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The Angry Old Geek

@angryoldgeek.bsky.social
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Worked in the Egyptian Museum in San Jose CA part time (even ran Planetarium shows). Have a MA in Modern European History. Avid reader, movie watcher, Star Trek/Star Wars/Comic Books TTRPG runner. Video Game QA.

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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 2h
Not killing the passengers or the car is not flying. You have been conned if you think this is flying.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 2h
It is not even flying. It is just not crashing after making a stupid move. Not killing the passengers or the car is not flying.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h
You really believe that the same guy who can't successfully launch a rocket using 70 year old tech without it blowing up made a flying car? You are an idiot.
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Marc Bernardin @marcbernardin.bsky.social · 15h
Wanna hang out? I’m gonna be at youtube.com/kevinsmith in about 45 minutes…
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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#hadeshealthvent Insurance won't cover the new migraine med my neurologist wanted me to try and there's no generic version so it costs $800+ 🫩 I told them not to fill it because that's literally insane. I don't even have $800. And im getting used to the severity again anyway
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22h
Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 21h
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Made by @PROLIFICPENCOMICS
A ghost is at the door ask”trick or treat” little dude says trick next panel ghost does a sick ass 360 pits to chesty kick flip little dude is amazed with hands up going WOOOOOH
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23h
Planet Database xkcd.com/3311/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with shoulder-length hair sitting at a laptop with Person 2 standing behind her.] PERSON 1: I’m browsing the list of potentially habitable planets. This one is promising! Wait, no, the surface is thousands of degrees. (2) PERSON 1: This one could be a water planet! ...But it’s not dense enough to be solid. PERSON 2: Yeah, that’s a mini-Neptune. (3) PERSON 1: This one could be habitable if it has a greenhouse effect! Sadly, spectroscopy shows no atmosphere. PERSON 2: Aww. (4) PERSON 1: Here’s one in the habitable zone, 1 Earth mass, with an atmosphere! PERSON 2: Ooh, water star does it orbit? PERSON 1: ...Sol. PERSON 2: *Dammit.*
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 23h
I love the safety helmets.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Hope you feel better soon!
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Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 15/10/2026
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I just want some dems to come out and say with conviction that racism is bad and transphobia is bad and ableism is bad and homophobia is bad and fuck, it seems like almost none are doing that.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reads this and considers just turning the computer off.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/10/2026
Today is the 25th anniversary of the publication of my very first science fiction short story, over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Read it! Look at baby Scalzi doing his thing! (Note: I was not really a baby, I was, like 32. EVEN SO) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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Alien Animal Encounters
Our question this week: What is the most interesting encounter you've ever had with an alien animal species?
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Looks like a parade / dress / inspection uniform. But not an expert.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
and yet after the same things happened along with him directing the audience to attack members of the media he still got elected the first time. This is not new.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ladies it doesn’t mean shit if he would love you if you were a worm. men love worms since a small age. ask him if he would love you if you were a vampire and he came from a long lineage of vampire hunters.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I know I just have history degrees, but in the old days betraying American allies during battle (or anytime) would be called Treason. Just abandoning NATO and Europe to appease Putin is treason. I should point out Trump said that death penalty was OK again for Treason. <takes off historian hat>
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In other words Musk commited Treason for harming an American ally to help Russia. An illegal alien with acher babies is working to destroy American standing in the world. This is not the first time Musk has turned off systems to Europe. But Trump is deporting legal migrant's.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
COMIC: New Fantasy Book
PANEL 1: ARTHUR, a yellow duck, runs up to SHELDON, a ten year old boy with large glasses, laying in the grass. In ARTHUR’s mouth he holds a book.
ARTHUR: I got you a new fantasy book att he Library.
SHELDON: Ooo! What is it?

PANEL 2: ARTHUR has put the book down, while SHELDON sits up, annoyed.
ARTHUR: Does it even matter? You’ll read ANY sword ’n sorcery book.
SHELDON: How insulting! You think I’ll take any ol’ fantasy book you hand me? Whether or not it’s good?

PANEL 3: ARTHUR stands on one leg as he sings his respond. SHELDON stops his train of thought.
ARTHUR: [music notes] it has a maaaaap [music notes] of all the little kingdoms

PANEL 4: ARTHUR stands quietly, amused, as SHELDON, eyes dilated, goes nose-deep in the book. No text.

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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Crosses fingers & Toes.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dropped off my ballot this morning. Used a local official drop box. Ironically I voted as if the President was on the ballot, per his request. So I Voted all Democrat and against the "don't tax billionaire" measures. #fucktrump #impeachtrump #ivoted
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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's a deadly DORK TOWER TUESDAY! Newsy new strip up now, at the mothership: www.dorktower.com/2026/10/13/2... Reblog/Repost/Repeat, please and thank you!
Matt saying to Ken "THE PENTAGON IS GOING TO LIVE-STREAM A FIRING SQUAD EXECUTION."
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 13/10/2026
"So what do you think of Humanity?" The alien ambassador fronded. "You have fascinating quirks." "Ah, like our stamina and resilience?" "No, your stories. Many species tell stories, but you are the only ones inventing new gods." "A long time ago." "Your twentytwenties wasn't that long ago?"
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ick.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This hits differently after my reply to Gail's when did you know you were "weird" post. I'm so burned out.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
me anymore. Now people say I'm just another boring normal person. Burned out and worried about healthcare. I don't know how to be my own self weird anymore. It is exhausting.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
was also terrified at school because bullying & abuse. No matter how "normal" I tried to be the glasses always marked me as weird. I managed to pass as "normal" for work & friends for decades through hard exhausting mental self monitoring. Now I'm old burned out and alone. I don't know how to be
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I was never allowed to be myself. I was forced or bullied to be "normal". Never mind I could read well beyond my "grade" and understood concepts ideas quickly. I was told I was not applying myself but I was bored at school which kept repeating things over and over I figured out. I was also...
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
When I was 3 or 4 years old. Kids told me I was weird because I had eye glasses and had trouble keeping my balance because of the extreme correction on my glasses. Then as I got older it was my teachers saying I needed to not be weird and pay attention to what they were saying. I was never allowed..
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They can't wait to livestream shooting a muslim. It is sick.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dem comms staff: Please check your Meta security. RIGHT NOW. There's some kind of bug, and I was somehow given access back to a page for an elected official for a job I left in 2021. (I created the page originally, so I'm assuming that's how that happened?) But this official has -
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Phil Foglio @thephilfoglio.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#girlgenius #webcomics #magicthegathering Girl Genius for 10/12 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) We are back from L.A.–and I have to start grinding again before we head out to the next Magic show in Sacramento (www.laughingdragonevents.com/events/ldxp-...) What is Sacramento known for-food wise?
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I still have those in my collection. I might have to dig them up because I have no memory of them.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).
There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 12/10/2026
A dragon came to the royal castle and requested an audience with the king. "I hear," the dragon said, "that you have no princess." "So?" "So I propose you adopt me." "You're a girl?" "I could be." "Sorry. But wouldn't that bring more dragons?" The dragon fluttered her eyelashes. "I hope so."
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ummm... actors walk off of films all the time contract or no. If he "could not quit" on moral grounds he needs a new agent. Quitting mid project would have increased the positive view I have of him now not as much as before.
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Better headline: Trump Does Not Understand How the Nobel Peace Prize Works. As He Considers killing more Humans in order to get the Peace Prize. #impeachtrump
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Better Headline: Trump Violates the 1st Amendment of the American Constitution (again). Continues to pay Russia to kill Americans in Iran War (again). Both are impeachable offenses.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
COMIC: The Balrog
PANEL 1: The BALROG from Lord of the Rings, falls in a cloud of smoke and flame. Next to him is a tiny GANDALF, his staff and sword falling next to him. On either side of them are the cave walls.
BALROG: Hey sport — I noticed you haven’t said a thing while we fall. …WE GOOD?

PANEL 2: Close up on the BALROG, still falling, he holds up two thumbs up.
BALROG: Because I’m really sorry about attacking you. I should’ve known the dark fire would not avail me. Especially since you’re a… “Wielder of the Flame of Anor.” Which, honestly? I didn’t know! Sounds super cool.

PANEL 3: Still falling, the BALROG continues.
BALROG: So listen: I’m SORRY that I whacked you with my sword, and whipped you, and yelled at you. THAT IS MY BAD. But maybe we could…START FRESH?

PANEL 4: The BALROG, still falling but now facing upwards. The tiny GANDALF now stands on his chest, stabbing him with his sword.
BALROG: yeah no ok that’s fair.

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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh great, I had forgotten about that TV show. So long ago.
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
After the novel, that was pretty much what I thought would happen next.
Cover to THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN 1
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/10/2026
What I like about Bluesky is that Ukraine's bombing of the Russian Bots has no effect on traffic here, we all blocked those bots long ago
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is a really good cover of a Country song by a rap star. #oldtownroad (saw this posted by someone I follow but they had comments turned off but such a good find!!) youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds?...
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Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Old Town Road (feat. Del McCoury & Dan Tyminski)
YouTube video by Alison Brown
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The Angry Old Geek @angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NPR Forgets the whole "your next" of Trump's presidency. Better Headline: Trump moves to Violate the 1st Amendment of the American Constitution (again) An impeachable offense. #impeachtrump
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You wouldn't think the family would have to resort to money laundering.
Cover to RICHIE RICH $UCCE$$ STORIES 20
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 11/10/2026
Daily life of Ordo Mediare Armed Sisters #1 The Armed Sisters begin their day in the communal dormitories. They rise at 4 am to wash and get dressed, followed by morning prayers at 5. Having their first meal at 6 and prepare for the morning training ahead.
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
COMIC: The Ritual
This single panel comic shows a coffee barista holding out a coffee to GRAMP, an older bald man with a grey mustache, who reaches out one hand while holding his other hand to his heart.
BARISTA: In exchange for this coffee
GRAMP: I offer you a functioning adult.
TEXT BELOW: “The Ritual”

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