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Mr. Magnifico
@mrmagnifico.bsky.social
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Father of daughters, husband of wives (well, one), son of mothers (same); just generally member of a species that's half female
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One of my relatives dropped bombs on fascists while serving in the 721st Bombardment Squadron. Their emblem was Jose Carioca, a Disney character.
Insignia of the 721st Bombardment Squadron, showing Disney character Jose Carioca riding a bomb
September 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Bye, Disney+
You deploy vast legal resources to defend your intellectual property, but when your fundamental right to free speech, and of all Americans, is attacked, you fold without a fight.
September 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I had the insight.
In-game text that reads "You have won."
March 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I keep thinking about this passage from Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" lately.
Caligula was twenty-five years old when he became Emperor. Seldom, if ever, in the history of the world has a prince been more enthusiastically acclaimed on his accession or had an easier task offered him of gratifying the modest wishes of his people, where were only for peace and security. With a bulging treasury, well-trained armies, an excellent administrative systems that needed only a little care to get it into perfect order again . . . with all these advantages . . . what a splendid chance he had of being remembered in history as "Caligula the Good", or "Caligula the WIse", or "Caligula the Saviour"! But it is idle to write in this way. For if he had been the sort of man that the people took him for, he would never have survived his brothers or been chosen by Tiberius as his successor.
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Still from the “Mel’s Rock Pile” sketch on SCTV
December 28, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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I am not convinced the Times' grant of anonymity is going to do much good here:
On the last day of the battle, thousands of miles away in Russian-occupied Ukraine, a girl celebrating her eighth birthday waited for a call from her father, Ilya Baboshkin, 33, who had left to fight in Mali. The call never came, her mother, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals for talking to Western media, told The Times.
November 1, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Image of the pokemon basculin. Text: "What genius decided this should be a water type and not a poison type? Hasn't anyone heard of toxic basculinity?"
June 3, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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I am not interested in rounding up to the nearest dollar so CVS can get a tax write-off for contributing to charity, but I would pay $20 extra to have somebody punch the CEO in the face.
Very long line to pick up prescriptions at CVS
March 6, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Uncle Fester waving to the car behind him that it's safe to pass, putting them straight in the path of a truck coming around the bend
January 24, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Umm …
January 15, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Breath of the Wild is more realistic than many people realize
"The Army supplied mostly K-rations, providing just 2,830 calories a day to men who were burning farm more energy. Famished soliders dropped grenades into rivers, skimmed the dead fish that floated to the surface and cooked them in their helmets."
January 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Boat upgrade tiers from a free-to-play mobile game

The one on the end costs 100 real-life dollars' worth of gems
A row of progressively fancier boats
December 27, 2023 at 10:06 PM
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Hates Particle Farm
A barn with a sign that says “Triangle Farm”
November 22, 2023 at 8:40 PM
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I get the sense the NYT headline writer was wearing kid gloves when typing this one:
November 18, 2023 at 5:39 PM