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Robert Wun | Haute Couture Fall Winter 2024/2025 (x)

#fashion

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this chaotic-horny anime i swear,,...

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#dungeon meshi

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military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps

enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it

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whale fall side of tumblr you understand me

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I spent a solid five minutes wondering how else marine could be pronounced and why I had never heard that there was a pronunciation difference between marine meaning ocean and marine meaning soldier before realizing it was a joke about corps and corpse because these sea animals feed on dead bodies

#humor

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Maya C. Popa, from “Spring”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

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Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate”, Devotions

#mary oliver

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#cats

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this hit me like a truck

#tragedies

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

#tragedies

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#design

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By @norichan5050

#adorable #nature

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#quilting #art #fiber art

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If this is how I die then so be it

#i gasped #then i laughed #i too would pet the kitty

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Witchcraft

Plenty of highly intelligent people end up getting sucked in to cults because they just wanted people to hang out with. There are antivaxxer nurses. Your ability to act on empirical reason breaks down fast if your social and emotional needs aren't being met.

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Like, I reject this idea that people end up becoming tradwives or antivaxxers or cult members because they were dumb. These groups prey on people by filling the social and emotional needs of vulnerable people. They look for people who need help, and give it to them on predatory conditions.

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Fucking around with astrology does not introduce some sort of idealogical poison to your brain. That is ridiculous. Some people turn to astrology because they want a sense of agency in an increasingly atomized world. Some people get into astrology because the night sky is pretty. People believe in astrology because they have some underlying desire to believe in astrology.

High control groups will trawl astrology communities looking for the despondent directionless mfers with few community ties. This trick works even better on college campuses, which are full of despondent directionless mfers with few community ties.

I am frustrated with this idea that participating in ostensibly silly things somehow lowers your psychic defense stat, as if it's a video game. That's now how indoctrination works.

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I remember the 'whooaaahhh how could the New Atheist movement fold into fascist cult thought, standing next to evangelical doomsday pastors,' puzzler from a few years ago. It's pretty obvious when you see it as a revolving door of unmet need exploitation. Leaving indoctrination associated with family doesn't confer resistance to future indoctrination, especially if lifelines got cut along the way.

So it absolutely doesn't matter if you believe in magic or actively disbelieve magic, or think magic is artistic expression, high control groups look for lonely, alienated people.

And the belief in magic or whatever, in a high control group, is secondary to the level of control asserted within. If someone feels afraid to make life decisions without a sign from God, what's going on with them is not 'they are a Silly Person who believes they See God in some Toast or Something,' but probably more, 'They have been indoctrinated against their own independence.'

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Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

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If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.

[ID: Gif image from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.

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According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors' demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]

Hope the ID helps, it's my first time writing one.

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Excerpts from “See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See” by Jess Hill

Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the "Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society") on Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drug use.

And he wrote "Barn, Serier, Samhälle" (Children, Comics, Society), basically the Swedish version of "Seduction of the Innocent"; an infamous anti-comics book by Fredric Wertham that led to the Comics Code Authority.