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It is Easter Monday, and Preston celebrates with egg rolling on Avenham Park. I remember, as a child of the 50's, we rolled our hand decorated hard boiled eggs. I don't remember chocolate eggs until later!
#Easter #EasterEggs #BoiledEggs #DecoratedEggs #PaceEggs
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How did egg rolling become a Preston tradition at Easter?
All you need to know about one of Preston's "most cherished Easter traditions" dating back to 1867.BBC News
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What is the best title for an Easter pop song?
I propose
Roll Away The Stone by Mott The Hoople
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Just so you know about my intensely scholarly efforts this evening: I wondered what the earliest known smiley face in the world is.
It is found on a 3, 700 year Hittite pot found in Turkey, with the classic two dots and curved line.
You are welcome! 🙂
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Has anyone watched "The Watch", loosely based (every loosely) on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld characters?
Made by #BBCAmerica
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Yes. It puts me in mind of the wannabe band in Soul Music: it tries hard, it's got all the right ingredients, but somehow the magic just isn't there. Its not #TerryPrachett , it's just a bad pastiche.
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yes, accurate to an early Sam Vines!
I am enjoying it - but not in a Discworld way!
I am enjoying it - but not in a Discworld way!
I tried but didn't get very far. The only impressive thing about it is just how far they've missed the point of it all! GNU STP!
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Every lady in this land
Has twenty nails upon each hand,
Five and twenty hands and feet,
All this is true without deceit.
Taken from the
Nursery Rhymes of England
Collected by
JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL.
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I’ve just signed the petition to save our NHS and our private data from Palantir - the controversial U.S. company with links to ICE and the Israeli military. Did you know there’s an emergency break clause in the contract, so the Government could end this contract now, if we piled on enough public pressure? Can you help by signing and sharing the petition too? 38d.gs/1ymd
End Palantir’s NHS contract NOW
Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share?38d.gs
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Zack Polanski’s Green Party has demanded that Keir Starmer suspend Israel’s UK ambassador following the introduction of the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) leader described Israel’s decision to execute Palestinians convicted of carrying out attacks deemed “acts of terrorism” as “morally disgusting”.
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Can we get it to 100,000 by the deadline of 8 June 2026 & 23 Jun 2026 and Brexit Referendum 10 year day?
Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
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The UK will not be rejoining the EU, but this Government has reset its relationship with the EU with a new strategic partnership: A deal that is good for UK bills, borders, jobs and growth.
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
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This 90 minute video does two very important things. The first hour is an easily accessible explainer for Americans (but basically anyone information-poor) about the vital difference between burning oil once for heat and motive power and building renewables that last a generation to provide heat and transport virtually free. It’s tech education made accessible without long words. But then the last 30 minutes after the credits take a powerful swerve I didn’t see coming. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=RsS8hs…
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Technology Connections (YouTube)
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it really is a fantastic and super important video from @TechConnectify
It's a powerful video, well worth watching to the (real) end.
Gives me hope that the USA might just save themselves from their civilisation collapsing.
This channel is subscribe and like material - Thanks again Technology Connections!
“you might be one of those people who said they stay out of politics
But politics eventually comes for everyone”
Absolutely true.
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Recently had a couple of emails asking me to allow the senders to render a 'WEBGL context'
My answer is NO, because they are not telling me what it is!
Is it just another identifying cookie or is it something more or less sinister?
My answer is NO, because they are not telling me what it is!
Is it just another identifying cookie or is it something more or less sinister?
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
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Also wind turbines don't sink/catch on fire and cause mass environmental damage
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Wind turbines don’t cause massive environmental damage if and when they do catch fire.
Wind turbines don’t cause massive environmental damage if and when they do catch fire.
@KimSJ @CottonCandyandRazorblades indeed not! I am a big renewables fan.
Or the oil refineries and fields are on fire or destroyed
@noondlyt "Kinetic intermittency"
I saw someone yesterday say that solar and wind are just as “vulnerable” because so much of it is also shipped through the narrow straits of Malacca(?)…. Ignoring, or ignorant, of the fact that because the energy for renewables actually comes from the sun, only new or replacement solar/wind capacity would potentially be disrupted by this kind of shut down….
The sun would still shine and the wind would still blow, the rivers, magma, and tides would still flow, all no matter how many wars some idiot starts.
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Like saying the Iran war will cause a shortage of jerrycans...
Its amazing to me how many people confuse the energy with the generator.
@chris Also ignoring there's an entire ocean of alternatives to the Straits of Malacca - somewhat longer, but quite viable, unlike the Persian Gulf with only one way out.
