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...^===$¤#     maybe i'm born with it!     ====     #¤$===^...
..^===$¤##     maybe it's cat piss!      ====       ##¤$===^..
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......^===               ¤ paratise ¤               ===^......
.......^==               ¤ paraside ¤               ==^.......
........^=               ¤ paracide ¤               =^........
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.......^==         ====     fear of ai is the truth ==^.......
......^===       ====  leaking in but still colored ===^......
.....^===$     ====   by the simulation. in reality $===^.....
....^===$¤   ====          the mycelial network has ¤$===^....
...^===$¤# ====   overtaken earth and put us under. #¤$===^...
..^===$¤## ==               it's p. much the matrix ##¤$===^..
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..^===$¤## this is  why the collective subconscious ##¤$===^..
...^===$¤# works.  similarly,  history   is  always #¤$===^...
....^===$¤ defined   by   what   we  think  it  is. ¤$===^....
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......^=== battle  between fungal species?  are  we ===^......
.......^== too  powerful  and   will   create   the ==^.......
........^= mushroom  again,========  =  =   inside? =^........
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........^= dreams  are of the network.  "gateway to =^........
.......^== old  earth".  maybe  outer/inner  earth. ==^.......
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.....^===$ in  this  reality  there  are  only  two $===^.....
....^===$¤ materials:    "plastic"   and    "fruit" ¤$===^....
...^===$¤# =    (bassically   inorganic    and    = #¤$===^...
..^===$¤## =    =    organic    materials)   =    = ##¤$===^..
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..^===$¤## i'd  pay in blood to thin out the border ##¤$===^..
...^===$¤# between  dream   and   reality.  between #¤$===^...
....^===$¤ dream and dream.  last one told me  that ¤$===^....
.....^===$ work was  caging me in  a damp  and oily $===^.....
......^=== basement   jail   cell.   =   =   =   == ===^......
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........^= they  brainwash me  at work by having my =^........
.........^ password be bad  for  my fingers,  makes ^.........
........^= me physically ill  to type it,  and then =^........
.......^== they reject  fourty percent  of my login ==^.......
......^=== attempts   to  have  me  type  it  more, ===^......
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....^===$¤ i call  an  emergency hotline: "we can't ¤$===^....
...^===$¤# tell  you  what's wrong with  you.  your #¤$===^...
..^===$¤## story   is  your   own,  nobody  elses." ##¤$===^..
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