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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I can’t remember the News organization that did the reporting, but CSAM content grew a LOT during the pandemic, and learning of this, a news agency wanted to look into it, see how easy it was to find, they tried just doing some basic searches (the search terms for which they didn’t reveal) in major search engines, and turned up a lot of content, specifically in Bing I think off the top of my head. They nearly got in trouble with the FBI because of it. So yeah, if you go looking for it, apparently shockingly easy to come across.









  • Although Star Trek has always been progressive for its time, with a good number of message episodes related to contemporary politics, it was off air for long enough that these people now making videos viewed the old trek as kids, when they weren’t aware enough to know contemporary politics, and if watching something like TOS, the issues were mostly ‘solved(at least in the minds of these kinds of viewers)’. If you give them the benefit of the doubt that their kid selves viewed these old shows apolitically, whats left is a show about a futuristic military vessel that as often as not has to solve issues with force. Its not too hard to see why Fascists could find value in that.




  • I can’t answer what Bombadil is in the lore of LOTR, he seems to be unique in terms of entities we are shown. But I can tell you what he is at a meta level. You see, LOTR was first told as stories to Tolkiens kids, which you probably already knew, which you may not have known, is that Bombadil was a recurring character in previous stories he had told his children. So at a meta level, Bombadil is just a fun callback to a previous character for his kids to have enjoyed.