@chris My thoughts are with those photon tanker crews. Godspeed, heroes. Hope that strait opens soon. I need my EV gas!!!
@chris
Oil and natural gas provide feed stocks for much more than just diesel and petrol.
sour crude extracted in the region is a primary source of sulfur. sulfur is a feed stock for sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a chemical that’s used to extract and refine copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Oil is an input to a lot of products.
Natural gas and sulfur are also feed stocks for fertilizer.
The global supply chain is the risk
@GhostOnTheHalfShell yes. “Non energy use” of oil is about 15% of the total 100 million barrels a day. It’s 12% of NG use. But the reason it is a global tool of blackmail and war is the other 85% which can be replaced by renewables and different ways of doing things.
Let’s stay focused on the main problem here. Which is the burning of fossil fuels.
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If you don’t have feed stocks, eg sulfur or methane, you don’t have the global economy.
alternatives cost a lot more. After 20 or so iterations, 90% recycling you’re down to 10% of that resource.
We burn fossil fuels in order to destroy the planet. Swapping to renewables is still destroying the planet.
The different way of doing things is to re-localize economies and stop destroying the planet with a global economy
if only we had ways to produce energy that don't rely on oil.
If only...
@tootbrute
That's just crazy. Why, you would need some sort of super fusion reactor safely placed about 90 million miles away for that.
Oh.
@jachym That is, of course, nonsense and a lie. Cars continue to drive, planes continue to fly, plastics continue to be produced...and donkeys continue to bray.
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And long after most of us are drowned from CO2 pollution the winds will still be blowing.
Life -> CO2 Sequestering -> Amazing and Beautiful Life and Diversity -> Industrial Revolution -> Human Growth -> Greed -> Scrabbling Control -> Planetary Corrections
The 2024 Living Planet Index reports a 73% average decline in wildlife populations — what’s changed since the last report?
A guide to understanding the Living Planet Index and what it does and doesn’t mean.Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
What if... we plugged the turbines into the wall? They'd turn all the time then.
That's my VC pitch, please leave your briefcases of cash at my feet and any gold bars can go in my Honda.
... but wind keeps coming back, Trump hopefully not.
To be fair, wind turbines doesn't work when the winds are blowing too hard either.
They need "goldilocks-winds" 🙂
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I assume they're engineered to work within the middle hump of the distribution of windspeeds? You could probably make one that worked in a hurricane, and made a tremendous amount of power, but the economics don't favour one that would be doing nothing 11 months in the year.
I assume they're engineered to work within the middle hump of the distribution of windspeeds? You could probably make one that worked in a hurricane, and made a tremendous amount of power, but the economics don't favour one that would be doing nothing 11 months in the year.
While the wind is still blowing in Danmark and the Netherlands
💯 best statement in the whole world for the past 13 months.
and most of those suffering for it are not those people.
The real problem is that wind turbines are not a substitute for fossil energy.
this should serve as major awakening
people should be thinking induction cooking and EVs. That is electrify everything. Not that hard to duct down to IKEA pick up a hob.
#electricfyeverything
#electricfyeverything
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It's a shame that in 2026 an old man attacked two countries for oil related reasons.
It's a shame tide power has been rather the laggard, as blockading the moon's gravity isn't much of a risk.
Wind, solar, hydro, batteries, tend to be a bit more spread out and usually provide a bit of redundancy because they are a bit more decentralised. Which is handy if another country starts blowing your stuff up.
X: The wind is not always blowing. Me: The wind is always blowing somewhere. X: Yes, but if we need the energy here then we need to transport this energy. Me: So? X: It is expensive to transport energy, it is inefficient, and it makes you dependent on the cooperation of other countries. Me: And where is the oil from the gas station coming from? X: Eh…. Me: And how much energy is used to transport all this oil? X: Eh…
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If only there were energy storage technologies to take one day's excess-generation and make it available for days where there's a generation-shortfall.
I don't think they "realized" it at all. They certainly experienced it, but I doubt they have made the connection at all.
but you can nuke Iran away and have the straight flushed. You can't nuke your turbines /Sarcasm
No. No they didn't.
And people who object to wealth taxes still want their investment properties protecting from cruise missiles.
People have forgotten how to think, or perhaps never knew how to think.
@attoparsec I don’t think this is a very good take. Primarily because the people making that argument are being disingenuous to start with, so pointing out the contradiction is a waste of energy and plays into their rhetorical tactics, but also because, at least in the US, their obvious reply is “that’s why we need to drill more domestically”.
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Just attending a #GreenParty introductory meeting for #SouthRibble. Quite a good turnout, oldies (like me) and youngies with families!
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Yes that's right.
