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Nightmare On Spork Street
@strivingally.bsky.social
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Trying to be better. Looking at how to pick apart kyriarchy. Intersectionality = win. Same handle on the Bird Hellsite (old Hellsite posts at @archivingally.bsky.social). He/him/his.
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Ahhhh yeah you gotta switch the settings to “malevolent sentience”.
Still from an episode of The Simpsons, showing a close-up of a robot being held by someone. There’s a switch with three settings: On, Off, and Malevolent Sentience. The last one is selected.
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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One for @caseyexplosion.bsky.social 💜
The words “Blood for The Blood God” in bold yellow text on a blue background, in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign posters.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Wait a second, fucking POST SCRIPT.

I hadn’t realised Andrew Cuomo had previously posted this tweet during the campaign.

I underestimated just how well targeted that shiv was. That was Mamdani saying “Oh I *know* who your dad was. He was a great man. And you are not.”
Twitter post by Andrew Cuomo, dated the 8th of August 2025, about two months before the mayoral election where Zohran Mamadani beat him in a landslide. Text as follows: “In case you forgot, l'm Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It's just the second round.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Hahaha what a tosser.

Reminds me of the foodies on The Simpsons!
Three part gag from the foodie episode of The Simpsons: Foodies: We discovered Korean barbecue in this town. Lisa: *skeptically* Before the Koreans? Foodies: Oh sure they cook it, but they don’t *get* it.
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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First day back was always gonna be an adjustment
Interior scene of what appears to be a hotel room with a small TV and a lamp to one side on a countertop. The entire scene is covered in sprays of blood. Text at the bottom: “caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent.”
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Where have I seen that smile before …

Oh, yeah.
Pic of Zohran Mamdani from a recent campaign ad. He’s smiling at the camera. Captioned “Hope you’re well”. Photo from Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl halftime show. The infamous “Say, Drake” moment that’s become a meme: He’s striding confidently and has a big smile on his face as he holds the microphone up to his mouth.
September 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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At last, the follow-up to the classic. The bears would also like to science, please.
Classic two-panel meme. Top panel shows a group of researchers in an arctic setting, doing something with their equipment, with a penguin on the edge of frame. Caption “Hello”, as if the penguin is speaking. Bottom panel: same team but now all the researchers are looking at the penguin, who has approached closer and has his wings spread out. Again captioned as if the penguin is speaking: “Yes, I would like to science please.”
September 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Went digging and apparently the origin is disputed.

But the sentiment is certainly there in Lewis’ novel, if not that exact phrase. And it resonates way too goddamn hard right now.😬
Screenshot from an article, with the following paragraph centered: “Although no one’s actually sure that Sinclair Lewis ever wrote or said this, his 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, centers around a flag-hugging, Bible-thumping politician named Berzelius (”Buzz”) Windrip. Despite having no particular leadership skills other than the ability to mesmerize large audiences by appealing to their baser instincts (and to bully those people who aren’t so easily mesmerized), Windrip is elected President of the United States. Shortly after Windrip takes office, through a flurry of executive orders, appointments of unqualified cronies to key governmental positions, and then a declaration of martial law, Windrip quickly makes the transition from a democratically elected president to a brutal, fascist dictator. The novel’s title, It Can’t Happen Here, refers to the mindset of key characters in the novel who fail to recognize Windrip’s fascist agenda before it’s too late.”
September 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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He really is ALL OVER those files, huh.

They should have stuck with “Trump was an informant”. It was wilsly implausible but still more credible than this.
Screenshot from The Simpsons. Homer is looking at Bart’s report card and says: You know, a “D” turns into a “B” so easily. You just got greedy.
September 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Ayup, that tracks. So much respect for life and condemnation of violence.

From 2020 ( brettwilkins.com/2020/09/03/g... )
Screenshot of an article describing Clay Higgins making threats to kill Black protesters. ‘U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins came under fire Wednesday after threatening to shoot armed Black protesters in a now-deleted Facebook post. “Fair warning,” the Louisiana Republican, a former police captain, wrote in a Tuesday post that included a photo of armed Black men at a Black Lives Matter rally in Louisville, Kentucky. “I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand.”’
September 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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It’s like the classic tweet about waffles and pancakes.
Screenshot of a tweet by @BravoCoolee: “Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Reminds me of my favourite quote from Snow Crash:

(I think this is the sentiment you were getting at, @rincewind.run )
Screenshot of a Goodreads page with a quote from Snow Crash, by Neal Steohenson. The following passage is highlighted: “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.”
September 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Ahhh here is it. Thanks for the gift that keeps on giving, @kibblesmith.com !
Screenshot of a tweet from Daniel Kibblesmith. Text as follows: Outraged people love to say “How am I supposed to explain this to my child” Have you not been explaining things to your child this whole time Because that’s most of the job Are you bad at it Can they use a spoon do they try to run into traffic
August 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Oh there it is. Google-Fu eluded me for a minute there.
Screenshot of tumblr post. Quote: “pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it’s like “oh no, actually the worst villain in the series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism” and that was very brave of them.” End quote. Underneath a reply says “here is a man so heartless he had literally cut his own heart out of his chest but he’s still not as evil as the fucking east india trading company”
August 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Oh cool so all it took was a couple of years of people outsourcing their brains to computers & now they’ve convinced themselves they can’t do anything without the plagiarism bot.

