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Avon DeRussate
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I know I'm depressing. But the world is in quite a depressing state currently.
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Phil M0OFX 🔜 EMF 📞 3699
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mood.
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It has been in that state (and getting deeper into that state) for too many years now. :(
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Phil M0OFX 🔜 EMF 📞 3699
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@pippin If you find a way out, let me know... my youtube recs was a bunch of videos about corruption in Australia, followed by ... a variety of other places. oh, and a Guardian one about people "protesting" ULEZ cameras because "big state" which I watched while wondering how much good they could do if they turned their efforts towards protesting something uh, based in fact?
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@Phil M0OFX *sigh* I just want friends I can hug and slinky and/or furry suits I can wear… and not to have to worry too much about the state of the world. I guess this might be why older people are seen as not caring much about environmentalism — maybe they just want to enjoy their remaining time. Can't blame them too much, I suppose.
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@pippin it staggers me that people try to drag that stuff into the furry scene too, and it's a big reason I'm not involved. Too many of the cons are cesspools of the worst parts of online fame culture. Normalise cheesy school-disco dances and watching the latest Disney flick on a bigscreen projector, I say. We need more of that kind of MH-boosting togetherness.
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@Phil M0OFX I've read this a few times now and I'm still not sure what "that stuff" is… I'm guessing the state of the world? But that doesn't quite seem to fit with the rest of what you say, which seems to be about the cult of personality/"popufur" thing.

But yes, I agree about the cult of personality stuff that goes on. On the other hand I know I'm not immune to it because there are people I've felt I can't/shouldn't approach because they are "big names" and I know they are probably overwhelmed with people and I don't want to add to that. I dunno. 🤷‍♂️

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@pippin yeah, the state of the world, and the obsession of behaving like world leaders, destroying each other and playing to an audience.
sorry - I could have worded that better.
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@Phil M0OFX Ahh, yep, no worries. For some reason this all made me remember this:

"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place.

"This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever."

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Phil M0OFX 🔜 EMF 📞 3699
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@pippin And that reminds me of this exchange in Good Omens...

Crowley: "What did he say to get himself nailed to a cross?"
Aziraphale: "We should be kind to one other."
Crowley: "Yeah, that'd do it."

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