Thaddeus McCollum
@wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social
Ex-Floridian nerd dad in the Cincinnati suburbs.
Likes: Family, Music, Video Games, Baseball, Art, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Hiking, Birdwatching.
Dislikes: Obeying in Advance, Football, Starlings.
Likes: Family, Music, Video Games, Baseball, Art, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Hiking, Birdwatching.
Dislikes: Obeying in Advance, Football, Starlings.
I can remember a time when the World Series, a Springsteen album and a Springsteen biopic all happening on the same day would have been celebrated like the Fourth of July, Pt. II. #dadsky
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I can remember a time when the World Series, a Springsteen album and a Springsteen biopic all happening on the same day would have been celebrated like the Fourth of July, Pt. II. #dadsky
If a government only serves the interests of 10% of the population, it's not so much a "government" as it is an "occupying force."
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If a government only serves the interests of 10% of the population, it's not so much a "government" as it is an "occupying force."
Culture is wasted on the rich.
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
October 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Culture is wasted on the rich.
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
If you grab a 3-month Xbox Game Pass card now at the old price, then cancel the recurring billing, your subscription will end in January - right after the holidays - which is when you were gonna be making resolutions anyway. Set yourself up for success. #cancel #xbox #gamepass
October 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I was literally just talking to my therapist a couple of hours ago about how important X-Men were to my moral development, and why I've made a point to introduce my kid to the same principles.
To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement.
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I was literally just talking to my therapist a couple of hours ago about how important X-Men were to my moral development, and why I've made a point to introduce my kid to the same principles.
I like how @davidmarquez.bsky.social put the speaker out-of-panel here to let you know that's @gailsimone.bsky.social 's voice, not the mayor's.
August 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I like how @davidmarquez.bsky.social put the speaker out-of-panel here to let you know that's @gailsimone.bsky.social 's voice, not the mayor's.
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i was told that when it’s the end of the world as we know it that i would feel fine
liars
liars
February 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
i was told that when it’s the end of the world as we know it that i would feel fine
liars
liars
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From "Newsrooms Need to Get Tougher on All That Lying" by Richard Tofel. dicktofel.substack.com/p/newsrooms-...
July 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
From "Newsrooms Need to Get Tougher on All That Lying" by Richard Tofel. dicktofel.substack.com/p/newsrooms-...
Nothing will remind you of the fragility of existence quite like having to wait two days for an A/C repair.
July 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Nothing will remind you of the fragility of existence quite like having to wait two days for an A/C repair.
Replace "some users" with "Lex Luthor's monkeys" for a more honest headline.
Just a reminder that literally nothing can happen - anonymous comments made on Facebook! - and you can write a big negative story about a politician if you don't like them and have it blasted across social media with a negative photo choice
Across various private New York Facebook groups viewed by CNN – such as those for residents of the Upper East Side – some users have anonymously discussed potential plans to move out of the city following Zohran Mamdani’s primary win. cnn.it/3IpkOjr
July 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Replace "some users" with "Lex Luthor's monkeys" for a more honest headline.
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Taking solace in baseball, beer, hot dogs and Hamilton today. It's important to keep in mind that we're more than just our shitty government.
July 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Taking solace in baseball, beer, hot dogs and Hamilton today. It's important to keep in mind that we're more than just our shitty government.
I didn't make it, but this playlist is giving me life on this Third of July, which I suspect will one day be referred to by historians as America's last day.
Anti-4th of July
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July 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I didn't make it, but this playlist is giving me life on this Third of July, which I suspect will one day be referred to by historians as America's last day.
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Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.
July 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
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What a privilege it is to live in a country where we have rarely known what it is like to fear being killed by any other government but our own.
June 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What a privilege it is to live in a country where we have rarely known what it is like to fear being killed by any other government but our own.
I hope when we think of them years down the line, we won't have one good thing to say.
I hope they cut themselves shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long
The pundits insist they'll rebound the stock prices
We're pretty sure they're all wrong
I hope this beef lasts forever
I hope the worst isn't over
I hope that Tesla disowns him
I hope I never get sober
I hope it bleeds all day long
The pundits insist they'll rebound the stock prices
We're pretty sure they're all wrong
I hope this beef lasts forever
I hope the worst isn't over
I hope that Tesla disowns him
I hope I never get sober
June 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I hope when we think of them years down the line, we won't have one good thing to say.
Boy, it's really starting to feel like it's time to go buy a gun.
April 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Boy, it's really starting to feel like it's time to go buy a gun.
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I know I'm not the only person doing this, but I pulled up the Declaration of Independence and these are stirring words of grievance...
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I know I'm not the only person doing this, but I pulled up the Declaration of Independence and these are stirring words of grievance...
Roller coaster! Of stooooocks. Roller coaster! Ah hoo hoo hoo!
The market's like! A roller coaster, baby baby!
Don't wanna ride!
(All apologies to the Ohio Players.)
The market's like! A roller coaster, baby baby!
Don't wanna ride!
(All apologies to the Ohio Players.)
April 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Roller coaster! Of stooooocks. Roller coaster! Ah hoo hoo hoo!
The market's like! A roller coaster, baby baby!
Don't wanna ride!
(All apologies to the Ohio Players.)
The market's like! A roller coaster, baby baby!
Don't wanna ride!
(All apologies to the Ohio Players.)
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Any researcher who still thinks we all lived in egalitarian societies until the invention of agriculture started a species-wide “fall from grace” into inequality should really be in the theology department, as this idea simply has nothing to do with science or evidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
March 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Any researcher who still thinks we all lived in egalitarian societies until the invention of agriculture started a species-wide “fall from grace” into inequality should really be in the theology department, as this idea simply has nothing to do with science or evidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm pretty sure "Cream of Wormtongue" was already in your lexicon, @cabanarama.bsky.social, but probably not for the same reason.
March 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'm pretty sure "Cream of Wormtongue" was already in your lexicon, @cabanarama.bsky.social, but probably not for the same reason.
Every now and then I think about how confident we were about putting the words "Worst Year Ever" under a picture of a dumpster fire on the cover of our End of Year issue back in 2016.
Cheekface – We Need a Bigger Dumpster (lyric video)
YouTube video by Cheekface
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March 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Every now and then I think about how confident we were about putting the words "Worst Year Ever" under a picture of a dumpster fire on the cover of our End of Year issue back in 2016.