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I Am A Pyrite King
@iamapyriteking.bsky.social
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Mining fools' good since before you were born. I can either tell you who I am, or show you who I am, but on social media it's tough to do both.
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A Weaver.
A painting of a scene from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, showing Titania draped over Bottom, with his ass's head, while Puck and miscellaneous forest creatures look on in merriment.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I dearly love Peter Blegvad's LEVIATHAN, but I no longer have The Book of Leviathan. It's hard to find images online, too, but here's a blurry photo of one of my favorites: part of a series in which Levi imagines the opposite of his beloved stuffie. It's hard to read, so text in Alt.
PANEL 1: "LEVIATHAN, by Peter Blegvad" "This week's Guest Host* HEGEL (Father of Dialectics!) * Guest + Host = Ghost" The ghost of Hegel, bald, bearded, and bespectacled, floats over a graveyard P2: Hegel's ghost points at a picture of Leviathan's pink stuffed bunny "Last week, Levi asked, 'What's the opposite of Bunny?' By applying rigorous dialectic logic, we can build up a character profile of a hypothetical anti-Bunny. For instance, Levi's Bunny is inanimate. So, if there is an anti-Bunny out there..." P3: Close-up of Hegel, looking sinister and drooling "IT'S ALIVE!" P4: Bunny's head and ears, seen upside down "Levi's Bunny is neither male nor female..." PS5: Hegel in tight close-up, even more sinister "So the anti-Bunny will be BOTH!" P6: a chart. Bunny: soft, small, light, safe, silent, dry, stuffed Anti-Bunny: hard, massive, heavy, lethal, noisy, wet, hungry P7: 2 detectives study huge footprints D1: "These prints are unlike any I've ever seen!" D2: "I think I'm gonna be sick!" Caption: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches toward Shepard's Bush to be born? -- W.B. Yeats" P8: Cat hisses is the foreground while Levi goes to the door to answer a colossal KNOCK KNOCK! CAT: "Don't answer it!" VOICE (behind the door) "Yoo hoo, Levi! It's your Auntie Bunny!"
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Mexpressionism!!!!
A still from Juan Bustillo Oro's DOS MONJES, showing a close-up of a mask under a hood.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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"... and also, we want to speak to you about your vehicle's extended warranty!"
Reiko answers the phone after watching the cursed videotape in RINGU
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Ay carambola.
Two five-lobed yellow fruits called starfruits, or carambola.
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Michael Palin as a waiter in MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, saying: "We're not only proud of that, we're smug about it."
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Drop someone REDHEADED 👩‍🦰🖤👨‍🦰
A giant monster named (I kid you not) Geronimon from the original ULTRAMAN TV series. He looks like a Godzilla-type kaijū, but he has criss-crossing yellow stripes on his body, a blonde beard, and bright red feathers as a crest on top of his noggin.
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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& Stimpy.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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How I greet people coming from the bad place outage:
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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To be clear, this is me:
The weird doggy-looking pig from Félicien Rops's "Temptation of Saint Anthony"
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Me, running away from my problems...
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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How I look reading your posts
Félicien Rops's 1878 painting "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", showing the bald and bearded holy man's distress as a voluptuous naked lady displaces Jesus on the cross. The INRI stop the cross is replaced by EROS. A red-clad Jester, probably the Devil, is arranging things in the background. Cherubs hover in the top right, but they are half skeletons. A pig-dog animal seems to be watching curiously from the right rear.
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man, from THE MONSTER SQUAD
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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They're on the mooooooove.

Taking jobs from hard working Americans... like *being eaten*. Make Americans Hamburger Again!
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Timer (from the "Hanker for a Hunk-a CHEESE!" commercial/PSA), wearing a cowboy hat, standing next to a piece of cartoon Swiss cheese between two vertical crackers. The cracker sandwich is labeled, ""Look! A wagon wheel!"
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Mark Hamill as Luke from STAR WARS, holding a menorah with light saber blades instead of candles. These are the Jewish Space Lasers you may have heard of.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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That makes me want a whole series about James Goon: Agent Double-O Nothing...

Goonfinger
The Man with the Golden Goon
Goonraker
Never Say Never A-Goon
Diamonds Are For Eccles (sorry! Wrong Goon!)
An illustration of The Famous Eccles, "Mad Dan", Spike Milligan's character from The Goon Show.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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OK, timeline cleanse. You need to see the new best friends. It's only been 4 days and they are inseparable.

("I chomp u." "No I chomp *u*!" >CHOMP!< 😻)
A nine month old black and white cat gently play-fights with a tiny tabby-and-white kitten on a couch cushion. The kitten is nibbling the older cat's foreleg, and his tiny paw is stuck in the older cat's mouth. The older cat is being very patient about everything.
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band:

(OK, it's a real band *playing* hell's own orchestra, but still...)
Danny Elfman as a Cab Calloway-inspired Satan & the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo as his hooded zombie Big Band in FORBIDDEN ZONE
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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What movie villain is a horrible "person" but an absolute joy to watch on screen?

Absolutely any role played by...
Franca Stoppi as the demented Mother Superior in Bruno Mattei's THE OTHER HELL
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What's that?! Elon is being roasted for his total lack of competence with pop culture references?!

I have a song for that!!!

This gives me the shameless opportunity to repost THE BALLAD OF THE BLADE RUNNER
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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My dad's beer mug was pewter with a glass bottom, so when I had a sip I could see out the bottom. I still have it.

(I should note that I did not grow up to be an alcoholic 😆. If anything, I grew up with a healthy respect for alcohol and a deep dislike of getting drunk.)
A pewter mug filled with a dark beer, sitting on a countertop.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM