An old post from Caroline Ellison’s tumblr, since deleted.

  • @selfMA
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    126 months ago

    for anyone else who stumbles on our threads from all and is (justifiably) confused: please for the love of fuck lurk before posting a demand that we do labor for you

    if you’ve lurked and searched TESCREAL and Eliezer Yudkowsky and other shit from the sidebar and you still need clarification, maybe posting a shitty rant in the style of someone’s dad about how kids these days don’t stop and explain themselves to their elders in a random thread is the wrong move

      • @blakestaceyMA
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        166 months ago

        The failure mode of clever continues to be asshole.

      • @carlitoscohones
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        96 months ago

        It’s a lousy bit, because if you’re going to do a goddamn “crocus” joke about hundreds of people being shot at a concert, you should obviously make the pun about Swiss heavy metal legends “Krokus.”

        • @selfMA
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          96 months ago

          a deeply shitty joke??? observation??? about how a crocus is a flower and therefore how could it be the subject of a terror attack?

          completely indistinguishable from all the other posts in their history, all of which were made by reading the title of the thread and posting the first garbage that came to mind

          • @gerikson
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            46 months ago

            It’s not like if Russian artillery pieces aren’t named after flowers, so maybe there’s another tradition in play here.