<![CDATA[Kill it with AGENT ORANGE!]]>Kill it with AGENT ORANGE!

Seriously, was the focus group microdosing or what when they came up with this abomination? It's like Swamp Thing has come ashore in Aisle Six!

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That leaves even more questions.... Like, they thought this was a good idea?

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I got jump scared by this opening the Tesco app to update my shopping list. Truly a terrifying visage.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.eddmil.es/users/iMeddles/statuses/116511098394881392https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.eddmil.es/users/iMeddles/statuses/116511098394881392Sun, 03 May 2026 14:24:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:23:57 GMT]]>@cstross It looks like it could get elected President.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/SecondUniverse/statuses/116511095999921747https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/SecondUniverse/statuses/116511095999921747Sun, 03 May 2026 14:23:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:23:08 GMT]]>@chu It's 100% a campaign by the largest supermarket chain in the UK, Tesco. Not government.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116511092829555774https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/116511092829555774Sun, 03 May 2026 14:23:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:19:20 GMT]]>@cstross I am so glad I am not the only one. I came around the corner at Tesco and felt like I walked into Oogie Boogie’s plant-based cousin. The size of it enhances the HORROR.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Jargoonco/statuses/116511077882678317https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Jargoonco/statuses/116511077882678317Sun, 03 May 2026 14:19:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:12:25 GMT]]>@cstross

If it's anything like how we do things in Canada, it was probably a good initiative that would look bad politically to kill so they paid an agency that is linked to the cattle industry or sugar industry to spearhead this campaign so they made this abomination to say they did a thing but gee, it just didn't work.

In Ontario, they made the heat pump rebate program so ungodly to access it's nearly impossible. You need to follow so many steps and pay $20k upfront for the pumps. I muttered under my breath that they probably paid off someone to make the program as shitty as possible. Then I found out it's literally administered through the natural gas distributor. Open corruption is what we've got here.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/chu/statuses/116511050631407702https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/chu/statuses/116511050631407702Sun, 03 May 2026 14:12:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:11:58 GMT]]>@JdeBP @cstross Looking at the pixels, I'd say it's about 6m tall (or 20 ft in D&D units). The UK not being part of the EU anymore, of course we can't be sure about the standard size and curvature of the banana parts…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/mhd/statuses/116511048892897769https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/mhd/statuses/116511048892897769Sun, 03 May 2026 14:11:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:11:13 GMT]]>@cstross I think the fruit-vegie creature is cute. The 'free fruit and veg for schools' ad though, I'm not so sure about. There are no fruit and vegs around, there are instead plushies, and those aren't free.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/bit/statuses/116511045963990713https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/bit/statuses/116511045963990713Sun, 03 May 2026 14:11:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:08:43 GMT]]>@cstross vegetation golem demands you to eat of their flesh or they shall eat of yours.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116511036137490967https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116511036137490967Sun, 03 May 2026 14:08:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:33 GMT]]>@cstross It's Pizza The Hutt's vegan cousin

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bierschutzpartei.de/users/Eichi/statuses/116511003969881559https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bierschutzpartei.de/users/Eichi/statuses/116511003969881559Sun, 03 May 2026 14:00:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:55:08 GMT]]>@cstross trippy

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hear-me.social/ap/users/115696907373093865/statuses/116510982671516250https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hear-me.social/ap/users/115696907373093865/statuses/116510982671516250Sun, 03 May 2026 13:55:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:41:51 GMT]]>@cstross

Scary Veggies to Eat in the Dark

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/saucerlost/statuses/116510930449497151https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/saucerlost/statuses/116510930449497151Sun, 03 May 2026 13:41:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:37:05 GMT]]>@cstross the adverts are even more deranged as the "fruit beast" is chasing children. Looks like it's made of insects to me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gamepad.club/users/welshtroll/statuses/116510911710710050https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gamepad.club/users/welshtroll/statuses/116510911710710050Sun, 03 May 2026 13:37:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:30:32 GMT]]>@cstross oh god, it looks like Baymax from Big Hero 6 suffering from a mass infection of those multicolored pulsating parasites that normally live in snails' eye stalks.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/fatconan/statuses/116510885940835099https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/fatconan/statuses/116510885940835099Sun, 03 May 2026 13:30:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:09:01 GMT]]>@cstross They missed a trick by not going with "take and eat; this is my body" as an advertising slogan]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sns.internationalotaku.com/objects/2abe370b-8e31-4f90-bc2b-f7655f0b0f33https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sns.internationalotaku.com/objects/2abe370b-8e31-4f90-bc2b-f7655f0b0f33Sun, 03 May 2026 13:09:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:37:02 GMT]]>@cstross @bobthomson70
as a kid i would love it.

(but really: criticising even someone trying to get kids to eat their veggies is peak criticising. trying is better than not trying, and cynicism is worse than not-so-clever ideas)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/argonaut/statuses/116510675580365861https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/argonaut/statuses/116510675580365861Sun, 03 May 2026 12:37:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:56 GMT]]>@cstross

This needs a whole back story about a GMO scientist who caught fire and plunged into the produce section. Today he fights crime and scurvy.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Phosphenes/statuses/116510675218890895https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Phosphenes/statuses/116510675218890895Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:13:05 GMT]]>@cstross
He looks happy, leave him alone!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/drewtowler/statuses/116510581426647426https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/drewtowler/statuses/116510581426647426Sun, 03 May 2026 12:13:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:09:45 GMT]]>@cstross kill it with agent orange is not a great thing to joking about. Please look into what the Americans did with agent orange in Vietnam. It's caused issues that continue today... It's not a funny joke.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pizza.enby.city/users/domo/statuses/116510568288058816https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pizza.enby.city/users/domo/statuses/116510568288058816Sun, 03 May 2026 12:09:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:29:37 GMT]]>@chantaryu2 @cstross Fruity BFG

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://martinh.net/users/m/statuses/116510410480572939https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://martinh.net/users/m/statuses/116510410480572939Sun, 03 May 2026 11:29:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:17:16 GMT]]>@cstross "you are what you eat..." *High pitched laughter, close up of mouth clamping shut, cut to black*

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/arakin/statuses/116510361959215697https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/arakin/statuses/116510361959215697Sun, 03 May 2026 11:17:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:15:43 GMT]]>@CurtAdams @cstross
Macrodosing

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/OrdRadical/statuses/116510355820331218https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/OrdRadical/statuses/116510355820331218Sun, 03 May 2026 11:15:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:11:25 GMT]]>@cstross Looks like it needs feeding into a grinder then killing with fire.

Now, where did I put the BIG Rizlas?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116510338938423377https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/116510338938423377Sun, 03 May 2026 11:11:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kill it with AGENT ORANGE! on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:06:28 GMT]]>@cstross I like it. It's cute. The Plant Golem.

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