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@reirikr.bsky.social

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Sort of a strange old hermit. Slutty in theory, but not at all in practice.

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Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · May 16

If you're a tankie, a TERF or a MAGA your opinion is automatically invalid as a matter of principle. Please go ahead and block me immediately.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 9h

He's just desperate for daddy's love.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 10h

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Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

I can't imagine hype and "received wisdom" causing global financial catastrophe. It can't have ever happened before, right?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

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Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Tiger King may end up actually being the thing that pushes forward the study of cults academically. Not all cults are religious, and not all religions are cults. They're insidious. You can't even go to the zoo or take a painting class without running *some* risk of finding yourself in a cult.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Good gods, how do you list skills you learned in a cult on a job application? 😂

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to model for my girls that you can express anger and frustration without being abusive. She was mostly worried when I pulled my arms out of the engine compartment covered in blood. 😂

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Wife: "If you weren't getting cussed at, you weren't helping your dad fix the truck"
9 year old: "I mean... he was cussing up a storm, but not at me."
Wife:

a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face .

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Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Not the employee's fault, she was lovely too. I double checked their website, and that information was NOWHERE in their system. O'Reily fixed me up in A MINUTE.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

I needed another set of hands to hold tension on the idler while I aligned the serpentine belt, kid did good. I'm mad at AutoZone though for selling me the wrong belt. They didn't know that truck had three different engine sizes and three different alternator sizes. NINE different belt sizes.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Wife: "If you weren't getting cussed at, you weren't helping your dad fix the truck"
9 year old: "I mean... he was cussing up a storm, but not at me."
Wife:

a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face .

ALT: a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face .

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Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, back in the day most of us thought Meg was his sister because they were so close. Then to find out she was actually his ex wife? Minds blown.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, just the lyrics really. The tune was a far more uncouth ditty at first 🤪

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

"Battle Hymn of the Republic" is not a Christmas song, it's a Thanksgiving song. The official Thanksgiving National Holiday was set to celebrate the successful end of the Civil War. The song was written in the leadup to the Civil War specifically about ending slavery. It fits.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 1d

It's a matter of honor, and they're consenting adults. Not my business.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 2d

It's kinda funny that of all US Congressmen who've ever been killed in office, most died in duels.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 3d

I think if Christianity was for me I'd probably become a Franciscan. I'd probably even work for them now if offered a job. I like the mindset.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 3d

If some time travel shenanigans had turned an australopithecine into an anatomically modern human it would make perfect sense because that is in fact where we ended up to this point as a species. Went a lot of other directions too, but this timeline did happen.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 3d

Anytime I hear "Star Trek doesn't understand evolution" it's always a misunderstanding of what's going on in the episode. It's about temporal mechanics, the evolutions aspect is incidental. Evolution may not have predetermined endgames, but time to an extent does.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, what if in "Threshold" the reason humans eventually become giant salamanders is because in the distant future regular humans have gone extinct and all that's left of us is the descendants of the salamander babies left on that planet and it's actually a temporal causality loop? #startrek

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 4d

I see all these stats and think pieces online about a huge shift in teenage boys to hateful, misogynistic right wingism, but looking around? I don't see it. These are the kindest boys I've seen of any generation.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 4d

Found GRRM's alt account.

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 4d

wrote a paragraph. this novel should be done any decade now

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 4d

9 year old had to do a swim test and this group of teenage boys swam alongside her encouraging her the whole way. *melts*

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 5d

And WHILE I'M AT IT, can we PLEASE get groupchats up in here yet!?

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky needs to implement the same PM functions Reddit has. That way the scammers and bigots can just be summarily screened out and deleted.

Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 5d

this is just scratching the surface of the transphobia and harassment the bsky team is enabling by protecting abusers and mocking its trans users for wanting safety. this isn't the only one today.

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Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 5d

It's an odd thing to think about, but I often wonder how much differently my life might have turned out if I'd had an older sister. I certainly would have had an easier childhood, but I'm not sure I'd like the person I might have become then.

Cryptid Wizard @reirikr.bsky.social · 5d

Wait wait wait. So JK Rowling's bigoted bullshit just comes down to her projecting her issues with her misogynistic father on THE WORLD!? Bitch, you're a billionaire. You can afford a therapist.