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Felgraf

@felgraf.bsky.social

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American physics abroad in Finland, working on citizenship He/him "In a hundred years we'll all be dead, but here and now we are alive"-Small Gods, by T. Pratchett Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah WWI is infuriating just because it seems like a war that happened solely because every side decided that *not* having a war was just Too Much Trouble.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 9h

Also given the clusterfuck of WW1, including British Officers *Taking american soldiers to go invade Russia and getting a bunch killed*
it's

kind of hard to blame people going "Actually fuck this!" w/regard to war breaking out there *again*.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 23h

Pop quiz: how would you characterize someone who posts AI videos and then, when the comments that it’s AI start to pile up, leaves the video but turns off comments?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 1d

Mine name is Glenn! Cyrus's hopes and dreams... And now the Masamune...

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

You'd think with all the Portland Frogs we'd have seen a return of the king as a meme

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

You'd think with all the Portland Frogs we'd have seen a return of the king as a meme

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 1d

What's great is that
regardless of how dumb this is
regardless of how dumb EVERYONE ELSE in the GOP might know this is.

Now they HAVE to fucking vote for it or Trump, petty and idiotic fuck that he is, will take it as a *personal betrayal*.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 2d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Mood.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2d

New era of shanties has arrived @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

(... I will admit a good chunk of my knowledge of nuclear disasters comes from Well There's Your Problem episodes. Though I *did* know about Therac 25 even before they did an episode on it! Though that's more "electron beam disaster", I suppose!)

Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

I am unfamilliar with that one, I shall have to go look it up!

Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

whoof, so something like the Goiânia accident, by the sound of it?

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

"the purpose of a system is what it does" continues to prove useful, I think...

Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

this is making me think of the intro to Xenogears again.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

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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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

A) No.
B) Even if that were true, that is, in fact, then, the fucking opposite of what you initially claimed, unless you think 'making work a virtue' magically fixes mental illness?

Logic and evidence aren't things you're a fan of, huh?

Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

kid, I fucking live here.
They have more-or-less ended homelessness by just--giving people places to live.

The opposite of your proposed solution.

Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

Finland says
A) Hi
B) You're clearly full of bullshit.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 2d

*Blinks, and facepalms* Right, Macedonia is in europe. My brain saw "MA" and got crosswired.