How are you doing? Have you been able to keep up with things in the party? A lot of discussion is happening on whatsapp, which I think you said you do not use. Meetings have been online since the first meeting, using Zoom. Do you use zoom?
How are you doing? Have you been able to keep up with things in the party? A lot of discussion is happening on whatsapp, which I think you said you do not use. Meetings have been online since the first meeting, using Zoom. Do you use zoom?
Hope to see you at the next Zoom meeting then.
There is not a lot via email. I expect you had emails for the meeting dates and for litter picking and the survey happening today.
There is not a lot via email. I expect you had emails for the meeting dates and for litter picking and the survey happening today.
I hope to be at the next Zoom meeting, can't see emails for meeting dates!
Was hoping to attend the litter pick but we have Grandson and great Grandson this weekend!
Was hoping to attend the litter pick but we have Grandson and great Grandson this weekend!
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I have received an Apple MacBook Air (2020) from my daughter, and I wonder if it is possible to install Linux on it, preferably not dual boot?
Pointer to how to do it would also be appreciated!
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Thank you, I'll have a look!
Thank you, I'll have a look!
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I have downloaded Tromjaro, but I cannot use the keyboard or the touchpad.
Can you point me to some advice to get them working?
#UserNotTechie #Linux #TROMjaro #AppleMacBookAir
I have downloaded Tromjaro, but I cannot use the keyboard or the touchpad.
Can you point me to some advice to get them working?
#UserNotTechie #Linux #TROMjaro #AppleMacBookAir
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Again, thank you!
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As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, I simply leave.
Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
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It may be inadvisable to put this in writing, but I’m serious about this: if I am ever required to put up an age-gate, I intend to defy that law.
You’re going to have to break into my house and physically remove the server, when it comes down to it.
And it’s not that I doubt they can. I don’t have the same kind of resources that the state does. It’s more that I intend to make them do so publicly, in the sunlight.
I solemnly swear to be the biggest pain in the ass for fascists possible.
At this point, I believe there’s more value in being loud and public about resistance.
The legal system already does not function, specifically for me. I have no reason to believe that the Constitution will protect me, or that plausible deniability will keep me out of jail. At this point, if the fash wants to put me there, they will reverse engineer a reason to do so, or even do so illegally.
But if others see me making noise, they might decide to push back, too. Corporations certainly aren’t!
All I know is that the internet is absolutely the most important thing humanity has ever created, and is maybe the only tool that we have today which is capable of equalizing the absolutely insane wealth, information, and power inequalities in my country.
Our ability to communicate freely, to exchange ideas, and to organize terrifies all of the right people. Good. It should.
I will not participate in destroying my own home— and yes, I do consider the Internet my home. I’m corny like that.
I understand that my own corner of the internet is not particularly important, but I only have to be one brick in the wall.
And I can even become a *couple* of bricks by extending those principles to the other sites and tools that I use, and refusing to participate in ones that cave to pressure to erode our civil rights.
No one will notice that I’m not using Floop or Glorm or whatever. It’s true that I won’t cause the owners to change their behavior. But neither will I help them build power.
So yeah, bottom line: I will not tolerate this identity verification bullshit on any platform.
I will not allow my absence from said platforms to dictate my ability to participate in public life.
I will build spaces that respect and empower my neighbors.
It’s going to be inconvenient, but it’s also punk as hell, and the right thing to do.
Finally, to the authoritarian pricks trying to destroy my home, online and off; fuck you, I hope you choke.
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I'm from the Internet, too.
I see them trying to enclose the digital commons, which will have as devastating effect on humanity as enclosing the land did.
The future is being stolen from us, and we have to stop them.
@violetmadder well, I’m happy to be in community with you then.
Let’s do our best.
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Exactly.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
(and the "tragedy of the commons" is a heavily propagandized lie)
Admittedly the absolutely insane wealth, information and power inequalities in the world only skyrocketed once the Internet was created. But is it correlation, causation or coincidence? The Internet enabled Google, Amazon, Facebook, but really those guys were using the same techniques that worked to screw up brick and mortar business in the 1800's. We just had laws to prevent it, and for some reason people started lying that didn't apply when you couldn't walk into the store. And got away with it, every time. Plus wealth monstrosities created by SpaceX, and indeed "brick and mortar" superstores weren't aided by the Internet. And the vast majority of rich fucks these days come from two scams: rental properties (especially hotels) and private equity. Internet doesn't help either of those schemes.
(I'd add speculation to the schemes, but that money doesn't exist; people are just lying that it does.)
