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Primordial Platypus

@perfectclarity

Abolitionist in theory, incrementalist in practice. Here because I needed a place to keep track of the social unraveling and for silly nonsense (which I need because I paid attention to social unraveling). He/him

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Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Jul 12

Tumblr post by classically-lit-memes4u

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Jul 11

Correct. Per Wikipedia:

A screenshot quoting Lina Khan's Wikipedia entry.

Early life and education
Khan was born on March 3, 1989, in London, to Pakistani immigrant parents. She grew up in Golders Green in the London Borough of Barnet. Her parents, a management consultant and an employee of Thompson Reuters, moved to the United States when she was 11 years old. The family settled in Mamaroneck, New York, where she and her two siblings attended public school.

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· May 30

Tweet screenshot from lauren (@NotABigJerk):

i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· May 19

Stop doing math
Numbers were not supposed to be given names
Years of counting yet no real-world use found for going higher than your fingers
Wanted to go higher anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "guessing"
"Yes please give me zero of something. Please give me infinity of it" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Look at what mathematicians have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the calculators and abacus we built for them
(This is real math, done by real mathematicians)

[Pictures of three graphs with red question marks underneath them]

"Hello I would like graph apples please"
They have played us for absolute fools

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Apr 30

It hurts because it's true

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Apr 21

This reminds me of something I learned last week, the likely source of Steinbeck's "embarrassed millionaires" quote:

The remark is very likely a paraphrase from Steinbeck's article "A Primer on the '30s." Esquire (June 1960), p. 85-93

"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Apr 17

The trade offer meme picture: a man with long dark hair, thin moustache, and beard wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and blue tie. His hands are steepled in front of him, fingertips touching.

Above him there's a red box with white text: "trade offer" and under it more white text. On the left "I receive" and on the right "you received"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Apr 9

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

A picture of the main cast of Babylon 5.

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Mar 17

Honorary mention:

A young man wearing a red tunic and pants and a skull shoulder plate on his left shoulder stands in front of a burning field while holding a sword. In front of the man there is a title: "HADES"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Mar 17

QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Mar 8

Top image: a blond woman looking with disgust at a text box that reads "Weird AI music"
Bottom image: the same woman, edited to have long curly dark hair, glasses, a moustache, and an accordion, looking with interest at a text box that reads "Weird Al Music"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Jan 15

Screenshot of a dril tweet that reads "blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Oct 21

Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell: a black haired man dressed in a brown jacket, blue shirt, and brown pants, standing up in the middle of a crowd as if ready to speak up.

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Aug 1

Ok but this bit was funny

csgorry.bsky.social posts: "Agreed. Any 'data' coming out of this administration as it relates to the economy should not be trusted. They are and have been cooking the books. The numbers will always be revised."
Timothy Burke replies: "The reports had even bigger revisions under Biden"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· May 26

I think our tent should have more Cheneys AND more Tlaibs

An image of Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting: a dark haired man wearing a blue and black shirt, brown jacket and brown pants, standing in a crowded room, appearing ready to speak up.

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· May 22

A screenshot of a multiple choice content moderation question, it reads:

"What's going on?
It's annoying or not interesting
I'm in this photo and I don't like it (this is selected)
I think it shouldn't be on Facebook
It's spam"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· May 22

It's a BNO News post:

A screenshot of a Bluesky post by BNO News, text reads: "BREAKING: 2 people killed in shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Israeli embassy employees are among the victims, according to Israel's ambassador, calling it an 'act of anti-Semitic terrorism'"

Post includes a night time picture of a street full of police/emergency vehicles.

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· May 1

Hey look I got funny TL moment

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Apr 7

That 1964 was the last time Democrats won a majority of the White vote is extra amusing when you consider what the election map looked like:

An electoral map of the United States for 1964, with all but six states (Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina) shaded red and the remaining 44 shaded blue.

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Feb 26

Disturbing human remains and unlicensed pest control.

Person pointing at text that reads "Video games cause violence. Based on the last game you played, what are you getting arrested for?"

Primordial Platypus@perfectclarity· Feb 18

Siri rn:

It's Happening meme: Ron Paul waving his hands against a laser show background