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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 3h

You should be buying Legos instead, like a proper adult

Will @will.bearwaves.com · 3h

Filling your room with HP merch and telling people you're a ravenclaw officially became creepy 1 year after you left secondary school which statistically, was at least a decade ago now

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 1d

Imagine cancelling a game because you decided to take seriously the racists who were mad about a black character being in AC Shadows

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 1d

These types of restrictions on voting are not unique to Denmark, but it raises the question for me: what % of a tax-paying, legally resident population can be disenfranchised before it stops being a democracy?

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 1d

Permanent residence for non-EU nationalities takes at least 5 years, with language tests and various other requirements, and anecdotal evidence says that even then it can be denied.
Citizenship? Laughable, people live their whole lives fully integrated into Denmark and are never granted it.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 1d

Hey guys, did you know that more than 9% of voting-age residents of Denmark are disenfranchised? In Copenhagen, closer to 20%. That's because they are not Danish citizens.
Some of them can vote in local elections: only if they are EU citizens, or have had permanent residence for more than 4 years.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 3d

If my son asked me for a job I would send him an automated rejection email

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 3d

While it is absolutely valid to criticise the recipients of nepotism, I think it's vital that we make a conscious effort to demonise their benefactors as well: systematically consolidating power without a thought towards competence

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 4d

When people spend time on social media smugly and deliberately making strangers angry for no real reason other than to be pedantic, do they realise that they're destroying all of their own credibility or?

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 4d

At this point we've definitely crossed the Streisand threshold, where the Streisand Effect is more well-known as a concept than either Barbara herself, or the thing she did to cause the term to be coined in the first place

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 4d

The emotion should, of course, be fury that I didn't invite you to share them

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 4d

If you don't have an emotional reaction to this image then I don't know if we can be friends

Some of the crispiest mashed potatoes: imagine crushing them between your teeth, the fluffy interior emerging from their brittle shells

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Bearwaves @bearwaves.com · 4d

It’s the spooky season again, so we’ve put the Halloween skins back in the Feud piece store! Get em while they’re, uh, spooky

Some Halloween themed skins in the game Feud

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 6d

Every time I see a video of those "sandwiches" where they wrap a slice of bread up with some ham and cabbage on the *inside* of an omelette, I'm left wondering who on earth would willingly pick that up in their hands. Greasy egg is not an appetising feeling on the fingers

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

As an aside, I did a big fistpump like a cartoon character when I finally overcame the final boss

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

Hollow Knight: Silksong
100% / 5 ⭐
Silksong rewards patience, practice, and diligence, and is ruthless in its punishment of hubris. You are given the chance to truly earn victory, with a visceral challenge that has been diligently balanced just barely within your reach.
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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

behind the bike shed at 3, we'll see who's got the spuds to handle business

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

I am enraged at the very thought of jacket potatoes: you've made a worse mashed potatoes inside that bitter shell,

,you fool

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

There is no method of preparing potatoes whose results wouldn't be improved by removing the skins

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

Yeah, social media is a great way to make yourself feel moody and generally anxious, but have you tried procrastinating something you really should have started weeks ago, drinking too much caffeine, and being paralysed in the face of having to act on it?

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

So if you pour your tea into a cup from really high it kinda foams up and that's the kind of whimsy you need now and again

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 10d

Definitely in a phase where I'm exploring vegetarian food a lot more, but not really in principle - it's just kinda fun to make the most of good produce, with the upside that it tends to be rather healthy as well

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

This is me pleading to hear news about some actually cool new tech that cuts through the noise of grifters trying to cynically ride the genAI wave and taking advantage of non-technical people who don't know better

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

Constantly struggling these days to find joy in new developments when feelings of

"This new technology is awesome!"

are so rapidly discovered to actually mean

"Marketing departments belong in the lowest levels of hell"

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

sorry, rage bait is the engagement meta right now so can you hurry up and post something that gets me riled enough to argue about it in your replies but not enough to actually attempt real change