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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Smell of petroleum prevails throughout

Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Merlin's actually by a decent way the best of the trio in FMW because she's one of only two characters that have an area-effect Power boost ability.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah sure, bare minimum is bad, but we're talking about an admin that is killing fucking hitler numbers of people right now, and directly messing with democracy, are you REALLY sure you wanna gamble on how democrat strategists will interpret your protest in the face of that?

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm not saying don't let perfect be the enemy of good. In this case of this hypothetical Dem, I'm saying don't let perfect be the enemy of EVER GETTING TO VOTE AGAIN. The supreme court just stopped Trump messing with the postal vote by a *single* judge margin. You wanna let them pick another judge?

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Woo completed fantasy maiden wars. Nitori mvp. Feeding ghosts cookies ftw

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not going the way of labour means holding the democrats to account when they get into power, if they enact terrible policies. With labour the left kept the party unelectable until they decided "fuck the left", lurched to the right then won a massive landslide.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"To help us pay your trump dividend which is definitely real, enter your credit card details here so you can pay your $500 initial handling fee"

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well I learned it from the masterpiece Makura no Danshi

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you wanna say that Rowling is rich as fuck already and your individual $ will make little difference that's your argument. Not that I agree with that either. But you can't buy absolution with transphobia offsets.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If a few million dollars of lobbying buys legislation to ban trans people from public spaces or remove them from their jobs, a few million on Ko-Fi will not cover the damage. Bullets are a few cents each. Bullet proof vests are not.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm not going to go into this in detail but this is a weak argument. Money spent to cause harm is not merely 1:1 countered by money spent to oppose it.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So, I think you can try to read into it real world parallels, Rorschach-like, but what Omelas really is IMO is LeGuin's attempt to generate her platonic ideal of an utopian tale.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The intentional imperfection makes Omelas not a dead end, but a process, a signpost to somewhere else. It means WE are the ones who "walk away", in that we are meant to reject imperfect visions and imagine new ones, somewhere off the map, someplace over the horizon.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The essay came after, but is I think developing the same idea. The necessity of the Omelas child is not an in universe necessity. It's actually a philosophical necessity - all fictional utopias, including one that is *specifically designed to be objectively better than reality* must be imperfect.

Every utopia since Utopia has also been, clearly or obscurely, actually or possibly, in the author’s or in the readers’ judgment, both a good place and a bad one. Every eutopia contains a dystopia, every dystopia contains a eutopia.

In the yang-yin symbol each half contains within it a portion of the other, signifying their complete interdependence and continual intermutability. The figure is static, but each half contains the seed of transformation. The symbol represents not a stasis but a process.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

IMO the story is intentionally dream-like and ambiguous. But also I actually disagree with most readings. I think what the story of Omelas is really about is a meta-narrative about the concept of Utopia in literature. It's deeply tied to this essay: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/97-utop...

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 97. Utopiyin, Utopiyang

April 2015 These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you didn’t have here and ...

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Gonna attribute this to Count Binface.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

She's aiming for a 30% profit margin, which is insanely high for the industry, and doing so with a dubious strategy of cutting ambitious projects and focusing on milking previously successful franchises. She's former AI division lead with no experience in the sector she's now brought in to manage.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

guess this is why he has zero subjects

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You asked "Sure because taking someone completely awful in just because they have a party label that matches is a good idea, right?" If you are asking this question then we are past the point of deciding candidates. Yes, it sucks when a bad candidate gets picked. But it's too late.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

They don't always vote with the republicans. Manchin voted with the democrats 70% of the time and agreed with the heritage foundation position 11% of the time. His replacement, republican Jim Justice, agrees with the heritage foundation 94% of the time.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The worst democrat is better than the best republican. More democratic senators means less reliance on getting 100% of dems in congress to agree and so less influence for the worst ones. It's that simple.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Personally I hold the very unpopular opinion that the majority of works are both conservative and progressive.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Oh yes. The corollary is that the revolutionary who *does* read a lot, or the conservative with similar hobbies, tends to have the opposite position.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I dunno, I feel that kind of sentiment speaks more of the speaker and their criteria than the subject. A hardcore revolutionary that doesn't read much would definitely think that. A conservative that doesn't read much would similarly see subversion everywhere.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

we can fix him Possibly

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

So IMO, the clear path forward is for Coco to continue & renew the progressive revolution the Pact represented (that is, a shift from a patronage based system to witches as effectively an independent civil service), to which regressive forces like the Brimhats must lie inevitably in opposition.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Meanwhile, the whole point of folks like Coco is that they adhere to the spirit of the Principles (Magic is to make everyone happy) while not being unnecessarily bound by the letter of the rules.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think the silverwoods they were given were customised by the brimhats somehow.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

There's a sharp distinction between the Brim footsoldiers like Custas and Innia who get monkey-paw spells and compliant bracelets, and the Brim leadership who muse "why can't we use subjugation magic?" and switch the shapes of their hats freely, and create disasters they can be the cures to.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The reality is that the class divide always existed (see e.g. Romonon) and if anything appears lesser post-Pact than pre-Pact. The Brims, despite their propaganda, actually represent the witch upper class and want to shed the notion of responsibility the Pact represents.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

What I mean is that the actual solution the story points to seems to be that the pointed hats aren't *going far enough*. They aren't living up to their duty of being responsible dispensers of magic.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

So overall I think magic as the tool of a witch civil service is probably the best outcome. An ink-based economy just isn't workable.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This can't scale to everyone getting enough ink though. Generally silverwood is probably something that inherently promotes inequality - the fact that silverwood requires comfort to grow means the badly off are gonna get screwed.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

There probably is a decent way of making silverwood trees. If humans are required you can get enough trees through using it as e.g. euthanasia for elderly witches that feel they've accomplished all they wanted.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I don't really consider the brimhats the antidote to the pointed hats, the brimhats are more like the concentration of the worst aspects of the witches, the aspects the better pointies shy away. The brimhats are witch MAGA, basically. There's an assumed equivalence that doesn't actually exist.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Maybe it's just magic. I can imagine clothes with spells where if you squeeze some bits together it completes the ring and opens up the outfit.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

He's just a weird guy!

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You're like literally the only person on the internet to notice that Agott risked her life to save Coco this episode

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Well in the nasuverse, the existence of mages and magic at all is a secret, protected with deadly force.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Mangaka made this decision iirc

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Independent artists have it pretty hard anyway so going after them to steal money really is the lowest of the low...

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The latter might sound kind of silly to us in the modern day but there was a whole three way conversation between the US, Germany and the UK over what exactly is permissible with the new submarine warfare. The rules were kinda being figured out in the real time.

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Fangz @fangz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's more complicated than that. Switching to convoys is not free. It takes effort to organise and slows down transport. It also harms Whitehall's diplomatic efforts - basically a ship in convoy with a military escort legally cedes its civilian status.

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