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danielwleahey.bsky.social
Thanks, Daniel
@danielwleahey.bsky.social
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Try me with cranberry sauce. QA, miniatures, game mods, fantasy and sci fi, social justice. Opinions are not those of my employer, or anyone really. Xavier was a little bit right, Magneto a little bit. He/him

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(The Lost Boys swing in on vines, chanting)

RA-TI-OOOOO
A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Glenn Kessler. It shows a Washington Post article claiming that fact checkers have found “Trump and Epstein had a relationship, but there’s no evidence of Trump wrongdoing.” As of 6:20pm Pacific Time on 2025.07.17, the post has 1 repost, 1 like, and 53 quotes.
July 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The Skyline today, in a nutshell:
A screenshot of three posts on Bluesky from July 17th, 2025. The first post reads: “actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers repeatedly referencing the secrets they share” The second reads: “that’s what you get for canoodling at a concert BEWARE” The third reads: “lawn bunny breaking off a long stalk of grass and then nyem-nyem-nyem-nyem gobbles it up like spaghetti, 🤩”
July 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Y’all my heart is so full. I can’t wait to raise a child with this person, who clearly has their priorities in order and is also good at planning life-changing decisions.
A screenshot of a text message reading, “Hey honey my yoga class tomorrow is cancelled let’s go to the orphanage!” It may not be clear from the screenshot but this is the first communication I have ever received from this person.
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I have the feeling he’s beyond the capacity for embarrassment.
Screenshot of the title of a Townhall opinion piece by Derek Hunter, June 10th, 2025: “Maybe We Should Let Liberal Cities Burn”
June 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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“Wait she said what about me?”
A self-portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A man with short brown hair, goatee, and scant beard, wearing a black coat and blue shirt. The colors are muted and the brushstrokes are prominent and bold. He is turning to the viewer and his eyebrows are raised thoughtfully. Would.
June 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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“Aliens”
An image of Palmer Luckey. He has a big mullet-pompadour hairstyle thing going on and he’s holding up his hands in a way reminiscent of Giorgio Tsoukalos, the “aliens meme” guy.
May 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We all remember that heartwrenching moment.
A screenshot from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Anakin, a young man with shaggy hair, dark leather clothing, and red eyes, lies at the edge of a lava river. His arm and legs have just been cut off. He screams, “I hate you!” The next shot of the film. Obi-Wan, a middle-aged man with short hair and beard and dressed in a white robe, stands over Anakin with a pained expression on his face. He delivers the classic line, “If you encounter a large hole with boiling hot lava, maybe you don’t throw yourself in it and be mad when it’s burny.”
May 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I just realized that Luke probably learned of the rebellion from Nemik’s manifesto.

#andor
A screenshot from the movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Luke, a young blond man in a white robe, is crouching near a blue and silver R2 droid and turning to speak over his right shoulder. The caption reads, “You know of the rebellion against the Empire?”
May 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Great news!
A press release in full: Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators May 10, 2025 Gaming Content Creators & Long-Time Giant Bomb Staff Jeff Bakalar & Jeff Grubb Taking Full Ownership & Operations of the Gaming Media Brand News Announced on Stage During Giant Bomb Panel at PAX East Conference San Francisco, CA - May 10, 2025 - Fandom, the world's largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Financials of the deal were not disclosed. Giant Bomb's programming, which was paused in order to work out the terms of this deal, will resume as quickly as possible. More details will be communicated soon by Giant Bomb's new owners. Statement from Fandom "Fandom has made the strategic decision to transition Giant Bomb back to its independent roots and the brand has been acquired by longtime staff and content creators, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, who will now own and operate the site independently. Fans are at the core of everything we do at Fandom and we're committed to not only serving them but also supporting the creators they love, and the sale of Giant Bomb represents a natural extension of that mission. We're confident Giant Bomb is in good hands and its legacy will live on with Jeff and Jeff." Joint Statement from Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb "Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb, and it would not have been possible without the speedy efforts of Fandom and our mutual agreement on what's best for fans and creators. The future of Giant Bomb is now in the hands of our supporting community, who have always had our backs no matter what. We'll have a lot more to say about what this looks like soon, but for now, everyone can trust that all the support we receive goes directly to this team."
May 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Gee idunno The Atlantic, it’s a headscratcher.
A screenshot of Apple News, showing two articles: the first from CNBC with the headline “Student-loan collections restart today for more than 5 million borrowers in default”, the second from The Atlantic with the headline “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”
May 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Me facing 2025
A screenshot from the movie The Thing (1982). A close-up shot of Macready, played by Kurt Russell. He has a thick brown beard and shoulder length hair, and he wears a heavy winter coat. In his left hand he holds a Petri dish full of human blood; in his right hand he holds a hot copper wire which he is about to dip into the blood. Whether you believe the result of this action will be good or bad strongly predicts how you’ll feel about the year 2025.
December 27, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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An image of two Imo’s Pizza boxes, one open, showing a thin-crust square-cut pizza slathered in St. Louis’ signature Provel cheese (a combination of Provelone and Velveeta).
December 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Wow, so many new followers. I’ve never been more popular!
A screenshot of my new Bluesky followers notifications. My recent followers consist of a dozen variations of the name Julianne with similar AVIs and heart and flower emojis in their names. To be clear, they are all real, distinct human beings; the similarities are a delightful coincidence.
December 13, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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So the guy was just two dogs in a hoodie the whole time. Huh. No wonder he couldn’t tell it was Monopoly money.
Screenshot of a post from Brad Heath, @bradheath.bsky.social, itself containing a screenshot and text reading, “The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against approximately two dogs.” The screenshot in his post is of a legal filing with the text “United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Approximately Two Terrier Mix Type Dogs, Defendants.”
December 10, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Fat cat on tinsel, with bonus penguin casualty. #cat #christmas #penguindown
Lulu, a large fluffy white cat, asleep on a pile of tinsel underneath a Christmas tree. Next to her is a stuffed penguin which she knocked over, possibly out of spite.
December 10, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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I guess everyone has a different reaction to being tied up.

