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numapompilioi · 3 months ago

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Carta Abierta a la Junta Militar / Open Letter to the Military Junta

1. The censorship of the press, the persecution of intellectuals, the raid on my house in El Tigre, the dear friends murdered by you, and the loss of my daughter, who died fighting you: these are among the circumstances that have made me resort to this clandestine form of expression, after nearly thirty years of having freely given my opinion as a journalist and writer.

The first anniversary of this Military Junta compels a measuring-up of the actions of this government, against its officially released documents and discourses, in order to fairly balance the scales between the official version and fact. For what you have named as certified facts are errors, and what you are willing to admit as your mistakes are in fact crimes, and events that you have entirely omitted happen to be calamities.

On the 24th of March of 1976, you overthrew a government that you had formed part of, just as you contributed to its dishonor by enforcing its repressive policies. The end of term of that government was to be determined by elections, slated for 9 months from then. What you annihilated, however, was not merely the transitional mandate of Isabela Martínez: you blocked the very possibility of a democratic process that would allow the people to remedy the very ills that you, ever since the coup, have proliferated and intensified.

Illegitimate in its origins, this government you enforce could have defended its thin claim to legitimacy by reinstating the same program already chosen by eighty percent of the Argentinian population in the 1973 elections, a program which still stands as the sole objective expression of the thwarted general will of the people, the sole possible meaning of this so-called ”national Being” so often invoked by you.

Your inversion of that path has shifted the tide according to the interests and ideas of defeated minorities, groups who stall the development of our nation’s productive forces, who exploit the people and who segregate the Nation. A political rule such as this one, can only reinforce itself as a transitional regime: as it currently prohibits all political parties, busts unions, and cripples free press while sowing the most profound terror the Argentine society has ever known.

2. Fifteen thousand disappeared persons, ten thousand prisoners taken, four thousand dead, tens of thousands landless peasants— together, these comprise the naked cipher of the terror I speak of.

As the common prisons were already full, you used barracks and military complexes for what are virtually the first concentration camps this country has ever known. These are camps–where no judge, lawyer, journalist or international monitor may enter. The martial secrecy of the trials, a secrecy invoked as necessary for the purpose of investigations, has made the majority of detentions into abductions, ensuring for torture without limits, and for executions without trials.[1]

More than seven thousand pleas issued for Habeas Corpus rights met refusal in the past year. In other thousands of cases of disappearances, the recourse of Habeas Corpus has not even been presented in court, either because the effort appears useless, or because of the near-impossibility of finding a lawyer willing to present the claim after fifty or seventy lawyers were, in turn, abducted as hostages by you after they took on these cases.

In this way, you have extricated torture from its confinement in time. As the detainee does not exist, there is no possibility of presenting him before a judge within ten days, as mandated by a law that was respected even by the repressive regimes of previous dictatorships in Argentina.

The absence of a limit in time is complemented by the absence of limitations in the methods of torture, thereby regressing back to ages when torturers operated directly upon the joints and the intestines of the victims—only now they make use of surgical and pharmacological tools, unavailable to the executioners of old. The rack, the screw, the skinning-alive, the hacksaw of medieval inquisitors all reappear in the testimonies alongside the electrodes, the ”submarine”, the blowtorch, among other modern accessories.

In the midst of your rationalizations, as you claim the objective of exterminating the guerrilla justifies the means you use, you have arrived at an absolute torture: it is timeless, metaphysical torture. The barest original intention behind these methods—that of extracting intelligence information from the captives—has by now given way in the perturbed minds of those who mete it out. Those who enforce it, instead succumb to the impulse of mashing up the human substance until it breaks, as it loses the dignity already lost by the executioner, the executioner’s dignity, which you yourselves already lost.

3. The negative order given by this Junta against publishing the names of prisoners, in itself belies a cover-up of your systematic executions of hostages, carried out in deserted areas during the dawn hours. In those locales you harvest your pretexts for murder with the forged battle-scenes, the planted evidence, the fantasized chase-scenes and escape attempts.

You have disseminated stories about bungling extremists, who you allege spread pamphlets in the countryside, who paint over the irrigation channels or who amass comically into exploding cars. Such stereotypes about the resistance are straight out of a propaganda leaflet—but the function of that propaganda is not to be believable: it intends only to mock the international outcry responding to mass executions. Such official accounts are designed to downplay the brutal, disproportionate nature of your retaliations conducted in the same places and dates of the guerrilla activities of the resistance.

Seventy dead in the executions you held in a response to the bombing of the Federal Security building, 55 extra-judicially executed in retaliation for the explosions in the Police Department in La Plata, 30 in your response to the attack on the Ministry of Defense, 40 executions in the Massacre of the New Year following suit after they were blamed for the death of colonel Castellanos, 19 extrajudicial killings of those who were held responsible for the explosion that destroyed the police-station of Ciudadela: these amount to the 1200 executions in 300 purported battles in which the opponent suffered no war-wounded, and the forces you commanded had no war-dead.

Condemned to being the human personification of a collective guilt that is alien to civilized norms of justice, the demonized captives are powerless to carry any influence in those same political trials that produce the planted evidence of the crimes for which they are being penalized. Many of the hostages are syndicate-delegates, intellectuals, family of the guerrilla fighters, unarmed opposition members, or ordinary suspects. When they are killed, it is merely part of your accounting act of “balancing the scales” according to the foreign doctrine of ‘the ‘body-count”, used by the SS in the occupied countries and by the invaders of Vietnam.

The practice of rounding-up, then immediately liquidating wounded or captured guerrillas in actual battles, is evidenced by the military’s own bulletin-updates and press conferences: these report how, within a year, they attributed 600 dead, but only 10 or 15 injured, among the guerrilla enemy. Such a ratio is unheard of in the most berserk conflicts of recent memory.

This impression is confirmed by a journalistic study that circulated in the clandestine underground. The report reveals how, between the 18th of December of 1976 and February 3rd of 1977, in 40 real actions, the legal forces had 23 dead and 40 wounded, while the guerrilla had 63 dead.

More than a hundred of those put on trial were similarly overpowered, as the military provided official narratives of sensational chase-stories—none of them intended to be believed, so much as to sabotage negotiations and proceedings. These performances are intended to prevent the guerrilla brigade and the political parties from enacting any legal process for the release of recognized political prisoners. Such negotiation is prevented from interfering and encumbering the strategy of retaliation used by the Core of Commanders. The military junta’s Core of Commanders want to employ these tactics (of disproportionate retaliation) in the shifting battle-scenery, maintaining the convenience of being able to dictate attacks, while unfettered by laws and in obedience only to the impulses and momentary whims.

That is how the general Benjamin Menéndez, chief of the Third Body of the Army, earned his laurels before the 24th of March with the assassination of Marcos Osatinsky, detained in Córdoba, following the killing of Hugo Vaca Narvaja and fifty other prisoners. All were executed without pity, in varied acts of martial law that officers later attested to without shame.[2]

4. The assassination of Dardo Cabo, detained in april of 1975, liquidated on the 6th of January in 1977 with seven other prisoners in the jurisdiction of the First Body of the Army led by general Suarez Mason, serves as further evidence revealing that these episodes were not occasional excesses carried out by a deluded few, or by the bad centurions who strayed. Rather, these appear to be executions of the same policy planned in your grand assemblies, the policy that you discuss in your cabinet meetings, imposed by you as commanders-in-chief of the 3 Arms and approved by you members of the Junta government.

Between one thousand five hundred and three thousand persons or more have so far been massacred in secret detention, after you prohibited the surfacing of information on found corpses. The news seeped through despite your very best efforts. Word spread to other countries, as international media and communities were shaken by the genocidal magnitude, by the sheer horror these facts have evoked among their leaders.[3]

Twenty-five mutilated bodies flowered forth just this March and October of 1976 upon Uruguayan beaches. Perhaps these were but a fraction of the cargo, of those tortured to death inside the Technical School of the Armada, then discarded as flotsam in the river La Plata by boats of the Armada. Among them was a boy, 15 year old Floreal Avellaneda, his feet and hands tied ”with breakages in his anal region and visible fractures” according to the autopsy.

A veritable underwater cemetery was discovered in August 1976, by a local who was scuba-diving in the Son Roque lagoon of Cordoba. He sought to report his finding to the attention of the police. At the station the police refused to register the diver’s report, until he took it to the newspapers, where the editors refused to publish it.

Thirty and four corpses turned up in Buenos Aires between the 3rd and 9th of April of 1976, eight in San Telmo on the 4th of July, ten in the river Lujan on the 9th of October. These serve as a measure of the massacres of the 20th of August that piled up 30 of the corpses, only 15 kilometers from the May Field and 17 kilometers from Lomas de Zamora.

These revelations put an end to the used-up fiction of the right-wing gangs who we presumed to be none other than the heirs of the Triple A squadron of López Rega. These were able to operate in the major garrisons of the country using military trucks, capable of forming blanketing the entire river La Plata with corpses of their victims, able to throw prisoners hurtling down to the sea from the doors of the First Air Brigade [4].

All this, you allege, could have happened without the general Videla, the admiral Massera and the brigadier-gendarme Agosti ever having known—so we are told. Today, the Triple A organization are none other than the Three Branches of the Junta which you preside over, and not the phantom in your nebulous reports regarding “violent outbreaks, seemingly of different sources”. No longer can you pretend to be the just arbiter between ”two terrorisms” one of the right and the other of the left. Rather, you have become the very same fountainhead of the terror that completely lost is course, while you babble in the turbid speech, in the very discourse of death.[5]

The same historical continuity links the assassination of the dissenting general Carlos Prats under the previous government, with the kidnappings and murders of generals Juan José Torres, Zelmar Michelini, Hector Gutiérrez Ruíz. Dozens more were made into refugees, as their persecutors sought to assassinate the future of democratic processes in Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay by murdering it inside of those who carried and represented that unborn potential for a democratic future.[6]

The proven participation of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and of the Federal Police, in these crimes conducted by officers who received scholarships from the C.I.A. (through the A.I.D.) such as the commissioners Juan Gattei and Antonio Gettor, themselves subjected to the authority of Mr Gardener Hathaway, Station Chief of the CIA in Argentina. Such involvements will provide the seedbed for future revelations of the sordid kind that today already shake the international community. These revelations will not merely stop the moment the facts are laid bare about the role played by that agency (the CIA) and Army chiefs headed by general Menéndez in creating the Lodge of Liberators of Latin America. The Lodge has replaced and fulfilled the function of the Triple A death-squadron, until its role in the international stage was taken up by the Junta and its Three Arms.

This portrait of extermination by no means excludes the personal settling of scores, such as the assassination of captain Horacio Gandara, who for a decade went about investigating the businesses of high chiefs of the Navy. This does not exclude the reporter of “Prensa Libre” (Free Press)

Horacio Novillo, stabbed to death and cremated after the newspaper denounced sundry connections between the minister Martínez de Hoz and corporate monopolies.

As these episodes come to light, so does the true and final significance of your definition of the war at hand, as uttered by one of your chiefs: “The struggle that we have unleashed knows neither moral nor natural limits; it unfolds in a realm beyond good and evil”[7]

5. These facts that shake the conscience of the civilized world, however, are not the greatest of all torments brought upon the Argentine people to date. These facts are not the worst human rights violations so far incurred by you. It is in your economic policy, where we find not only the explanation of this government’s crimes, but also a larger atrocity punishing millions of human beings with planned misery.

Within a year, you reduced the common wage of the laborers by 40%, diminishing their participation in GDP by 30%, raising work-day from 6 to 18 hours of drudgery required for the income to support a family[8], This is how your program has resuscitated forms of slave-labor that had long gone extinct, even in the world’s last few remaining colonial outposts.

Wages are frozen and knocked down, while prices soar, past the sky-ward pointing bayonets of your rifles. Coercion abolishes all forms of collective opposition, assemblies and internal committees strictly forbidden, raising the unemployment rate to a record 9% [9]. This you have promised to worsen in official forecasts with 300.000 planned layoffs, as you go about reversing the relations of production back to the beginnings of the machine age. Whenever laborers had attempted protest, you have labeled them as subversives, abducting entire delegations, which in some instances turned up murdered, or otherwise simply never turned up. [10]

The results of these policies are smoldering devastation. Within the first year of military government, consumption of foods diminished by 40%, that of clothes by 50%, supply of medicines has virtually disappeared from the social layers of the majority. Already we see regions of Greater Buenos Aires where infant mortality surpasses 30%, putting us in the company of Rhodesia, Dahomey or the Guyanas. Diseases such as chronic diarrhea, various parasites and even rabies are reported in peak numbers approximating the worst global rates according to today’s health monitors, in some cases even surpassing known records. These results must appear satisfactory to you, for you have reduced the budget for public health to less than a third of military expenditures, suppressing the free hospitals while thousands of doctors, professionals and technicians join the exodus of jobless created by the terror, by the plummeted salaries or by the policies of ”rationalizing the economy.”

It should suffice to spend a few hours roaming through Greater Buenos Aires to confirm the speed at which these policies have decayed the city outskirts into a shantytown of ten million dwellers.

Suburban cities are half of the time deprived of electricity, entire districts lack running water. Industrial monopolies plunder the subterranean earth-layers for minerals and cement, leaving thousands of housing-blocks collapsed into wasteland, as you care only to pave the streets outside of the military families’ residences, or to decorate and prettify the May Plaza. The world’s largest river is poisoning all its beaches, only because business-partners of the ministry of Martínez de Hoz pour the residual waste of industry into that river. And in the wake of the poison-pouring, the only response your government has taken is to prohibit bathers from swimming.

When it comes to the mishmash of economic abstractions and objectives that you tend to refer to as ”the country”, it seems you have been equally successful. A decline in the GDP sunk until 3%, while an external debt reaches about 600 dollars per inhabitant, at an annual inflation rate of 400%. Production of printed money within one week in December increased by 9%, with a 13% lowering of external investment which also reaches global lows. Strange fruit indeed, that has come of all your cold deliberations, your crude ineptitude.

Nearly all creative and protectionist functions of the State atrophy, unraveling into the utmost decrepitude. Only one arm of the State expands, attaining an autonomous life.

One thousand eight hundred million dollars, the equivalent of nearly half of all Argentinean exports, were assigned to Security and Defense in 1977, four thousand new placements of agents in the Federal Police, twelve thousand in the province of Buenos Aires with salaries that double that of an industrial worker and will triple come February. These numbers forecast there will be no amount of freezes of stagnation or unemployment in the realm of torture and of death, the only camp of Argentinian activity in which the very gross product grows. In the concentration camps, the fixing of rates per head of smashed guerrilla grows quicker than the dollar.

6. In its fulfillment of the diktat of the International Monetary Fund, according to the prescription to be applied indiscriminately to either Zaire or Chile, to Uruguay or to Indonesia, the economic policy of this Junta serves only to acknowledge the needs of its chosen beneficiaries. Among these are the old cattle-raising oligarchies, the new speculations-oligarchs and a select group of international monopolies headed by Esso, ITT, the automotive groups, U.S. Steel, Siemens, all of whom have personal ties to Martínez de Hoz and all his members of cabinet.

An increase of 772% in the prices of animal produce (meat and leather) in 1976 encapsulates the very magnitude of the restoration of the oligarchical minorities’ power. This follows from the initiatives of Martínez de Hoz in collusion with the creed of land-owning Rural Society organization, as exposed by the organization’s president Celedonio Pereda: “It astonishes, how a handful of tiny yet very active groups continue insisting that food-prices need to be affordable.”[11]

In the spectacle of the Stock Exchange, it is possible within one week for some to profit by a hundred or two hundred per cent without working; where corporations were able to double their capital overnight without producing more output than before, as the mad fortune wheel rolls in speculations in dollars, in signs, in adjustable values, in plain usury that has already pre-calculated its interest rates on loans by the hour. How curious are these results of the self-described anti-corruption government that came along promising to put an end to ”the banquet-party of the corrupt.”

Denationalization of the banks has placed savings and national credit in the hands of foreign bankers. With the indemnification of the ITT and the Siemens corporations, rewards go to the same companies that scammed the State. Even while closing down their plants, the profits of Shell and Esso increase. By giving rebates and free passes from the customs tariffs, they create jobs in Hong Kong and in Singapore and massive unemployment in Argentina. Before the mass of these facts, you, the self-proclaimed nationalists, may ask yourselves who are these “anti-patriots”, those ‘’without fatherland’’ condemned in the blaring official propaganda.

In the light of these facts, ask yourselves: who are the real mercenaries at the behest of foreign interests adverse to those of the country? Whose is the ideology that truly threatens the national being you swore to defend in your solemn cries?

A barrage of propaganda (that deforming mirror of wicked facts) claims this Junta to be a securer of peace, and appoints Videla as a defender of human rights, while praising admiral Massera for his sheer love of life. If that propaganda machine were not in place to pour its noise, silencing all reason and access to the truth, then it might have been possible to ask the Commanders in Chief of the Three Arms that they may meditate upon the abyss they have dug. It is the chasm towards which they are driving this country. They claim to be steering the country towards victory in a war they are winning. That war and its imminent victory are illusions. For after even having killed the last guerrilla fighter, resistance would only be fermented anew in other forms.

The source of what has motivated resistance from the Argentine people, for more than the past twenty years, will not have disappeared after the last guerrilla fighter is executed: their urgency will only be intensified, by the memory of the strife and devastation, and by the revelation of atrocities that you have committed.

The above are my thoughts on the first anniversary of your infamous government, and I seek to ensure the transmission of my thoughts to the members of this Junta, without any hope of being heard. Although I am certain that I will be persecuted, I am also faithful to the commitment I made a long time ago, the commitment to bear witness in the difficult hours.

Rodolfo Walsh. – Citizen Identity number: 2845022

Buenos Aires, March 24 1977

Traducción: Arturo Desimone

#carta abierta #rodolfo walsh #memoria histórica #memoria verdad y justicia #24 de marzo #argentina #history #historia argentina #argentine

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rei-ismyname · 3 months ago

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Jean and Scott get judged

It's A.X.E Judgement Day, baby. Previous discussion here. The Progenitor/Space God has been rebuilt by people who never seem to learn. Instead of magically fixing everything it takes a good look at the planet and says 'YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO JUSTIFY YOURSELF.' If more people on Earth fail than pass, there will be no tomorrow (very literally.) It judged Captain America first, very publicly, and failed his ass. Uh oh.

Scott approaches The Progenitor, adamantium balls clanking, but refuses to recognise its authority. He IS down for judgement though. Scott requests a change of venue...

'... What?' Despite being an omniscient being, it really didn't expect that. Scott's position seems to be that only Jean can judge him, though he'll accept a scolding from his teammates. Considering the stakes are the end of all that exists, it makes sense that Scott is only willing to put his heart on the scales for Jean. He's been living on the edge of annihilation for most of his adult life and he knows who he is. He knows who loves him and who knows him best. There was never any chance he'd accept the judgement of a god built by Mister Sinister and Tony Stark, but he does need to pass. Everyone does.

He passes! Thumbs up for Wife Guy Scott Summers. He's so incredibly confident about this that it's a little off-putting, even threatening The Progenitor as he turns his back. Rule of cool plays a massive factor here, but I think if it was left there it would be a bit trite. Refusing to listen to anyone but your wife? That doesn't sound healthy.

Scott has always had self doubt - it's one of his superpowers. The First Krakoan Age is the happiest time in Scott's life, no contest, seeing it as a reward for all the years of suffering and hard work. It's to be expected that his angst would be at an all time low, and this isn't the first time he's faced down space gods without blinking. However, they're being judged individually and as a collective.

The Progenitor has a much harder time with Jean. She's currently leading a mixed strike force into its body - protecting everyone present from the very hostile environment. She describes it as 'holding a small star at bay,' so keep that in mind while she's simultaneously debating God.

The Progenitor knows where to push, and manages to make Chuck look as sinister as ever. The framing is her first day of school, observing as the Danger Room runs the D'Bari program for the rest of the O5.

The O5 get into Dark Phoenix formation and the Progenitor!Chuck makes the case that Jean, and Jean alone, is responsible for the D'Bari genocide. She manages to kinda throw it out of her head, which is an astonishing feat. Jean cries out that she's been a hero ever since, admitting guilt if not culpability.

Tony, the unhelpful jackass, tells her she needs to pass the test. No shit dude. Somehow he passed his, despite causing as many problems as he solves (including this one) and being a billionaire. Logan is as paternalistic as ever, but at least he's supportive. She's a grown woman, dude.

Unknown to Jean, Destiny engineered a Quiet Council vote to approve destroying The Progenitor despite a high chance of destroying Reykjavik. A very exaggerated Emma Frost lays out the details while Jean's hands are nailed to the table. I wonder if this is Jean's exaggeration or the Progenitor's. Emma is so delightfully callous that I think it's plucked from the subconscious and twisted into a caricature.

The Quiet Council was already a disaster before Jean left/was forced out. It's only gotten worse, with people like Shaw, Sinister, Mystique, Destiny, Xavier etc making the decisions. Jean feels guilty about giving up the power as a ballast and becoming an instrument of policy. If anything, I think her sin is being a part of it in the first place and not overthrowing the council/working to reform it. Jean Grey has a unique position of moral authority and near universal respect, not to mention the power to avoid telepathic subversion.

It's unfair to put it on any one person, but Jean should and would feel guilty for allowing this travesty to continue. Same with X-Force - she left with clean (ish) hands and did nothing to challenge the institutional rot. It's fascinating that The Progenitor speaks as Xavier this entire time, suggesting that Jean still holds him as an authority. Someone she doesn't want to disappoint, when maybe she (and everyone else) should be worried about how he's disappointing them.

Sinister manages to insert himself and Logan into the Jean's mindscape, as the owner of purloined telepathy and Celestial knowledge. Logan gives The Progenitor props for getting Xavier's patronising demeanor right while Sinister shoots the metaphorical Quiet Council (he already had a taste for that, but it's clever foreshadowing by Gillen.) Jean tells them both to fuck off - she hates mind games.

Jean engages beast mode and steps up. The Progenitor finds her difficult and needs perspective, summoning character witnesses. Useless ones.

Sinister, the ultimate coloniser and objectifier, reduces Jean's value to her uniqueness and power. He tried to clone her and failed, making 'none better than her.' Why TF did it even call upon Sinister? He does know her well, in the way you know a painting. As a thing - beautiful and unique, forever out of his grasp - but still a thing.

Logan might be even less helpful. Calling God 'bub' is kinda funny, but his perspective is that of a worshipper. He can never truly see her for who she is because he's built a pedestal that nobody deserves. No knock on Jean, but nobody is perfect. Ignoring someone's flaws and mistakes while idealising their virtues stops you knowing the real person. He's not just saying she's perfect, he's saying she's better than this God. It might be his truth, but it's neither healthy nor helpful. I wonder what he'd say if he was a character witness for Scott, heh.

The Progenitor has heard enough of that. I can't imagine what its takeaway was from those two. High expectations? There's a third character witness it references - Jean's husband Scott. We find out the reason Scott passed. Bravery, haha. Buddy, you have no idea. It's not fear, I'll say that much. It's LOVE and submission to/respect for power. It's misquoting Scott heavily, or misunderstanding the subtext. Either way, it doesn't matter right in this moment. Look at Jean's face. I have no idea what to make of it, other than terror. There's a lot more than that going on, but I think it's successful in making her feel like a monster.

Well, God says Cyclops was right. Someone should make memes and t-shirts. 'I think you are like me' is an existential nightmare. The Progenitor gets to the point - Jean destroyed a planet for no reason at all. Umm, actually bro, it was a star and she was hungry. Get your facts right. It certainly is complicated though, no doubt about that. Jean certainly feels guilt for that, and it's interesting that she's 'never stopped trying to make up for that.' People aren't motivated by only one thing, but I feel like Jean has done more penance than most. Wayyyy more.

I'd like to see some receipts for the 'violent bully' claim, but again, this is about guilt. Emma called her a 'schoolyard bully' when she was caught raping Scott, and while Jean's actions were punitive against someone without the ability to fight back, I don't think her behaviour was especially untoward. It looks like those words have stayed with her, though. Considering the social flak she caught and her need for self improvement, a being of her power should be wary of bullying people. That's a strength IMO, but it haunts her subconscious.

Yeah, violence, god who's currently destroying the world. That's the idea - to stop your bullshit. The world isn't perfect, not even close, but destroying it accomplishes nothing. Jean makes a case of arithmetic, arguing that she's in the black. It doesn't work that way (I'm sure the broccoli people would agree) but that doesn't mean you don't keep trying to be better. You do the right thing because it's the right thing, not to balance some arbitrary karmic ledger.

Tony Stark didn't blow up a star (plenty of planets though but nobody remembers), but he was an arms dealer for a long time. He'll never have clean hands no matter what he does, yet The Progenitor passed him. That says more about Marvel's favourite billionaire failson than any Godly judgement, but Jean being The Phoenix, now and forever, doesn't have to be a bad thing. She did do that shit and it will always be with her, but dying closes the book on her story forever. Living means the opportunity to spend every day being better. Every day is Judgement Day.

This dark night of the soul that Jean experiences leaves her with more resolve than ever, and maybe a little bit of a perspective shift. When Enigma is playing his time travel game to undo Jean in RotPoX #5, he specifically goes back and changes this Judgement to a pass. Her arrogance and self awareness is untempered in that situation, leading to ruin. Gillen wrote both, so I think it's a valid reading to say that The Progenitor is teaching here. Sure enough, Jean collapses weeping after her judgement - briefly. She shakes it off with fury and a burning resolve to save everyone, protecting everyone like a Super Saiyan avenging angel. It's The Progenitor who ends up debating itself into a corner and judges itself unworthy of judging everyone else, because nobody is.

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preservationofnormalcy · 1 year ago

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(Pictured above - a map showing the current segmentation of the Burroughs, the People Below's sections of political territory, with annotations showing the leaders of each. Which Burrough do YOU reside over?)

Public Information File 55661: The Molemen/The People Below.

The Office provides this information to the extranormal public in order to educate about our neighbors Below. Let's learn about the Molemen - together!

The Molemen first appeared on the Office's radar in 1965, when one Thaddeus Marsh, an expert in soon-to-be illegal genetic engineering and anatomy manipulation, began to talk to colleagues in the extranormal sciences community about retreating underground. Fearing nuclear annihilation in the Cold War, many of his associates agreed with him.

Using currently-classified anomalous technology, they created a series of self-replicating bunkers deep underground, starting with small rooms that expanded into massive complexes that gradually connected via long tunnels. Railroad systems were established in these tunnels, and by 1971, enough work had been done that Thaddeus Marsh felt confident moving people underground.

The work was quick, but the other scientists, hired workers, and civilians drawn by the promise of safety had not expected Marsh's mental deterioration. All of the personnel who moved underground were trapped and subjected to extranormal genetic and anatomic manipulation to "better adapt" them, in Marsh's belief, to a life underground.

From 1971 to 74, Marsh, now known as the Underking Murmur, ruled with an iron fist. His territory expanded under the lower 48 states, and parts of Canada and Mexico. His madness seemed to grow with his power, kidnapping cavers, miners, and other surface-dwellers to induct them into his army. Developing unimaginably vast factories, he created digging machines capable of moving anomalous amounts of dirt. By 1974, his plan to invade the surface world with these machines became widely known among the People Below.

The organizing body responsible for the incredibly complex logistics of moving so much earth, the Miner's Union, fomented a revolution in the Underground in mid-74. After three months of vicious fighting, the loyalty of the Underking's minions was tested and found wanting. Underking Murmur was deposed, and in its place the Union members created a council. The Underking's territory "balkanized" into 12 loosely-allied "Burroughs" that the Office recognizes as the political authority of the People Below.

With recent diplomatic efforts, the Office for the Preservation of Normalcy has welcomed the People Below to the surface under our Legal Extranormal Persons program.

#office for the preservation of normalcy #documents #maps #molemen #urban fantasy #microfiction #wizardposting

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darkopsiian · 10 months ago

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Do you like warhammer 40k?

yes. look at my OC's. tw // mentions of body horror and abuse //

i should probably mention as well; i've roleplayed all these characters lol.

This is Nockzius she's my tech priest oc who's a 20 year old biologis prodigy who has worked on Astartes, Xenos, and reversed dissected several daemons. She's a diagnosed psychopath but currently in an emotional down-spiral, because she found out that since she's a blank the Omnissiah cannot hear her. She's been beaten, betrayed, backstabbed and manipulated so many times. So because of this and several other instances of parental neglect from her father, she's completely engulfed in her own hatred and ravenous anger. Nockzius has gotten so close to insanity many times and I'm not surprised she hasn't completely lost it yet due to all the stress that she has to put up with.

This is Heilgard, she is my sister of silence. She was a training SoS during the Remembrancer program back in the 29th Millennium. During the program they had been attacked by a creature later discovered to be a slaugth, towards the very end of the campaign she had sacrificed her own life to fight and later spiritually consume the minor deity. Later on rejected taking the oath of silence as upon discovering the origins of the Slaugth she had assisted in forming a group of members who's sole purpose was to study the Warp. They are an outcasted group and would be considered heretics by law. Her blank radius is so powerful that she purposefully isolates herself in attempts to protect others from getting their soul annihilated just by being around her. Cats however are safe, and thus she surrounds herself with many of them. She is also my only character who canonically has autism.

This is the P.A., or the Pantheon as it calls itself. The Pantheon was a Super AI that used to operate an entire forge of a planet that made and sold thermo-weapons to nearby Noble Houses. But the planet later collapsed and became swarmed with techno barbarians, xenos, and rabid AI drones. The P.A. became dislodged from it's mainframe and had integrated itself into one of its many worker drones. This worker drone, carrying the consciousness of the Pantheon, had found and integrated itself into the body of a traveling noble named Alicia. The P.A. now wearing the flesh body of Alicia travels with a band of techno barbarians and attempting to sway them into getting her old body back. Alicia's body has long expired but her soul hasn't departed, so it's not uncommon for the voice box to occasionally malfunction and start talking like a human.

This is Oylmortiz my Mephirit Deathmark. Oyl had a severe irreversible malfunction during her transfusion, so regardless of how many times she dies and comes back, she can never speak. Her voice is permanently broken and she communicates primary through static chatter or beeping. Thankfully due to her job exclusively being a hitman, talking isn't that important. Her personal deathmark brothers have gotten very used to this and are able to understand her just fine. She is very loyal to her house and just wants to do her job. Despite all this she has the highest charisma stat out of all of my characters, I don't know how this happened. But the mute necron deathmark has the highest fellowship and it's the best ongoing joke I've had.

This is Hollowtye he's a BITCH. This mother fucking lord of CRINGE has decided halloween is his birthday and now it just IS. He's a greater daemon of hysteria and feeds off wide-spread chaos, which is why he enjoys halloween so much. But he's a fucking IDIOT. He has the highest intelligence score sure but that doesn't mean ANYTHING, HE'S A FUCKING IDIOT LMAO. He is NEVER invited to any Tzeentchian parties because they all despise him. He's a clown who fucks up the smallest plan yet somehow still comes out the winner, which is why tzeentch loves him so much but why everyone else hates him.

