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the tone makes this sound like they have a recurring problem with people trying to join after a bad breakup and are just sick of this shit
'People who are getting away from a bad breakup' was a major source of recruits for the French Foreign Legion.
I have worked a lot of remote jobs and you have no idea how common it is for someone who just had or got out of a bad interpersonal relationship to decide that they need to find themselves out in the woods and work on their issues, so then they go and get a job that requires close contact with limited group of people and no one else for months on end. And then when they make their bad decisions, (the rebound boyfriend, the one night stand, the long drawn out cry sesh with a bottle of booze in the middle of the night on a work day) they're still stuck with the same 6 people on a mountaintop for another 7 weeks who are all forced into front row seats to bear witness to the ongoing character development until the guy who is nominally in charge has to make a rule about no fucking in the cook tent, because its the only structure big enough for us all to get out of the rain and while we're all glad that Sarah is taking charge of her own life after her boyfriend cheated on her by fucking literally the only eligible man for 200 miles in every direction, the rest of us would like a hot meal.
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“Hope was not something a space marine could grasp with any comfort, one of the countless parts of his humanity sacrificed to convert a child into a weapon.” -Of Honour and Iron by Ian St. Martin
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you can’t say “fuck jkr” and then post about being excited for the hp hbo reboot btw
Man I haven't been on Tumblr in YEARS and it's lovely to see how the harry potter fandom has kinda United around saying Fuck jkr
they can unite around letting the fandom fucking die, you can’t say “fuck jkr” and actively contribute to keeping her works in the public consciousness. Also most trans people especially trans women are going to block on sight for hp shit at this point cause it’s a great litmus test for whether or not someone’s queer solidarity has any damn backbone.
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Everybody in the undercity: man it sure sucks down here. I mean we're getting by I guess. Wish we could do something about all the crime
Everybody in topside for some reason: I HATE POOR PEOPLE I HATE POOR PEOPLE I HATE POOR PEOPLE
They are saying I have bad media literacy for doing observational comedy
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While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.
Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly own subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.
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Among his other activities, [Steve Wozniak] collects phone numbers, and his longtime goal has been to acquire a number with seven matching digits. But for most of Woz’s life there were no Silicon Valley exchanges with three matching digits, so Woz had to be satisfied with numbers like 221-1111. Then, one day, while eavesdropping on cell phone calls, Woz begin hearing a new exchange: 888. And then, after more months of scheming and waiting, he had it: 888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph. The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day. Given that the number is virtually impossible to misdial, this traffic was baffling. More strange still, there was never anybody talking on the other end of the line. Just silence. Or, not silence really, but dead air, sometimes with the sound of a television in the background, or somebody talking softly in English or Spanish, or bizarre gurgling noises. Woz listened intently. Then, one day, with the phone pressed to his ear, Woz heard a woman say, at a distance, “Hey, what are you doing with that?” The receiver was snatched up and slammed down. Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset. Again and again. It made a noise: “Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep.” The children of America were making their first prank call. And the person who answered the phone was Woz.
“The World According to Woz” in Wired (September 1998)
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I don’t know anything about the current state of the “movement,” so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but what kind of impact do you think trump’s reelection will have on Qanon, if any? any chance it’ll skyrocket in popularity again?
(asking mainly because I have an aunt who got really into it the first time around and I need to know what level of absurdity to expect at family gatherings in the coming months lol)
There will be a vestigial resurgence. Q isn't posting anymore. And Trump doesn't actually need Qanon anymore like, hes already in office.
J6 was deeply, deeply embarrassing for Qanon types. Most people are going to have second thoughts about publicly being pro-Qanon again. So you're gonna end up with a Qanon2 (2anon, if you will) made primarily of the most detached members. Not the people going out and marching, but the people who run Twitter accounts about how trump will install sacred bells in every city to defeat shapeshifters. They also won't be nearly as organized. Imo, we are looking at a loose coalition of twitter spaces rather than a vertically integrated radicalization machine.
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The onion buying Infowars is the best possible scenario. They actually understand how to report on alex, and they'll know what to do with his assets.
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this is mind boggling levels of insane. if you've never done needlefelting you can't quite comprehend how fucking difficult it is to not only make things so precise at such a small scale but like, not get the fibers tangled into literally everything else they interact with. and then ANIMATING it??? bro this is witchcraft
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there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.
for chinese we have 鸟不生蛋, which is used to describe a land so barren and remote that not even birds would lay their eggs there.
In German we have "am Arsch der Welt", which means "at the world's ass"
In Finnish it's "Jumalan selän takana" - behind god's back.
I propose that these are all the same place. The world's ass, behind god's back, where birds would not nest and where wolves go to fuck.
In italian we say 'In culo ai lupi', literally 'In the wolves' ass', so very similar to the Serbian one!! Strange how wolves are somehow often involved.
Alternatively, you can also say 'in culo a Dio/la madonna' so in God's/Mary's ass, if you want to be more vulgar (which is always an option in italian)
The German phrase I think must have filtered down into modern English because I frequently use "the arse end of nowhere".
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I'm trying to find a novel scene I'm thinking of for reference purposes and forgot about this poor grot being upset and confused by humans gendering them. God help the poor Orks that discover french as a language.
This is from "Ghazghkull: Prophet of the Waaagh" by Nate Crowley. His take on the Orks is magnificent.
Biter is a sort of Ork negotiator sent by the Blood Axes to sell information to the Inquisition in exchange for ludicrous amounts of weapons. He speaks the human language very well and acts as a translator.
It's exactly as unsettling as it sounds and the book doesn't make the Orks any less scary or dangerous. Quite the opposite.
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