Anguirus
@anguirus.bsky.social
Stay-at-home dad, former science teacher.
Obsessed fairly equally with #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Godzilla, and #Transformers.
He/him
Obsessed fairly equally with #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Godzilla, and #Transformers.
He/him
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This motherfuck walked into the Power Rangers Megazord and gave them all hands
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This motherfuck walked into the Power Rangers Megazord and gave them all hands
Stormtroopers were already cool and then THIS guy showed up. Was he a robot?! Hooked I was.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Stormtroopers were already cool and then THIS guy showed up. Was he a robot?! Hooked I was.
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this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
An extremely funny thing about #StarWars canon is that BOTH of Han Solo’s exes were major galactic warlords whom Palpatine himself considered threats to his dominion, whilst his martial prowess peaked at “surviving in somewhat improbable circumstances” and “flying a starship well.”
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
An extremely funny thing about #StarWars canon is that BOTH of Han Solo’s exes were major galactic warlords whom Palpatine himself considered threats to his dominion, whilst his martial prowess peaked at “surviving in somewhat improbable circumstances” and “flying a starship well.”
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
Yes, I think my exact words were “climate change and fascism/ecofascism are in a positive feedback loop.”
Credit to GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) for inspiring the discussions that led me to that cheerful thought. 🥲
Credit to GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) for inspiring the discussions that led me to that cheerful thought. 🥲
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Yes, I think my exact words were “climate change and fascism/ecofascism are in a positive feedback loop.”
Credit to GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) for inspiring the discussions that led me to that cheerful thought. 🥲
Credit to GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) for inspiring the discussions that led me to that cheerful thought. 🥲
Realizing that Olivia Nuzzi is just Londo’s 3rd wife Mariel. (Aka Death.)
Except without the composure. Or the genuine ruthlessness. Or the dignity.
“Mariel is drawn to men of power…but trust me, she burns them.”
Except without the composure. Or the genuine ruthlessness. Or the dignity.
“Mariel is drawn to men of power…but trust me, she burns them.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Realizing that Olivia Nuzzi is just Londo’s 3rd wife Mariel. (Aka Death.)
Except without the composure. Or the genuine ruthlessness. Or the dignity.
“Mariel is drawn to men of power…but trust me, she burns them.”
Except without the composure. Or the genuine ruthlessness. Or the dignity.
“Mariel is drawn to men of power…but trust me, she burns them.”
you can't trust drama-grifters
no matter what political claims they make
they only want one thing
they're the olivia nuzzis of people
no matter what political claims they make
they only want one thing
they're the olivia nuzzis of people
People in the democratic media/podcast space are just WAY too eager to rehabilitate Marjorie Taylor Green and hand it to her.
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you can't trust drama-grifters
no matter what political claims they make
they only want one thing
they're the olivia nuzzis of people
no matter what political claims they make
they only want one thing
they're the olivia nuzzis of people
Obviously this is outrageous but I don’t see it *working* which has been the story of this administration. They are committing to strategies that are not compatible with reality.
They actually believe that there is a silent fascist majority (rather than a deafening fascist minority).
They actually believe that there is a silent fascist majority (rather than a deafening fascist minority).
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Obviously this is outrageous but I don’t see it *working* which has been the story of this administration. They are committing to strategies that are not compatible with reality.
They actually believe that there is a silent fascist majority (rather than a deafening fascist minority).
They actually believe that there is a silent fascist majority (rather than a deafening fascist minority).
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My guess is that Zohran wanted Trump to like him while also not appearing like he endorses anything Trump is doing and unless I missed something mission accomplished buddy
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My guess is that Zohran wanted Trump to like him while also not appearing like he endorses anything Trump is doing and unless I missed something mission accomplished buddy
Can confirm
Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Can confirm
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The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
this is how we got DICK TRACY, THE SHADOW, THE PHANTOM, etc. after BATMAN (1989).
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
this is how we got DICK TRACY, THE SHADOW, THE PHANTOM, etc. after BATMAN (1989).
Everyone can have their own thoughts and feelings on Mamdani going to the White House
My thought is that part of speeding up the transition into Trump’s Lame Duck Era must be for people to publicly demonstrate *not* being afraid of him
My thought is that part of speeding up the transition into Trump’s Lame Duck Era must be for people to publicly demonstrate *not* being afraid of him
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Everyone can have their own thoughts and feelings on Mamdani going to the White House
My thought is that part of speeding up the transition into Trump’s Lame Duck Era must be for people to publicly demonstrate *not* being afraid of him
My thought is that part of speeding up the transition into Trump’s Lame Duck Era must be for people to publicly demonstrate *not* being afraid of him
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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Man won a narrow plurality of the vote, and immediately and very predictably started plummeting, and so many people and institutions who had no real need to go that far, even on the most cynical and cowardly of self-serving rationales, decided to chain themselves to the deck of a sinking ship.
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Man won a narrow plurality of the vote, and immediately and very predictably started plummeting, and so many people and institutions who had no real need to go that far, even on the most cynical and cowardly of self-serving rationales, decided to chain themselves to the deck of a sinking ship.
what the fuck
anyway I have patronized my local play street museum before and I will make a point of doing so again
anyway I have patronized my local play street museum before and I will make a point of doing so again
Imagine being such a ghoul that you try really hard to make a double amputee kids life more misérable.
Fuck Israel.
Fuck Israel.
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
what the fuck
anyway I have patronized my local play street museum before and I will make a point of doing so again
anyway I have patronized my local play street museum before and I will make a point of doing so again
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One of the themes of our new police state is the sheer lack of professionalism. They can't do the basics, and when challenged, double down. A dysfunctional organizational culture deeply suspicious of the society they are tasked with controlling.
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One of the themes of our new police state is the sheer lack of professionalism. They can't do the basics, and when challenged, double down. A dysfunctional organizational culture deeply suspicious of the society they are tasked with controlling.
bsky.app/profile/radl...
bsky.app/profile/radl...
From the age of 6 I always wanted to go to my friend’s house to play Super Mario 3 on his NES. My parents resisted getting an NES or SNES though they were computer gamers. Finally my other friend gifted me his NES and my mom bought me SMB3
It’s the NES, though twas almost 10 yrs old before I got it
It’s the NES, though twas almost 10 yrs old before I got it
What's your "Origin Console"?
Most gamers have many favorite systems, but there's always one that basically DEFINES you.
I'm talking about the console that flipped the switch in your mind and turned you into a life-long gamer.
So, which one is it for YOU? 💫
Most gamers have many favorite systems, but there's always one that basically DEFINES you.
I'm talking about the console that flipped the switch in your mind and turned you into a life-long gamer.
So, which one is it for YOU? 💫
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From the age of 6 I always wanted to go to my friend’s house to play Super Mario 3 on his NES. My parents resisted getting an NES or SNES though they were computer gamers. Finally my other friend gifted me his NES and my mom bought me SMB3
It’s the NES, though twas almost 10 yrs old before I got it
It’s the NES, though twas almost 10 yrs old before I got it
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In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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This is a long-to-medium-term worry, but I think the fact that we've all just internalized that immeasurably powerful people often just throw tantrums and you shouldn't take anything they say seriously is going to be catastrophic for American civic governance going forward indefinitely.
sort of underlining how dysfunctional and unfocused the administration is, the president tweets out a deadly serious allegation of sedition and calls for hanging sitting senators and the DOJ’s official course of action is to do nothing, no one’s in charge
“Oh damn, the president ordered the murder of his political opponents” is super bad and to a large extent so is “nobody under him lifted one single finger toward that goal” because who is exercising the power of the presidency at that point?
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is a long-to-medium-term worry, but I think the fact that we've all just internalized that immeasurably powerful people often just throw tantrums and you shouldn't take anything they say seriously is going to be catastrophic for American civic governance going forward indefinitely.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
This is, frankly, how Extremely Normal People get radicalized against ICE.
This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is, frankly, how Extremely Normal People get radicalized against ICE.