Watching Quinton's video about a decade of memes and WOW it fucking sucks that we started the decade with genuine "top text bottom text" animals and has ended with "literal Nazis coopting memes to indoctrinate young white teens"

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 30, 2019, 23:30

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**slash** @ponfarr@skull.website · Dec 30, 2019, 23:30

Dec 30, 2019, 23:30

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he explores luigi's mansion - a decrepit ruin reminiscent of the decaying gothic castles that littered the english countryside
he's catholic,
he faces dopplegangers both in the form of his own brother, mario, and waluigi, who is but himself darkly reflected
he fights literal ghosts, the dead who are not dead, uncanny
luigi's position in life is also questioned, in flux. he is a plumber(?) and yet he interacts with royalty, juxtaposing their class positions

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 30, 2019, 23:07

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**⮪1+ ⮔ ☆ ⋯** @diogenes@monads.online · Dec 30, 2019, 23:07

Dec 30, 2019, 23:07

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Life Hack: kill your gods then fall into despair because you must now construct something to replace them

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 30, 2019, 01:14

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**queerdo-mcjewface** @queerdomcjewface@sunbeam.city · Dec 30, 2019, 01:14

Dec 30, 2019, 01:14

queerdo-mcjewface @queerdomcjewface@sunbeam.city

US politics, racism, classism, voting

“If voting changed anything they would make it illegal.”

All of these are from news stories published within the last month (as of December 29, 2019):

-The state of Georgia canceled the voter registration status of 100,000 predominantly black and low-income citizens to suppress turnout.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/elections/georgia-voters-purge.html

-Wisconsin tried to purge over 200,000 Democratic-leaning voters from the rolls.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/24/opinions/wisconsin-voter-suppression-democracy-danger-wikler/index.html

-Texas falsely claimed that over 100,000 voters (almost exclusively people of color) were not real U.S. citizens and tried to prevent them from voting. The state also sent Crystal Mason to prison for unknowingly voting illegally while on supervised release.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-crystal-mason-became-the-face-of-voter-suppression-in-america

- Lanisha Bratcher of North Carolina is facing 19 months in prison for voting in the 2016 election after being released from prison. The law she is being charged under was instituted under Jim Crow to disenfranchise black people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/16/north-carolina-felony-vote-law-black-woman

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 30, 2019, 18:07

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**Mutinous Cat** @asonix@asonix.dog · Dec 30, 2019, 18:07

Dec 30, 2019, 18:07

Mutinous Cat @asonix@asonix.dog

Hyena Facts

Hyenas are lovely

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 30, 2019, 17:45

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 30, 2019, 17:45

Dec 30, 2019, 17:45

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Baphomette Lagoon

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 30, 2019, 16:41

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**Souvlaki Space Station** @anarchiv@todon.nl · Dec 30, 2019, 16:41

Dec 30, 2019, 16:41

Souvlaki Space Station @anarchiv@todon.nl

[texting with Ben Gibbard at 2 a.m.]

me:

BG:
bro

me:

BG:
bro u awake

me:
sup

BG:
the glove compartment is inaccurately named and everybody knows it

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 30, 2019, 16:48

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 30, 2019, 16:48

Dec 30, 2019, 16:48

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Oh damn.

He actually did TWO Christmas songs about being lonely and missing your ex, because he also featured on "Christmas in Antarctica," a single that has A SAD PENGUIN on the cover.

"On a lonely South Pole Christmas
Not a single tree in sight
The sun never goes down at night
So what’s the point of stringing lights
When you’re all by yourself?
Merry Christmas everybody else"

Are you kidding me

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