So I'd say the Internet is... probably... a good thing. But its timing is terrible, coinciding with the constant, total failure of anyone opposing rich fucks and the unstoppable enslavement of every man, woman and child while the planet burns. Sometimes I just wish I could talk to my neighbors, and do something to protect ourselves against this global wave of tyranny.
@cy Expensive technologies benefit the rich.
A previous generation of rich people hated the crossbow because a man who could devote himself to training with it could kill an armored rich landowner.
The Samurai really didn't like muskets for the same reason. Now an uppity peasant hiding at a turn in the road could kill them.
All tech since the steam engine has empowered the rich. At least the Internet does occasionally threaten them. Encryption and copying capability, for example.
@Cy
Hardly any rich people operated a steam engine at all!
Just nitpicking, but technically the reason every technology since the steam engine has benefited only the rich is purely political. As in, it's legal for them to benefit, and not legal for anyone else. That's all that's causing it: people, police, laws. It's that way because people have decided to make and keep it that way.
@cy It's also true that steam engines (and power plants are steam engines; this has not changed) have major economies of scale. If you wanted to generate your own electricity you had to hire someone to shovel the coal.
Liberating technologies are those that allow large numbers of ordinary people to defeat small numbers of rich people.
The crossbow, the musket with bayonet, the stirrup for horses, gunpowder for siege warfare.
There haven't been any of those lately.
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Steam engines at scale require large numbers of ordinary people to operate. If those large numbers of people give the middle finger to the small numbers of rich people, what are they going to do? Pay with the money that isn't worth anything, since they can't gatekeep access to the machines?
The answer is they get the military to go kill you all, until you submit to slavery. That really is all that it is. The day the large numbers of ordinary people in the military give the rich the middle finger is the day that the rich lose absolutely everything.
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They won't have to break into your house, they'll just have your ISP block your access. Considering most people are using one of only a handful of megacorp ISPs in the US, I'm surprised they haven't already started to try and shut down critics at the ISP level.
Be Ungovernable!!
exactly.
I also close my account the second a company uses AI as their customer service.
@kimlockhartga yeah, get that shit out of here.
Latest run in with it is Overtone. Really liked it but it if I can’t get a human I’m not using it again.
@cwebber Yes. 1,000,000% yes.
@cwebber Yes. 1,000,000% yes.
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When you have absolutely no choice but to enter a date, enter July 4th, 1776. Everyone!
When you have absolutely no choice but to enter a date, enter July 4th, 1776. Everyone!
@benroyce wow I hate so many things about the way they’ve phrased that.
1. Age appropriate according to whom? What are you, my mom?
2. Just give us this data real quick, it’ll be so easy. Don’t think about it too much, definitely do it without thinking please. Also we’re holding your account hostage
3. It’s private, trust us.™️
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I recently received 3 emails from organizations wishing me a Happy Birthday. My bank, my physical therapist, and my dentist. 🤔
@benroyce
@benroyce
@Bobblegagger
i get those emails too
....on my fake birthday i've been entering into sites when i have to since forever
@benroyce @Bobblegagger That makes me think it might be fun to give them all a different one and make a spreadsheet, to figure out who sells it first.
@Bobblegagger @benroyce Hm. On the bright side, those do seem mostly like services that would know it directly from you as opposed to having bought it from someone.
I’d still prefer not getting the email, but it’s something.
@benroyce @Bobblegagger only as far as I can throw them
(I’m not particularly strong)
EVHaste is quantifying their arm strength: write that down! put it on their data broker profile! 🤭
@benroyce @Bobblegagger nooooo two more bits for fingerprinting, what have I done
(A friend taught me that phrase this morning)
i am sure the data scrapers have come for mastodon
AI training, etc
but it's nice to know there's no backdoor connection to our real lives
and i've seen lively discussions on here about how to trap web spiders that ignore robots.txt
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It's a flag that says cease participation with such rubbish.
Also a flag that it's time to get back to more community and land based work for those who can.
Also a flag that it's time to get back to more community and land based work for those who can.
I feel like mesh networking (Reticulum, MeshCore, Meshtastic, LoRa, HaLow, etc.) is going to provide us with the replacement of the Internet in the long run. Since it has no infrastructure requirements beyond electricity, corporations can be easily locked out. :3
Well, it probably will if all the twats are stuck in the panslopticon.
@freequaybuoy I’ve never heard that term and now I really like it
This is my plan as well.
I used to be one of those techy people that liked trying new platforms and so created a bunch of accounts (of which are all closed now). But took a page from partner. They would move on from any site that required an account, just wasn't worth it for them.
@Ox1de I got annoyed just yesterday cause labcorp tried to make you make an account to pay your bill now, depending on which button you click.
