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· Jan 27
Don't tell me what to skeet.
Don't tell me what not to skeet.
Read my skeets before replying to them.
Reply to the skeet as written, not to the imaginary other person who wrote some other skeet in your mind that made you mad at someone who is not me.
Don't tell me what not to skeet.
Read my skeets before replying to them.
Reply to the skeet as written, not to the imaginary other person who wrote some other skeet in your mind that made you mad at someone who is not me.
Darn, infinite forgiveness ruined my trolling of the too-cozy-with-Trump archbishop
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Darn, infinite forgiveness ruined my trolling of the too-cozy-with-Trump archbishop
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Makes me think of MAO II where DeLillo is talking (in 1991) about how terrorists now occupy the space novelists once held. Novelists once dangerously influenced mass consciousness, now they don't, and terrorists have seized their role.
Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.
Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Makes me think of MAO II where DeLillo is talking (in 1991) about how terrorists now occupy the space novelists once held. Novelists once dangerously influenced mass consciousness, now they don't, and terrorists have seized their role.
Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.
Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos.
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos.
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!
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November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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Someone told AI "Make piss Christ Chinese"
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Someone told AI "Make piss Christ Chinese"
Beans for Beantown!
120 Murders? More like 120 meals! From now till Festivus, half the profits from the @ruadanbooks.bsky.social publisher store will go to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Profit margins are high too since there is no middleman between you and book! And the sum will be doubled by the CEO. So...
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Beans for Beantown!
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FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro (2025)
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro (2025)
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It's funny that Musk is like "empathy will destroy society" and then cries when someone is mean to him
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's funny that Musk is like "empathy will destroy society" and then cries when someone is mean to him
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Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
Remove the plot, add in a subtext about Victor Frankenstein loving milk!
"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?"
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Remove the plot, add in a subtext about Victor Frankenstein loving milk!
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Hearing great things about the new novel (checks notes) Middlemarch
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hearing great things about the new novel (checks notes) Middlemarch
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"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?"
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?"
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?"
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?"
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself.
And the answer is "No."
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Welcome to Target.
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Welcome to Target.
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Not that anyone here needs to hear this, but for the record, in a democracy "people voted differently from the way I expected or hoped" does not constitute evidence of fraud, no matter how many pretty charts and graphs of "voting patterns" you make.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Not that anyone here needs to hear this, but for the record, in a democracy "people voted differently from the way I expected or hoped" does not constitute evidence of fraud, no matter how many pretty charts and graphs of "voting patterns" you make.
Greatest noir film
Watching Our of the Past. So much beauty, in the actors' faces & bodies as well as in the photography & staging (as in a fistfight that plays out partly in the shadows combatants cast on a wall). Very adult in its understanding of attraction and how one choice can trap you for life.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Greatest noir film
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I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.
Plus I only got FOUR DOLLARS AND ONE CENT from the Facebook privacy settlement
I love people buying Kalivas! at indiepub or East Bay Booksellers as I either a. get more $ or b. to support a great bookstore (and sign copies), but these practices tank my Bookscan numbers, so why not @bookshop.org this week?
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Plus I only got FOUR DOLLARS AND ONE CENT from the Facebook privacy settlement
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