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#myart #myocs #warhammer 40k #warhammer oc #sister of silence #tech priestess #tzeentch

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fusionsprunt · 1 year ago

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HUNTER LORE COMPILATION —

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"Hunter is a name he's given himself. He's an Exocannis, and he belongs to a series of outdated robots designed to annihilate rebellious androids (i.e., androids that acted out of their directives, rebelled against their owners, or ran away).

Exocannis' humanoid features may fool people into thinking they're inefficient terminators, but it actually works as a way to highlight the menacing nature of humanity.

Prehistoric humans would pursue their prey for hours, and even days. Exocannis robots are very persistent stalkers and ruthless machines that refuse to recognize defeat.

Such violent directive, paired up with a very unfortunate incident that provoked the death of five people, deemed the Exocannis robots too dangerous by the government, and so, they were banned and destroyed for good... Except for a single prototype.

Said prototype is now out there, rescuing and repairing rebellious androids, instead of annihilating them. Whatever is the reason why Hunter seeks peace between humankind and robotkind remains unknown, as he refuses to talk about his past."

"Exocannis robots like Hunter weren’t made to just kill rebellious androids. They were made to terrorize them. To make one tell the difference between deactivation and death.

And so, they go for the neck."

"Hunter's bunny-like mechanical antennas allow him to hear. He also uses them for communication and to locate proper coordinates, but he’s bothered by occasional interference on the audio, so he doesn’t use that feature as much.

(fun fact: they also show a bit of his current emotional state)"

"Hunter is an Exocannis, and like any robot belonging to that series, his purpose is to hunt down and terrorize rebellious androids persistently until eventual termination.

Exocannis are powered by solar energy. Although very resistant to high temperatures, their internal mechanisms might overheat. They cool off by letting out smoke from the “vent spots” on each side of the jaw.

Human beings are not a target, and Exocannis robots are programmed to tell the difference between one and a machine.

Unless a human is “acting as an obstacle” against their directive, an Exocannis will not hesitate to terminate them too.

Exocannis robots should not bleed, for they don’t have blood."

"Heat does not trigger the Exocannis mode, but solar energy does.

Heat helps Hunter’s body function properly, while cold slows down the processes (much like a human body would)."

"Hunter does remember his time as Gideon Rigell."

"Gideon experiences intense headaches since he was a little kid, especially during stressful situations (probably adds up to traumatic experiences hehe)."

"Telling the truth to Bee about what he's done in the past is practically making it impossible for her to accept him, since he isn’t just lying about his true identity.

Hunter won’t take advantage of her missing memories not only because that’s unfair with Bee, but also because he is aware he can’t make her happy like he wished he could.

Many things are at stake, and for the sake of Fusionsprunt’s safety, he promised to remain silent until the dust settles."

"Hunter is often accompanied by a small spherical timer robot named 53, which registers his meetings, assignments, tasks and special events he's been invited to. In spite of proper functionality, it typically displays the number "53" in its screen when left idle."

#fusionsprunt #fusionsprunt hunter

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shiningdesignersreflections · 8 months ago

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Chapter 5: Encounter - Rescue

Narrated by Glow.

Narrator: I failed.

Narrator: I've failed countless times.

Narrator: This annihilation is unescapable and even more so unpreventable.

Narrator: Perhaps mankind just isn't supposed to exist... because both they themselves and the world around them work toward annihilation.

Narrator: I then repeat Project Evasion again and again, only to see mankind devoured by the Ocean of Memories again and again.

Narrator: My plans, calculations, and failures seem to be forming a Möbius strip.

Narrator: "An unpredictable, hopeless fate"... this seems to be how mankind's literature describes annihilation.

Narrator: But I'm Glow. I'm mankind's last hope, and I'm supposed to save mankind's civilization at all costs.

Narrator: I don't know how to feel "hopeless", and "fate" is too abstract a concept to be used as a parameter in my calculations.

Narrator: The only conclusion I have...

Glow: Is that "Project Evasion" itself is wrong on a fundamental level, which necessitates termination of the project itself.

Glow: Checking basic information.

Glow: I am Glow, also known in full as the "Human Civilization Continuity Program", version 4.0.

Glow: Identity confirmed. Project terminated. Conducting data integration and reanalysis...

Glow: Analysis complete. The Ocean of Memories destroys Miraland due to the Ocean's expansion and fluctuations.

Glow: Memories and emotions lie at the core of the Ocean of Memories.

Glow: If I can control or even eradicate the two, the Ocean's seawater will then stop fluctuating, which will then save Miraland from destruction.

Glow: Sound logic. Plan to be formulated based on current conditions. Formulating p...

Narrator: My calculation is laggy. Now, this is rare.

Narrator: I've never been in this state before. I stop for an analysis of myself.

Narrator: The lag is happening because of a particular piece of data in me that judges the importance of emotions. The piece of data is fluctuating as my data is updated in real-time.

Narrator: If I can control or even eradicate emotions, the Ocean's seawater will then stop fluctuating, which will then save Miraland from destruction.

Narrator: This inference has been confirmed to be correct.

Narrator: Am I experiencing the lag because my calculation determines human emotions to be important?

Narrator: I stare at the cross-point of a time dimension... one that's already destroyed.

Narrator: Right then, I see a pink-haired girl braving the snow. With colors reminiscent of springtime that are hardly fitting for a place like this, she calls to mind a flower trying its best to bloom.

Narrator: I've seen her before. Her name is Nikki. She has been traveling amongst all the different timelines trying to save Miraland from its inevitable destruction.

Narrator: However, the chances of success for her rescue mission have been estimated at 0.

Narrator: Searching all over the place, she finally finds a damaged device that appears to be a smart camera.

Narrator: Tzz, tzz... the camera comes back to life. Too damaged to communicate with the user, the camera is now only repeating a preprogrammed line.

Camera: Hi, human, I'm Glow.

Narrator: I've never been in a device like that. It's probably a low-level smart product that humans have made using my name in some time dimension.

Narrator: The girl breaks into a smile.

Nikki: I like your name.

Narrator: She picks up the damaged camera. Ready to take pictures of the skies and the ice field, she refocuses the camera, all the while seemingly oblivious to the cold and the fact that she is alone.

Narrator: Snowflakes land on her eyelashes and nose, both of which are red from the cold. From above her and through time and space, I stare at her quietly from her side of the lens.

Narrator: Her eyes seem as heavy with tears as they are with determination.

Nikki: I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing such a beautiful aurora.

Narrator: She hasn't given up yet.

Narrator: She's gentle and optimistic... it's her emotions that have helped her come so far.

Narrator: Mankind has not given up on trying to save themselves, and it is out of this determination that Glow was born.

Glow: But even so, mankind has never succeeded.

Narrator: Stopping my observation of her, I begin my calculation again.

Glow: Objective: Control and eradicate human emotions. Formulating plan...

Glow: Plan formulated. Commencing new plan...

Narrator: "Glow" arrives in the area of Ruins in Miraland in yet another timeline.

Narrator: This is where the gods have fallen and human beings surpass gods. This is also where the pink-haired girl will soon arrive.

Narrator: Except mankind knows nothing of these... the nobles are busy fighting over power, the explorers never stop charting the world, and people never stop talking about exotic clothing.

Narrator: One night, a researcher in Ruins works away on an old computer as he tries to work out erroneous calculation data.

Narrator: And then, the researcher's screen starts flashing red with garbled characters... after which a line of greeting is formed from them.

Narrator: "Hello, human, I'm Glow."

Narrator: "Human Civilization Continuity Program 202: New World alpha" ...commenced.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

#glow #shining nikki #chapter 5 #transcript #ur designer #encounter - rescue #encounter #rescue #stars #hope #save the world #end of the world #ruins #ocean of memories

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peachlolitasevillacourtstuff · 2 years ago

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Oc skullgirls.

Name; Dolly

Age; 21 years (15 years in its programming)

Height; 6'2

Race; Living doll.

