peace angel
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you have somehow bent yourself into believing that their practice of incest is an evolutionary trait and not what it is (based on blood purity, blood supremacy and exceptionalism propaganda), it’s actually sort of amazing
fortunafavorite@favoritafortuna
sorry but Targaryen's are not Targaryen's without the incest. They are genetically designed to crave their relatives and would not exist without it. Even in the modern world, they would find a way to be attracted to one another
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@eggonthefifth @cigarette_room it is not a world, though. it is a book written by one person.
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@cigarette_room It's a fantasy book. We treat it as a world, not as an argument being made to us by GRRM.
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targaryen stans will try to be ironic and cool with their "haha magical incest" quips but they truly with their entire hearts believe their fav blondies inbreeding IS magical and justified and divine and that's why you can't put media literacy and this fandom in the same sentence
splat 🛡️🌳🐉@zaryaismywife
today i’m learning there are people out there who genuinely believe that the targaryen practice of incest is just “it gives them cool dragon powers” and not obvious real-world historical commentary. like you guys know this is fiction right. its important to me that you know this
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@eggonthefifth @pavlyndon except for the entire text of the series
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@pavlyndon This is just Varys' worldview. There's no reason to think it's how their world really works.
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power resides where men think it resides. if men BELIEVE that targaryen power is derived from "undiluted" blood, of course the practice of isolation and inbreeding will continue to maintain that power. it has nothing to do with magical genetics or flimsy prophecy.
fortunafavorite@favoritafortuna
sorry but Targaryen's are not Targaryen's without the incest. They are genetically designed to crave their relatives and would not exist without it. Even in the modern world, they would find a way to be attracted to one another
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@theoceanblooms i dunno that every tweet you disagree with is coming from the same undifferentiated hivemind
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like I’m sorry but this is fucking me up so bad. is this not causing any degree of cognitive dissonance whatsoever.
mary@theoceanblooms
we just had a whole argument about whether the workplace misogyny depicted in this show is intentional or not with people deflecting criticism of the male creators by invoking the women writers. this episode was by valerie chu. now you’re all saying the misogyny isn’t even there.
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@leighbeadon @Elva63Ky Of course there is. You just don’t want to live there.
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If you trap a boomer in a one-on-one argument for an entire afternoon you can eventually get them to acknowledge how crazy the cost of housing is now. However the effects only last for ~12 hours and the next morning they will text you "why don't you just find a cheap apartment?"
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@deepdwellerr @its_hipolita yes! and the author, melville, was one of those guys! wait until you see the kinds of letters he was sending to nathaniel hawthorne
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@its_hipolita well maybe that’s a reflection on literary and academic circles then. i mean have you met those guys?
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The whole "dead white men classics" shit from booktok people is absurd because I read Moby Dick and one of the first things Ishmael does is get into a tensely homoerotic two-men-one-bed situation with Queequeg and even goes "it's like I'm his wife... jk haha... unless?"
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@averagedad26 @BruneElections do you think china is closing its universities or building more? ohio shouldn’t contribute to our ongoing national suicide re:research/education investment
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@BruneElections Please describe why we should continue to support 59 public colleges/universities throughout the state? Regional consolidation with specialisation of degree/learning will benefit everyone and reduce costs/overhead
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Microtarget this as an ad in the 6 counties with a town solely dependent on a university to exist.
Justin Barasky@JustinBarasky
VIDEO: Vivek Ramaswamy says we have too many universities in Ohio and he wants to get rid of some.
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@Wiggles66666 @Maorunes_Dagon @isaiah_bb he’s sending your friends to die for Israel and you’re worried about sucking his cock
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This stuff is so corny. Even the old army ads where the guy pulls a sword out of the ground and kills a dragon was less cringe than this.
Pete Hegseth@PeteHegseth
I know some people who need to hear this…
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@thattallguy @clsilvers have you ever tried to do a lit review with an LLM? they regularly make up papers that don’t exist, confuse authors, inaccurately represent content, etc etc
hypothetically, sure, maybe a tool that worked could be useful. but they DON’T work. they’re hot dogshit.
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@clsilvers your industry + ai could lead to some pretty big breakthroughs though no?
Its interesting to me that scientist (assuming this describes you from your bio) are anti ai.
Isn't the goal to discover and solve some of humanities greatest problems? How is this not a useful tool?
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@thattallguy @FreresJacque almost as logical as paying $8 a month for a free website
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@SashaGusevPosts Perfect example of academic myopia. I don't need you to find what gene makes black people violent, I can observe they are with my eyes.
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Periodic reminder that there is no "crime gene" and, to the extent that criminality is a highly polygenic heritable trait, it cannot be "bred out".
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@ClarityVader follow your leader, Mitch!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg
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@itslaylas @powellAtlantic Maybe fewer references to space aliens would have helped...
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Mamdani’s publicized dinner at Gracie Mansion with Mahmoud Khalil reinforces the extent to which opposition to Israel is central to his worldview. My essay: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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@merkintrick Fiction
Greg Price@greg_price11
REMINDER: The woman at the center of these FBI interviews claims she met Epstein at a place he never lived. Her allegation against President Trump dates back to a year he and Epstein didn't even know each other yet. And she's been arrested multiple times for theft and fraud-- most recently in 2023 for stealing money from a terminally ill man.
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If you read this about animals raping and torturing young girls and still support Donald Trump, you are not a Christian and you are not a patriot. You are a pedophile enabler. That’s all you are. And I don’t talk to shitbags who are pro-pedophile.
Kristi Yamaguccimane@TheWapplehouse
Apparently 2 of the files referencing Trump raping a 13 year old got overlooked in the Epstein dump
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@inthefortress @WrandeFX @TravisReinold You should enlist! Put your money where your fat fucking mouth is
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Iran has approximately $9 Trillion in oil reserves. The United States should take it to pay for this ongoing war AND to pay for the trillions we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan while fighting Iran indirectly. The American people deserve a check.
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@elonmusk DEMOCRATS HATE THEIR LONG TIME IDOL, ELON MUSK'S WANT TO EXPOSE GOV'T THEFTS.
A MESSAGE TO AMERICA,
DEMOCRAT PARTY, & OUR LEGACY MEDIA, ARE THE
"COSA NOSTRA"
A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION.
DEM'S COVERING FOR $ 9 BILLION IN SOMALIAN SCAMS, FIGHTING FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS
WHY?
Ramblewood, NJ 🇺🇸 English
@ButIDoFret @ettingermentum Kiwifarms has led to suicides
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People have no idea how much the frontiers of hating have been pushed forward since moms got on Reddit a few years ago
Sofia Coppium@indianloonie
Lolcow forums can't even reach a 10th of the pure hatred held by Snark Subreddits
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@fejloves my friend was just laid off because of AI so i will continue to find her annoying 🫡
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real people who understand how jobs work never found al-hashimi annoying
Sam 👁️@SamtheNightOwl
it's crazy that al-hashimi went from being slightly annoying to me to being basically my favorite character so far on this season of the pitt. she makes robby apologize for being an asshole to mohan and claps back at garcia when she makes her classically smug remarks
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@mohabboting Letters of recommendation may be more than one, she might have already got one from Robby 🤔
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the fact that samira wanted to ask abbot for a letter of recommendation over robby says a lot btw
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