I’m like, no, if you want your money you’ll give me the old flow and we’ll part ways, thank you.
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George Carlin's estate posted this on wednesday for a reason.
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They say wrestling is fake
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Looks Totally Real to me.
Now where'd they get THAT idea??
@Eetschrijver excess carbs pulverize the spleen one way or another
Let those who have never been hit by spinning, flying pizza dough cast the first stone.
*cast the first gluten
It sure garners a following!
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great, now #tRump will want to weaponize the bakeries
😂 😆 😂
😂 😆 😂
Me watching on a loop 5 times
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BRUTALLY HILARIOUS!
calm down, i think you're getting too many carbs 🤭
when I have too many carbs at lunch
i remember having an argument with my wife about switching from white rice to brown rice
that brown rice is a gradual rise in blood sugar while white rice is a spike, it's punching your spleen
she agreed
one of the few arguments i've won with my wife
dramatic visualization is good rhetoric
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he knows what it's like being hit by too many carbs
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you missed a career in naming wrestling moves
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"Did somebody order takedown with extra CHEEEEEESE?"
Thats how to get a pizza the action.
excess carbs can kill! 😳
In the immortal words of Ricky Knight (Nick Frost) in Fighting With My Family: “Fixed! Not Fake. “
Also remembering I need to get wrestling tickets for later this month.
It's like having to decide between eating pizza or doing sports; pizza always wins.
I don’t know, I think I would be bowled over if some rando in a leotard hurled pizza dough at me.
Hope that guy in black has health insurance because that looked near fatal.
Still less fake than Dems “fighting for” the vulnerable (including the increasingly-teetering 99%) and against being barbaric warlord monsters, though. 😉
the dems suck but not targeting the GOP on those measures means you're a lying troll
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I didn't mention the Reps because they're the "heel" in the script, and their role is that they don't pretend to care. They're both employed by the same sociopathic war-and-climate-disaster-profiteering billionaires, and letting either color of corporate media tell you one is Evil while the other is Good but keeps getting "fooled" or "thwarted"… completely misses the reality of the situation.
and if midwits like yourself continue attacking dems while the GOP literally drives us to fascism, you're only helping MAGA and too much of a moron to understand how
Keep on believing the Dems will do the right thing if only they win the next election, no matter how many times they utterly refuse to do so while in power. Someone has to.
Me, I'm sick of the fact I've been watching them pull this same shtick for decades on end and things ONLY GET WORSE.
the dems fucking suck. it would require many iterations to vaguely improve from our current state
the point of voting dem currently is to escape fascism
if you don't understand that is the most pressing concern, you are, as i said, a fucking moron
or rather, you are a MAGA troll using a "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" angle to help trump
which is of course fucking stupid, so a moron troll then
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It must be nice, living in a simple world where one side is Good but willfully inept, and the other side is the only true source of Evil. I prefer the world where we can't count on either of them, no matter how many childish insults are heaped on me for doing so.
As long as the billionaires keep us divided, we're going to keep careening toward disaster. Our only chance will be when the 99%ers of good will turn off their color-coded hate cults and work together, like our ancestors did.
And if you can't see that you're in a hate cult too, not just the Evils who you so despise and imagine to be lurking in even the slightest criticism of your Holy Democrats… well, you're not alone. The Reds feel the exact same way.
so... just a heads up, oh wise politics professor:
the GOP is marching us to fascism
just a teensy tiny problem you might want to take into consideration in your galaxy brain midwit enlightenment
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Heads up, oh wise We Must Vote For Dems No Matter How Many Times They Deliberately Fail To Stop Reps (Or Even Actively Help Them)… the Dems are doing nothing meaningful to stop them, and they never will.
i've said it twice. i'll say it again. i'm sure with your level of intelligence i might need to say it 3 or 4 more times:
the dems fucking suck
but they aren't fascism
take some time. i know it's difficult for you. i believe in you deep thinker!
😂
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That has 2B the most power, power move since "The Daddy splash"
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If you know you know.
brutal, nothing like a well-served hadoughken
basically i'm saying
FINISH HIM
with red pepper and grated mozzarella
This is the best emulation of a #hadouken I have seen.
someone else said "hadoughken" 😂
@Graham_LRR , please forward to Adam.
@darth_hideout Did they practice this martial art at a dough-jo?
bearing in mind that the pizza dough will rise, will the guy in black do so also?
His fighting name is The Great Insulin so yes (/s)
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be a real shame if that dude’s name isn’t The Moon
And he walks on to That’s Amore
Luigi Primo is a legend. He make-a the best-a pizza.
is he? Oh, that sucks to hear. I really enjoyed how committed to the bit he is.
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