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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 6h

I have had quite a few parents tell me that if the could do it all over again they would not have kids.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 9h

So you end up with these weird fragmented parks with different purposes and management agencies. It's ridiculous.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 9h

In LA we have a weird park situation where the city has partnered with the state to build new parks. The problem is that the state has rules about their parks that preclude pretty much any activity besides nature trails.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 10h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Winona Ryder, covered in ash and dragging on a cigarette at the end of “Heathers”

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 10h

It would be hilarious if it usurped Pepe

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 11h

I think I'd tape a little charcoal filter on the inside

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 11h

He was an obvious agent provocateur from the start

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 12h

If anyone wants some antifa merch printed on expensive Print on Demand printers you can get it here. I have a new sticker available as well as some new flags to hang vertically. Everything 30% off. vague-pariah.printify.me

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 12h

General Frogman of the Portland Inflatable Auxilary

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 13h

Declare the ICE presence a blight and eminent domain it

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

Phillies are going down

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

He didn't just discard that and start making kitsch paintings for conservative folks in flyover country. He conned them.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

If you look at his CalArts work and his early work, he was being incredibly subversive to social power, especially corporate media power like Disney.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

I mean sure but there are a ton of "new masters"

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

Just completely divorced from objective reality

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

Lately it seems quite a bit beyond him simply being a liar.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

Oh man I remember having to write a Linux printer driver for my Toshiba laptop in 1993 while I was a CECS major.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 14h

That happened in the late 90s early 2000s to the Discordians with performative satirical conspiracy theories. You do that long enough and you end up believing it.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

Those boys came after the Weimar Republic fell

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

Someone remind me who "antifa" was against in Weimar Germany?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

His body of work was satirical performance art, not just kitsch paintings.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

Kinkade was a misunderstood genius

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

Thomas Kinkade was a genius and I will die on this hill

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

adding "child tax credit" to the list of discourse topics that have provoked DM'd threats, alongside French-canadians, fallout new Vegas factions, male height, and Thomas Kincaid

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

It really is. Even for someone that used to bomb no joke mountains back in the day.

Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 15h

A dance battle is still a battle or something

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