zombie
(voodoo) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful.
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This morning's krbk thoughts: zombie apocalypse edition Eijirou is scoping out a part of town he hasn't checked in a while. There's a few zeds, but he manages them. He's done a fair job keeping the population low in…
SBG/RPG Menagerie: Zombie Warrior siskoid.blogspot.com/2026/05/rpg-... From All Flesh Must Be Eaten!
Why there are so many stupid zombie movies? Old dracula and vampires have been replaced by zombies
The President of the Canary Islands averting a zombie outbreak..
The Bee Gees present - "Stayin' Dead": How to Survive in a Zombie Apocalypse
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(voodoo) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be harmful.
Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.
“I’m not saying the movie won’t be good, and I don’t honestly want a generic zombie movie from Cregger, but to suggest Resident Evil wasn’t inspired by (and almost had a film helmed by George Romero himself) isn’t Zombie-centric, then okay. You are grasping very hard.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Just met an old lady that would turn into an RE zombie and attack me if I flashed a light in her eyes”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Don't enable the retro diner fascist nazi zombie! He will eat you and it won't be sexy...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Megadeth with Pantera & White Zombie. Brutal.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“SAFE FAT BLOATED ZOMBIE MF NAZI VEEP KKKING TRUMP IS DEMENTED AND DELUDED CC STAGED FAKE FUCKERY STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS NOW”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(horror) A dead person, reanimated through some fictional agency as a fungus, virus, or the like, that has an insatiable desire to eat living humans, typically depicted as aggressive, fast moving, and infectious.
The rumour had started that he was the Zombie or living corpse of Baron Samedi himself, the dreaded Prince of Darkness, and he fostered the story so that now it was accepted through all the lower strata of the negro world.
“The West must wake up to the reality that its civic institutions have been heavily colonized by terror-linked zombie NGOs before those institutions have all been hollowed out and there’s nothing left to save. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“www.patreon.com/posts/zombie...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Feed: "Horror and Zombie film reviews | Movie reviews | Horror Videogame reviews" By: RZ on Monday, May 4, 2026”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected…
“This morning's krbk thoughts: zombie apocalypse edition Eijirou is scoping out a part of town he hasn't checked in a while. There's a few zeds, but he manages them. He's done a fair job keeping the population low in the area. Then he stumbles upon a house.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“SBG/RPG Menagerie: Zombie Warrior siskoid.blogspot.com/2026/05/rpg-... From All Flesh Must Be Eaten!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Why there are so many stupid zombie movies? Old dracula and vampires have been replaced by zombies”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The President of the Canary Islands averting a zombie outbreak..”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The Bee Gees present - "Stayin' Dead": How to Survive in a Zombie Apocalypse”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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