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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 1h

Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.

In Paper Mario, the original version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario, Whacka was just a harmless whack-a-mole creature that could be abused to get Whacka Bumps, extremely valuable healing items. After being hit enough times, the Whacka goes extinct, teaching the players the consequences of their actions. However, in the Switch version of Paper Mario: TTYD, he instead moves to the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and becomes an optional superboss with 108 HP.
He is fought at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and has to be hit 8 times in order for the fight to activate.
but also
The number 108 is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Whacka symbolizes karma for killing him in past games
ring the bell 108 times, per Japanese tradition? The ringing of the bell represents the 108 bonno-defilements of man..
Buddhism holds the view that there are precisely 108 temptations on the path to Nirvana.
Therefore, in order to reach Nirvana, every Buddhist must resist 108 earthly temptations.
With a combination of any of the elements of the above four factors, there are 108 ways with which the karmas can be attracted to the soul.
the earthly temptation to get those Whacka Bumps
There are 108 qualities of praiseworthy souls
Some people think that the human spirit travels through 108 stages, while others believe that enlightenment is attainable with just 108 breaths each day while in Intense meditation,
108 beads to awaken your inner light
Meditators count mantra repetitions with mala beads of 108, (100 counted for self, 8 for mistakes and for those who have not the opportunity to meditate in mantra)
108 breaths to return to your truth
108 mantras to dissolve ego into dever
108 steps from the self to the soul
The Sacred Meaning of 108 Temple Steps
the journey to Whacka is a journey of enlightenment

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 2h

Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

Heard someone suggest a reason that kids drink and do drugs less these days is because so many more are properly medicated for Adhd and autism and it's been stuck in my head since

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That Queer Skeletal Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry, all that police funding only lets the government shoot at you. They can't just send one of the local city tanks in and start setting off ordinance like an LA bomb disposal unit in the middle of a neighborhood. What if it turns out the computer is a donor?

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 4h

I had a cop send me death threats, under his full name. He lived 90 mins from me. Reported to his dept, sent screen shots etc. Nothing happened. I got death threats from white supremacists with histories of real violence. Nothing to be done. “We’re scared,” scream lawmakers. Okay? And?

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Marisa 📷 @mrm-photo.com · 14h

The Toledo War never ended, not really

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History's Only Boy @bonelessbuddy.bsky.social · 14h

I know it's controversial but Toledo definitely has South East Michigan vibes. I think if it came down to it the average Michiganian could defeat the average ohioan but they have us on numbers.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it's so funny that michigan and ohio fought a literal war over toledo and that it says "result: inconclusive"

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Shiny the Wark 🔞 @shinywark.bsky.social · 17h

re-uploading because I misspelled their name. I'm sorry Biddy Blas, you deserve so much better.

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DoctorDoomtrain64 @doctordoomtrain64.bsky.social · 15h

Don't fall for the bait, the headline is disgustingly misleading. It was just a single dipshit developer using GenAI to search something and then glazing it in the article. There's no GenAI whatsoever in the actual game

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History's Only Boy @bonelessbuddy.bsky.social · 15h

Pretty happy with the sword details

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History's Only Boy @bonelessbuddy.bsky.social · 15h

*Sees any number of space marines in any context* well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers

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History's Only Boy @bonelessbuddy.bsky.social · 15h

Blue Sky HATES it when you try and upload pictures

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erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

hey FGC: stop putting this shit in your event flyers and video thumbnails, it's an instant turnoff, no one likes it, it looks like shit and you come across as a lazy asshole for using it

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robdog 👾 @robdogdraws.bsky.social · 23h

Probably the coolest thing he's done next to being a potential Bomberman fan

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Morally fucked up how the rich get rewarded for making themselves richer and the world worse. You took out student loans and are still paying them off? You're financially irresponsible. Nearly run a multibillion dollar company into the ground? Here's your hundreds of millions in severance.

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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 10/10/2026

should’ve prosecuted the entire administration, i swear

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ve been seeing more police doing cutesy meet and greet events with their robots, I feel the need to remind people: many of these companies deliberately advertise the goodwill departments can get on social media via selfies, and that these are like putting a cute face on a rolling Flock cameras

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Police Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen

The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun arms is not kicking down your door to arrest you. Inste...

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/10/2026

sell disney stocks now. sell everything. take out every last dollar in cash and stuff it under your mattress it is OVER

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History's Only Boy @bonelessbuddy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i HATED that comic, it was so edgy. but now? all i remember is that one of the... crossed? zombies hits somebody with a horse penis while saying "horse cock!!!" which is quaint

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/10/2026

when i was a teen i was often hurt by how characters that attempted to speak to traumas i was going through were always too nice. they didn't hate everyone. they didn't have true scars. their bullying made them easier to like if anything. it felt dishonest. king's carrie is the rare opposite

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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History's Only Boy @bonelessbuddy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah you are aware of the issue good luck

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)

Despite Crockett’s opposition to the institution of slavery in the United States, he did enslave people.

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Marquis @resurrectedmarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All these mentally unstable Biden/Harris/Walz deadenders who insist they ran a great campaign and have no plan for 2028 other than "Let's do all that again!", even though they lost to this.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For those who aren't up to date on the 360 modding scene, this is a Big Deal. Believe it or not, until now, the 360 still never had a softmod and while some exploits in recent years had gotten most of the way, this is the real deal. You probably no longer need to solder your 360 to do Fun Stuff.

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You ever hear about how Dianetics has remained a bestseller for 75 years? Yeah.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026

The way Zeta Gundam tackles gender is Complicated™ but I do applaud it for how it handles Paptimus Scirocco as a villain. The way it so clearly shows how a man will abuse and manipulate the women around him under the guise of being a supportive feminist ally makes him feel so realistically gross

Screenshot from Zeta Gundam. Peptobismal Scoliosis saying, "I believe the ruler of Earth after the war will be a woman."

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grandma gaming @dedusmulntxt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

straight up frankin my sinatra

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

" I love BBW!" 'YES. Banned books!" ".... THOSE TOO ....IM HAVING A GREAT WEEK"

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once again, regretting the decision to hire knuckleheads, goons and feather-brained numbskulls.

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 05/10/2026

Games inherit the lives their creators have outside of their work. What happens to an artform when the industry depends on those experiences while leaving people less time to have them? #blog #gaming #dreamcast

innerspiral.lol

Do you see those Blue skies?

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Gravekeeper Failure 🪦 @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, yes, it's my own post from nine months ago, but c'mon:

A screenshot of an old Bluesky quote post I wrote. The text reads:

The Tokugawa Shogunate in 1854:

'I might open the port tonight.'

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