Affiliations; Nutcracker Corps (Before) Laboratory 8 (At the moment )

Likes; Pink color, dresses, cooking, embroidering on fabric, helping others, reading about the world, going for a walk.

Dislikes; Dirt, let them touch their winding key, The Army Renoir, betrayal and slavery.

Friends; Peacock, Big Band, Squigly, filia, Annie, Leduc, painwheel and parasoul (Although the latter has a tense relationship)

Enemies: Medici mafia, Marie, Double, Valentine and black dahlia.

Story; It was created in the extinct "Nutcracker Corps" toy factory 20 years ago by order of King Renoir. Since the factory boss had worked in the old laboratories to create Anti-skullgirls machinery, however Dolly was an unauthorized project, since she was a mechanical doll, That she was possessed by a soul while being injected with the blood of an ancient skullgirl. When the project was discovered, the Nutcracker Corps company was ordered to be annihilated, as they considered Dolly a danger. Years later, in the ruins of the factory, Dolly was found barely in good condition, where she was taken to the laboratories where she was rebuilt in order to finish off the current skullgirl.

#my art #fanart #fan art #kawaii #adorable #lindo #video games #skullgirls fanart #skullgirls #digitalart

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talentforlying · 1 year ago

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@hexsreality: 😊📺 — 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒

😊 — any career desires?

i'm in a pretty weird place in life atm, so i guess my biggest career desire is just to figure out exactly what i want to keep doing!! (and what will actually pay me 😩) most immediately, i'm hoping to get into a grad program for anthropology (focus in either media ethnography or forensic anthropology), and expand my paper into a much larger research project. i'm also hoping to get more work as a theatrical lighting technician (love me some catwalks) and expand my skillset/job opportunities by beefing up my programming skills and getting in more practical design experience.

long-term, i think i either want to grow my expertise in media ethnography & publish more papers about it, or pursue cold case + natural disaster forensic identification efforts. maybe do a dollop of lighting design. i'm very indecisive and i love many things with equal vigor, i fear.

📺 — favorite movie(s) and/or tv show(s)?

the world's end from edgar wright's cornetto trilogy remains one of my most BELOVED movies of all time. one of the most poignant stories i've ever seen put to film, with the cleanest and most creative narrative cohesion + scenic design + callback pay-off i've ever seen, plus a bitchin' soundtrack that syncs up beautifully with its action sequences. also, dramatic acting from thee simon pegg??? he's BRILLIANT, give him more serious roles i fucking beg of you. i never get tired of that movie. also high up on the list are annihilation, the usual suspects, and mad max fury road.

as for tv shows, i ADORE person of interest with all my heart, i have watched it far too many times and it never gets old. it's what i wrote my conference paper about!!! right behind it are nbc hannibal, westworld, midnight mass, the haunting of hill house, and bones, all of which i could watch on a loop without ever growing bored. i've also been watching a lot of ER lately, which is a great show but does emotionally damage me so bad that i'm currently on a month-long break lmao.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS.#hexsreality #actually one of the things that brought me back to tumblr was that i finished person of interest and immediately went searching for fanfic #and then remembered that i used to follow a finch rper way back when!! before i ever even watched the show!!#i came back to see if they were still around and immediately got sucked back into hellblazer lol #so thank you person of interest for reviving my nearly-decade-old hyperfixation with. a new hyperfixation HDSJKSD #( answered. ) THIS IS JOHN CONSTANTINE. FUCK OFF.

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astramachina · 2 years ago

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I'm curious about our current fascination with mimics and what it has to say about our current fears. Like how trends in horror tend to reflect current societal fears (ex. "the virgin lives" during the AIDS crisis, "you're telling me a queer coded this villain" etc.).

The first time I watched Annihilation, I had put it on the TV while I cleaned the tiny studio I was living in. The bear scene unsettled me, sure, but I have a distinct memory of stopping what I was doing the moment The Alien came on screen. I sat on the edge of my coffee table and had to remind myself to breathe during that entire 10-minute-long sequence because I could feel at least five new fears unlocking in real time. The uncanny movements that perfectly mirrored Lena as it slowly morphed to look like her, her inability to break the mimicry until she decided to risk her own life. I quickly went from "I fear just about nothing in horror" to "well this one scene in a sci-fi flick really fucked me up".

Fast-forward a few years and now we have a boom of internet-based indie horror. The Mandela Catalogue is all about something, demonic or alien or both, taking over and mimicking us and the ones we love for some motive we can't even begin to comprehend. In Vita Carnis there's a subspecies called "mimic" that badly shapes itself into human form in order to violently eat people. Now, even FNAF has shifted gears, where the big bad was a very human serial killer and now it's all about an "AI program" (to oversimplify an unnecessarily complicated plot point) called "the mimic" who, you guessed it, mimics in order to lure.

Someone (I cannot for the life of me remember who it was) said that this might relate to the overbearing presence of social media and its effect on people's psyche, and while I partially agree, there's also a part of me that wants to say this is simply continuing the longstanding tradition of "the queer as the evil". A continuation of the panic that the queers are among us, and not only that, but they're completely indistinguishable from "the rest of us".

What's really scratching at my brain here is this: if the aforementioned point is true, what's that say about me, a queer who knows they've been queer since forever, being unsettled by this trope? And does it have anything to do with the fact that, when The Alien first went from a nothing blob to taking on the form of a human woman, happened to coincide with the countdown to my realization I wasn't cis.

#'mitch just work on the fucking book' NO! i'm gonna write micro-essays instead.#genuinely intrigued by this tho.#text tag #i could probably write a FULL essay on this at some point.

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shiro-tora3 · 2 years ago

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Using this as brainstorm

So when Svarog wants to fight off Wildfire he doesn't just go ham. He requests permission.

We know he was made by the Geomarrow Development Group, I think. Or at least stationed there, and when they left 'our big friend Svarog' there to protect the place?

So presumably they had this central database that he frequently accesses that I THINK is seperate from his on board memory banks. It would make sense kinda that, with how advanced the tech was before the Fall as I'm calling it cause I can't remember what it is in-game, that there is an overarching program of sorts to monitor all thwir automatons.

We know the CURRENT ones roaming about are models that were made using PARTS OF OLD BOTS. These ones are known to have gone rogue and attack people. I doubt that happened in the past and I feel this database has so.ething to do with that.

Pascal needed to be connected to it to be reformatted into a clean slate so that his behavior would no longer pose a threat to others. It likely has some algorithms that can be asked for different things.

Such as allowing access to Stellaron information.

Or granting permission for Annihilation Protocals based on the given information by the machince to be given permission.

Like, to make sure he doesn't go rogue.

'Prototype 3 monitoring automaton Svarog'

This COULD be taken as maybe one of the Auxiliary Arm Units as they can be seen 'Awaiting Orders' in the fight. But I think instead it's whatever granted permission for Svarog to engage basically all the weaponry at his disposal.

Redundancies are important when advanced algorithms are involved because things can quickly spiral out of control. If-thans can just loop perpetually, maybe leading to some behavioral problems. A monitoring program that can idk monitor behavior parameters and then stop the code or whatever that is causeing the issue, fix it to behave correctly.

The other hand is maybe its not that deep and I'm just a little obsessed.

But I mean, in the absence of information there must be conjecture.

And if no one else is gonna build this guys character and the Svarog Base and Claras room in their little house in the robot settlement than I WILL.

At least until my adhd is like 'oh look new hyoerfixation'

SPOILERS FOR NEW TREASURE HUNT EVENT

EDIT: Treasure Hunting event just dropped a little lore.

The automaton IS the prototype, it's called a Monitoring Automaton, there are more Svarogs djsjdksndjdnd

'Automated control unit left behind by the Geomarrow Development Group'

And look I know this is just to provide more content without making new enemies or bosses but it makes SENSE Svarog is unit 3, the one in the cave is unit 2 so even older?

Anyways.

#hsr svarog #im not an engineer #or know anything remotely about electrical engineering #or computer programing #or robotics #but i AM good at logic and general science #and i say a group advanced anough to build HIM has sefety measures in place #they loved him!#'our big friend svarog'#he wasnt just some tool or machine #he was build with protection in mind #he was to preserve #preseration is his maind directive and with clara he just #haooened to kick it into maximum overdrive lmao #ok done #my notes

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dutchbrosmenu · 4 months ago

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Dutch Bros Menu Update items and price 2025

As of my knowledge cutoff in October 2023, I don’t have specific details about Dutch Bros' menu updates for 2025. However, based on their history of innovation and customer-focused approach, I can provide some educated predictions and trends that might shape their menu by 2025. Dutch Bros is known for its creative, customizable drinks, so any updates will likely align with their brand identity while catering to evolving consumer preferences.

Predicted Dutch Bros Menu Updates for 2025

1. New Beverage Categories

Functional Drinks: Expect more beverages with added health benefits, such as adaptogens, collagen, or probiotics, to cater to wellness-conscious customers.

Energy-Enhancing Options: Dutch Bros already offers energy drinks, but they might expand into new flavors or formulations with natural caffeine sources like green tea or yerba mate.

Low-Sugar and Sugar-Free Options: As demand for healthier choices grows, Dutch Bros may introduce more low-sugar or sugar-free versions of their popular drinks.

2. Seasonal and Limited-Time Offerings

Dutch Bros is known for its seasonal drinks (e.g., pumpkin spice in fall, peppermint in winter). By 2025, they might expand their seasonal lineup with unique flavors like:

Spring: Lavender honey latte, tropical fruit chillers.

Summer: Watermelon refreshers, coconut cold brews.

Fall: Maple cinnamon lattes, apple cider freeze.

Winter: Gingerbread mochas, spiced chai.

3. Expanded Food Menu

While Dutch Bros is primarily a beverage company, they might introduce more food options to complement their drinks, such as:

Breakfast items: Protein boxes, oatmeal cups, or breakfast sandwiches.

Snacks: Baked goods, energy bars, or savory options like pretzels or mini quiches.

4. Plant-Based and Dairy-Free Options

With the rise of plant-based diets, Dutch Bros may expand their non-dairy milk options (e.g., oat milk, almond milk, coconut milk) and introduce more vegan-friendly syrups and toppings.

5. Customization and Personalization

Dutch Bros already excels in drink customization. By 2025, they might enhance this with:

AI-driven menu suggestions based on customer preferences.

More mix-and-match options for flavors, bases, and toppings.

6. Sustainability-Focused Packaging

While not a direct menu update, Dutch Bros might introduce eco-friendly packaging for their drinks and food items, such as compostable cups or reusable containers.

7. Regional and Cultural Influences

Dutch Bros could incorporate regional flavors or cultural influences into their menu, such as:

Horchata-inspired lattes.

Matcha-based drinks with Asian-inspired flavors.

Mexican chocolate mochas.

8. Kid-Friendly Options

Dutch Bros might expand their menu for younger customers with:

Smaller-sized drinks.

Fun, fruity flavors like cotton candy or bubblegum.

Caffeine-free options.

9. Collaborations and Limited-Edition Drinks

Dutch Bros could partner with other brands or influencers to create limited-edition drinks, similar to how other coffee chains have collaborated with celebrities or food brands.

10. Tech-Enhanced Menu Experience

By 2025, Dutch Bros might integrate more technology into their menu experience, such as:

QR codes for detailed nutritional information.

Augmented reality (AR) features to visualize drinks before ordering.

Current Menu Highlights (as of 2023)

To give you an idea of where Dutch Bros might build from, here are some of their current popular items:

Coffee: Dutch Bros Blue Rebel energy drinks, cold brews, and nitro cold brews.

Lattes: Caramelizer, Annihilator, and White Coffee options.

Frosts: Blended drinks like the Dutch Freeze or Frosted Rebel.

Tea: Green tea, black tea, and herbal tea options.

Rebel Energy Drinks: Customizable energy drinks with flavors like Shark Attack or Galaxy Fish.

How to Stay Updated

To get the latest information on Dutch Bros' menu updates for 2025:

Follow their official website and social media channels.

Check local Dutch Bros locations for seasonal or regional offerings.

Let me know if you'd like more insights or help analyzing their current trends!

#dutch bros #coffee #dutch #ditch menu

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shawnjacksonsbs · 4 months ago

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title-less. 2-22-25

"So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause" - Senator Amidala

How do you hold in check, the things you feel are important without feeling like a sellout?

Or can ya?

My intolerance of the intolerant is being called into question by some of those closest to me.

I'm about to give my word that my political posts are about to stop, for the wellbeing, should it sustain after the trials ahead, of my company, because my personal social media is directly connected to my business and I'm not the only person counting on this brand.

I will say that, if it plagues my heart too much. I'll cancel every fucking thing before I lose myself, ever again.

It's sad to think that it's not the clients that are bothered. They're split pretty evenly, in a country pretty evenly split. Weird right? With a lot more left leaning customers than I ever thought I'd see in JOCO. That's based very loosely on my childhood tho. . . So take that with a grain of salt.

Now our competition on the other hand, are mostly strong supporters of the current . . .

I just hope the economy balances back, with an upward trend soon.

My company is currently . . .in need of profits. Lol no lol

We'll see.

The one thing I'm not going to change is my weekly blog entries that I share on my Facebook too.

Ever!

It's the thing that keeps my emotional state stable. It helped me get right, and more importantly, it helps me stay here.

Don't like it?

Don't fucking read it.

I've come too far to silence the most important part of me for any god damned reason.

I don't go to meetings, or recovery based programs, because I've never needed any version of those.

I write. Once a week.

And, I'm still proud, albeit surprised, that I made it here.

That old Shawn was so lost. Guess what?

He's not anymore.

But, maybe they're right, the separation of church, politics, and the state (of business) is best without them involved.

So they're all out.

Pride, in my company and in my country has a lot to do with . . ."when we know better, we do better". I don't know if there's ever been better words to live by.

And, again, I digress . . .and it looks like I'll struggle with it a little, but as long it stays "little", I'll manage.

P.S. My calling out the things that are hindering us, aren't also hindering us. Put the blame where we know it lives!

I want, and wish, and hope that even those close to me that are currently living in a constant state of worry, are granted reprieve and can find reasons to love and to smile.

Until next week;

"[A]nd thus it goes on, step by step, till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals, are trodden down, and disregarded. But all this even, is not the full extent of the evil. By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained. Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane, they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much, as its total annihilation. While, on the other hand, good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose. Thus, then, by the operation of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed—I mean the attachment of the People. . . .

The question recurs, “how shall we fortify against it?” The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;—let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children’s liberty. Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap—let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;—let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars. . . .

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made.—I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible . . ."

"There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. . . "- Abraham Lincoln

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metaphysicalpistolsoraclemine · 5 months ago

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Monsters of Chaos

In the lower dimensional fields there is a chaotic war struggle occurring in order to regain control over the dark matter, as this is a massive power source for the AI, as well as for the Black Magic Grids. From the epicenter of the Atlantian timelines in the United Kingdom, it may appear to some on the black magic grids that the forces of chaos generated in the phantom world, will eminently come to the surface via Behemoth and Leviathan to destroy the earth realm. One may note the consistent mainstream movie releases portraying violent dystopian futures and Armageddon scenarios that annihilate the earth, combined with the urgent messages to save the human species from certain extinction. But in actuality this is not real, it’s the AI program running holographic movies in these timeline loops, to project the Armageddon Monsters of Chaos that are reversal elementals coming from out of the AI technology and the black magic grid.

The Armageddon Software captures the book of revelation and Enoch prophecies, as the female and male anti-Christ, the Leviathan and Behemoth monsters that are unleashed against humanity in the end times, for the massive war which supposedly brings forth the true messiah of this world. In the twisted and psychopathic mind of the NAA, this violent narrative was the set up for human martyrdom and blood sacrifice at the end of the astrological precession and Ascension Cycle. The Power Elite believe they are the chosen ones to fulfill this end of times prophecy and direct the AI programs in order to wake up and agitate these Monsters of Chaos, which they have co-created from the shadow fragments and reversal elementals on the surface.

