Post AzMjNamu8notyVQAIS by lethe@digitalcourage.social
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(DIR) Post #AzMVPtTGFXY98mR6Uz by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T08:56:33Z
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The SCP foundation is...#SCP_Foundation #SCPs #fiction #folkTales
(DIR) Post #AzMVpCWMYjIrSkxEfI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:01:08Z
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I regard the SCP Foundation folk tales as a series of myths made by people who see The Military Industrial Complex and try to imagine a reason why something like that might need to exist. The only sane response is to imagine that there are literal supernatural monsters. Then such gross destructive power might "make sense"But, like any folk tale it can serve many purposes. Depending on how you tell it.
(DIR) Post #AzMWR47OFUT4PFKRiy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:07:56Z
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@ireneista Nature is an SCP. How will you contain it?
(DIR) Post #AzMXJju96W9VdrCjjM by ira@beige.party
2025-10-19T09:17:49Z
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@futurebird @ireneista Banishment is off-key and likely to backfire anyhow. Dancing reveals core intentions and opens portals. We’re both guest & host alike, and there’s only this one house. Natural law is the only law, but be wary of folks attempting to tell you what’s natural.
(DIR) Post #AzMXKi8PAdD2RSKyHo by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-10-19T09:17:50Z
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@futurebird Good old rough men fallacy: there are scary things out there so we have to have the power to [whatever], you sheep just can't understand. See all anti-terrorism legislation ever.
(DIR) Post #AzMXMH70bujDDDQj4q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:18:20Z
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A large portion of SCP tales focus on the very Tactical Squads of Tactical Men who have lots of gear and cool code names and patches and do "operations" and "extractions" to get the monsters. The SCP Foundation is deeply secretive and extrajudicial. It's like a mutant CIA or FBI "off books" operation. But when you study real operations like that they are clown shows. They hardly ever work even within their own deeply distorted ethical framework.
(DIR) Post #AzMXQREiuUCLlr1WvA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:19:03Z
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@RogerBW My head cannon is everything would be fine if they simply stopped. LOL.
(DIR) Post #AzMXjsSttmWpilvMoa by lethe@digitalcourage.social
2025-10-19T09:22:31Z
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@futurebird @RogerBW Maybe there's a "supernatural" ecosystem that was balanced until the Foundation came along.
(DIR) Post #AzMXkelgJG4XWv52ki by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:22:43Z
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@RogerBW I'm being accused of being a sleeper agent for "Are We Cool Yet" over on the wiki 😒
(DIR) Post #AzMXmwsJxVl0GdHLoe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:23:08Z
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@lethe @RogerBW There had to be. They are not old as time.
(DIR) Post #AzMY37Ypzt8a2esSCO by ira@beige.party
2025-10-19T09:20:37Z
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@futurebird @ireneista I’m not certain whether this response adequately expands upon yr wise words about the military industrial complex as something that might as well be supernatural, and about nature as a hyperobject that secures, protects and contains as it will, whether this suits our plans or not, but a near-rhyme/adjacent tone meditation seemed best.
(DIR) Post #AzMY38GnMSIcEzRYiO by ira@beige.party
2025-10-19T09:25:08Z
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@futurebird @ireneista and this SCP speculative fiction endeavor seems quite wild — thanks for the tip top tip
(DIR) Post #AzMY38wypc2kLpBFT6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:26:00Z
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@ira @ireneista It's a wonderful project. Parts of it just have a bad case of Secret Police Military Fantasy and it annoys me.
(DIR) Post #AzMYNkVWu7S0cmAN72 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:29:48Z
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Listen buddy, I do not need you or your "MTF Unit" to "preserve my precious bodily fluids" I prefer the chaos beast. "Baseline Reality" can sit and spin.
(DIR) Post #AzMYSQOp5qOnhxG6vA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:30:34Z
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@ireneista @ira I love the Ethics Board.
(DIR) Post #AzMYcKAt5k51IXSeRc by Da_Gut@dice.camp
2025-10-19T09:32:23Z
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@futurebird ah, a reference to one of my favorite movies
(DIR) Post #AzMZNdFE0XHq3L31uK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:40:57Z
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@Da_Gut I didn't really get that line until I saw RFK. RFK is literally Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper ... well if you mix RFK and Pete Hegseth you'd have him exactly even the hair.
(DIR) Post #AzMZnfH94xpjsgMLyq by Da_Gut@dice.camp
2025-10-19T09:45:38Z
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@futurebird now that you’ve said it, I’ll never be able to not see it.
(DIR) Post #AzMaOfxfUYu0irthkO by BoysenberryCider@mastodon.social
2025-10-19T09:52:19Z
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@futurebird This was a really cool analysis of something I'm tangentially familiar with. While I'm being lazy, what are the 'off the books' agencies you're referring to?Or have I misunderstood, and you mean the times publically known agencies conducted operations that lost touch with reality (or never had any to begin with), like say Project MKULTRA or the Bay of Pigs or something like that?
(DIR) Post #AzMaWrbw3zMZAZdWOu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T09:53:50Z
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@BoysenberryCider Yes I was thinking of things like Project MKULTRA and the Bay of Pigs... and whatever they are doing in Venezuela right now. I'm so sick of this crap. It's not just immoral and evil it's also ineffective and unintelligent.
(DIR) Post #AzMdlvWI6zvXV0s2Jk by kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
2025-10-19T10:30:07Z
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@futurebird Idk, an "MTF unit" sounds like a decent alternative to blockers, hormones, and surgery.
(DIR) Post #AzMdprcmXK6EZnmfJI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-19T10:30:53Z
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@kechpaja LOL "Mobile Task Force"but I like this idea better.
(DIR) Post #AzMjNamu8notyVQAIS by lethe@digitalcourage.social
2025-10-19T11:32:59Z
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@futurebird @RogerBW It raises the question as to what organizations there were before the Foundation. It's also interesting to imagine god-like beings keeping each other in check.
(DIR) Post #AzNYdhl75MtDtJ1WQi by jhavok@mstdn.party
2025-10-19T21:07:11Z
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@futurebird @BoysenberryCider Toss in that Special Forces debacle into North Korea. These are people who read competence porn and think it's real, so they think they can do it. They need to read Clausewitz instead. "No plan survives first contact with the enemy."The US military are constantly telling each other that they are the cream of America, but the fact is their recruiting pool is unemployable youth.
(DIR) Post #AzOllZ56j245rCPimO by alleightbits@weatherishappening.network
2025-10-20T11:08:57Z
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@futurebird Gamers Against Weed psyop, I see you :p
(DIR) Post #AzOsYf8hadrCYmtF56 by alleightbits@weatherishappening.network
2025-10-20T12:25:14Z
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@futurebird Miscellaneous thoughts on the matter:- From my experience browsing the SCP Wiki nowadays, many Tales I've seen are from the POV of Foundation researchers, Foundation admin staff, or somebody from an external Group of Interest. Stuff that fleshes out the world and its canons