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#PLEASE#YES!#clots dont fail us now

donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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"The cuts are a time bomb for the public media system. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has disbursed funding for stations through September. After that, more than 100 combined TV and radio stations that serve millions of Americans in rural pockets of the country will be at risk of going dark, according to an analysis from Public Media Company, an advisory firm.

But the troubles could run deeper than that, said Tim Isgitt, the organization’s chief executive. The sudden and dramatic reduction in funding will result in a pool of fewer stations to buy programming and solicit donations, potentially creating a “doom loop” with dire consequences for the rest of the system.

“Failing stations will create a cascade effect in this highly connected and interdependent system, impacting content producers and leading to the potential collapse of additional distressed stations in other areas of the country,” Mr. Isgitt said."

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Really awesome getting work emails to warn staff that MAGAts may be feeling emboldened to harass and potentially even assault us in the parking lot now.

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Season 2 Episode 9:

This episode is titled "Grim Judgement". I wonder if it'll be anything like that Batman episode where Two-Face developed a third personality.

You know, classic Scooby-Doo had absolutely zero hint of romance and even when they started weaving in romantic plots it's always remained incredibly chaste. So it's very weird that suddenly we're opening an episode with two kids at make-out point talking about how they're "finally going to be together".

They're literally being judged for horny crimes.

Was that kid from the soccer team there to spy on those two getting laid?

So last episode the gang were saying Gary and Ethan were bad people, yet here Gary is rescuing Brenda when her own boyfriend ditched her 2 seconds after saying he was scared to lose her. I bet Ethan's the one in the costume and this is all a scheme to help Gary get laid.

Clancy Brown!

Brad and Judy being famous and having a corny TV show based around their lives is giving Venture Bros vibes.

Scooby-Doo just did a blatant abstinence only PSA without actually mentioning sex.

So the villain of this episode is an incel?

Gary saved that other girl. This is definitely a scheme set up by him and Ethan to get laid. This whole episode is going to be about sex without ever admitting it's about sex, isn't it?

Yet again, absolutely astonishing feat of super-strength that I'm betting will never be explained.

Well, there's still 12 minutes left in the episode, so Gary and Ethan can't be behind the plot.

Why was Scooby dressed as Ariel? Are mermaids the high school's mascot?

It's gotta be a third party trying to help Ethan and Gary both get laid, or they're trading costumes and the Gary in the video chat was actually a prerecorded message. This time it's Gary's turn to wear the costume to set up a scenario where Ethan can sweep Daphne off her feet.

There's still 7 minutes left so this is definitely NOT their guy.

Well, they did mention that both the main costume and the backup were taken. Further evidence that it was BOTH Ethan and Gary. Is this the first time we've had a case where more than one person was wearing the costume to deflect suspicion? Like in Scream?

Did they just recycle the animation for the second trap?

I can't believe the mayor fucked Officer Samson after all the times he disrespected her authority.

Fred's dad looks like the Venture Bros version of Race Bannon and his mom is a dead ringer for Sally Impossible.

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Season 2 Episode 8:

Okay, so I've seen screencaps of this monster and I already know it's Marcie. But I still have to guess why she's all the way out in the desert attacking these two dudes. How does this advance Mr. E's agenda and what does it mean for the story going forward? Is Marcie going to spin her actions as helping Velma and the others to get back in with the gang so she can continue working as a mole? Feels like it would be repetitive if she went back to jail again.

Is there a piece of the Forbidden Pizza in the "lucky" soccer ball? I'm saying this kind of as a joke but I feel like it could actually be real. And then I'm going to be asking "Wait, the last one was baked into cheese 500 years ago, so if this one's in a soccer ball that means somebody had to have found it elsewhere and then re-hid it, right?"

I wonder how many people knew Linda Cardellini's voice well enough to immediately clock the villain as Marcie. I know she played live action Velma, but I had no idea she was also Lauren from Boy Meets World, or Hawkeye's wife, or Wendy from Gravity Falls.

Is the title implying there's going to be an homage to the Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantasia?

That one guy blushing when his friend teased him about caring about his feelings was more queer-coded than Velma's entire arc so far.

The gang acts as if Ethan and Gary are the school bullies constantly giving them a hard time when I feel like they barely ever interact with them directly. They mostly just converse with each other before something bad happens to them. The cop is way more of a jerk to the gang and generally a corrupt incompetent asshat, but they humor him like he's well-intentioned.

Something that just occurred to me is that there have been 4 pieces of the Evil Pizza collected so far and 3 have originated from Crystal Cove. The one baked into cheese even went out of its way to state that fact. So I think I'm meant to take it that the whole disc originated from Crystal Cove and all the pieces were initially hidden there. So how did one of them end up getting found and taken all the way to Russia and put in an animatronic Baba Yaga museum exhibit?

They made it seem like the woman unmasking herself was going to be a big reveal, like someone we'd know. But it wasn't. She looks like the teacher from Jimmy Neutron though.

Speaking of Jimmy, he straight up looks like a brunette Fred.

So, everyone in the desert is supposed to be ugly except Jimmy, but since they think they're all normal they view Jimmy as a hideous freak. So does the old lady thinking Shaggy is hot mean Shaggy is actually supposed to be ugly?

Is Jimmy voiced by Johnny Bravo?

Not only is he Johnny Bravo, he's the dad from Dexter's Lab, the evil hamster from Lilo & Stitch, Brooklyn from Gargoyles, and Petrie from The Land Before Time. Jeff Bennett has range.

The old lady is giving Jimmy Neutron Teacher combined with the sky pirate captain lady from Castle in the Sky.

So is it going to be explained that Marcie can fly around and tear up/flip all those cars using that magic super helium concoction she came up with? Is she going to be given away by her hot dog smell again? Is this actually the first time the gang's faced an old villain in a new costume?

I can see why Velma will inevitably forgive Marcie for this. I mean, who wouldn't?

I know the joke is supposed to be "Ha ha, she's ugly and therefore undeserving of love". But like, Shaggy's supposed to be like 16-17, so this would be creepy even if she were a GILF.

Castaway reference.

So, did Lilith get the pizza slice out of the soccer ball and then discard it, or somehow lose it so this lady could take it? I can't imagine she'd take it if it wasn't important to Mr. E's plot, but if the Evil Pizza Slice was in there you'd think she'd have just ripped it open and left its shredded remains somewhere.

Once again, it seems like Marcie genuinely could have killed them and it's not clear whether they survived on purpose or just got lucky.

Jimmy definitely should not have survived that, but I guess you can say that was an accident and Marcie wasn't trying to off him.

SHE DOES GET GIVEN AWAY BY THE HOT DOG SMELL.

Who besides Boron is even hanging out around the mountain? Seems like Dark Lilith could've kept more people away by being covert and not drawing attention to herself. But then it might be part of Mr. E's plan to lure the gang into a trap.

I wonder what Marcie's dad thinks she's up to right now. He didn't go to prison since he wasn't the culprit in the Manticore episode, so he should still be around. Did he disown Marcie since she tried to ruin the amusement park? Where is she living right now?

Wondering about the logistics of Marcie making a mask that has glowing eyes and how she's supposed to see out of it.

Are they implying the real world genocide of indigenous peoples by the Spanish Conquistadors was caused by a magical MacGuffin that influenced them to be greedy and amoral against their usual nature?

Doesn't seem like putting the ship on top of a mountain was the best way to hide it and the disc on board. Probably would've stayed hidden if they sunk it instead.

They said Lilith was "living" on the ship, so she's already been on it. Was she hanging out there trying to disarm the traps by herself or was her entire plan to draw the gang's attention and lure them there to get Fred to disarm the traps for her?

Fred, the journal literally said the ship was armed with "lethal mechanical devices". What did you think that meant?

Maybe it was something else Velma recognized that gave her away...

Okay, they've got to have SOME explanation for this feat of superhuman strength. It's too egregious not to acknowledge.

I feel like Scooby grabbing the wheel is the first time he's done anything this entire episode.

They're on a WOODEN ship, and an old as hell one at that, in the dry as hell desert. How did those explosions not turn it to ash immediately?

Was not expecting Velma to be this forgiving so immediately given how violent and brutal Lilith was in every encounter and how close everyone came to death or serious injury.

So is Marcie being sincere or did she give Velma the pizza slice to lure her into a false sense of security to set her up for a trap that Mr. E is going to spring to capture the gang and take all their discs? Because if she's sincere, and she was still living with her father, then that means she's giving her whole life up to go on the run to avoid Mr. E for the sake of someone who dropped her like a hot potato. If she and her dad are already estranged though, it kinda makes sense that she had nothing to really lose by going on the run.

The way her leg sticks out of the torn piece of the costume it looks like the designers didn't simply give the monster a different body type as artistic license. They actually factored it into the costume that Marcy padded out the bodysuit to make her legs and other assets curvier.

Kinda weird that Granny popped up just to hit on an underaged boy again and had nothing to say about the gang blowing up her entire town and nearly killing everyone.

Hey, they actually let Velma sit up front again!

So is this it? They're finally putting it out there that ghosts are real in this show? And we're not even halfway through the season. I was expecting something like Zombie Island where it's built up as a huge plot twist (that was ruined by the marketing). I guess since the gang still don't know there can still be some build-up of tension as the audience waits for the moment they find out. Which I guess, due to the marketing, is exactly like Zombie Island after all.

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The sentiment grows stronger every day.

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donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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dib sketches this time,,, trying to figure out a way to draw them closer to canon style

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This is bare-faced ethnic cleansing, targeting the most vulnerable of an already super-vulnerable group. This is wrong, probably illegal, certainly inhumane, cruel and deeply concerning in its implications for every person who lives on US soil.

I don't even have a way to follow this up except, protect your neighbors. Look for opportunities to protest this. Holy shit y'all, it's bad out here

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people in the notes of that porn addiction post like "i've had men jerk off to porn when i was right here being sexually available" and beyond the idea that not wanting to have sex is some sort of pathology (bad), like... do you really not understand the difference between sex and masturbation?

sex is a social action, doing it means you are taking the needs, desires, and wellbeing of the person you're fucking into account. it takes a certain amount of mental energy and a certain mood to do that? pulling up xhamster and cranking it is like, using similar body parts, but its a completely different task.

if you're with a guy and you're expecting sex with him to be basically him masturbating with your body, well... that's something that needs to be specified and negotiated ahead of time, not the default assumption for sex.

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housewives were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic

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*Dead media (assassinated)

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really cannot emphasise enough that "All Men Bad" and "masculinity is inherently violent, dangerous, and evil" are load-bearing pillars of radfeminism and these ideas cannot have a place in any truly progressive queer theorising.