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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16m

I don’t think that one is just coming from city and urban people. It’s not just about forests, it’s a specific conspiracy theory that national parks / park rangers are hiding a bunch of people or possibly non-humans in national parks. (Sorry if you already knew, couldn’t tell from the post.)

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

Happy to see this got 25k likes

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

Aw yeah, that’s my biome, love it

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

So yeah, I think you generally have to read between the lines of what people say a lot. And to a certain extent they expect you too, also.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

I think people are generally very bad at saying what they believe directly even when they want to do that / think they are doing that. Lots of gesturing around an idea without actually expressing it. And a certain amount of that is insecurity/fear/awkwardness/avoiding vulnerability.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3h

That’s the far more responsible response to it

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3h

Same

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4h

Not saying I buy it, just saying some of those stories and videos I can’t explain

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4h

I’m Stevie-Wonder-isn’t-blind-curious

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4h

That’s something of a pattern with that account

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4h

I’m a big fan of this conspiracy chart with the antisemitic point of no return

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

That’s a great set list. I’ve been to a bunch of his concerts, some of them he played a ton of early stuff, some of them he played almost no early stuff

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

the problem with a lot of 'AH HA! YOU ENJOYED THIS, YOU SICK FUCK' critiques is that the correct moral answer if you cannot exercise any choice in the game is not to play the game.

in the same way I have defeated Haneke's critique of the audience in FUNNY GAMES through simply not watching it

Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 10h

The difference, IMO, is that Spec Ops: The Line is a tightly crafted metacritique about the then dominant trends in AAA gaming while TLOU2 firmly presents itself as, and clearly believes itself to be, a story that has something meaningful to say about the nature of violence and the human condition.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t believe he’s still talking about this. It means so much to him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 10h

I think part of the reason Dylan stood out so much is that he had a voice that sounded so much like an old timer, a face that looked like a 12 year old, and was writing really forward-looking, modern songs about every cultural sore spot, and people were like “what the hell IS this?”

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

Dylan based so much of his early style on Ramblin Jack Elliott that when they ended up playing shows together in Dylan’s early days, Ramblin Jack used to introduce him by saying “please welcome my son Bob Dylan”

Ramblin' Jack Elliott Diamond Joe 1965

YouTube video by michael donaghey

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 10h

It is almost impossible to get people to understand how much clothing used to cost, just an unfathomable amount of your income. I lose my mind whenever the “peasants had more free time than we do” discourse comes up, repairing clothes was an enormous time sink because you couldn’t replace them.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 10h

But I think Hendrix has mentioned that seeing Dylan had helped him to move out from behind the guitar and sing. He knew he couldn’t sing like Sam Cooke but Dylan reminded him he didn’t have to. And he sounds great, I think.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 10h

This is definitely true, it was a familiar style. Not so much jazz, early jazz singers were almost like opera singers. But the early field recordings of folk and blues singers definitely matched what they were doing, and those recordings were being reissued in the 50s and getting a lot of attention.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

His 90s/00s run was one of his best periods. Love & Theft is a top 5 album for me and I think if I told that to people at a Dylan concert at least half of them would be like “yeah makes sense”

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Pumpkinspacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 11h

I've yet to meet a Bob Dylan superfan whose favorite song isn't a mid-set track from a bootleg in 1987.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

Dylan based so much of his early style on Ramblin Jack Elliott that when they ended up playing shows together in Dylan’s early days, Ramblin Jack used to introduce him by saying “please welcome my son Bob Dylan”

Ramblin' Jack Elliott Diamond Joe 1965

YouTube video by michael donaghey

youtu.be

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

After the Timothee Chalamet movie came out I kept seeing tiktoks of Gen Z women being like “hi bobheads, today we’re listening to Blood on the Tapes, the bootleg of the unreleased recording session for Blood on the Tracks with NY session musicians”

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

Over on r/bobdylan people occasionally post that the subreddit is too flooded with posts about his post-90s records and why aren’t people talking about his 60s stuff more

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

You and I are not hanging out with the same Bob Dylan superfans lol

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