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[arcandoria-archived]

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

[ reddit thread | bsky post ]

[daysleftofsecondterm]

helpful to know on 1,234 days left

[joshuaballsett]

Give Lilly Wachowski Her 10 Fucking Million Dollars To Make A Movie What The Fuck Is Wrong With You You Stupid Cunts Like Hello She Made The Matrix Are You Dumb? Do You Not Like Good Shit?

[bugshroom]

there should be a pill you can take one time that will shrivel up your uterus and abort it through one last horrible period

[juicetrump2]

New Footage of Fatal ICE Shooting in Texas Sparks Fresh Outrage

ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows.

Mexico Prepares Criminal Complaint in ICE Killing of Houston Man

Mexico says it will go directly to U.S. prosecutors as ICE continues to kill its citizens.

[selfpoweredoxygenmachine]

theres a lot of different opinions on new leaf vs new horizons but i will say you kind of cannot overlook that new horizons lets you be black

[selfpoweredoxygenmachine]

i miss a lot of new leaf stuff too but like . you cannot be black in new leaf . i dont think this should be considered one bullet point in a list of pros and cons it should at least be underlined and circled like ' you cannot be black in new leaf ' is a major issue

[pissvortex]

Donald Trump has now resorted to using Deltarune music for instagram propaganda

[socialistexan]

This apart of a strategy the white house comms team uses, btw. They intentionally take music or art from artists who they know are left-of-center to try to get them to object. They then use that objection as proof of "the woke left censoring them" to get attention to their posts. If the artist doesn't fall for the bait and stays silent they can pretend the artists approved and agree with them.

It's an administration made up of 4chan trolls. Ragebaiting as a political tactic.

SZA Calls Out White House For 'Rage Baiting Artists For Free Promo'

SZA calls out the White House for "rage baiting artists f...

[delphinidin4]

Tons more at the source!

[firebirdeternal]

"I have never seen a cat that showed affection/love for it's owner" is the pet ownership version of "I don't believe in Female Orgasms they don't exist, after all, my wife has never had one"

[manu-script]

I don't wanna hear one more anglophone complaining that other languages "aren't written how they're pronounced", your language has almost no consistent pronunciation rules and the few there are were obviously written by the devil himself to spite all the real people (non anglophones)

[mr-badjokes]

[honeyxmonkey]

Okay, so this post always makes me giggle

But I was thinking just now...

Literally no one in the friend group aside from Aang knows Zuko was the Blue Spirit

So do you think... they're just hanging out in the palace post canon all piled up in one of the rooms reserved for when the royal family wants to chill—and Zuko is voicing his (extremely reasonable) upset about his father for one reason or another

And Sokka just says something like, "So are you gonna just leave him to rot in jail for the rest of his life, or are you gonna give him another punishment?"

And Zuko goes quiet. Thinking. Then he says, "Maybe I should send him on a quest to capture the Blue Spirit to regain his honor"

And Aang just fucking loses it

[podcastwizard]

every day i walk into work and my manager says “here is the rule you must enforce” and i go “got it bossman” and i spend a couple days enforcing the rule and then my manager comes up to me and says “why are you enforcing the rule? we changed the rule yesterday and didn’t tell you” and i go “ok bossman new rule it is” and then a customer comes in asking to break the new rule and i say “sorry you can’t it’s the rule” and they say “but you don’t understand the rule doesn’t apply to me” and then my manager comes out and says “they’re right the rule doesn’t apply to them” and i ask why and my manager says “it just doesn’t.” and then the next day we get rid of the rule entirely and no one remembered it existed in the first place.

anyway this sounds like a metaphor for neurodivergence or something but it’s not this is just my fucking life

[sistersorrow]

Understated and very funny issue the Catholic Church faces as time goes on: modern saints aren't gonna be depicted in robes or anything like that, they're just gonna be wearing t-shirts

The contemporary fit kinda clashes with the broader church aesthetic

Secondary problem: new saints means it's easier to traffic relics, cause the Church will prioritise parts of their body, meaning if you move fast you can throw things like their smartphone on ebay for a quick buck

[inthefallofasparrow]

I don't know much about the Catholic church, but reading about this kid is kind of wild. He tragically died of Leukemia aged 15, and the reason that he's now been canonized as a saint is, on two separate occasions long after his death, the families of sick people have prayed to him for intercession, and they were miraculously healed. Fair enough, I guess. But in terms of what he was actually able to do in his short life, apart from being very religiously active, wise and discerning beyond his years, one thing I found was that he designed a couple of websites for the church, and as a result has since been dubbed the 'Saint of the Internet' and 'God's Influencer', and is often depicted with a laptop. And I know it was because of the posthumous 'miracles', but it's fun to imagine a scenario where the Pope made a teenage kid into a Saint for doing some light coding, because nobody at the Vatican was tech-savvy enough to know how to do it.

[determinedapathy]

@apocrypals

[apocrypals]

Saint name: Carlo Acutis

Feast day: October 12

Patronage: Internet

Iconography: laptop, popped collar

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[onemonthintheatlantic]

Were you taught to never shower or use (plugged-in) electronic devices during a thunderstorm?

shower yes, devices no

shower no, devices yes

yes to both

no to both

I was not raised in a place with regular thunderstorms

Voting ended onAug 14

[onemonthintheatlantic]

I did just realize my attempt at a poll will never go viral because it is confusingly phrased.

i meant yes = never and no = that's fine OH WELL