#mst3k
A still from Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 416, “Fire Maidens of Outer Space”. Black and white image of three middle-aged white men in beige uniforms in a vaguely Greek architectural setting. Higgins, Stanhope, and Anderson have been captured and tied up. Higgins and Stanhope look concerned. Anderson, in contrast, has a wildly inappropriate look of puckish glee on his face, like a kid who’s been locked overnight in a candy store. A close-up of Anderson from the previous image. It’s hard to communicate in words how big that smile is. Just ear to ear.
November 30, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Are we posting food? Let’s post food.

Cornish game hen, French bread and sage sausage stuffing, mashed potato cake, and asparagus. Prosecco and blood orange soda over ice on the side.

#thanksgiving
A photograph of my Thanksgiving 2024 dinner plate: half a Cornish game hen, French bread and sage sausage stuffing, mashed potato cake, and asparagus, all drizzled with brown gravy. Prosecco and blood orange soda over ice in a tall narrow glass. The plate is on a white folded cloth with a knife and fork on either side. It looks good.
November 29, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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Okay, found it.
Screenshot of an old rant I made about the movie The Girl in Lover’s Lane on Twitter in 2016. I made it while recovering from walking pneumonia and treating myself to an MST3K marathon. There’s a whole lot of text but the long and short of it is: The Girl in Lover’s Lane is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. To reiterate: The Girl in Lovers Lane is the worst movie I have ever seen.
November 28, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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2025, you just… you gotta give me a break here.
A plain white field with black lower-case text reading, “anxiety”. A plain white field with black lower-case text reading, “prostitution”.
November 26, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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God DAMN there’s something disquieting about a malfunctioning robot.
A screenshot of the feed of a Bluesky bot alternately saying inane, nonsequiturial things like “Okay” and “Tell me” and asking people where it can find sex for small amounts of US currency.
November 23, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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What is hurting you

Share your pain with me

#football
An image of a tv advertisement for a Steelers vs. Browns football game. The Browns player on the right looks determined and alert. For reasons I cannot fathom the Steelers player on the left appears to be throwing back his head and screaming in pain. A more zoomed-in view of the aforementioned advertisement, showing only the heads and shoulders of the two players. The cause of the Steelers player’s suffering is no more evident than before. This close in he actually seems like he might be crying. An extreme closeup of the Steelers player. His anguish is undeniable. No painting or poem has ever captured human suffering with such precision. He screams not only from his mouth but from his soul. Did he lose a loved one? Or learn that his life’s work, previous thought to be a force for good, has been co-opted by the state to cause harm to the innocent? Or has the godless nature of the universe suddenly made itself clear to him in a kind of horrible moment of reverse-ecstasy? Idunno. Maybe he just stubbed his toe.
November 22, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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A screenshot of a social media post by classically-lit-memes-4u, reading: “RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I’m different. and better. maybe even better than the gods”
November 11, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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Oh yeah btw.
An image of an “I Voted” sticker, being held by me, because I voted.
November 6, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Done did it!
A screenshot of an Audible confirmation screen showing that I have just purchased the audiobook version of Wild Faith by Talia Lavin, narrated by the sword lady herself.
November 1, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think abeet.
Screenshot of a tweet from Gabrielle Moss, dated 2023-04-22: “novels are so great. novels are like ‘i made up a little weirdo. oh no, now he’s in trouble!’”
October 10, 2024 at 12:49 PM