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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fuck the Bible I obey the 10 Twilight Zone commandments 1 Don't trust aliens 2 The only good Nazi is a Dead Nazi 3 Nostalgia can be toxic 4 Don't trust Ai 5 Greed always has a price 6 Death can be kind 7 Don't be racist 8 Dont trust the government 9 change is good 10 It was earth all along

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks, Obama.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Nivik the Jackal @nivikthejackal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They slip through your fingers.

Graffiti in a parking lot on the wall saying "love them like you'll never see them again".

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I once had a 'sermon' I told to students I called "Be here now" No matter how you emphasized it, there was an important point: BE here now Be HERE now Be here NOW

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bͭaͥᵍeͤlͬ Joy @bageltiger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am taking a temporary break from my recovery and grieving hiatus because I cannot forget such an important holiday

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 21/09/2026

But if my choice is “Marathon shuts down because it tried to do something niche and cool and it didn’t stick” and “Marathon scrapes out a long term meager existence in the corpse of what it tried to be but with no soul and just corporate engagement metrics inside” I’d choose shut down.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Kay F. Atkinson - Perfect Killer Bodies out Nov. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 20/09/2026

I heard CyAc isn't happy about your recent asset loss... yeah they're pretty mad... they said they're gonna compress you onto one of these... yeah super lossy :(

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you start bargaining which percentage of the people you can sacrifice to stave off fascism, you've already lost to fascism.

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Landlord declining to renew the lease, gotta find a new place. Sucks, this will be the shortest I've ever lived in one spot. Really liked it here :c

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HEY SHITASS #wardogs

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm in Spain without the A #wardogs

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Beta @betasheppy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some Food For Thought On The Sanitization of the Furry Fandom.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the weeks after passing, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry inspired people reflecting on life and the arts. Two weeks after dying, conservatives turned Charlie Kirk into a robot meme coin and AI grift songs. Your legacy is formed by those who love you.

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IAHFY ✦ @iahfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Samus & Kirby

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a coalition stands together, that's how it generates and wields power in the political arena. on top of being basic human decency, standing up for trans people is politically expedient.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 12/09/2026

It's Bunlith: The Witch Upstairs 🪄🐇 EPISODE 2 📅 Releasing October 16th! 📅 Can't wait to show off what we've been working on so hard for these past 9 months!

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally hooked up my old external drive and found this glorious shitpost from years ago lmao

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026

Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm

Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My partner is streaming some more Tyr today and you all should go say hi! www.twitch.tv/cynabin

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cynabin - Live on Twitch

grinding ikarus games | top 100 tonker | !lurk !socials | Streaming tyr.

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

No big deal "It's just till we get in office ..." "It's just sports," "It's just restrooms." "It's just your pronouns." "It's just your name." "It's just your medications." "It's just your job." "It's just your kids." "It's just you."

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andi & the firmament girls @konkondragon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

every time i see a remora im like "that's a fucking AAM for sharks"

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Staub @yepstaub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what a curious day to put these on sale

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey friends, y'all Kirkin' hard or Charlie Kirkin'?

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bͭaͥᵍeͤlͬ Joy @bageltiger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Call me Charlie Kirk the way an ex Mormon dating a trans furry blew a load in my neck

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey friends, y'all Kirkin' hard or Charlie Kirkin'?

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Safiru | COMMS OPEN! @safiru.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Moon 🌙 _________________ Commissions are open!❤️ All info there: safiruart.carrd.co Google Forms: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O7B... ________________ #furryart #furryartist #furry #furrycommission #commissionsopen

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this because

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If the things you require me to sacrifice "for the greater good" are my healthcare, my safety, my bodily autonomy and my right to exist as an equal human being in your society, then it's not the good at all, and your party can burn to the ground and the nation along with it.

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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 09/09/2026

Samus viciously choking/absorbing something while staring angrily through her cracked helmet is the hottest thing I've ever seen in my life

Screenshot of the scene described from the newest metroid ravenous trailer

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