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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 19:42:21 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.

    Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.

    I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.

    In conversation about a year ago from sauropods.win permalink
    • Paul Cantrell and carl marks repeated this.
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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 00:57:33 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      @futurebird Someone once told me "It's not Kafkaesque to wake up an insect. If you wake up an insect and your first thought is that this might make you late for work...*that* is Kafkaesque." That completely changed my perspective on a lot of things.

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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 02:21:04 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      • ADHDean

      @adhdeanasl @futurebird NGL, I felt just like that.

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      ADHDean (adhdeanasl@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 02:21:06 JST ADHDean ADHDean
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman

      @roadriverrail @futurebird

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      Sin Vega (sinvega@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 02:35:37 JST Sin Vega Sin Vega
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman

      @roadriverrail @futurebird I think about "what have they done to us" often

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1pwyCl5ymE

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      1. Darmine Doggy Door Full Sketch | I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson | Netflix Is a Joke
        from Netflix Is A Joke
        I'm not a stupid idiot, I know it was just a pig, but for 50 seconds it felt really real. Watch the full sketch of "Darmine Doggy Door" from Season 3, Episod...
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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 02:35:37 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      • Sin Vega

      @sinvega @futurebird Wow, I haven't seen this and it's great. I absolutely love comedy that juxtaposes the banal with the existential like that.

      It's also why this commercial from Welcome To Nightvale lives in my head...not rent free, but certainly as a shabby deadbeat roommate.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxaNCyWsWrc

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      1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
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      2. Welcome to Night Vale - Tropicana Advertisement
        from ToBoldlyTrek
        'Now a word from our sponsor-' segment. Tropicana Orange Juice from episode 10 - Feral DogsJust had to put this up. Haha. I really love this. This audio clip...
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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 02:46:45 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      • player_03
      • Sin Vega

      @player_03 @sinvega @futurebird Wow, that was...intense. Really.

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      player_03 (player_03@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 02:46:46 JST player_03 player_03
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman
      • Sin Vega

      @roadriverrail @sinvega @futurebird Night Vale has some great commercials in that vein. I'd forgotten about that one, but I'm glad to have been reminded.

      As far as mixing the existential and the banal, check out Luke Humphris's recent work. Here's the one that I think spells it out the most directly: https://youtu.be/Yohfoz_50J4

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      1. https://s3.wasabisys.com/pmg-media/media_attachments/files/112/169/558/566/217/433/original/1a4953d9229843ff.jpg

      2. SPACE STATION WEIRD - The Scariest Thing - EPISODE 04
        from Luke Humphris
        Thank you so much for watching my animation!If you want to see more stuff like this, please consider subscribing or becoming a supporter on patreon for rewar...
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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 02:50:38 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      • Seiðr
      • Sin Vega

      @Illuminatus @player_03 @sinvega @futurebird I've heard a hypothesis that laughter started as a way to signal "What I thought was a danger was in fact not." So, for example...unk bunk the early human hears a rustling in the bushes and goes into alert thinking it's a predator, but then only a tiny bird comes out of the bushes...hahahha! That's hilarious! I thought we'd die but it was harmless!

      From that point of view, transforming dread into humor is a way to save us from our own thoughts.

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      Seiðr (illuminatus@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 02:50:39 JST Seiðr Seiðr
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman
      • player_03
      • Sin Vega

      @player_03 @roadriverrail @sinvega @futurebird I have three Night Vale t-shirts because it helped me go through one of the worst periods of my life. If anything it captures perfectly how sometimes "humour" is just another name for acceptance of cosmic, existential dread.

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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 05:25:25 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      • Julio J. 🀲

      @j3j5 @futurebird Maybe I should have pushed through the first couple episodes of that show...

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      Julio J. 🀲 (j3j5@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 05:25:26 JST Julio J. 🀲 Julio J. 🀲
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman

      @roadriverrail @futurebird

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      Clifford Adams (wikicliff@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:32:39 JST Clifford Adams Clifford Adams
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman

      @roadriverrail @futurebird
      <wakes up as an insect> "Is this covered under my employer's health insurance?"

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      Tony Wells (tonyjwells@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:32:43 JST Tony Wells Tony Wells
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman
      • Clifford Adams

      @wikicliff @roadriverrail @futurebird

      It's not on the approved list of valid reasons to work from home, Gregor. Be in by 9am.

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      Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:59:38 JST Kit Rhett Aultman Kit Rhett Aultman
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      • Clifford Adams
      • Tommi Komulainen

      @tko @wikicliff @futurebird Full marks.

      In conversation about a year ago permalink
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      Tommi Komulainen (tko@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:59:39 JST Tommi Komulainen Tommi Komulainen
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      • Kit Rhett Aultman
      • Clifford Adams

      @wikicliff @roadriverrail @futurebird the horror stories I know about US health insurance practices I believe <waking up as an insect> sounds like a precondition

      In conversation about a year ago permalink

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