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midwestern elder millennial leftist doin' good work
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cromulentprole.bsky.social
what horrors hath god wrought
Close image of a mole cricket w/ a vaguely turtle-like head/face, creepy tilde-shaped antennae, massive pecs & hairy, claw-like front appendages about the same size as his head. Evidently he's at a rave & looking for hugs. Image of a white person's hand holding a mole cricket the size of an adult human thumb upright so we can see his ventral structures. The cricket's coloring ranges from oaky brown to very dark brown. Its face resembles a few bits of black caviar with 2 antennae that are half its body size in length. The back 2 sets of legs aren't too unlike those of other jumpy bugs, but this little guy's front legs, attached to pecs a body builder would be proud of, are swole with claw-like "paws" at the ends (for digging, one assumes). Dude probably skips leg day regularly, but he still looks terrifying. Meme: hand operating a spray bottle + "no" in red text
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
final results. my last carrier's hotspot rarely breached 30 Mbps down. sorcery!
[screenshot of google's internet speed test tool showing results of hotspot connection test: 312.2 Mbps download, 27.9 Mbps upload, 45 ms latency (server location redacted). The tool's analysis? "Your internet connection is very fast."]
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
my ISP is having a network outage, so i used my phone's hotspot today for the 1st time since switching carriers nearly 3 years ago

heavens to betsy, it's so much faster than my regular home wifi connection
[screenshot of google's internet speed test tool in dark mode, mid-download testing, showing a download speed on the connection being tested (which happens to be a fucking hotspot of all things) of 285.3 megabits per second]
October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
hit a nerve ig
[screenshot of bsky listifications.app dm] Today at 4:20 PM @ chrislongview dot bsky dot social has blocked you Now [/screenshot]
October 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
itt:
rampant strawmanning of left positions? ✔️
conspiracy theorizing? ✔️
ignoring real world barriers to ballot casting? ✔️
responding to good faith counterpoints & critique w/ insults? ✔️
blaming electoral outcomes on people w/0 institutional power? ✔️...
[screenshot of bsky post] Florida Chris • @ chrislongview dot bsky dot social | 4h | Joined Jul '23 all of this is happening because some stupid, lazy, and selfish people refused to vote for Kamala Harris. [/screenshot]
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
quoted quote skeet for the blocked:
[screenshot of referenced bsky quote skeet] politiburb • @ politiburb dot bsky dot social [tags: Liberal Apologia | Gaza Mockery | Leftist Scapegoating | Denies U.S. Genocide Role | Joined Nov '24] Okay so this is literally a GOP talking point, he's making a full throated defense for isolationism but leftistly. [center of the nesting doll of bsky screenshots] Osita Nwanevu • @ ositanwanevu dot com It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours. September 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM [/nesting doll screenshot] September 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM • Everybody can reply 72 reposts | 149 quotes | 458 likes | 10 saves [/screenshot]
September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
[scene from The Simpsons (Hurricane Neddy, I believe). Marge is seated on the family couch, with Maggie in her lap & Lisa by her side, both girls looking up at her. Marge has a concerned expression & is half-shrugging] [caption - quoting Marge] Hmm. That's true, but you shouldn't say it [/screenshot]
September 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
my god, amy. you picked NOW to offer a hand to fascists on a project to reshape the online landscape & almost certainly chill lawful speech

fascists. here. right now. the ones famously shredding the 1A in other, often violent ways & disappearing people at will

www.tampafp.com/in-wake-of-t...
[screenshot from linked webpage, highlighting added] She highlighted the need for accountability on social media, [ochre highlight] advocating for the repeal of Section 230 [/highlight] to address the role online platforms play in radicalizing individuals. [/screenshot]
September 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
holy shit he really said this

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/10/g...
[screenshot from linked webpage] [orange highlight, emphasis mine] "The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work [/highlight]: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate - never through violence. Honest disagreement makes us [...] [/screenshot]
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
incredible (tw: excuses for transphobia)

bsky.app/profile/dyna...
[screenshot of linked bsky comment thread] ‪dynasluyter.bsky.social · ‪@ dynasluyter dot bsky dot social‬ Sorry, not everyone can see your pronouns on a tiny screen or they may be there audio only. In those instances your appearance and voice will override any pronouns you present. This is another reason why pronoun politics fails. September 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM ‪utility grade beef council 🍞[bread emoji]🌹[rose emoji] 🍉 [watermelon emoji] ‬· ‪@ cromulentprole dot bsky dot social‬ · now what part of dex's statement makes you think this was all just a mistake caused by technological limitations? was it that they held up a big sign w/ their pronouns after several "oopsies" (& eyerolls) by other caucus members? was it that another attendee announced her "pronouns are black queen"? ‪utility grade beef council 🍞[bread emoji]🌹[rose emoji] 🍉 [watermelon emoji] ‬· ‪@ cromulentprole dot bsky dot social‬ · now this ain't abt the limits of remote meetings or "pronoun politics" (w/e tf that is) it's abt basic courtesy & inclusion being absent from the feminist(!) caucus of a party we're all told is pro-respect & inclusion, whose entrenched power dynamics are causing dfl to rot from the head down [/screenshot]
September 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
found a filthy microscopic germ on bsky, have we?
Scene from the Simpsons' "$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" episode (S5/E10). Features a close-up of Smithers' bespectacled face, covered in filthy germs (visible only to Mr. Burns), each saying in unison in teeny tiny quavering voices: FREEMASONS RUN THE COUNTRY! /scene
September 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
posting choice bits for no particular reason
[screenshot 1 from article in quote skeet] South Korean prosecutors in separate cases have indicted former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo for aiding and abetting former President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law last year, and the ex-president's wife, Kim Keon-hee, for bribery and other charges. [/screenshot] [screenshot 2 from article in quote skeet] Han had been under investigation by a team of special prosecutors for several weeks, according to media reports. Former First Lady Kim was also indicted on charges stemming from her alleged participation in a stock manipulation scheme and acceptance of gifts from the controversial Unification Church, among other activities. [/screenshot] [screenshot 3 from article in quote skeet] Kim and her ex-president husband have been arrested and are in jail, with Yoon already undergoing trial on charges that include insurrection for his attempt to impose military rule. His wife had been the subject of numerous high-profile scandals, some dating back more than 15 years, which overshadowed his turbulent presidency and inflicted political damage on him and his conservative People Power Party (PPP). Yoon was formally impeached in April. [/screenshot] [screenshot 4 from article in quote skeet] The June 3 election was later won by the liberal Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung, who had livestreamed himself climbing over the walls of South Korea's National Assembly to vote down the martial law declared by Yoon. [/screenshot]
August 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
"better things aren't possible" rears its head again

fuck we're never getting out of here alive
[screenshot of bsky post & reply] [OP] Kim Wexler's Ponytail❤❤❤❤ @ madisonkittay dot bsky dot social Leftists' accelerationist "burn it all down" revolution bleating is just Rapture fan fiction. August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM [31 reposts, 2 quotes, 128 likes] [reply] sjoyner1965.bsky.social @ sjoyner1965 dot bsky dot social | 2h This post perfectly summarizes it [image: screenshot of some non-bsky post, no alt text provided:] answersfromvanaheim Hot take of the day: a worrying number of leftists are actually just Evangelical Christians with the serial numbers filed off The world is [strikethrough] sinful [/st] a capitalist hellscape but we just have to wait until the [strikethrough] Second Coming [/st] the Revolution happens when everything will be magically fixed. Any attempt to make actual progress makes you a [strikethrough] lukewarm Christian [/st] liberal anything less than [strikethrough] the Apocalypse [/st] the Revolution (which we are forever waiting for btw) is completely useless. Also consuming certain media or makin certain lifestyle choices is [strikethrough] sinful and unchristian [/st] bad praxis. [/image] [1 comment, 6 reposts, 27 likes] [/screenshot]
August 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
now: schumer, jeffries & gillibrand are smol beans no one listens to, so their smears & disdain for mamdani don't matter (+ be nice to newsom, his posts fight fascism!)

2 mos. ago: the nebulous "far left" (w/ 0 institutional power) caused millions of voters to stay home in '24. somehow.

