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The Mad Wizard David
@darkprimus.bsky.social
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Once more, with feeling.
Trying to make the best of this damned situation.
he/him
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Post something random or you'll have an awful November
A photograph of a chameleon with a slightly grumpy and contemptuous look holding a (toy) battle-axe
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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This falsified smear campaign masquerading as "scoop" alone should be enough to disqualify Bari Weiss from any journalistic outlet with actual dignity and standards.

She doesn't care about facts or the truth, all she cares about is advancing a myriad of odious ideologies.
"Moral panics don’t require accuracy. They require momentum. And The Free Press provided that momentum by publishing a first-person account that hit all the right emotional notes — troubled kids, worried whistleblower, doctors playing God — without doing the basic journalism of verifying whether any of it was true."
October 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Went to the zoo and lucked into seeing the baby giraffe the very first day he was out of the paddock.
A photograph of two giraffes in an outdoor enclosure. The one to the left is very obviously a juvenile, being much smaller than its mother.
September 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Y'know, credit where it's due - the algorithm ALMOST got there.
A search for "Orientalism" on Wikipedia with no results found, but an algorithmic suggestion for the entry "Naboo Queen (restaurant)"
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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The Librarian from Terry Prachett's Discworld.
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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You're gonna end up on a watch-list.
A rakugaki parodying the Kiss Players artwork of Optimus Prime, with Sparkplug Witwicky replacing the anime moeblob. Artist unknown, I saved this image sixteen years ago.
August 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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My G-Saviour collection grows today thanks to @giantrobotfm.bsky.social !
A photograph of my copy of the G-Saviour movie on DVD, my copy of the G-Saviour PS2 game, my copy of the G-Saviour official soundtrack on CD, and my copy of the Giant Robot FM G-Saviour Zine.
July 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I didn't select any of the series where I only watched a couple of episodes before dropping. I dunno if that's going with or going against the intended spirit of the thing, but that's how I'm rolling.
Anime Sedai bingo sheet that's making the rounds. I've watched 38 of the 227 anime listed. There are a few more listed that I watched a couple episodes of and dropped, but I decided to only select series where I actually watched the whole thing. The series on the list I have watched are: Death Note, Code Geass, Haruhi (both 06 & 09), Lucky Star, Gurren Lagan, Baccano, Gundam 00, Zetsubou-Sensei, Zoku Zetsubo-Sensei, Toradora, Spice & Wolf, K-ON, Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Owarimonogatari, Durarara, Oreimo (and Oreimo 2), Steins;Gate, Nichijou, Madoka, Daily Lives of High School Boys, Psycho-Pass, Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Shirobako, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Space Dandy, Shirobako, One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100, Little Witch Academia, Violent Evergarden, Vinland Saga, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, Bocchi the Rock, Frieren, and The Apothecary Diaries
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It's like someone turned this into a truck
Grinning Chad meme image.
April 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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When your "new strategy" is to abandon vulnerable populations who are being intentionally targeted for harm, maybe don't describe fighting for them as a "distraction" like "chasing shiny objects." Maybe don't say "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu" when you're the one setting the table.
The strategy will test Democrats' ability to break through in a cluttered and rapidly evolving information environment. It will also clash with the wishes of some progressive members and activist groups, who want to make a firm stand against Trump’s aggressive migrant deportations and his rollback of transgender rights. But postelection surveys indicate that apart from dissatisfaction with inflation, those two issues fueled Trump’s win as he cast Democrats as out of touch with ordinary voters. They point to a 50-page document circulated by the House Budget Committee, first reported by Punchbowl News, that outlines a bevy of spending cuts — including to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and the SNAP program — to help finance its agenda for tax breaks, immigration funding and more. “As the saying goes, ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.’ So, it’s no surprise from looking at Donald Trump’s cabinet of millionaires and billionaires that America’s middle class is on the menu,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement responding to the document. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, a member of the Democratic leadership team, begrudgingly admitted Trump is talented at distracting his critics by making them chase shiny objects. This time, he said, the resistance needs to focus on the GOP economic agenda.
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I think those might be from the official G-Gaviour manga, which is just a re-telling of the film itself.

