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SubGothius
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Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Screenshot of tweet by Adrian Bott @Cavalorn: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party 10/16/15, 1:18 AM
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim, easy million there for me.
Front cover of the album Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim Back cover and CD jewel case spine labels of the album Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Heard a rebroadcast of the @waywordradio.org episode mentioning "fnēosung" as an Old English word for "sneeze", thought I'd point out that's related to the Old English "fnese" which evolved into "sneeze" via misreading or misprinting the initial "f" as a "ſ" (long-s), per the OED:
Oxford English Dictionary excerpt: sneeze, v. (sni:z) Forms: 5 snese, 6-8 sneese (6 scniese), 6- sneeze, 7 sneez. [app. an alteration of FNESE v., due to misreadin gor misprinting it as 'ſnese', after the initial combination of fn- had become unfamiliar. Fnese had app. gone out of use early in the 15th cent., its place being mainly supplied by NEEZE v. The adoption of sneeze was probably assisted by its phonetic appropriateness; it may have been felt as a strengthened form of neeze...]
January 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Ngl, reading that screencap I was like:
4-tier reaction meme depecting Bernie Sanders: 1. Senator Ted Cruz: This morning I sent a letter to Speaker Johnson [somber Bernie] 2. urging the House to advance [alert Bernie] 3. articles of impeachment against [excited Bernie] 4. Judges Boasberg and Boardman [somber Bernie]
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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#UBI #FTW
"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. "We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. "The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." ~Buckminster Fuller
January 1, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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Fake magazine ad with mother and child both holding lit cigarettes, captioned: WHEN YOU LIGHT UP, SO DO THEY Now you both look cool as fuck
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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Meme with a drawing of a white guy with goatee and mohawk hairstyle captioned, "Hurting my feelings is the real racism." ~White Guys
December 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Opposing terrible things is all fine & good, but it's never enough to know what you're against—what are you FOR?
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~Buckminster Fuller
December 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Illustration of Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White in the 1985 film Clue, hands held up near the sides of her face, her head wreathed in flames.
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Always be motivated by what you DO want, rather than by what you don't want. It's not enough to know what you're against; rather, what are you FOR?

And on a related note:
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~Buckminster Fuller
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Single-panel comic depicting two seated men in a library, one with his mouth open to speak, captioned: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who *do* study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I mean, it IS edible. Once.
2-panel comic strip, 1st panel: A hand holds up a mushroom with a white-speckled red cap, asking "Is this mushroom edible?" to a generic humanoid figure labeled "AI" which responds, "Yes". 2nd panel: A man reclines in a hospital bed with his eyes closed, alongside a generic humanoid figure labeled "AI" which says, "You're right, it's a poisonous mushroom. Would you like to learn more about poisonous mushrooms?"
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Screenshot from The Onion with headline: "Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting" Accompanied by an outdoors photo of a balding man with stubbly beard smiling
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Screenshot from The Onion with headline: "Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting" Accompanied by a photo of a balding man with stubbly beard, outdoors & smiling
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Reminds me a bit of my maternal grandparents' cran-apple-orange relish:
CRAN-APPLE-ORANGE RELISH (Prepare the day before serving, or earlier) 1 pkg. raw cranberries, washed & sorted; 3 red apples, unpeeled, quartered & cored; 1 whole orange, unpeeled, quartered & de-seeded; 1 cup sugar. Grind fruit together in a meat grinder (blender or food processor might work, haven't tried). You're going for a fine granular texture, coarser than puree but finer than chunks, something like couscous or quinoa. Put a cake pan under the grinder to capture juice drippings and pour back in. Stir in 1 cup sugar (more/less to taste). Put in glass or plastic bowl (not ceramic), cover and place in fridge overnight. Can be kept in fridge up to 2 weeks at least.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh meme captioned: [Basic Pooh:] False Prophet [Tuxedo Pooh:] Artificial Prophet
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh meme captioned: [Basic Pooh:] False Prophet [Tuxedo Pooh:] Artificial Prophet
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Close-up photograph of C3PO from Star Wars, with an unlit cigarette in his mouth and a hand from off-camera giving him a light.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Right under your comment but outside your subthread:
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Screenshot of martin_fff replying in a subthread: "I want 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' but Star Wars" ...immediately followed by näirb posting separately in top thread: "Andor is basically watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but every so often a muppet shows up."
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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State border highway sign reading: "NEBRASKA ...the good life Home of Arbor Day"
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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HUGE list of food assistance resources around Tucson, Arizona compiled by/at tucsonloveletter.com/articles/food/
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October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Switch from Linear to Threaded reply view. Won't help everyone but at least improved my experience & may yours as well:
Screenshot demonstrating how to switch from Linear to Threaded reply view on Bluesky
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Quote from Carl Sagan: "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." (Source: Obsessed with Reality, Ch. 13, p. 241)
October 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Black T-shirt printed with a mystical design saying across the top: "EVERYTHING IS NOT GOING TO BE OK" ...and across the bottom: "BUT AT LEAST THE MUSIC IS GOOD"
October 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Reckon you're referring to this:
Tweet from Maréchal Pinard @skantstank64: yfw plane/train autism existed in ancient greece but it was with ships instead Accompanied by an image of a book passage translating an anecdote from Heraclides of Pontus thus: "25. Thrasyllus of the deme of Aexone suffered a strange new form of madness. He left the city and went down to live at the Piraeus. He imagined that all the ships coming into harbour there were his own. He made a list of them, attended when they departed once more, and was delighted when they returned safely to the harbour. For a long time he continued to suffer from this mania. But his brother, returning from Sicily, handed him over to a doctor to be cured, and in this way he recovered from the illness. He often recalled his mad hobby and used to say that he had never been so happy as when he rejoiced at the sight of ships which did not belong to him returning safely."
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM