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Illuminatus

@Illuminatus@mstdn.social

The man who could draw Goatse. Estajanovista en la cama. Doctor in lvl. 10 Druid's stuff. The fucking Cassandra of Microbiology. Ea-Nasir fan. He/Him.

I write about:
-Board games, video games, wargames
-Books and comics
-Films and TV series
-Biology and science (sometimes)
-Polticis and current events (if I am in the mood)
-Mental health (mostly mine)

Expect mostly SP/EN/DE and sometimes IR.

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cstross, to random
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Two bits of news: (a) Iran's president and foreign minister found dead at helicopter crash site (https://apnews.com/article/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-426c6f4ae2dd1f0801c73875bb696f48) and (b) Saudi Arabia's King Salman, 88, has pneumonia (https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabias-king-salman-88-has-pneumonia/2024/05/19/) (His successor is Prince Bonesaw, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman).

If King Salman doesn't make it, middle eastern politics could get very unpredictable. Never mind if (c) Benny Gantz pulls down Netanyahu's coalition the same time … (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-killed-wounded-israeli-forces-thrust-deeper-gazas-jabalia-rafah-2024-05-18/)

Illuminatus,
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@cstross The prosecutor of the ICJ has requested arrest warrants on the three Hamas' leaders as well as Netanyahu and Gallant. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjz4gn00ma

thomasconnor, to random
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Well, it was bound to happen eventually...

Anti-Personnel Vehicle rusting on Garden St. in Cambridge.

Illuminatus,
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@thomasconnor Just add salt.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Shuffle play starting me out with George Michael’s “Faith” today, so…I guess it’s time to dance.

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow "Angus Dei, when you are so sinful a lamb won't suffice."

cstross, to random
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  • Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *

Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …

Illuminatus,
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@cstross My money says Stu lives in a suburb: one of those nightmares USAmericans inhabit that makes them slaves to cars and gas prices. Fuck Stu.

alda, to random
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Have Israel and the EBU realised how a continent-wide boycott against Israel and the Eurovision Song Contest due to the atrocities in Palestine is going to:

a) Lead to Israel winning and thus hosting the ESC next year?

b) The above point creating an even stronger ancor for further boycotts of the ESC and EBU programming in general?

Illuminatus,
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@alda There is an expression in Spanish "No hay huevos/cojones.", which would come to mean "(you have) No balls (enough)". and usually precedes the most stupid decisions. I would argue it applies to this moment.

Illuminatus, to random Spanish
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Reading some stuff about the Armenian Genocide (because I have made a comment about Jury Nullfication and that lead to the trial of the assassination of Talaat Pasha) and I feel fucking sad and fucking tired: the German foreign office knew about the Armeninan Genocide, and they didn't allow Walter Rössler to testify for the shame that it would bring them to be known that they knew. There was no doubt that what was done to the Armenians was monstruous, and yet, 21 years later…

Illuminatus, to random
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I have just remembered that the man/bear debate was already settled, some years ago: https://www.incognitocomics.com.au/products/my-boyfriend-is-a-bear-tp

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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The real joke here is the idea that Jerry Seinfeld was ever funny at all.

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow Another example of a mediocrity who used the talents of those around him as stepping stones.

Illuminatus, to random
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She's so stressed…

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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"Webb is contending with white evangelicals who, for the most part, lack any coherent hermeneutic. Their defining approach to interpreting the Bible is to pretend it doesn’t require any interpretation." https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/04/23/the-progressive-evangelical-two-step/

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow Martin Luther: "AM I JOKE TO YOU, MOTHERFUCKERS!?"

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow TTQR (Te Tienes Que Reir, Spanish for "You gotta laugh about it"). The right to interpret the Bible caused about a century of wars in Europe and these arseholes want just pre-Tridentine bullshit.

eniko, to random
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2020s is worrying about a friend and then going "oh thank god they're not dead" when you get a sign of life

Illuminatus,
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@eniko Funny* thing: going into your 40's also has some component of that.

*For a certain value of "funny"

Illuminatus, to random
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Walton Goggins is one of the best USAmerican actors of the last two decades. On this hill I shall fight to the death.

Illuminatus, to random Spanish
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I wish the gods conceded me the patience of a Ukrainian worker who doesn't reply to questions about late deliverables with "BECAUSE THERE IS A FUCKING WAR GOING ON IN MY COUNTRY, THAT'S WHY IT'S LATE!"

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Fernando Pessoa is surprisingly good company at breakfast.

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow If you listen to fado, you know the Portuguese are intense.

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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The latest totally normal headline from the NYT, written by Columbia professor Matthew Waxman.

Illuminatus,
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@fkamiah17 The degree of rottenness in the USAmerican intelectual circles is so abso-fucking-lutely enraging.

Illuminatus,
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@fkamiah17 Yea, the problems is capitalism.

Illuminatus, to random
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Her life is endless toil…

eniko, to random
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has anyone made an isometric dark souls clone yet

Illuminatus,
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@eniko Back in the "other site/bird hate machine" I followed the account for this Norse-inspired game called 'Eitr', which had gone out of my radar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwRXSC4hCCM As per the subreddit, it is <not> dead, but progresses slowly because they have chosen not to resort to outside funding (or what I'd call 'the Disco Elysium lesson') https://www.reddit.com/r/Eitr/comments/1ayx1xh/game_officially_not_dead/

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Jean Reno, in a film that is Jumanji with werewolves.

I'm in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR37D-LVFa0

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow You know that <should be> the selling tagline, don't you?

Illuminatus, to random Spanish
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Things we do not need in the year of 2024: for one, poverty porn.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/12/lola-movie-nicola-peltz-beckham

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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I think I will toss SHE'S FLEEING A BYRONIC HERO in at the end of Volume 2. That novella owes a great deal to the SNL "Romance Bookstore" skit, which reduces me to a cackling mess each time I watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmRhnDVMnn8

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow Regarding Byron, I hope to never forget what I read on another toot some days ago: "He was such an arsehole that two separate literary trends were started just to not hang out with him at a party." (referring to Polidori's Vampyre and Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'). :blobcatjoy:

Illuminatus,
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@lilithsaintcrow It's a wonder <she> didn't invent the switchblade. :blobsmirk:

Illuminatus, to random
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Levels of dramatic proficiency (in ascending order):
-Asylum productions' actor
-Average copaganda show actors
-US soap opera actors
-Latinx soap opera actors
-Average Hollywood actors
-Average RSC actors
-A-tier Hollywood actors
-RSC actors who make it big in Hollywood
-Cats with half-full food bowls

rebeccawatson, to random
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breaking: Finance Goblin’s desiccated corpse returns from grave to dispense important wisdom

Illuminatus,
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@rebeccawatson So much good that investment did to him, when he died either way.

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