An old post from Caroline Ellison’s tumblr, since deleted.

  • self@awful.systemsM
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    7 months ago

    a deeply shitty joke??? observation??? about how a crocus is a flower and therefore how could it be the subject of a terror attack?

    completely indistinguishable from all the other posts in their history, all of which were made by reading the title of the thread and posting the first garbage that came to mind

    • gerikson@awful.systems
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      7 months ago

      It’s not like if Russian artillery pieces aren’t named after flowers, so maybe there’s another tradition in play here.