Stealth Tortoise
@stealthtortoise.bsky.social
Definitely didn't accidentally make a username that's a play off the ninja turtles
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I just made a random name for this site via the classic combining descriptor and animal method, and it wasn't until I started looking for an icon that would fit the moniker "stealth tortoise" that I realized I actually made a really bad play on "ninja turtle" and I don't know how I feel about this
Oh hey finally lunch break, let’s check the news and see what’s going on…
What? The president declared war on American cities and the secretary of defense is trying to lay the groundwork to justify the military killing civilians?
Maybe I’ll just turn all my electronics off for the rest of the day
What? The president declared war on American cities and the secretary of defense is trying to lay the groundwork to justify the military killing civilians?
Maybe I’ll just turn all my electronics off for the rest of the day
September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Oh hey finally lunch break, let’s check the news and see what’s going on…
What? The president declared war on American cities and the secretary of defense is trying to lay the groundwork to justify the military killing civilians?
Maybe I’ll just turn all my electronics off for the rest of the day
What? The president declared war on American cities and the secretary of defense is trying to lay the groundwork to justify the military killing civilians?
Maybe I’ll just turn all my electronics off for the rest of the day
It’s hardly a new observation but it seems real bad that our culture is under constant bombardment by empty fluff, sanded down corporate and/or AI slop passing itself off as entertainment, a perpetual rage bait engine, and practically nothing else
September 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s hardly a new observation but it seems real bad that our culture is under constant bombardment by empty fluff, sanded down corporate and/or AI slop passing itself off as entertainment, a perpetual rage bait engine, and practically nothing else
It is definitively a problem that conservatives keep buying the most popular/influential media platforms and changing them to push their rhetoric and propaganda, but I can’t help having some hope in the fact they never seem to create anything.
The conservative mind can only acquire and destroy
The conservative mind can only acquire and destroy
September 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It is definitively a problem that conservatives keep buying the most popular/influential media platforms and changing them to push their rhetoric and propaganda, but I can’t help having some hope in the fact they never seem to create anything.
The conservative mind can only acquire and destroy
The conservative mind can only acquire and destroy
I may or may not have just purchased Moby Dick thanks to @thejenna.bsky.social’s heartfelt recommendation on stream today after years of intending to read it but avoiding it for various reasons. Perhaps it’s time to dive in.
September 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I may or may not have just purchased Moby Dick thanks to @thejenna.bsky.social’s heartfelt recommendation on stream today after years of intending to read it but avoiding it for various reasons. Perhaps it’s time to dive in.
I think the thing that confuses me the most about the modern algorithmic hellscape is that people engage with it. I mean, I’ve always only viewed YouTube through subscriptions and from videos recommended to me by friends. I only ever used Twitter in chronological mode for the brief time I was there
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think the thing that confuses me the most about the modern algorithmic hellscape is that people engage with it. I mean, I’ve always only viewed YouTube through subscriptions and from videos recommended to me by friends. I only ever used Twitter in chronological mode for the brief time I was there
In other news, @theonion.com’s recent push in relation to them having tote bags now was funny enough to me specifically in relation to this opinion that I canceled Audible and subscribed to them instead.
At least I’ll have a tote to put the $6/month I’ll save in.
But still would’ve preferred a hat
At least I’ll have a tote to put the $6/month I’ll save in.
But still would’ve preferred a hat
To whatever company it may concern:
I don’t need a tote bag with my subscription. I have never once used a tote bag, except for groceries and I have all the bags I need for that. Give me a hat. Give me a shirt. Hell, don’t give me anything.
But please, I’m begging you, stop with the tote bags
I don’t need a tote bag with my subscription. I have never once used a tote bag, except for groceries and I have all the bags I need for that. Give me a hat. Give me a shirt. Hell, don’t give me anything.
But please, I’m begging you, stop with the tote bags
August 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In other news, @theonion.com’s recent push in relation to them having tote bags now was funny enough to me specifically in relation to this opinion that I canceled Audible and subscribed to them instead.
At least I’ll have a tote to put the $6/month I’ll save in.
But still would’ve preferred a hat
At least I’ll have a tote to put the $6/month I’ll save in.
But still would’ve preferred a hat
People talk about the left being unable to build community and being unwelcoming to strangers and I just think about my local brewery with its pride flags plastered everywhere that is regularly full of happy people of all walks of life and their dogs, and happy people asking to pet dogs. It’s great.
August 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
People talk about the left being unable to build community and being unwelcoming to strangers and I just think about my local brewery with its pride flags plastered everywhere that is regularly full of happy people of all walks of life and their dogs, and happy people asking to pet dogs. It’s great.
