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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I love my compost tumbler. It's basically like having your own tombola but all of the prizes are sweet, sweet soil cultures.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yo @bbc - I pay my licence fee so how come we haven't got a Pete & Bas christmas special immediately after the Kings speech plz? It'd be prestige television 💩

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

RFK jr managed to kill 0.04% of the Samoan population in 2019. Apply that to the USA and the figure would be 135,000 people. Cool cool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sa...

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2019 Samoa measles outbreak - Wikipedia

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Here's another Cassandra infographic telling us how capitalism will end www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-w... The value of all derivatives is estimated to be between 55% and 277%(!) higher than the total value of all global wealth. (1/2)

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All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization - 2020 Edition

Our most famous visualization, updated for 2020 to show all global debt, wealth, money, and assets in one massive and mind-bending chart.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I note that esteemed economist Nouriel Roubini described crypto as the "mother of all bubbles". I'm like sure but wait until you hear about fossil fuels...

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The ones who are like "I was born to do this" are the ones you shouldn't let out of your sight.

A billboard with the text "None of the right people have imposter syndrome"

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I can see where this is going... the new party is going to be called the Reformed Conservative Party. Articles will be breathless about a "seismic shift in British politics" but it'll just be the Tories long-held tradition of harbouring fascists, something it's done since fascism was invented.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Tory MP Richard Holden doing a classic not-so-crypto fascism here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... What he says it's about: "Public Health" What it's actually about: Othering minority communities. And I can whiff the faint but unmistakable smell of eugenics here too.

bbc.co.uk

MP calls for first-cousin marriage to be banned

Tory former minister Richard Holden says the children of first cousins are at greater risk of birth defects.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"The problem with landlordism is that you never run out of other peoples' money." Margaret Thatcher, (I think? right?), 1976 💩

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Yo Big Willy. It wasn't a good look then and it's not a good look now.

Top image is Hitler with Edward VIII. Bottom image is Trump with Prince William, Prince of Wales.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If economists are the priests of Late Period Capitalistism then surely lawyers live in a place formerly occupied by wizards? Possession contracts (9/10ths of the law apparently) are just these weird binding spells that enforce ownership because "It is known from the ancient texts". Sure bbz.

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Habeas Jocus @toowoke2joke.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We're all on the asshole spectrum Mr Johnson it's just that some of us are closer to the sphincter than others.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We should expect the assasination of Brian Thompson to expand the surveillance state globaly, (because disaster capitalism). In the first instance it's unlikely to change any company's policy but it probably will increase corporation inflicted violence.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

"Neil Gaimann is not special, not as an author, not as a man, not as a monster". Nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T31H...

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When Your Hero Is A Monster

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ultimately LLMs like ChatGPT are just a cheap parlour trick but the parlour is actually a data centre which burns as much fossil fuel as a small country. Y'all need to get a proper job. adasci.org/how-much-ene...

adasci.org

How Much Energy Do LLMs Consume? Unveiling the Power Behind AI

Explore the energy consumption of large language models (LLMs). Understand the energy conusmption at different stages of LLM application.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Ok so I have lots of thoughts about umbrellas so this is an umbrellas thread: 1) I love umbrellas, they're properly amazing. They're basically really low stress camping.☂️

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ok here's the deal. As of now, the right wing-grifters don't even exist. Convicted rapist and 47th President of the US? Don't know who that is, sorry. Anti-vax worm-brain health man? Never heard of him. Weird Twitter rocket guy? Sounds made up. #dontSayTheirNames

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Watching Industry S3 - it's great but I dunno if I should be hoping for the graph to go up or down. Not sure how real investment bankers know how to trade without incidental music.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Bit the head of another snake. Any way we could make tomorrow a snake free day? That would be nice.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I've been hearing about some guy called Eon Smusk or something like that, but I'll be honest it all sounds like a windup. Reasonably sure no such person exists.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Every hat I've ever loved has left me in the end.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

New to Bluesky and the algorithm is behaving a bit like my mates mum who, because he commented favourably on a single James Bond movie in 1996, now believes he is a James Bond megafan and purchases movies and memorabilia for him every xmas and birthday. I liked 𝘰𝘯𝘦 cross stitch picture ok?

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I know it's not really the point but the shuddering mediocrity of the latest batch of poundshop fascists really makes me sad. And yes, Hannah Arendt warned us about the banality of evil but I thought she just meant "boring" not "cringemaking dullards who make me want to poke out my eyes."

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Velvet shank 4 dayze in the woods today. Never seen so many.

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just discovered that Alex Winter (yeah, Bill S. Preston, Esq.) is very much the erudite Grupkommandant of his local woke mob and I am so here for it. Can I arrange for him be my cool uncle?

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We gotta stop thinking of Labour and Conservatives as separate things. Labour is good cop, Tories are bad cop, global capital is the oppressor and you're the resistance. Capiche?

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Landlordism tends towards slavery. Not saying they're the same, but in the UK there's currently nothing legal, financial or cultural that will stop the one turning into the other.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This ~ 💯%

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theselocalgods.bsky.social @theselocalgods.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It was one of those days yesterday where they the sky was a flat sheet of ominous grey cloud and the ground wasn't much better. Felt like wait inside a hydraulic compactor. Anyway it's sunny today 🌞

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A lil tip for the folks with shoe polish on their lips today :)

Excerpt from Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny:"

"1. Do not obey in advance."

"Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

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