don't you walk out at that point?

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 9h

I *think* the idea is that I'd they had this oppo on him they should have dropped it from day dot, but instead were keeping it in reserve for when it was too late for him to drop out.

Which is dumb because of course they aren't going to give their opponents time to regroup!

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 16h

Literally just call me a man at this point, I'd prefer it

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 22h

I'm about two months on semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and while it hasn't had tremendous impact on my weight yet it does appear to have fixed my ADHD symptoms?!

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I'm just talking pure power price (though duration is neither here nor there - BESS is still kWh for kWh cheaper than CST). You're right that system strength is very much a Thing and isn't valued enough. There's some work on virtual inertia from batteries but you need turbines and syncons.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the issue is these need pretty direct sunlight - unlike PV, which can still operate reasonably well in diffuse light (i.e. cloudy conditions). CST can't really compete on price with PV + lithium batteries.

It's so extremely cool though

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 3d

You're thinking of Michael Leunig, I think?

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 4d

Also we have actively worked against any possibility that there could *be* a better candidate

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 4d

This is a wild read. My son had a similar recessive autosomal disorder (Niemann-Pick) and I can't imagine having not even known the whole time.

Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 5d

It's mostly natural gas in glass furnaces! We're looking into a lot of different low carbon fuel options where I work but there's a lot of promise in biomethane.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 5d

He's definitely a Nazi but in previous times even people who were definitely Nazis would have worked to disavow open Hitler worship in their political faction.

Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 6d

Those are fucking skinwalkers

If you let them in they won't be able to identify your remains

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 7d

Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 11d

Scrap metal facilities here have radiation monitors on all of the material intake

Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 14d

500,000 cars would be about 2.3Mt, or one-third of the emissions of a single decently-sized ironworks blast furnace

Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 15d

Oh and I forgot, fucking ZHUKOV, if there was one reason the Nazis lost it was that man but now he's a punchline about medals

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 15d

Compare that to how people speak of the heroism of French partisans or the apocalyptic sacrifice of the Red Army

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 15d

"Hitler made the trains run on time" "the Wehrmacht engaged in advanced tactics" "German engineering was superior" "Rommel was the greatest field commander in WW2" fascists are desperate to pretend they weren't fucking losers from top to bottom and idiots buy into it.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 15d

I wonder why fascists feel the need to wallpaper over the failures of their ideological statecraft by essentially implying their innate superiority only lost due to unfair advantages on behalf of their enemies?

Can't even begin to imagine

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15d

The people have listed so much superior allied technology that I have been inspired to litigate this year old piece in long form secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/subscribe?si...

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 19d

Me: carefully explains the difference between stainless steel and rust
Bunnings: it's a good towel rack ma'am
Me: gets the towel rack home
It's rust

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 21d

o no

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 23d

ICE is literally only 22 years old as an agency; it was created by the Bush administration in order to ramp up fascist activities in the wake of 9/11.

There is very little issue with "letting it slide" aside from it upsetting petty blood-and-soil fascist car dealership owners.

A screenshot from the Wikipedia article on ICE showing that it was created 22 years ago and is by no means an integral component of the US Government.

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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 24d

There's a fairly well-studied link between screen time and issues with attention, but that's nowhere near the same as "acquired ADHD."

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