Ampersand

Ampersand

@ampers.bsky.social

Brainpoisoned by excessive internet

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Shot this last night over the course of about four hours. 180 second exposure time through a dual narrowband filter. Lazy image processing, just wanted to test mapping the Ha and OIII to different colors. This was taken with a focal reducer which causes star coma at the edges.

Childhood is thinking the most annoying faction leader in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is Sister Merriam. Adulthood is remembering all her quotations and agreeing with them.

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Replying to @jtp.bsky.social

i do think this is going to happen eventually. investors believe a series of genuinely impossible promises about this stuff that keep growing more ludicrous because they believe it will render most skilled labor obsolete, and it won’t because it can’t

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None of you in queer adjacent, leftist discords dare give them the scan of your ID or your face so you can view "mature content"; doing so would be extremely fucking stupid and endanger you and everyone else on the server.

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The only reason they don't call 'chicken fried chicken' chicken schnitzel is that americans hear something that sounds foreign and get scared. #chickenfriedcowardice

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me and sixteen guys that i met on "The Grindr Of Sandwiches" are gonna go down to the combination barcade/steampunk bowling alley tonight and pay $7500 for one round of bowling and nine tokens before committing ritual suicide in front of a used video game store with orientalist theming

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At some point we most societally reckon with the fact that men are raised to be uncomfortable with emotions, with their sexuality, with their vulnerability, and how to process challenges, and that there is a massive movement built to give them convenient reasons not to do so.

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i think the biggest thing i’m mulling over in my own head is just how little i know. i intellectually understand fascism and its appeal but i can’t actually bridge the intellectual gap to a place of emotional understanding. i feel foolish, ignorant, and utterly naive

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Replying to @jasonkpargin.bsky.social

You have to separate this from your personal disgust or disbelief - he has a very strong base of voters mad about inflation, crime, and immigration - and those are the subjects most voters cite as most important to them. The gaffes and bizarre statements are nothing in comparison.

Driving home from work and saw an arrow sign pointing down a suburban street with the word Beer written on it. I almost went down there just to see wtf they meant. I mean, aside from there being beer there.

Thinking about pivoting into a career in gang stalking. Does anyone have a brochure, or advice on how to break into the field? I think my aura of general menace would be a good fit for the role.

Logged into amazon for the first time in a while. It recommended an outfit for me. Somehow it is simultaneously the worst thing ever, and low key kinda slaps. I have never bought or searched for clothes from Amazon.