The Gundam Wiki has images of the main G-Saviour cast in manga form, if you want to see their glow-ups.
A collection of Masahisa Suzuki illustrations from the official G-Saviour manga. See if you can recognize all the characters and scenes from the film!
January 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Tricky words, or just brain fog? Eh, maybe 50-50 on that.
Daily Quordle 1078, (clockwise from top-left) completed in 4, 9, 6, and 5 turns. Weekly Quordle Challenge 81, (clockwise from top-left) completed in 5, 7, 3, and 6 turns.
January 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Some mean combos here, with enough shared letters that figuring out what consonants to use was almost as much luck as skill.
Completed Daily Quordle 1067, done in (clockwise from upper-left) 9, 5, 4, & 6 turns. Completed Weekly Quordle Challenge 79, done in (clockwise from upper-left) 8, 6, 7, & 9 turns.
December 26, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Been tired with holiday crunch, but I managed to eke out a victory here.
Daily Quordle 1060, completed in (clockwise from top left) 9, 8, 5, and 7 turns. Weekly Quordle 78, completed (clockwise from top left) in 3, 7, 4, and 8 turns.
December 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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I made this skeet and this happened IMMEDIATELY

The bots are out and about
A screenshot of three accounts following me and one account liking my skeet mere seconds after I made it, which makes me suspect these are bots and not actual people's accounts.
December 6, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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When the timeline lines up just right:
A screenshot of Coop's skeet with the picture of an intentionally mis-transformed Cyclonus figure, with a Birdperhour skeet directly below it featuring a picture of a burrowing owl tilting its head almost completely upside down in a quizzical fashion.
December 6, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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I wonder what made them change their mind on setting a limit on only covering anesthesia for a set amount of time during a surgery, a policy that was so cartoonishly monstrous you would be excused for thinking it was parody.
Screenshot of a Tweet from Axios from earlier today, reading: "BREAKING: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield calls off decision to call anesthesia for surgical patients" I wonder what motivated them to change their mind on that monstrous policy decision? 🤔
December 5, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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It's always an adventure, seeing what's left advertising on Twitter.
Screenshot of a paid advertisement on Twitter. The advertisement is from an account called UnBanned. "GET UNBANNED FROM COD and fully recover your account!" the ad proclaims, with a link to a "COD UNBAN TOOL," a product which appeals only to cheaters and bigots, because why else would you have your Call of Duty account banned?
November 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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STOP ✋ If you are reading this, you've reached a Pokémon check point. You're now obligated to share your favorite Pokémon.

Bulbasaur is Pokemon #001 for a reason. My boy is perfection.
Bulbasaur. My perfect son.
October 18, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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Oh, neat.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #677,732!
September 17, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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Another Sunday stuck with not enough to do, another Sunday knocking out a Quordle.
Daily Quordle 965, completed (clockwise from top-left) in 8, 3, 4, and 6 turns. Weekly Quordle 64, completed (clockwise from top-left) in 3, 6, 8, and 7 turns.
September 15, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Don't think THAT'LL be happening again any time soon. 😎
Weekly Quordle Challenge 63. Going clockwise from top-left, the worst have been solved in 1, 5, 3, and 7 turns. That's right, the top-left word was gotten first try.
September 6, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Okay, so I thought for a moment and... I may have found a solution.

This means I'm good for a while longer... right?

(Christ, I need to clean my bookshelves too. THAT'S not happening today.)
A media shelf, previously entirely filled with anime DVDs and BDs, now with significantly more space available in it after a number of boxsets have been removed from the shelves and put on top of the unit itself.
August 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Me: Okay, maybe I need to move all my Gundam DVDs/BDs to another shelf so I can fit the anime I've acquired over the last couple of years on my anime shelf.

My anime shelf, after shelving the new anime: No more, please 😭
A media shelf unit completely filled by anime DVDs and BDs (to be fair there are a couple boxsets of CDs on the bottom as well, but the bottom shelf can't fit a BD case upright anyway)
August 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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I was on fire with this morning's Quordle, so I assume that's all my brain's got for the rest of the day.
Daily Quordle 932. Puzzle completed, going clockwise from top-left, in 3, 5, 4, and 6 turns. Weekly Quordle Challenge 60. Puzzle completed, clockwise from top-left, in 5, 7, 4, and 9 turns.
August 13, 2024 at 2:01 PM