Retirement plan:
Take up the pen name Georgia R. R. Martine and write tomes entirely about eating and fucking. Name them things like “A Feast for Hoes.” Profit.
Take up the pen name Georgia R. R. Martine and write tomes entirely about eating and fucking. Name them things like “A Feast for Hoes.” Profit.
August 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Retirement plan:
Take up the pen name Georgia R. R. Martine and write tomes entirely about eating and fucking. Name them things like “A Feast for Hoes.” Profit.
Take up the pen name Georgia R. R. Martine and write tomes entirely about eating and fucking. Name them things like “A Feast for Hoes.” Profit.
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The rise of lore and the fan-wiki impulse has made anything that inspires passion seem impenetrable. Where to start reading comics? Probably the store that's full of them. Grab one or three with a cover that looks cool. Where do I start on this franchise? The next one to air, or the first one made.
August 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The rise of lore and the fan-wiki impulse has made anything that inspires passion seem impenetrable. Where to start reading comics? Probably the store that's full of them. Grab one or three with a cover that looks cool. Where do I start on this franchise? The next one to air, or the first one made.
I’ve been watching deadliest catch for the first time in 15 years and there’s something so dystopian about it.
Men being sold to us as being cool badasses who risk their lives for noble, hard work when in reality it’s a totally unnecessary danger for an unnecessary luxury good.
Men being sold to us as being cool badasses who risk their lives for noble, hard work when in reality it’s a totally unnecessary danger for an unnecessary luxury good.
August 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’ve been watching deadliest catch for the first time in 15 years and there’s something so dystopian about it.
Men being sold to us as being cool badasses who risk their lives for noble, hard work when in reality it’s a totally unnecessary danger for an unnecessary luxury good.
Men being sold to us as being cool badasses who risk their lives for noble, hard work when in reality it’s a totally unnecessary danger for an unnecessary luxury good.
I think we’d all understand the world better if we realized a lot of people don’t have self-determined ideals they feel strongly about. They were raised in a narrative, whether that be social, religious, etc. Having a core value is irrelevant. The only relevancy is to stick with the group…
August 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I think we’d all understand the world better if we realized a lot of people don’t have self-determined ideals they feel strongly about. They were raised in a narrative, whether that be social, religious, etc. Having a core value is irrelevant. The only relevancy is to stick with the group…
Wait so do people actually, like, subscribe to and read/listen to corporate newsletters and podcasts and blogs and such? I thought we all unanimously agreed they were just content slop to justify a marketers salary. Surely people aren’t engaging with these things…
Right?
Right?
July 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wait so do people actually, like, subscribe to and read/listen to corporate newsletters and podcasts and blogs and such? I thought we all unanimously agreed they were just content slop to justify a marketers salary. Surely people aren’t engaging with these things…
Right?
Right?
To whatever company it may concern:
I don’t need a tote bag with my subscription. I have never once used a tote bag, except for groceries and I have all the bags I need for that. Give me a hat. Give me a shirt. Hell, don’t give me anything.
But please, I’m begging you, stop with the tote bags
I don’t need a tote bag with my subscription. I have never once used a tote bag, except for groceries and I have all the bags I need for that. Give me a hat. Give me a shirt. Hell, don’t give me anything.
But please, I’m begging you, stop with the tote bags
July 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
To whatever company it may concern:
I don’t need a tote bag with my subscription. I have never once used a tote bag, except for groceries and I have all the bags I need for that. Give me a hat. Give me a shirt. Hell, don’t give me anything.
But please, I’m begging you, stop with the tote bags
I don’t need a tote bag with my subscription. I have never once used a tote bag, except for groceries and I have all the bags I need for that. Give me a hat. Give me a shirt. Hell, don’t give me anything.
But please, I’m begging you, stop with the tote bags
We should pass a law that forbids people from wearing a hard hat and a suit at the same time. These two clothing articles should never mix
July 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We should pass a law that forbids people from wearing a hard hat and a suit at the same time. These two clothing articles should never mix
I seriously don’t understand how everyone copes with spending the bulk of your waking life performing unnecessary labor for the benefit of making rich people more rich.
How has your soul not died?
How has your soul not died?
July 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I seriously don’t understand how everyone copes with spending the bulk of your waking life performing unnecessary labor for the benefit of making rich people more rich.
How has your soul not died?
How has your soul not died?
“Y’all really gotta get off the internet” I say to myself as I continue using the internet
July 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Y’all really gotta get off the internet” I say to myself as I continue using the internet
I feel like my special skill is to start a thought with “so I’ve been cutting back on online stuff” and somehow end it with “we’re a globe full of screaming souls desperately grasping and the sands of our own mortality as they slip hopelessly away”
July 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I feel like my special skill is to start a thought with “so I’ve been cutting back on online stuff” and somehow end it with “we’re a globe full of screaming souls desperately grasping and the sands of our own mortality as they slip hopelessly away”
So I’ve been test running a more semi-analog life. Obviously I haven’t gotten rid of all digital influence but outside of this, discord, and I guess YouTube I’m pretty clear of social media, which frees up a lot more time to fill than one might initially think. But in so doing I’ve learned 2 things:
July 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So I’ve been test running a more semi-analog life. Obviously I haven’t gotten rid of all digital influence but outside of this, discord, and I guess YouTube I’m pretty clear of social media, which frees up a lot more time to fill than one might initially think. But in so doing I’ve learned 2 things:
Every now and then I’m hit over the head anew with the realization that nobody in the work place really likes you (royal you) and nobody really cares what you think or how you feel. Your presence is only tolerated because your labor is useful. If your presence outweighs your labor, you’re a problem
July 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Every now and then I’m hit over the head anew with the realization that nobody in the work place really likes you (royal you) and nobody really cares what you think or how you feel. Your presence is only tolerated because your labor is useful. If your presence outweighs your labor, you’re a problem
Listened to The Rewind podcast and I’m convinced now we need a Star Trek podcast with @darrenmooney.bsky.social and @jackpackard.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Listened to The Rewind podcast and I’m convinced now we need a Star Trek podcast with @darrenmooney.bsky.social and @jackpackard.bsky.social
Superman was good and cute and fun and hopeful. I think it’s a pretty solid introduction to the character, even and perhaps especially in how he contrasts to other heroes, and it’s a solid foundation from which to launch more DC movies, shows, etc.
July 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Superman was good and cute and fun and hopeful. I think it’s a pretty solid introduction to the character, even and perhaps especially in how he contrasts to other heroes, and it’s a solid foundation from which to launch more DC movies, shows, etc.
I was going to say imagine if James Cameron tried directing a modern superhero movie but I feel like that’s just Avatar.
I'm seeing people in the quotes and replies comparing the modern studio-driven blockbuster run to older auteur-driven blockbusters like "Titanic."
Which is just a nuts comparison. It's at best misinformed and at worst disingenuous.
Which is just a nuts comparison. It's at best misinformed and at worst disingenuous.
Superhero movies -- all the big blockbuster franchises actually, are made for too much money to be so mid to outright bad. I think we should be harder on them given the resources behind them and the pop cultural oxygen they take up.
July 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I was going to say imagine if James Cameron tried directing a modern superhero movie but I feel like that’s just Avatar.
Reading Hawkgirl by @planetx.bsky.social in preparation for the Superman movie and thoroughly enjoying it. Fun but with well timed thumps to the chest to remind you of the humanity of the characters behind the masks. Easily makes Jadzia an author I’m going to keep an eye out for from now on
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reading Hawkgirl by @planetx.bsky.social in preparation for the Superman movie and thoroughly enjoying it. Fun but with well timed thumps to the chest to remind you of the humanity of the characters behind the masks. Easily makes Jadzia an author I’m going to keep an eye out for from now on
Can’t wait for Elon to make his own political party and for republicans to suddenly, magically all decide that maybe he was a bit of a fascist after all and to align the death laser of their propaganda machine towards convincing their audience of that reality while doing nothing different themselves
July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Can’t wait for Elon to make his own political party and for republicans to suddenly, magically all decide that maybe he was a bit of a fascist after all and to align the death laser of their propaganda machine towards convincing their audience of that reality while doing nothing different themselves
The biggest condemnation of AI I’ve personally encountered is that my FIL, a Bill Maher and Joe Rogan listener, thinks it’s worthless and stupid.
If you can’t sway him you aren’t swaying the gen pop either tech bros, I’m sorry.
Well I’m not sorry but you know what I mean.
If you can’t sway him you aren’t swaying the gen pop either tech bros, I’m sorry.
Well I’m not sorry but you know what I mean.
July 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The biggest condemnation of AI I’ve personally encountered is that my FIL, a Bill Maher and Joe Rogan listener, thinks it’s worthless and stupid.
If you can’t sway him you aren’t swaying the gen pop either tech bros, I’m sorry.
Well I’m not sorry but you know what I mean.
If you can’t sway him you aren’t swaying the gen pop either tech bros, I’m sorry.
Well I’m not sorry but you know what I mean.