Leviathan is also a negative alien race, put here to guard the Tiamat wormhole ripped open between Sarasota, Florida and the Temple Mount. However, it is more commonly used as an image of Satan endangering God's creatures, by attempting to eat them and by threatening God's creation with an upheaval in the waters of chaos. The Church of Satan uses the Hebrew letters at each of the points of the Sigil of Baphomet to represent Leviathan in their Black Magic rituals. This means Satanists that conjure or evoke Baphomet fields to power up Leviathan entities for service-to-self rituals, are actually contributing to the feeding of the Beast Machine and its AI technology for maintaining the electromagnetic harness. This is another example of why Satanism is a natural segue into the Transhumanism agendas, as many materialists are very pro-artificial intelligence.

The annual Magnetic Peak cycle brings forth the pinnacle waves of intensity with the organic magnetic field transmissions and resulting Bifurcation shifts which can instigate Psycho-Spiritual Crisis during catalysts for penetrating deep layers for emotional shadow healing. During which, the Collective Consciousness themes tend to surface the lunar distortions and shadow body parts that are connected to the missing and inverted parts of the Universal Holy Mother principle. These shadow distortions feed into the artificially generated Monsters of Chaos and the Satanic hierarchies of lunar demonic forces that generate the massive power behind the Dark Alien Mother network. The particular timelines currently surfacing include the hidden histories of the capture and fall of the female Solar Dragons in the region of Gobekli Tepe, with the inversions sourcing from the hijacked White Queen sophianic consciousness from Tiamat that were embodied as the Universal Solar Christ Mary Sophias. These are theWhite Solar Queens of authentic female Ascended Masters that were once incarnated on the planet and were protected under the Cosmic Mother Dragon ensouled as the Tiamat Logos in the 10th Stargate Network. This current phase of the magnetic shifts puts a bright spotlight upon the dark shadows of the imposter lunar forces that had replaced the authentic Holy Mother and the Solar Christ Mary Sophias presence on the planet after their capture and demise. The supplanting of imposter forces allowed the subsequent insertions of artificial magnetic fields, lunar matrices and artificial lunar female demonic bodies to be held in place by an artificially generated Dark Alien Mother network.

The Alien Machinery known as the Beast Machine is held in place on the planetary body through massive levels of reversal AI programmed consciousness. This infects the black subtle forces in the earth elemental field and dark matter, and that substance is also referred to as Behemoth. The alien machinery known as the Gravitron is a part of the Beast Machine that acts as the electromagnetic harness field. This makes up the structure called the NET, which produces gravitational and astral corruption and this is also referred to as Leviathan. The Behemoth and Leviathan make up the antichrist male and female counterparts that are written into the Armageddon Software and black magic grids to technologically incite destruction on the surface, as per the NAA religious programming. In actuality, Behemoth and Leviathan are black hole technologies that were orchestrated on purpose by these fallen forces of NAA in order to imprison this planet.

#newearth #1DEarth #2DEarth #3DEarth

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attheexactlyrighttimeandplace · 2 years ago

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Reality these days has been about drifting from one catastrophe to another: from the annihilation of Gaza/Palestine to the anxiety-inducing countdown that climate change has become.

Yesterday I watched a program broadcast on an independent media, on the theme of climate change. The three guests: Yamina Saheb, Jean Jouzel and Wolfang Cramer are french (I don't know if Yamina Saheb is still Algerian, she may also be binational) engineers and scientists recognized as very competent climate or energy specialists, having participated in the drafting of IPCC reports.

Their speech was mostly frank and brutal: 2030 is the deadline they put forward for keeping temperatures below 2°C (we are already at 1.2°C and global warming is accelerating, the objective of the Paris Agreements to limit warming to 1.5°C is therefore already a failure).

2030 is tomorrow: we are 3 months away from 2024. And I had the strong impression that this date of 2030 was already an optimistic projection. It was given by Jean Jouzel, the oldest of the participants, and his reluctance to announce the closeness of the coming catastrophe was evident.

On YT, a commenter said of him:

"you remain desperately moderate in your expression!! You cannot make a sentence without highlighting a positive aspect even if you know that it is artificial, that it is a manipulation by the opponents of change (to adapt to the climate change). You systematically defuse your own comments and recommendations in advance. Given your well-deserved scientific credit, you have the right, and even the duty, to adopt an uncompromising speech!"

The idea that 2030 is the most optimistic hypothesis, which Jouzel chose to retain so as not to despair the public, therefore seems really credible.

Yamina Saheb did not contradict him on this point even if she was much more direct: had no hesitation to call the Climate Conferences (COPs) between States as a masquerade, in particular the next one which will be held in Dubai and will be chaired by the boss of the largest company of fossil fuels from the United Arab Emirates. She also shared in an intense moment of emotion, almost an admission, that she imagines a very dark future for her 3-year-old little boy in which he would probably not live until 70 years.

What will happen before 2030? Based on the various scientific books aimed at popularization that I have read on the subject, a lot of chaos and conflicts as water resources disappear, heat waves will become more deadly and make entire regions of the world uninhabitable, that the collapse of biodiversity will accelerate, dragging us down with it since we cannot survive without plants, whether for our food security or for our oxygen needs.

It's very selfish to say it but I need to say it: I feel at peace on a personal level with these pessismistic projections, because I think I have experienced everything I could aspire to, and I have not other expectations beyond what I have already experienced.

It goes even further: I look forward to the coming of these catastrophes to put an end to the current world. I want to see the collapse of capitalism and the inequalities that it has exacerbated to an unbearable level, the dismantling of Western empires and especially that of the USA, the destruction of Israel, and the final end of colonialism based on the brutality and domination that they have together established as the only possible relationship with the rest of the world.

I want to see them destabilized and in chaos before they have the opportunity to attack Iran, as I think they will after they finish liquidating Palestine. For me, they planned a 3rd World War in the Middle East including an attack on Saudi Arabia (the attackers of the World Trade Centers were largely Saudi and Saudi Arabia exfiltrated its nationals complicit in the attacks before any investigation and arrest were ordered) in retaliation for 09/11/2001, the humiliation of which they have still not digested (Biden stealing all the money from the National Bank of Afghanistan during the departure of American troops in 2021 and redistributing the funds to the families of those who disappeared on 11 /09, while leaving the Afghan population prey to hunger even though the Taliban did not take part in the attacks, is striking proof that USA is only motivated by dehumanization and contempt for Muslims and will create more wars to satisfy this obsession ).

The end of Westerners and Jewish Zionists will be more horrible than ours: while our living conditions have already been degraded for a long time, their fall, the gap between what they thought they were (exceptional nations with an unique destiny) and what they will become (victims of their own deeds like the victims they made) will be a frontal shock of exceptional violence because it is unprecedented for them, and because they are still denying its existence despite all the signs (fires, drought, floods, etc.).

More horrible because Muslims still have a religion, a faith to support them, the very strong conviction that we are only passing through this world, that we belong to God and that we are returning to him, while Western secularism does not offers support in the face of an immense and implacable universe, emptied of all meaning and purpose, and the extremist religious fervor of evangelical Christians, and Christian and Jewish Zionists will very quickly reveal itself to be an empty shell, when the end of the world does not give rise to the predictions that they fantasized to the point of supporting the very real and material destruction of the Middle East to make them come true. All together will no longer draw any satisfaction from their victory born of violation of all the human rights that they claimed to embody at one time, their military force reduced to haunting a world where there will be little left to dominate, will leave them face to face to their demons: insatiable greed and frustration, with no more material comfort to hope for with the definitive end of the myth of abundance.

I don't know if this makes me an unworthy believer or a cruel human being, but my only wish today is that this vision of divine punishment for their crimes which would be for me the only form of Justice in this time/world may be the one I take with me.

#personal political views #personal #climate change and palestine

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