UndEd Grabianowski
@robotviking.bsky.social
Writist. Stardog Champion. Rock singer (exSpacelord). You may know me from Stuff You Should Know. Bylines: Wirecutter/NYT/io9/Nightmare/Apex/more. Need a writer, researcher, or vocalist? DMs open.
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo, NY
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Our new song produced by @facudotcom.bsky.social debuted Halloween. Theme is 'introductions' and first impressions can be Brutal. Shadows need light to exist, but on the dancefloor you only need to be: you. #musicsky #frenchtouch #futurefunk #musiciansky
youtu.be/08aLG48rfpk?...
youtu.be/08aLG48rfpk?...
BRUTAL -an addendum on Brut- feat. Delorian Tokes
YouTube video by LAPOPBRUT
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Our new song produced by @facudotcom.bsky.social debuted Halloween. Theme is 'introductions' and first impressions can be Brutal. Shadows need light to exist, but on the dancefloor you only need to be: you. #musicsky #frenchtouch #futurefunk #musiciansky
youtu.be/08aLG48rfpk?...
youtu.be/08aLG48rfpk?...
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To tip the balance of power in the NYS Assembly from neoliberal Center to progressive Left, we must win ~7 more primaries.
IMO, our best pick-up opportunity in Western NY this cycle lies in AD-149, where @bojak4assembly.bsky.social is running to replace Jon Rivera.
Please follow and support Adam🙏
IMO, our best pick-up opportunity in Western NY this cycle lies in AD-149, where @bojak4assembly.bsky.social is running to replace Jon Rivera.
Please follow and support Adam🙏
NO CONTRACT? NO COFFEE.
Today, I stood with local #Starbucks workers at their practice picket, in anticipation of their national strike vote next week. If workers vote to strike, I will be alongside them as they stand up to corporate greed.
Today, I stood with local #Starbucks workers at their practice picket, in anticipation of their national strike vote next week. If workers vote to strike, I will be alongside them as they stand up to corporate greed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
To tip the balance of power in the NYS Assembly from neoliberal Center to progressive Left, we must win ~7 more primaries.
IMO, our best pick-up opportunity in Western NY this cycle lies in AD-149, where @bojak4assembly.bsky.social is running to replace Jon Rivera.
Please follow and support Adam🙏
IMO, our best pick-up opportunity in Western NY this cycle lies in AD-149, where @bojak4assembly.bsky.social is running to replace Jon Rivera.
Please follow and support Adam🙏
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I'm having a hard time placing my WICKED: FOR GOOD review, so to the masses I go: I have forgotten more about the play and novel than most people will ever know to begin with, and I would be a huge asset to your outlet.
I'll happily pub on my own, of course, but being paid is also nice!
I'll happily pub on my own, of course, but being paid is also nice!
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm having a hard time placing my WICKED: FOR GOOD review, so to the masses I go: I have forgotten more about the play and novel than most people will ever know to begin with, and I would be a huge asset to your outlet.
I'll happily pub on my own, of course, but being paid is also nice!
I'll happily pub on my own, of course, but being paid is also nice!
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Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
Fairly certain I'd end up in a fistfight with Harlan Ellison.
I asked this before over at The Old Place and the answers delighted me. So again:
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Fairly certain I'd end up in a fistfight with Harlan Ellison.
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The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Digital ID cards could be a disaster in the UK and beyond
The British government isn't the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says Annalee Newitz
www.newscientist.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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You know how fun it is to grab a random stick and throw it in a river and just watch where it floats? Let's crowdfund a project to radio tag 10 logs, drop in them in Lake Superior, and build a website so we can track them all. We'll pick log teams and see who goes over Niagara Falls first.
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
You know how fun it is to grab a random stick and throw it in a river and just watch where it floats? Let's crowdfund a project to radio tag 10 logs, drop in them in Lake Superior, and build a website so we can track them all. We'll pick log teams and see who goes over Niagara Falls first.
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I'm convinced that the rodeo is only popular because it's the only sport where you might see a clown die.
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I'm convinced that the rodeo is only popular because it's the only sport where you might see a clown die.
Happy Halloween, friends. 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Happy Halloween, friends. 🎃
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I had this argument with someone at a party recently, but when I said "it's a portmanteau of BIO-graphical PIC-ture" I sold him the first syllable stress.
Everyone talks about biopics. But how do they say “biopic”?
It’s One of Our Most Controversial Genres. But Even More Controversial Is How You Pronounce It.
We have reached Peak Biopic—but still no one agrees on how you say the word.
slate.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I had this argument with someone at a party recently, but when I said "it's a portmanteau of BIO-graphical PIC-ture" I sold him the first syllable stress.
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East bound and down, loaded up with monkeys
We gonna do what they say can't be done
(combine 3 highly pathogenic viruses in one animal)
We've got nowhere to go cause the truck just tipped over
They're east bound, just watch those monkeys run
We gonna do what they say can't be done
(combine 3 highly pathogenic viruses in one animal)
We've got nowhere to go cause the truck just tipped over
They're east bound, just watch those monkeys run
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
East bound and down, loaded up with monkeys
We gonna do what they say can't be done
(combine 3 highly pathogenic viruses in one animal)
We've got nowhere to go cause the truck just tipped over
They're east bound, just watch those monkeys run
We gonna do what they say can't be done
(combine 3 highly pathogenic viruses in one animal)
We've got nowhere to go cause the truck just tipped over
They're east bound, just watch those monkeys run
Just a reminder, your favorite incredibly thorough researcher and expository writer (we'll assume for the sake of argument that that's me) is looking for full-time work, but open to freelance work too.
Also a published writer of horror and fantasy fiction, with experience in tabletop RPG design.
Also a published writer of horror and fantasy fiction, with experience in tabletop RPG design.
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just a reminder, your favorite incredibly thorough researcher and expository writer (we'll assume for the sake of argument that that's me) is looking for full-time work, but open to freelance work too.
Also a published writer of horror and fantasy fiction, with experience in tabletop RPG design.
Also a published writer of horror and fantasy fiction, with experience in tabletop RPG design.
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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I really honestly think there's something very beautiful about telling your daughter she doesn't have to defend you. To be that confident in accepting that you were wrong and that it was shitty of you, and to do better. That kind of vulnerability moves me. And it's from one of the dorks in ICP.
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I really honestly think there's something very beautiful about telling your daughter she doesn't have to defend you. To be that confident in accepting that you were wrong and that it was shitty of you, and to do better. That kind of vulnerability moves me. And it's from one of the dorks in ICP.
If the top post of your deep dive thread includes the phrase buckle up, I ain't reading that, hoss.
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If the top post of your deep dive thread includes the phrase buckle up, I ain't reading that, hoss.
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Insurance companies are greed machines. Without government intervention, they'll take you for all you're worth and leave you to die, because profit extraction is their only goal. When people lack health care, not only do they suffer—we *all* lose access to their talents, their ideas, their presence.
October 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Insurance companies are greed machines. Without government intervention, they'll take you for all you're worth and leave you to die, because profit extraction is their only goal. When people lack health care, not only do they suffer—we *all* lose access to their talents, their ideas, their presence.
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IT'S TIME!
💪Jump into the ring to help reprint World Wide Wrestling, the premier ttrpg of pro wrestling narration action!
📙Debuting a Hardcover Edition for the first time ever!
🤼 New Gimmick art, play aid materials, and more!
Thanks for everything, friends!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
💪Jump into the ring to help reprint World Wide Wrestling, the premier ttrpg of pro wrestling narration action!
📙Debuting a Hardcover Edition for the first time ever!
🤼 New Gimmick art, play aid materials, and more!
Thanks for everything, friends!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged
Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!
www.kickstarter.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
IT'S TIME!
💪Jump into the ring to help reprint World Wide Wrestling, the premier ttrpg of pro wrestling narration action!
📙Debuting a Hardcover Edition for the first time ever!
🤼 New Gimmick art, play aid materials, and more!
Thanks for everything, friends!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
💪Jump into the ring to help reprint World Wide Wrestling, the premier ttrpg of pro wrestling narration action!
📙Debuting a Hardcover Edition for the first time ever!
🤼 New Gimmick art, play aid materials, and more!
Thanks for everything, friends!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
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I need more folks to know that Brooke Smith of Silence of the Lambs fame (she's instructed to put the lotion in the basket) was a member of the 1980s New York Hardcore scene and a photographer who documented that scene prolifically. She has a book called Sunday Matinee, which is absolutely stunning.
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I need more folks to know that Brooke Smith of Silence of the Lambs fame (she's instructed to put the lotion in the basket) was a member of the 1980s New York Hardcore scene and a photographer who documented that scene prolifically. She has a book called Sunday Matinee, which is absolutely stunning.
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“Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWIl, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined”
August 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWIl, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined”