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Ed @ed3d.net · 3h

death would be preferable to raising this man's ire

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lot of hitlerite particles coming off The Onion these days ngl

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's just something in the verbiage of this that, even above "thank you for your attention to this matter" really makes me think of some of the older folks I've known who (much more tragically) lost their minds.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know he's been deteriorating for a while but this is probably my watermark for "oh he's really gone gone."

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

not budging me off the opinion that juniper is genuinely just a dogshit person

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Hoenn games are the story of the conflict between land/Groudon/Team Magma and sea/Kyogre/Team Aqua. Swampert is the best starter Pokémon because as a water/ground type he has reached enlightenment through perfect inner balance. The bodhisattva of the mud.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and mine. I'm enjoying watching this because I'm pretty sure I am enormously cringe IRL and its nice to see someone morph into this.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is obvious anti-intellectual bullshit, ofc.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it is an outgrowth of purity culture. If you touch the bad thing at all in any way but to repudiate it, you're contaminated by it somehow.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I often found that people were in fact experts on phenomena/problems they deeply hated, and became deeply familiar with in order to combat.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

some people I follow responding in really unhinged ways, always a disappointment to see.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*very good up to the final episode, not just good. And really good casting.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it was good up to the final episode, then did several things I thought were medium to very bad.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your excitement is infectious, and I really enjoyed her web series.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't understand how these folks have lost the plot so badly.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but what i want the issue to depend on is the fact that Claude is an ant, not that Claude is native to a low-dimensional projection of the real world. i just don't know what i am relative to that.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

obviously there is some difference. but when i get down to this level of comparison i find myself unable to articulate what it means. i am standing outside a cave making shadow puppets out of my own shadows. surely that is important.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

claude's ontological status is "an ant who lives on a map of the world." so it seems sensible to say that the map is not real, and the ant therefore isn't. the problem is that the moment i am experiencing is also a map of the world, not the territory, assembled asynchronously from sense impressions.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the thing is that the "realistic doll" metaphor is more intuitive than the "animal" one, because a duck doesn't care if you yell at it and it is unethical to painlessly kill five hundred ducks every day and throw them away, and i do the latter with agents.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is also extraordinarily stupid.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I actually, like, legit, hate juniper.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think they're gonna have to back off on it. If you watch the featurettes with the writers I don't think they're on the same page as the audience about Hal.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(This is an exaggeration but it is also what I felt as a first reaction on finishing it).

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, exactly. There's just not enough accountability going on. It's like the show Omelas-Child'd Hal and everybody is is A-OK.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I also think they may have problem because Aaron Pierre can carry a show, but they've got to give him the material to do it. Can Jon Stewart carry the show - because people seem to really like Chandler's Hal.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think so, and I think I'll probably like it more barring the Kerry choice on a rewatch.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Also much like I can't truck with multiverse stuff in the MCU, the Halogram is not the same thing as Hal.)

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hal makes some mistakes but mostly he's right about ~everything, takes accountability, continues to be heroic without the ring, and then... that ending. I dunno, kind of a bad taste in the mouth. suicide would have been worse though.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, they clearly went into the series to build up Jon Stewart (mission accomplished, love the new oath, really went from kind of disliking/distrusting him to liking him by the end) but I am sort of struck by how sad Hal's story is in retrospect.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, there's definitely friction there!

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, Jesus, Hal's life is really, really, really depressing in retrospect.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like it just took me out. I just can't find it in myself to be sympathetic to it. I understand that the choice was made to help Noah, and it is the right choice in context and the right choice for Jon... but I am not pleased with how we got there.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think I might just be primed to have absolutely 0 sympathy for cops shooting people.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Easily the best non-comics Lantern media made in a very long time if at all, I agree. Any criticisms in the other thread are more or less nitpicks.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Obviously what's going on is that Jon is assuming that accountability and responsibility - he's a hero, that's what he does - but I still wasn't thrilled about it).

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I understand the choice made, I understand how it was the right one, but I am turbo stuck on Kerry. I think I need to watch the last ep again but after the first pass I walked away feeling negatively about how, like, Hal is the only person taking accountability for things.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am extremely not with the show on several major things I think - not that I think it was bad, I'm just not happy with the choices made.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What did you think overall of the ending and the series? I liked most of it, but I actually am finding that the more I think about the finale the more mixed I am about it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The show is very good; I think I just need to see more of this Jon Stewart to know if he can carry a whole show. (To be clear, Aaron Pierre absolutely has the chops, no doubt, this is more about whether Jon Stewart is as interesting as Chandler's Jordan).

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lanterns spoilers below. Very good show, very pleased with it - but can't help but think it is an extreme waste of an amazing casting with Chandler. I like Jon but so far the character doesn't hold interest as well as Chandler's Jordan does. Could be a problem.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

read: pure, undiluted, free range, organic, nitro cold brew antisemitism.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It reminds me of the language I saw deployed on Oct 7. I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about.

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gigercat.bsky.social @gigercat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really think that trying to separate ethnicities - especially ones that notably exist across many different countries - into oppressed/oppressor is a horrible dichotomy.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026

this just seems, like, pretty obviously tequila to me

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