Fish Demon

Born to be a wandering sage who plays haunting flute melodies in the distance and tells riddles to random people with hidden wisdom

Forced to be a wageworker

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@belet_seri "I have done nothing but shill Project Gutenberg for 3 years"

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@kindinyellow @JoeLongBalls touche, touche

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@atlanticesque are they saying "demographics" in an "it's complicated" way or is that just a euphemism like "socioeconomic factors"

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@eigenrobot "and then have one of the black people eavesdropping be reading The Color Purple"

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@atlanticesque Hate to admit it, but this is an indirect group IQ test.

One of these is the stock-standard answer the school system coaches into the public through a process akin to Huxleyan hypnopaedia, while the other requires some thought and an understanding of culture more than skin-deep.

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@atlanticesque Turns out progressive patriotism is inherently contradictory haha who would've guessed

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@dyingscribe People on twitter when you ask them to do a basic life task:

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@wuooods This image used to have a caption that went smth like "inside you there are 2 movie reviewers" and the original joke has always been that you need a bit of both in you.

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@atlanticesque "veneration of a quasi-knightly caste with modern weaponry" happens to also describe the nominal ideals of, like, half of all organized crime syndicates irl

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@eigenrobot this probably would've been a better solution to the Iran crisis, now that I'm thinking about it

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@atlanticesque Get raided by the DHS with this one weird trick!!!

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@atlanticesque As someone who hasn't seen Megalopolis I refuse to believe this is real

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@atlanticesque was it an "irony poisoned" bio or a "genuine LARP" bio based on their posting

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@dyingscribe 50k likes where almost no replies break into even the thousands, very organic engagement thank you twitter

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@atlanticesque just wait until the hyperinflation hits and we have a 𝓼𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓲𝓻𝓮

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@dyingscribe "in nature if a crab tries to climb out of a bucket the other crabs pull it back in thinking it'll help them get out too"

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@dyingscribe they're gonna bury me six feet under before I EVER leave this site

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@atlanticesque 😳

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@atlanticesque get used to it because literally the entire state looks like this!!!

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@atlanticesque i bet the local chinese secret police station got their own file on you lmao