Sean, aka sweaternine from the other site
@dadgumituh.bsky.social
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social The local university museum had an exhibit of pulp cover paintings. Fairly certain this is a detail from the Frazetta they had on offer; truly an excellent exhibition.
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social The local university museum had an exhibit of pulp cover paintings. Fairly certain this is a detail from the Frazetta they had on offer; truly an excellent exhibition.
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Unironically, genuinely getting scared by how difficult it is to create a parody of capitalism that isn't immediately outclowned by actual capitalists.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Unironically, genuinely getting scared by how difficult it is to create a parody of capitalism that isn't immediately outclowned by actual capitalists.
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It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's too long for Bluesky & I refuse to compromise. So here's a screenshot with the words in the alt-text.
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The sweetheart deal was the US was the global leader in technology, medicine, culture, finance and textbook science, winners of the space race and first to build a bomb to compete with the sun, and able to use colleges as soft power. In exchange, no one pretended Megan McArdle was fun at parties.
The definition of “viewpoint diversity” that figures like this promote implies *censorship* (the “must” part): curbing some forms of expression to boost others. It’s an invention of orgs who advocate government censorship of teaching/research + restrictions on protected political speech in colleges.
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The sweetheart deal was the US was the global leader in technology, medicine, culture, finance and textbook science, winners of the space race and first to build a bomb to compete with the sun, and able to use colleges as soft power. In exchange, no one pretended Megan McArdle was fun at parties.
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J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
- A partisan plan to stack the Supreme Court
- Ill-fated whistleblowers
- Billionaires directing policy
- The president directing the FBI not to investigate a scandal that implicates him
- “It’s like the Gestapo in there.”
- “Fucking P.B.S.”
THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) may as well be THE EPSTEIN FILES.
- Ill-fated whistleblowers
- Billionaires directing policy
- The president directing the FBI not to investigate a scandal that implicates him
- “It’s like the Gestapo in there.”
- “Fucking P.B.S.”
THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) may as well be THE EPSTEIN FILES.
October 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
- A partisan plan to stack the Supreme Court
- Ill-fated whistleblowers
- Billionaires directing policy
- The president directing the FBI not to investigate a scandal that implicates him
- “It’s like the Gestapo in there.”
- “Fucking P.B.S.”
THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) may as well be THE EPSTEIN FILES.
- Ill-fated whistleblowers
- Billionaires directing policy
- The president directing the FBI not to investigate a scandal that implicates him
- “It’s like the Gestapo in there.”
- “Fucking P.B.S.”
THE PELICAN BRIEF (1993) may as well be THE EPSTEIN FILES.
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Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.
March 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Just consume one more piece of bad news. A wafer-thin piece of bad news. Go ahead, what could go wrong. It's wafer-thin.
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I keep reading the Fandango listing for The Sound of Music’s 60th anniversary screening as The Sound of Music Goth Anniversary like there’s a goth version of the musical I hadn’t heard of and it’s celebrating its anniversary
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I keep reading the Fandango listing for The Sound of Music’s 60th anniversary screening as The Sound of Music Goth Anniversary like there’s a goth version of the musical I hadn’t heard of and it’s celebrating its anniversary
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It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
Four crisp panels.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...it's a better late than never DORK TOWER MONDAY! Pensive new strip up now, at the Mothership:
www.dorktower.com/2025/06/23/1...
Repost/reblog/repeat, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
www.dorktower.com/2025/06/23/1...
Repost/reblog/repeat, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
June 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Four crisp panels.
When Jarvis Cocker covers R.E.M.
June 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When Jarvis Cocker covers R.E.M.
@faceyouhate.bsky.social I have a — bear with me — video game recommendation: Immortality. I say it’s a video game; it’s just a virtual editing bay, watching clips of three lost movies. Barry Gifford is a co-screenwriter. It’s an essential entry in a microgenre I know activates us both.
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@faceyouhate.bsky.social I have a — bear with me — video game recommendation: Immortality. I say it’s a video game; it’s just a virtual editing bay, watching clips of three lost movies. Barry Gifford is a co-screenwriter. It’s an essential entry in a microgenre I know activates us both.
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The real enemy of this administration is cosmopolitanism. Whether in Los Angeles or South Africa, multiracial pluralistic democracy is a threat to them because it means their “us or them” model of the world is wrong. So they stir up trouble on purpose and gleefully lie.
Kristi Noem calls Los Angeles a “city of criminals”
“They are not city of immigrants, they are a city of criminals”
“They are not city of immigrants, they are a city of criminals”
June 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The real enemy of this administration is cosmopolitanism. Whether in Los Angeles or South Africa, multiracial pluralistic democracy is a threat to them because it means their “us or them” model of the world is wrong. So they stir up trouble on purpose and gleefully lie.
Beguiled by this. It’s not even near beer, “just” carbonated water/tea, but with assertive hops presence and legit head. I’ve never done carbonated tea, and the absolute lack of body is a huge headfake when you sip. Flavor is in that same uncanny valley as any canned soda water, but: I’ll buy again.
June 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Beguiled by this. It’s not even near beer, “just” carbonated water/tea, but with assertive hops presence and legit head. I’ve never done carbonated tea, and the absolute lack of body is a huge headfake when you sip. Flavor is in that same uncanny valley as any canned soda water, but: I’ll buy again.
@mzspress.bsky.social Customer service inquiry -- can you please chat me?
June 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@mzspress.bsky.social Customer service inquiry -- can you please chat me?
Qualitative difference between bsky and Twitter: There was a murder-suicide on my son’s campus last night.
Bsky has news about it but zero results when searching either decedent by name. Twitter has tons of “news” results for either name — many of which lead to “your computer has a virus” scams.
Bsky has news about it but zero results when searching either decedent by name. Twitter has tons of “news” results for either name — many of which lead to “your computer has a virus” scams.
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Qualitative difference between bsky and Twitter: There was a murder-suicide on my son’s campus last night.
Bsky has news about it but zero results when searching either decedent by name. Twitter has tons of “news” results for either name — many of which lead to “your computer has a virus” scams.
Bsky has news about it but zero results when searching either decedent by name. Twitter has tons of “news” results for either name — many of which lead to “your computer has a virus” scams.
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
@jrobertlennon.com I made it to page 60 of HARD GIRLS before I got the joke of the title — very nice.
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
@jrobertlennon.com I made it to page 60 of HARD GIRLS before I got the joke of the title — very nice.
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The BBC has created an alibi for Agatha Christie.
The BBC has created an electric zombie Agatha Christie in order to sell writing classes. This is stomach-churningly awful, and the sooner this stupid, useless, frankly evil bubble bursts, the better. Disgusting.
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The BBC has created an alibi for Agatha Christie.
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
Asking the real questions.
It's a worrying DORK TOWER MONDAY! Affirming new strip up now, at the mothership:
www.dorktower.com/2025/04/21/s/
Reblog/Repost/Repeat, thanks so much! (And thanks to Good Tickle Brain for the inspiration!)
www.dorktower.com/2025/04/21/s/
Reblog/Repost/Repeat, thanks so much! (And thanks to Good Tickle Brain for the inspiration!)
April 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Asking the real questions.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...
theonion.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
SHANGHAI BLUES: Pure melodrama, gorgeously restored. Evokes classic Hollywood with its “backlot” vibe, quality gags and clever complications. Walks and talks like a tearjerker but never quite quacks like one — slight miscalibrations in pace and plot (but not performance). #wifilmfest
April 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
SHANGHAI BLUES: Pure melodrama, gorgeously restored. Evokes classic Hollywood with its “backlot” vibe, quality gags and clever complications. Walks and talks like a tearjerker but never quite quacks like one — slight miscalibrations in pace and plot (but not performance). #wifilmfest