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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
we're all trying to find the guy who did this!
cnn headline: "unitedhealth group CEO: america's health system is poorly designed"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NYT: oh but actually it's problematic that you think he's hot 😟
critic's notebook

objectifying the accused

what happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances?
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
saw this tweet on reddit and they're struggling with it, which just goes to show how immature their understanding is. every comment fixates on how much that 5% actually is monetarily, but that doesn't matter because the problem is simply that they turn healthcare into a business.
tweet that says "brian thompson's net worth at death was $43 million. shut the fuck up" in response to a quoted tweet saying "the typical healthcare insurance company is making 3-5% profit margin, barely for-profit companies. they suck because they're pseudo governmental corporations with regulatory capture"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
fbi guy typing on a laptop
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
i'm reminded of criticism that anti-war movies fail because through the nature of the visual medium they still makes it look cool in the end. like the billionaire-owned media is trying to demonize him while still getting clicks and it can't do both. and pop base is of the people but you get it
tweet saying "i have seen more pictures of this man in this jail in the past 24 hours than i have seen of some of my friends in the last couple months" and it's quote tweeting a pop base tweet "new mugshots of luigi mangione" and it's just front facing and profile photos of mangione
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
they are trying so fucking hard lmao
WSJ opinion article titled "the madness of luigi mangione" with subtext "too many young men marinate in angry corners of the internet" by "the editorial board"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
every photo of this guy looks like a fucking renaissance painting
picture of luigi mangione and three police as he is brought to court. mangione is wearing an orange jumpsuit, half face is half towards the camera and his has a snarling expression. two cops are pulling him into a door, one with his hand grabbing the mangione by the scruff of the neck, and the third cop is in the foreground super blurry
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
me when i'm in a new york times headline pitch competition and my opponent is the new york times
squidward, his spirit broken
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
simpsons meme where it's homer going "money can be exchanged for goods and services" but instead it says "helping people can be exchanged for recruiting them into your political coalition"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
incredible day for italian americans
screen cap of twitter's "trending" side panel. it reads:

luigi mangione (trending with ivy league, unitedhealthcare ceo)

#unitedhealthcareassassin

italian american

person of the year
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
tumblr post by amygdalae

"NYPD are like uuuuh we still haven't found the killer but we did find footage of a different, equally mysterious man with rogueish charisma and a dazzling smile. if that helps"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
this is so crazy
headline on reddit: "when a medical insurance ceo was gunned down in the street, some people celebrated his death. what does this tell us about american healthcare?"
followed by a comment: "if by 'some people', they mean 'most of the people who heard about this', that feels closer to correct this week. i think more people seem happy at this news than they were when osama bin laden died, which... just says ssomething really loudly."
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
i think they should let an alcoholic run the pentagon
normal rockwell's "freedom of speech"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
society if the green brothers read marx
image of a utopic, futuristic city
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
this shit is just celebrity gossip for people who do crossword puzzles. absolutely valueless and without consequence.
picture of a tweet that says "BREAKING: elon musk is blocked from buying msnbc" with a picture of a smiling rachel maddow and a disappointed looking elon musk
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
me when i'm a feminist trying to defend women's rights
Hoodlum
‪@nothoodlum.bsky.social‬
In response to Nancy Mace's diatribe, Natalie Johnson, a former staffer, wrote: "I don't want to see your botched, cheap hooker-inspired boob job on my television, can we introduce a bill to bar that?"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
i somehow managed to be added to both a block list for "reactionaries" and one for "tankies." not only is it amusing because i'm neither a reactionary nor a tankie, these two categories seemingly contradict each other?
screen shot of clearsky, two lists next to each other. the top one reads:
"Tankies Far left authoritarians of all varieties; Marxist-Le"
and the bottom one reads:
"Reactionaries Reactionaries who bully people off this sit"

both descriptions are cut off.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
this is a wise choice, but may i curate for you this incredible exchange:
screenshot of two skeets:
‪Big Bad Gary‬: Mike I'll fight you. Make sure you read that book about 5 times before you agree.

‪tucsonmike.bsky.social‬: Because I have read it, you would never see it coming.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
xkcd comic #2501 "average familiarity"

[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.
Cueball: And quartz, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.

[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
what's the best way to end a goblin siege? having an even bigger elf siege at the same time. #stonesky
screen shot of dwarf fortress. the image shows a crowd of like 90 elves repeatedly firing arrows into a handful of well armored goblins on a field of grass. the field is covered in pools of blood and a massive puddle of vomit (the vomit is unrelated to the fight)
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
the democrats these past 4 months
dril tweet:

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcycle and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates i'm lying completely dead on the pavement
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
it's fucked up that climate change is like an extinction level event because my experience of it so far has been like this
mac from always sunny lounging on a towel at the beach.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
is this too tumblr coded, or...?
"there's not going to be a swimming pool, you stupid slut" meme except instead of swimming pool it says "another election"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Nooo don't make yourself incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy your so sexy aha
tweet by dell.bsky.social
This is going to ensure that any information the president receives is ideologically screened and tinted by political appointees at the NSA.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
that's because everyone in christian societies is assumed to be christian so if you "come out as christian" you just look like an idiot
Easier for students to come out as gay than Christian, Evangelical group says
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Monday, November 11, 2024
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
kind of hoping that maga eventually realizes they've been tricked and then, well, you know
graphs showing the wealth distribution in france right before the french revolution and wealth distribution of the united states in 2016 and they look identical except in the US it's sharper
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
hmmmmm
It has also been claimed that Vanga correctly predicted the 44th President would be African-American.[35] Vanga's supporters also claimed that she predicted the 45th president will be with a "messianic personality," who will be faced with a crisis that eventually "brings the country down."
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
well, you know. it doesn't have to depend on that.
tweets by rincewind.run:
more and more convinced, as we watch the second Trump admin gear up to loot everything not tied down and some stuff that is, that “will hold these people accountable” is the single most important primary issue for 2028

people need to see some consequences

this does of course depend on there being free elections in 2028 so, you know, we’ll have to see how that part goes
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
social media is kind of a disaster and the reaction to this post to me exemplifies that. this person is saying that there are men who think "toxic masculinity" is bullshit but then are explained what it actually means and then are fine with it. and the response i've seen is total dismissal.
posts that reads:

This is not a “Fox News” myth. I’ve met MANY guys in the wild who are not right wing who feel attacked by “toxic masculinity” messaging until I explained what it actually was.
It’s as bad as “defund the police” at turning off centerists/mainstream voters.

which is quoting another post that reads:

You can't understand this election without grappling with the penetration of right-wing propaganda into every corner of American intellectual life. 

The idea that Democrats use this phrase or levy the term against innocent, ordinary male behavior is a Fox News myth.

and the quoted post has a screenshot attached but it's hidden but it's minimized by a "twitter screenshot" labeller.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
screenshot of the bluesky reply window. i'm responding to the above tweet and my reply reads "i'm out and proud!!" with very prominent light mode
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
if this is true, i'd resist the urge to feel anger. you, a fool: these people threw away democracy for nothing. me, an intellectual: these people are willing to play games with their own lives just to send a message. all i'm saying is you can't win if you play it safe.
In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they’d be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they’d be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less likely.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
scene from the office where erin says "i asked if you wanted a cold beverage and you said 'coffee'"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
something i wish leftists would understand. they're going to target us. and i've seen the state of leftist organizing in this country i really don't think y'all are capable of repelling american gestapo lmao
Trump also wants to deport tens of millions of people from the United States, which will inevitably include American citizens, whether they’re the children of undocumented immigrants or students demonstrating in support of Palestinians. “Immediately after taking the oath of office, I will launch the largest mass deportation program in American history,” Trump said at an event in Texas last week.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
"saddam's hiding place" pic but the labels are changed from: entrance hidden by bricks, air vent, fan, saddam hussein to: arkansas, beaumont, lake charles, and new orleans, respectively
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
logging into social media like
dwarf fortress screenshot, showing a character's mood. it shows a blurb by the character which reads, "i feel so good!" it then shows the text, "she feels vengeful when joining an existing conflict," repeated 13 times
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
if liberals could understand this they'd be more effective at persuading leftists to vote democrat but in order to do that, they'd have to admit that democrats violently crush left wing protest and they'd rather cut off a finger than do that.
gru meme where the first panel is "vote dem so trump can't fill government with idiotic sycophants" second is "prevent immense chaos from ripping the country apart" and the third panel is "the stability allows harris federal agents to disrupt left wing activists"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
love having this conversation every four years and then never discussing politics ever outside of that.
squidward "me and the bestie" meme but it says:

bitches be like "we just need to vote for the lesser evil" *10 minutes later* "me and the bestie!" and the bestie is the democratic party logos
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
helping my republican uncle fix his computer and wtf???
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
tfw you remember how much CO2 was produced by the iraq war
true detective matt mcconaughey smoking meme. he's taking a drag on a cigarette and his eyes are very wide. he looks completely harrowed.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
"if all you have is a knife, everything looks like a catgirl"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
bart simpson making a confused face
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
nobody: facebook skull emoji:
close up of a realistic painting of a skull - from kevin grass's "memento mori" painting
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
listen, it's inelegant but without these clumsy first steps we'll never get this
final fantasy 8 gunblade
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
literally me
obi wan kenobi saying "an elegant weapon for a more civilized age"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
the farther we move away from this the further our civilization falls
2D illustration of a telephone keypad with numbers and letters (ex:  2 abc, 3 def, etc)
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
the DC metropolitan area in 8 years looking like
still from the movie "saving private ryan" from when they're in a bombed out french town. all the buildings look either dilapidated or destroyed. the street is completely covered in rubble and debris.

there are four soldiers in frame, one sitting on a stoop and the other three with there backs turned, two of which are in the background.
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
thanks for reminding me about it. this is so fucked up, i put it on as something to fall asleep to bc whatever, passed out shortly after the setup and then came during episode 4 like
limmy in bed meme

image of scottish comedian limmy laying in bed, looking like he's just woken up with a super bright light shining in his face and his expression is all twisted up like he's completely dazed
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
"myth of consensual sex" meme but it says "the myth of 'consensual' tuvix".

the faces of neelix and tuvok are pasted over the couple and the face of janeway is pasted over jesus. neelix and tuvok are saying "i consent" and janeway is saying "i don't!" and the bottom text says "isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
POV: you're a millennial disagreeing with a boomer about literally anything.
spongebob "ol' reliable" meme. inside the box is the phrase "you're entitled"
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🕯️ @candlelocks.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
posting this for posterity because i expect to be blocked, but this is just incredible "hey, i understand you don't like the negative generalizations of boomers, but most of us have been consistently mistreated, insulted, and denigrated by you guys" "you're entitled"
screenshot of four tweets, two by me and two by a boomer

me:
like, we've spent decades hearing about how entitled and spoiled our generation is, to the point where "millennial" became a punchline to mean "useless, stupid youngster." so i trust you that you aren't like your peers, but evidently that puts you in the minority.

boomer:
And boomer is becoming a punchline for useless, stupid seniors. No one likes it. I’m too old for it.

‪me:
i would disagree. i would not describe the "boomer" character in the above post as "stupid, useless", i'd describe them as "stubborn, uncompromising, unempathetic, cruel" which characterizes what i've come to expect from boomers through decades of experience. not all boomers, for sure, but most.

boomer:
You’re entitled.
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