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M. Dean Cooper
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Writer, videographer, cat person. Sad little king of a sad little hill. He/him.

Words: notepadexe.medium.com
Video: newnorml.tumblr.com
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Hello Bluesky! Now that a) people are really here and b) we have pinned posts allow me to do a brief welcome/shameless-self-promo thread. I'm a multifaceted guy but for the purposes of this account I'm mostly a writer, with a novel I'm chipping away at and shorter works here: notepadexe.medium.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I'll chance it
January 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Auntie Annileen's Freshly Baked Subnuclear Spacetime Knots
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
legends, man
January 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
January 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Drop. Shadow.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.

One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I’m at the combination Washington Monument and vape shop
I’m currently at the Washington Monument:
January 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Weird year.
December 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze
December 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"they will be, one day"

no, they won't, any more than tires can help you fly. They're not built for that. They're a fundamentally different technology. An LLM does not exist to model conscious thought, it exists to take advantage of your willingness to see faces in things that aren't there.
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but your Christmas song is not legally required to begin or end on a single refrain of Jingle Bells
December 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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ain't no fuckin way
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
think I'm finally gonna watch It's a Wonderful Life this year, I hear that George Bailey's a real piece of shit
December 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
calls to mind that thing that happens in Star Wars sometimes where a character has a human waitstaff instead of droids to demonstrate how wealthy they are--human effort is now a marker of luxury
Porsche reportedly created their new ad without using any AI.
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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all i want for christmas is stephen miller to be run over by a garbage truck
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Unknown word or name
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
weird week to be a guy who actually does redactions in Acrobat all the time--but like, the correct way
December 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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logging onto limewire under dark of night to download 60 minutes
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
how many more people will see this now than would have on CBS
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Posted it
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Olivia Nuzzi what have you done
December 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM