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  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Me after exercising two days in a row

    :arm-L: :panting: :arm-R:

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Got my first dose of the pfizer vaccine. I expected it to be one of those shots that actually kinda hurts, but I didn't feel a thing. Entirely painless process.

    • Rem [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Same! A little worried for shot two, heard it can be worse if you're young.

        • Rem [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I don't know much about medicine so Idk how good of a guess I can make.

          Maybe it's like your immune system is already jazzed after the first one so there's no learning period and it goes beast mode making antibodies. Or something 🤔

    • 707R [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Can't wait for the black police captain to say they need to do better while fundamentally still changing nothing.

        • 707R [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Also do you mean on r/Canada because that subs explicitly run by fascists.

            • 707R [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              At least we know it's partly because it was infested with /pol/ users.
              https://i.imgur.com/HNyt1O4.jpg

              Edit: Seems one of the r/Ottawa moderators is also a fascist.

        • 707R [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          "Cops encouraging their kid to become be part of a cross-racial coupling as like doomer-racists is actually multicuturalism at its best."

  • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'm getting into the QAnon anonymous podcast, it's fascinating. How long has the "starseed" movement been involved? That's hilarious

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      There was a weird convergence I wanna say like 1-1.5 years ago where younger New Age types were getting hooked on the "Save the Children" rhetoric.

        • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          It may be slightly more recent or further back than 1-1.5 years, you know time being a fuck now and all.

          But yes, morbidly fascinating is definitely how I describe it. Like staring bloody-eyed into the abyss.

    • Rem [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Starseed? I stopped listening to QAA a while ago, what's a Starseed?

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's New Age stuff straight out of the 70's, first appearance in the 1976 book Gods of Aquarius by Brad Steiger

        Brad Steiger was born Eugene E. Olson in Fort Dodge, Iowa on February 19, 1936. He graduated from Iowa's Luther College in 1957 and the University of Iowa in 1963. He taught high school English before teaching literature and creative writing at his former college from 1963 to 1967. His first book, Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Peculiar People, was published in 1965. He became a full-time writer in 1967. He wrote or cowrote over 150 books including The Johnny Cash Story, The Country Music Scrapbook, The Hypnotist, The Chindi, Alien Rapture: The Chosen, Atlantis Rising, and Four-Legged Miracles: Heartwarming Tales of Lost Dogs' Journeys Home written with Sherry Hansen Steiger. He wrote biographies on Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, and Rudolph Valentino. Valentino served as the basis for the 1977 motion picture Valentino and Unknown Powers was adapted into a documentary, which won the Film Advisory Board's Award of Excellence for 1979. He received several awards including The Genie for Metaphysical Writer of the Year in 1974 and the Dani for Services to Humanity in Philadelphia in 1977. He was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame in 1987 and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena Conference in Minneapolis in 1996. He died on May 6, 2018 at the age of 82.

        Steiger described "Star People" in his 1976 book on contactees as "humans who come from a special gene pool linked to visits by extraterrestrials".[3]

        They claim to come into human lifeforms and suffer helplessness and total amnesia concerning their identity, origins and life-purpose.[4][5] The awakening process claimed to be experienced[6] is described as either a gradual series of realizations over time, or an abrupt and dramatic awakening of consciousness. Through the awakening process, they regain memories about their past, origins and missions.[7]

        Washington Post journalist Joel Achenbach interviewed people who said they were starseeds from the Pleiades for his book "Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe", and noted the contrast with ufologists: "the starseed are precisely the kind of New Age figures the traditional ufologists can’t stand. Ufologists look outward, toward the universe, for answers to the alien enigma. New Agers look inward."[8]

        Basically Scientology for hippies.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Perhaps an actual attack helicopter should pay them a visit (in a satire article)

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      A few years ago I thought "look at those ridiculous captain planet villains doing evil basically for its own sake", real villains have complex motivations and sympathetic goals.

      Nope, in rl it's mostly the first.

  • 707R [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Living inside ocean wind turbines is the new lighthouse.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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      4 years ago

      Lighthouses are dope. I am going to run a political campaign on the platform of Kesslerfying the GPS network so we can return these fine structures to their former glory. Space-luddites unite!

  • Baar [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    accidentally super liked a person on tinder but they seemed cool anyways so I'm just going to roll with it

  • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Why the fuck haven't we gotten the results of the Amazon union vote? This is giving me Bernie Iowa / CA vibes -- death by delay.

    • 707R [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Someone I think got bamboozled on here and posted a "Amazon results thread" but quickly deleted it. Presumably because it was fake.

    • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It just reminded me of the time when Matt and, i think, virgil? Attended the rnc thing and was approached by two college republicans and one of their insults was something like "i bet you're a fan of brutalism" and it left them baffled.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      To be fair, a lot of Brutalist university and public buildings in the west were designed to allow police to fuck up and disperse student occupiers as quickly as possible.

      They're like someone built an anti-fortress with all the implied user design issues.