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Victor Von Doomscroll

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I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account I talk about pens. 🖋️

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · Sep 5

As we finish this first week in September I want to talk about my writing and ask for some help in keeping my blog going. I've been trying this summer to intentionally write things that could be useful for the months ahead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-state-vi...

The State Violence Apologia Machine

Support my Writing with a Tip We have this structured and almost procedural cycle of protest violence in the United States a lot. It goes like this: 1. Grievances bubble up en masse, and people the...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12m

sorry if you use "YA" as a pejorative i can't take your criticism of stuff seriously tbh

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 2m

‘Mortals in Greek mythology have to face harder consequences because life is cruel and the gods are capricious ‘

‘This is a YA concept and full of memes ‘

Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1h

I DO NOT remember being this way at this age lol

Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1h

Can someone just please put me in a coma during lunch

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1h

I am once again substitute teaching middle school

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

ICC rejects Duterte's request for release from detention pending trial reut.rs/3WuCttF

ICC rejects Duterte's request for release from detention pending trial

International Criminal Court judges have rejected a request by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's defence lawyers to release him from detention pending trial, court documents made public on Friday show.

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 2h

Based

Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 2h

Most of the time Greeks watched plays about their gods while drunk

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

I love how hades ii looks at the myths of Arachne, Prometheus and Heracles as like older jaded versions of themselves tbh. Greek mythology isn’t usually interesting when it centers gods. It’s the mortals. Gods are often apocryphal vehicles for changes you can’t control

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 3h

Goood morning Mr mbgngngnango

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 10h

Yes some of y'all are mad whiteness is no longer enough to protect you. The denial and exceptionalism that erases the embrace of anti-Black racial terror that got us here in the first place.

Gotta block and treat you like the quicksand you are and stay focused on where the REAL solidarity is.

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

You and 3-5 unhinged angry hamsters vs some esports team tryouts

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Never play comp marvel rivals biggest mistake of my life

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

The green knight …

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

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ceej @ceej.online · 9h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 10h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway given that Greek mythology is often an oral tradition you have variations in classic versions where Ariadne becomes something divine when Dionysus takes her and versions where she hangs herself.

Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

I would also say that you should look closely at how selective the language is when Odysseus talks to melinoë. He does not give everything away

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

Prometheus is immortal but he has the closest proximity to man etc etc

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

Galactus ….

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 9h

The antiwoke losers done pissed off Charles Vane

Once again, fuck off
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Oct 8
Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 11h

Greek nudes and allegory were the prudish alternative to nudes of people doing stuff as humans sooooooOooOoiOo