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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 7h

Ruin a book by adding a word: Slaughterhouse Five-O

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 18h

The best thing about Dressmaker is being passive-aggressively maliciously compliant. Some of my clients are dreadful. So I take their commission, and I make them a dress that meets all their specs, and is also godawful.

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 23h

Roman Mythical Wolves hit different.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My first colonoscopy I came out of sedation a little early while they were still removing the scope, and STG it looked like Tom Baker-era Dr. Who credits:

Could be a Dr. Who Time Tunnel (Tom Baker-era credits) or could be a colonoscopy probe being withdrawn. 50/50.

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He kinda looked like Farley Granger with his hair slicked back. She said "I'm a sucker for a fellow in a cowboy hat."

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like regular autism, but more gagh?

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After everything the trans shitposters were saying 18 months or so ago, I expected Welcome To Dorley Hall to be much more lurid. It was fine. But honestly @jeannethornton.bsky.social 's A/S/L is way more lurid, better written, and far more relatable for me. If you only crack one egg this year...

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But the skills that made them successful were graduating with a Stanford CS degree or maybe an MBA, being white, having good hair, and coming from a rich family. The AI can't replace that.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would pay extra for the seat where he drools into my lap the whole flight.

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have you played Agon? I had a good time with it Saturday.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, I mean, they have, if you spot them the "new" part, because it's just Calvinism, but stupider.

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amber, unless it's a 3290, because the 3290 beats everything.

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At some level I really respect that Sliwa, once he realized he didn't have a chance, decided, "Look, I hate Mamdani and everything he stands for, but the man actually is a New Yorker who loves the city, so fuck Cuomo."

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

137, but I think you knew that. I have a pun about the fine structure constant here but the margin is too small to contain it.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fail Safe, starring Montana Wildhack as Diaphragm Girl.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow! My adolescent insecurity would have been so much worse if I'd realized that Will Harvey was basically my age! Music Construction Set was and is fantastic. It's the reason I saved up for a Mockingboard.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an allegory about the Trump administration, isn't it?

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did he not bang enough dogs to satisfy Patel?

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"beating off a horde of furries" was RIGHT THERE.

First console, light sixer Atari 2600 (still have), first computer Commodore Vic-20 (don't).

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I hope they write better than Jeff did.

Food poisoning does have a way of putting itself behind you. Alas, hope is not a strategy and it may put itself in front of you, so you should probably move a bucket into the bathroom lest you have to make the dreaded Devil's Decision.

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One of these days I will write up "Bootleggers to Bootlickers: Changing Attitudes Towards Authority in Country Music, 1975-2025"

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I'm going to perhaps honor the spirit but break the letter: The Hungest Games.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean it worked for Jonathan Richman.

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Preincremented grandma is problematic.

This fails the "reasonable person" defense, I'm afraid.

You're in Mass Effect and should comport yourself accordingly.

I'm not sure that smiling and walking past when someone says "blow me," counts as turning down sex, but OK I guess.

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He just wants to hear people cheering for him. Whether he's helping anyone else win an election is completely irrelevant to him.

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Yes this. Although my collie also has a strong sense of Right and Wrong, so she's less dangerous than my hound, who understands door handles and, until I rigged a wire loop that quite literally requires thumbs to operate, was fond of letting himself out into the neighborhood for rambles.

That's gonna make the Weird Al parody of it extremely confusing.

I'm already governed by one. She is highly neurotic, has a very strong sense of How Things Ought To Be, and alerts her minions, loudly, if they are not that way. Honestly, it could be a lot worse.

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Retrospectively it was probably the slogan of Usenet group alt.tasteless in the 1990s.

Gotcher two cultures right here buddy.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After hearing "Going To Fennario" on Days ( @themountaingoats.bsky.social ) and then a bunch of versions of the Dead doing "Peggy-O"... ...Sweet William is William Tecumseh Sherman, isn't he? At least by the time he gets to Darnielle. "For his true love's sake, he left burnt cities in his wake."

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This is fundamentally how techdouchebros work, of course. Roko's Basilisk is just slightly-warmed-over Calvinism. Jonathan Edwards, but dumber.

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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well I mean obviously it's asymmetrical, Herman. It's a _right_ whale, not a _balanced_ whale.

Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Counterpoint: my thesis advisor always wanted to talk about how my project was going when we were both at the urinals. I dropped out of grad school, and he's dead now [*]. [*] At least the second one didn't have anything to do with the urinal thing, I swear.