When I read sci-fi stories about the machines subjugating humanity, I didn’t think it’d be this *stupid* and *voluntary”
Screenshot from a Wikipedia article about the concept of learned helplessness. “Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. In humans, learned helplessness is related to the concept of self-efficacy, the individual's belief in their innate ability to achieve goals.”
August 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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It’s fantastic and epic heartbreaking and a little weird and very compelling and a bit of a mindfuck.

All of that is a strong recommendation, by the way. 😉
An inage macro with the covers of the three Locked Tomb novels (Gideon The Ninth, Harrow The Ninth, and Nona The Ninth). Superimposed in bright bold text are the words “hey come closer I am a normal book series and you will be so happy that you read me”. Slightly hidden behind these lines, in darker print, are the words “i am going to rewire your brain - i am going to hurt you so bad”.
July 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Same energy as Fraser Anning’s first speech to Parliament, where he dropped the term “final solution” (amongst a plethora of other racist dog whistles) and then belligerently claimed ignorance later.

These assholes know exactly what they’re doing.
Screenshot from a Guardian Australia article about Senator Fraser Anning’s controversial inaugural speech to Parliament, in which he used the phrase “final solution” in relation to halting immigration of Muslim people. The following passage is highlighted: ‘With condemnation of the contribution escalating, Anning issued a statement after the speech arguing that criticism of his use of the term final solution was “an effort by the left to shut down debate”. “Claims that the words meant anything other than the “ultimate solution” to any political question is always a popular vote are simply ridiculous,” Anning said. “Anyone who actually reads them in context will realise this”.’
July 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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But wait the NYT’s sycophantic fawning said Trump launched strikes because he’s the big strong manly guy who took decisive action and did what nobody else could. Why is CNN’s sycophantic fawning about how restrained and measured he has been?

Surely state media should all be singing the same tune.
Screenshot of a post by the New York Times, linking to an article. Text of post: “News Analysis: Over the past two decades, the U.S. has used sanctions, sabotage, cyberattacks and negotiations to try to slow Iran’s long march to a nuclear weapon. In Iran, President Trump unleashed a show of military might that each of his last four predecessors had deliberately avoided.”
June 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Goddammit, don’t make me agree with Karl Stefanovic.
The “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” Onion headline/meme.
June 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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The Sesame Workshop mission statement is pretty close to exactly that!
Screenshot from the website for Sesame Workshop, the organisation responsible for producing Sesame Street. Text: “Mission Driven. Child Focused. Helping Children Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder.”
June 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Oh my lawd I am salivating now.

Reminds me of the awesome oregano fries with feta that our Zeus St Greek stores do here in Oz. They are SO GOOD.
A takeaway container full of fries, topped with a decadent amount of crumbled feta and dried oregano
May 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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How about this one?
Poster from Baz Lurhmann’s 1996 movie adaptation of Romeo + Juliet. The two leads are kissing while the two sides of the poster have lines of men opposing each other, holding guns. Poster for Jet Li’s movie “Romeo Must Die” from 2000. Li is making a martial arts pose with a fist extended to the onlooker, with a red-coloured background collage of graffiti and a woman’s face.
May 19, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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You should be proud, Peter. You’ve achieved something that’s never been done before, and nobody can ever take that away from you. That record will always be yours.

#AusPol #AustraliaVotes #SpudIsDone #IsItOn
Update from the ABC election feed: “Peter Dutton projected to be first opposition leader to ever lose seat in election By Holly Tregenza Antony Green has projected Peter Dutton to not just lose the election, but also his own seat of Dickson. His loss would leave the Coalition leaderless and represent a rebuke of his campaign. No federal opposition leader has ever lost their seat at an election. Former prime ministers, including John Howard, have lost their seat at a federal election.”
May 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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🎵 HEY (HEY) YOU (YOU)
I DON’T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND
NO WAY NO WAY
I THINK YOU NEED A NEW ONE
HEY (HEY) YOU (YOU)
I COULD BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND 🎵
Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music, singing to children on a hillside
May 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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🎵 WAKE ME UP INSIDE

WAKE ME UP INSIDE

CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK 🎵
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, singing to children on a hillside.
May 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM