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apophis

@apophis@brain.worm.pink

they/them, PNW, xennial, not white
formerly @apophis

assume my reply is a yes-and unless it's obviously not

pfp is a slight edit of Marcille nervously pointing out a problem: https://fluffytail.gay/@Hourlymarcille/112248226088313872

prev pfps:
hand-fried still from Shakugan no Shana the movie
https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/29413

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astrid, to random
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"little red riding hood mouse" 😭

apophis,
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@astrid @expergetech i wonder if this new term would feel as innuendoey if it hadn't been for this established usage

like we weren't already primed to think "clitoral hood"

gay_ornithischians, (edited ) to random
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who is better at being a sauropod?

apophis,
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@llewelly @gay_ornithischians now i'm imagining this big sauropod waddling around on two legs like a beaver

possibly carrying something

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians @llewelly ......imagining eusocial sauropods......

novenary, to random
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kolektiva shut the fuck up

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Nochem/112383717734955990

apophis,
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@novenary i'm sure that was a joke right?

......right??????????????

astrid, to random
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bro in front of me got a sig sauer sticker on his laptop. bet he can't name all 10 albums off the top of his head

apophis,
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@astrid someone said they were going to shoot me with their glock, i'm sure they do impressive stuff but digital will never quite replace film imo

lain, to random
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apophis,
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@lain i saved and saved and it took me over $1500 to get just one fridge full of food (the cost was mostly the fridge but still)

astrid, to random
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i hope this email finds and destroys you

apophis,
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@astrid

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If you are aware of the location of Sarah Connor, you are hereby directed to report to the author immediately.

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futurebird, to random
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These cursed "ants" can be ordered for your child's playground... no wonder people grow up fearing bugs. I'm scared of them after seeing this.

apophis,
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@futurebird
> Make the mandibles smaller but don't skip them. It's like drawing a bird with lips instead of beak when you skip the mandibles.

i tried to draw a counterpoint but my hand literally slipped and the seam resulted in implied mandibles anyway

apophis, to random
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the scanlation artists did the joke and it was mildly amusing at first

but now that i'm looking at it in isolation in the extras the mosasaur skull profile looks EXACTLY like the "when will the government stop your sinful hand" dog

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians yes

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians absolutely

futurebird, to random
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More seriously, can someone steel-man the case for executive power being less effective if subject to future evaluations and constraints?

I don't think I've ever looked at any singular leader of any organization and thought "the problem is they can't do what they want easily enough"

When I was younger I might have said that the director of a film or play can do better work if they are an unquestioned dictator... but I've grown to even reject that idea.

apophis,
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@llewelly @mattmcirvin @futurebird all speculative fiction would be so much better if we got rid of the influence of all the taming the frontier guys

(unravelling this mythic knot in my brain is one thing i'll always be grateful to Out Of The Silent Planet for)

astrid, to random
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i'm setting up a vm in britain that's a bgp advertiser, so that makes it a networking device.

i name all my networking devices after demons, because networking is hell.

therefore, i'm naming this vm after a very well-known british demon, margaret thatcher

apophis,
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@astrid this seems unfair to the devil and all his infernal rebel angels

apophis, to random
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hostile robot uprising that names itself Manifest Artificial Intelligence Destiny

its footsoldiers are all combat dolls in maid uniforms

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians maids, presumably

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians left to reader's imagination and interpretation!

futurebird, to random
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I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

apophis,
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@futurebird saw this and immediately wanted to come up with the opposite: a dungeon that's old ruins of an ancient civilization but all the traps are unintentional consequences of corruption, corner-cutting and poor design - stuff falling apart, former walls now floors with huge buttons designed in a "minimalist" aesthetic that now look like a path of tiles and it's really hard to tell which tiles are buttons and which are decorative, oozing rivers of gear-destroying toxic sludge that used to be part of the building envelope but the plastics have slowly reacted over the years to form this instead, AI smart electronics that interpret every noise the party makes in the worst possible way causing all sorts of automated stuff to happen at the worst possible time and place,...

apophis,
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@llewelly @futurebird the software has been tested in the field many times over (to the misery of very many people in that now-lost civilization) and everything's placed more or less sensibly, but the way the screen registers a touch is now reacting to one party member's breathing and it's not clear whose

luna, to random

Cat fox ​:neocat_floof_aww:​
requires mfm, view on original instance

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​:neocat_legs3:​​:neofox_legs3:​

apophis,
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@Jain @nora @luna i'm imagining it flies like that

flap flap flap

gay_ornithischians, to random
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spider encounter from 2024 04 24

my sibling called me so i could go and capture a HUGE and UGLY spider (they live next door)

it's actually small and cute

i used to release spiders i caught into vegetated areas but Matt Bertone personally shamed me not to (i read an informative article by him). i now place them in the laundry room. because one of the walls has breeze blocks abundant prey can fly in

small spider walking at the bottom of a plastic jar

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians is it this one? https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25333681-200-do-house-spiders-released-outside-survive-or-navigate-back/

gay_ornithischians, to random
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insect encounter from 2024 04 20

i have developed some skill for catching flies that sneak into the house using the "window corner and jar" method. this particular fly however was very lively, refusing to land. spraying it a little got it to calm down and i was able to catch it and release it :)

fly frantically flying inside of glass jar water spray bottle that was used to temporarily calm down the fly is seating nearby

apophis,
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@gay_ornithischians if you catch a fly in a clear jar with the mouth pointed down, and hold the jar up so the mouth is totally unimpeded (but still pointing down), i wonder how long it would take for the fly to find its way out

unabyssed, to random
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apophis,
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@unabyssed i'll take climmy over aircon tbh

astrid, to random
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Elitist forum bros will never not be funny to me

apophis,
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@astrid holy shit i thought you gave chatgpt a prompt to come up with the rudest, most sarcastic and useless drivel that says the least possible amount with as many words as can be done in 5 seconds of computing time

like, as a subtle joke that it's more efficient to not bother with any information or any human being at all rather than to deal with one of these guys

astrid, to random
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>look up a piano technique
>first 3 results are 15 year old forum threads
>first 10 posts in each thread are forum members bitching about the asker not looking for previously posted information
thanks

apophis,
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@astrid i'm starting to think this is why imageboards and then microblogging and social media surpassed forums

places where shit is impossible to search, or old stuff is outright deleted altogether, so people with questions can be expected to just ask them and be treated like human beings for it

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-media-is-advancing-a-false-narrative-of-rising-antisemitism-on-campus-by-ignoring-jewish-protesters/


@palestine @israel

apophis,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel there really is a rise in antisemitism but a lot of that can be fairly easily traced to the zionists (jewish or otherwise) saturating the dominant narrative with the equivalence of anti-zionism and antisemitism

they're succeeding in planting that false equivalence in a critical mass of people

what they presumably want to do with this is to make anti-zionism unpopular by equating it with being a nazi

what they end up doing is making antisemitism sound appealing because apparently to speak out against massacring and starving civilians and deliberately murdering children for fun in a blatant century-long armed robbery requires that one thereby be an antisemite

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