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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · 7d

He saw the Holy Ghost and was like Whaaat !! Haha follow back have blessed day.

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · 17d

Branson weak to crimsongrinch damage.. noted

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 18d

Monte Dolack, Home on the Reef, 1994

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 26d

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · 27d

a what?

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Sep 9

YES

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Sep 9

10,000%

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Sep 1

this is how I find out we're strangers? via jackal?

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker.

*My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Aug 19

im all about demons and the demon-based lifestyle

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · Aug 4

Everyone knows that "Preferences" should be found under Edit (because you edit them), under Tools (because they control the parameters of your tools), under General (because they are categorically broad), & under File (because a preference is a 'filing off' from a marble block of possibility)

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Aug 12

yes !!

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Becky & Frank @beckyandfrank.com · Aug 12

Yee-haw! 🤠 🧸

A digital illustration by artist Becky Dreistadt of a teddy bear wearing a tiny cowboy hat and large boots.

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Aug 2

oh, we've evolved far beyond malice aforethought. we're on like malice asixthought now

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:

Here is the column I wrote on the theme "What I Would have liked to Know About Germany Earlier," along with the additional reflections I provided at Zeit Magazin's request.
-A society governed by regulations, yet lacking individual moral judgement, is more dangerous than one with none at all.
-A society that values obedience without questioning authority is destined to become corrupt.
-A society that admits to error but refuses to reflect on its origins possesses a mind as stubborn and dull as granite.
-Here, at a deserted street, people stop dutifully at a red light. Not a car in sight. This, I once thought, is the mark of a highly evolved society.
-At the heart of bureaucracy lies a collective endorsement of power's legitimacy, and therefore, individuals surrender their moral judgement–or perhaps never developed one. They abandon challenge. They relinquish dispute.
-When conversation becomes avoidance, when topics must not be mentioned, we are already living under the quiet logic of authoritarianism.
-When the majority believe they live in a free society, it is often a sign that the society is not free. Freedom is not a gift; it must be wrestled from the hands of banality and the quiet complicity with power.
-When people sense that power is beyond challenge, they redirect their energy into trivial disputes. And those trivialities, collectively, are enough to erode a society's very foundations of justice.
-When public events of great consequence–such as the Nord Stream Pipeline bombing–are met with silence from both government and media, the silence itself becomes more terrifying than any atomic bomb.
-Facts are acknowledged partially, forgotten deliberately, or swallowed by collective silence. And so we repeat catastrophe–against and again, in cycles.
-When the media becomes a servant of public opinion, or avoids conflict to maintain favour with existing powers, it becomes an accomplice to authority. What we call lies are not always distortions of fact.

-Political leaders make decisions steeped in fallacy & failure. This reflects the broader political condition of a society in which most people have surrendered their awareness & even their basic agency–allowing such leaders to enact their mistakes on their behalf
-When a society uses linguistic difference or cultural misunderstanding as excuses for exclusion, it has crossed into a more insidious form of racism. This is not a political opinion–it is an attitude, a stain in blood, passed down like genes
-Bureaucracy is not merely sluggish. It is a cultural scorn. It rejects the possibility of dialogue. It insists that ignorance, codified into policy, no matter how wrong & inhumane it is, remains the best resistance against social mobility, against moral motion. In such a society, hope is not misplaced. It is extinguished
-In the surrounding atmosphere, one sees not culture, but self-congratulation; not art, but insularity & collective reverence for power. What is missing is sincerity–honesty of emotion & of intention. In such an environment, art that grapples with true human feeling or moral reckoning is nearly impossible to produce.
-A place that routinely discards self-awareness & erases individual agency is one that lives under iron walls of authoritarianism
-I have no family, no fatherland, never known what it is to belong. I belong only to myself. In the best of circumstances, that self should belong to everyone. I still do not know what art is. I only hope that what I make might touch its edges while it seems unrelated to anything. & in truth, in the best of circumstances it is unrelated to me, for the "I" already melts into everything
-Those things found in galleries, museums, & collectors' living room–are they art? Who has declared them so? On what basis? Why do I always feel suspicion in their presence?
-Works that evade reality, that shy away from argument, from controversy, from debate–be they text, painting, or performance–are worthless.

-I understand now: people crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. at times, even like catastrophe.
-Under most circumstances, society selects the most selfish, least idealistic among us to take on the work we call "art" because that choice makes everyone feel safe.
Additional reflections
-In Berlin, I encounter the ever-present Schweinshaxe and Schnitzel, and I can hardly believe that such a highly developed, industrialised country offers such a monotonous selection of ingredients. Even more baffling is the sudden proliferation of Chinese restaurants–most of them noodle-based, and operating at a culinary level that any Chinese person could easily achieve at home. The variety of food and cooking methods is so limited here that people form all over the world feel compelled to open restaurants: Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish–you name it.
-But the truly horrifying part? The sheer number of Chinese restaurants. I can only assume they believe that no matter what ends up on the plate, German customers will come running. In front of some of these establishments, there are even long queues–yet the food they serve bears little resemblance to anything recognisably Chinese. My favourite food in Germany is the bread and sausage–you simply can't find ones with such distinctive character anywhere else.
-I'm puzzled by why so many people would willingly cram themselves into a small bar just to have a long conversation. Since I don't speak the language, I can only imagine that the young people coming to Berlin would talk about clubbing. This sort of thing was all the rage in the U.S. back in the '70s and '80s.
-The Germans might be the only people who are truly the furthest from a sense of humour. This could be the result of their deep reverence for rationality. Just look at Berlin Airport or the advertisements for Mercedes-Benz cars–you start to feel that their lack of humour has become a kind of immense humour in itself

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · Jul 21

jsut remembered samsung horse

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삼성전자 승마단

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 21

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bobonha @bobonha.bsky.social · Jul 18

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Jul 7

[heckling from the back of the line] this homo ain't even gay!

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Jul 7

one of the few that actually has decent sodium ✅✅

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Jul 7

[running my hand along the mainframe server racks, hitting buttons and knocking out cables] ah, a '73 IBM... you ever run this baby in parallel?

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · Mar 19

oh yeah now that videos can be longer k&k mime should be on this website (it should be on every website)

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Jun 28

Lord, I have seen the delusions you have bestowed upon others,

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choplogik @choplogik.bsky.social · Jun 28

these grew near the cabin I grew up in. unbeatable flavour

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is notorious for its poor DVD release. A year or two ago, someone sent me 4 of the home laserdiscs releases. Here's the first of four that I am uploading to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/Teen...

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