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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 06:44:11 JST Adrianna Tan

   ‘Vegan data scientist being tried in a trial about the killing of a landlord as part of a rationalist cult string of murders and other violence says he is driven by a desire to end the suffering of animals’

   The Bay Area is bizarre in that none of this is surprising

   https://archive.ph/2025.02.08-132157/https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ziz-zizians-rationalism-group-20149075.php

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 06:48:05 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I also think that the Zizians may be why one of my favorite BBQ spots on Point Richmond closed down so now I am personally annoyed at them for more than one thing

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 06:50:33 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There are so many cults here!

     https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509

     In Oakland Chinatown earlier some lady was yelling JESUS SAVES in mandarin and on the next block there was a loud Falungong loudspeaker

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     Moto :rainbowinfinity: (cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 06:58:15 JST Moto :rainbowinfinity:

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     @skinnylatte Even these vegans recognize that a dead landlord is just fine.

     Fascinating.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 07:03:41 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chuck Fry

     @SVChucko Australia’s evangelical Christians are also terrifying!

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     Chuck Fry (svchucko@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 07:03:42 JST Chuck Fry

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     @skinnylatte As the old joke goes, “America got Britain’s religious zealots, and Australia got the criminals. Seems to me Australia got the better deal.”

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 07:26:12 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Good story

     https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

     Very detailed google doc about timeline of events

     (Will be a great source for whoever is writing the Netflix documentary about this)

     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RpAvd5TO5eMhJrdr2kz43dxT3nNm0XtuPcaW9kBIZL8/edit

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     crzwdjk ✅ (crzwdjk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 07:29:44 JST crzwdjk ✅

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     • Chuck Fry

     @skinnylatte @SVChucko One religious cult got convicted of murder recently for trying to treat a little girl's diabetes with prayer instead of insulin.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 07:29:44 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @crzwdjk @SVChucko I think there was a documentary about a small time cult leader on the U.S. west coast whose followers were so extreme that when she begged them to take her to hospital they refused and let her die and just worshipped her body.

     In this decade!! Wtf

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     Kieran McGuire (kieranmcguire@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 08:17:08 JST Kieran McGuire

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     @skinnylatte I did not expect to be learning about a vegan sith / computer science / AI research / rationalist offshoot / D&D death cult this evening, but here we are