lol. lmao.
[screenshot of partial bsky post replies involving yours truly & @ johngpettus dot bsky dot social] utility grade beef council [bread emoji] [rose emoji] [watermelon emoji] • 15h i wouldn't call national dem party leadership *from mamdani's own state* refusing to endorse him & suggesting he's an antisemite "insignificant." [1 comment, 3 likes] John Pettus • 14h It's completely insignificant. He's going to get elected, easily with votes of all kinds of Dems. And nobody is following whoever is saying that. If people fall apart because someone criticizes them with words and that hurts their feelings then they probably shouldn't be in the political arena. [1 comment] [/screenshot] [screenshot of bsky post from @ johngpettus dot bsky dot social, 2 mos. old] We can never defeat fascism with the far left attacking organized opposition to fascism from the rest of the left. We just can't win with the far left causing 10 million fewer Americans not to vote for Kamala Harris because <not pure on issue I really care about>. [/screenshot]
August 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
OMG THE STICK BOOK PEOPLE FOUND ME bsky.app/profile/stic...
[screenshot (dark mode) of reply to the quoted bsky post] Stick Nation @sticknation.bsky.social [& to the right, a greyed-out Following button, bec I hit the blue Follow button more or less immediately upon seeing this reply] 🪵 [log emoji] 🫡 [salute emoji] --- August 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM 1 like [it was me] [/screenshot]
August 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
found out this exists while hunting for the perfect stick to put in my silly meme
(screenshot: details from single google image search result) Penguin Random House --- [image: a book cover rendering over a partly-white and partly light blue-to-brown soft ombre background. The book is a walnut shade of brown & resembles a topside view of a tree stump. A photo in the center of the cover shows a white person's arm gripping a *wonderous* stick in desert surroundings—bright blue sky w/ happy tufts of clouds & mountains in the distance. [image, con't: above the photo in whitish, non-threatening, sans serif font is the title: STICKS [image, con't: below the photo in a smaller, more serious serif font of the same color: A COLLECTION OF STICKS & THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, FROM THE FOUNDERS OF STICK NATION LOGAN JUGLER & BOONE HOGG] [/image] --- (search result details continue) Sticks by Logan Jugler, Boone Hogg: 9780593837528 ... Images may be subject to copyright. Learn More [blue "Visit >" button appears to the right] (/screenshot)
August 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
Image of Marge Simpson, from the popular "I just think they're neat" scene in one of the episodes (I forget which off the dome) that's since been reborn as an internet meme. EXCEPT! this time, instead of holding up a neat potato, Marge is holding up a neat stick. (image isn't captioned)
August 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
[img of scene from The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XII). In a Hogwarts-esque classroom, Bart, sporting a Harry Potter-esque cloak and an annoyed expression, holds up a green frog/human hybrid-type creature with warts, a crown, bloodshot bulgy eyes, light green vomit around his mouth & dripping down his front/chest, looking miserable] Human/Frog: (gurgling) "Every moment I live is agony." [/img]
August 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
[img still from The Simpsons. Bart is standing outside in a neighborhood, with a street and a brownish-yellow house appearing in the background, a neutral expression on his face & eyes cast down as though something lower than him. Bart speaks!] Bart: Juh? [/img]
August 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
accurate. was even successful against a gop incumbent in omaha fucking* nebraska's last mayoral race. www.them.us/story/john-e...
[screenshot from linked story] But though Ewing and the Nebraska Dems pushed back against the Stothert camp's accusations, they also did not distance themselves from trans people, as other Democratic candidates like Colin Allred did in 2024. On May 2, Ewing held a Q&A at Omaha gay bar Flixx hosted by local drag queen Jackie Oh Kennedy. And only a few days before the election, the Nebraska Dems posted an image to X declaring that "Jean is focused on potties," featuring an edited image of Stothert's face poking underneath a bathroom stall. ("Ultimately, Jean would rather focus on potties, while John focuses on fixing potholes," Nebraska Democratic Party Executive Director Precious McKesson wrote in a May 8 press release.) [screenshot of tweet from Nebraska Democratic Party (@NebraskaDems)] Economics are at the top of people's minds, including potholes all over Omaha. Ewing will make lives better by focusing on issues that impact all of us. Jean Stothert and her allies are sending hateful mail and pushing creepy bathroom bills. Vote John Ewing on May 13. [img of campaign ad by Ewing. Simple 2-photo layout on a red background, w/a white "Nebraska Democrats" logo in upper-right corner. 1st photo is captioned: "Jean is focused on potties" & the text is superimposed on a photoshopped (not ai!) image from the perspective of someone in jeans & orange Crocs seated in a grimy bathroom stall, w/ Stothert's coiffed head & disapproving face peeking at them from under the stall door. 2nd photo is captioned: "John is focused on fixing potholes" in text to the left of & just slightly overlapping an image of a pothole big enough to bust a strut & filled w/street runoff, w/ a cutout of Ewing in suit & tie slightly overlapping it from the right side.] [/img] 7:27 PM May 10, 2025 2,913 Views [/screenshot]
August 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
fun, but at times horrifying.
August 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
moments like these make iowa fandom a real roller coaster:
Slow motion clip from the 2019 ¡El Assico! (Iowa vs. Iowa State's annual college football game) showing the famous Iowa State muffed punt. ISU punt returner (#9) prepares to catch the ball, and a UI defender (#18) attempting to catch up to #9 is knocked hard off his path by another ISU player (#2). ISU #2's effort caused him to bump into & knock over ISU #9, causing the punted ball to bounce off ISU #9's helmet to the turf as a live ball. This resulted in a UI win in Ames (ISU's home turf) that year.
August 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
the quantity & diversity of ways this is being read incorrectly is a sight to behold
[screenshot: sampling of bsky replies to OP] Jean @ jymorrison3162.bsky.social • 10h How do you explain Vance Boelter? Also, the number one threat to democracy is white supremacists, including the one in the White House. The number one threat to children is guns. (4 likes) --- Dee Severe • @ deesevere.bsky.social • 10h You're kidding right? (3 likes) --- Verde @ angeloak1.bsky.social • 11h Has everything to do with the GOP not supporting mental health initiatives and gun control. Sit down troll bot. (1 comment 3 likes) [/screenshot]
July 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
cromulentprole.bsky.social
oh sweet! mcsweeney's is in the em & en dash appreciators club too

bsky.app/profile/crom...
[screenshot of linked bsky posts] [1 of 2] utility grade beef council • @cromulentprole.bsky.s... • 2mo feeling pissed that use of the em-dash has basically been co-opted by Ilms. --- [2 of 2] utility grade beef council • @cromulentprole.bsky.s... • 2mo i get why people see them in a post & assume a copy-paste job from chatgpt. as a punctuation lover & proponent, i just hate that my fave way to demonstrate a related aside in a sentence has become the maker's mark for ai. [/screenshot]
July 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM