Flyndersticks
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Weird futures and stupid puns. Helped make solarpunk a thing. Special interests include collaborative art, game design, visions of the future, and occasionally pro wrestling.
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Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
July 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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Real talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.
February 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Real talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.
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what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines
Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
February 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM
what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines
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Not only is that the very same Nellie Bowles, but she pops up 17 different times in the files!
January 31, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Not only is that the very same Nellie Bowles, but she pops up 17 different times in the files!
It is time for the Fifth Estate: Targeted Bimbofication
the only real, absolute limit on presidential power is the president’s own mental fortitude. all other checks and balances have deteriorated to near-uselessness. it has been this way for decades.
February 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
It is time for the Fifth Estate: Targeted Bimbofication
They needed a stealth protestor so I burned my fingerprints off on the hibachi hot plate at Benihana.
They WILL NOT find me.
They WILL NOT find me.
February 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
They needed a stealth protestor so I burned my fingerprints off on the hibachi hot plate at Benihana.
They WILL NOT find me.
They WILL NOT find me.
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The stuff around that verse
January 31, 2026 at 9:24 PM
The stuff around that verse
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it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
January 31, 2026 at 5:45 PM
it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
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"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...
www.mprnews.org
January 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Minneapolis, MN -
The crowd has stopped on e 31st and Nicollet. A child wearing a headscarf was invited to get the first few cracks at a piñata shaped like the head of Kristi Noem. She busted it open and candy is being handed out of the Noem effigy. Crowd marching again.
The crowd has stopped on e 31st and Nicollet. A child wearing a headscarf was invited to get the first few cracks at a piñata shaped like the head of Kristi Noem. She busted it open and candy is being handed out of the Noem effigy. Crowd marching again.
January 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Minneapolis, MN -
The crowd has stopped on e 31st and Nicollet. A child wearing a headscarf was invited to get the first few cracks at a piñata shaped like the head of Kristi Noem. She busted it open and candy is being handed out of the Noem effigy. Crowd marching again.
The crowd has stopped on e 31st and Nicollet. A child wearing a headscarf was invited to get the first few cracks at a piñata shaped like the head of Kristi Noem. She busted it open and candy is being handed out of the Noem effigy. Crowd marching again.
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6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."
January 31, 2026 at 8:39 PM
6. Weiss presents her mission at CBS as restoring trust by elevating centrist voices, which is accurate enough if we understand "centrist voices" to mean "the type of men likely to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein."
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skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats
I’m getting word that there are skaters having to fight music rights battles right now just days before the Olympics. We know Lauriault/le Gac has already made the decision to change their RD. Don’t be surprised if we get some other program changes in Milan
January 31, 2026 at 1:43 PM
skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats
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As it turns out, what the revolution really needed was more project managers, not more activists
January 31, 2026 at 3:55 PM
As it turns out, what the revolution really needed was more project managers, not more activists
My favorite thing about warhammer 40k lore is the unacknowledged homeroticism of space marines. You have literal planets full of big beefy dudes living with each other and the codex is like "they were very good friends."
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
My favorite thing about warhammer 40k lore is the unacknowledged homeroticism of space marines. You have literal planets full of big beefy dudes living with each other and the codex is like "they were very good friends."
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This is good!
Good to see --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman just introduced their bill stripping ICE agents of qualified immunity. We broke the news that this was coming on our podcast (see thread below for more info and context).
January 31, 2026 at 3:29 PM
This is good!
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lmao Epstein was banned on Xbox Live
January 30, 2026 at 10:50 PM
lmao Epstein was banned on Xbox Live
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
One of my favorite SCTV sketches w/ the incomparable Catherine O'Hara; rough to see how many of them are gone too soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9dK...
John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Flaherty | SCTV | Leave it to Beaver 25th Anniversary Party
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January 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
One of my favorite SCTV sketches w/ the incomparable Catherine O'Hara; rough to see how many of them are gone too soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9dK...
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"records show that the popular game Fallout: New Vegas debuted in 2010 but this is likely a dating error because the New California Republic was founded some time in the late 2020s"
-some dumbass grad student at Tharsis University, Mars
-some dumbass grad student at Tharsis University, Mars
January 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM
"records show that the popular game Fallout: New Vegas debuted in 2010 but this is likely a dating error because the New California Republic was founded some time in the late 2020s"
-some dumbass grad student at Tharsis University, Mars
-some dumbass grad student at Tharsis University, Mars
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Remember, the difference between gender ale and gender lager is in the fermentation style: gender ale is a top, whereas gender lager is a bottom
this is officially the funniest typo I've ever made
January 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Remember, the difference between gender ale and gender lager is in the fermentation style: gender ale is a top, whereas gender lager is a bottom
Friendly reminder:
You cannot confront the monstrosity of this age with a merely individual, egoic sense of self.
You will be pulled in a thousand different directions to assert your specialness and superiority to others. It is poisonous to any sense of solidarity.
You will be pulled in a thousand different directions to assert your specialness and superiority to others. It is poisonous to any sense of solidarity.
January 30, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Friendly reminder:
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My ADHD brain is now spinning up a mid 1600s setting where you're fighting this fuckin guy, like a literal kaiju manifestation of the divine right of kings, with Leonardo Da Vinci-esque giant mechs.
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 PM
My ADHD brain is now spinning up a mid 1600s setting where you're fighting this fuckin guy, like a literal kaiju manifestation of the divine right of kings, with Leonardo Da Vinci-esque giant mechs.
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imagining a series of behind the scenes vignettes from the lord of things that are just Gandalf swearing about having had to talk people down from various acts of cowardice for hours
January 30, 2026 at 4:56 PM
imagining a series of behind the scenes vignettes from the lord of things that are just Gandalf swearing about having had to talk people down from various acts of cowardice for hours
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It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone