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Hendel Thistletop

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No matter where you go, there you are. There's nothing wrong with going nowhere, so long as you're going fast. But drink up. There's always a boom tomorrow. Dude/Dude FCKNZS

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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 11h
Was at a magic show last night, and the magician made a joke to his volunteer on stage about "this is what happens when you don't vote". The room broke out into enthusiastic applause. Maybe, just maybe, we're finally about to wake up from this fucking nightmare. 🤨🖕🍊🤡🐘
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 09/10/2026
From Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification”. Sound familiar? 🤨🖕🍊🤡🐘
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 06/10/2026
I know I keep raving about JustRead, but it just keeps getting better - 5.2 just dropped with a new look and a bunch of improvements to go with it. The steady flow of tweaks and fixes and features is just amazing. apps.apple.com/us/app/epub-...
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 06/10/2026
I’ve never been able to read it without hearing his voice anyway, finally be nice to have it coming from *outside* my head. www.fangoria.com/joe-bob-brig...
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THE LAST DRIVE-IN’s Joe Bob Briggs Has Something New For You
Joe Bob Briggs has made his first ever audiobook and we’ve got the exclusive details right here, right now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: During a rally just now, Trump invited Iran to “take out Los Angeles and San Diego,” saying it would be a “small price to pay.”
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 06/10/2026
So both Props 41 and 41 are basically designed to kill Prop 40, and will do so unless it not only passes but gets more votes than either of them. youtu.be/RNMg3cu-A0s Let's go back and review some examples of just how much a billion is, shall we? paisaudao.com/blog/how-muc... Oh, and fuck Elon. 🤨
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Prop. 40, 41 and 42 explained | California 2026 election #shorts #california #propositions
YouTube video by CalMatters
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 03/10/2026
This should be *every* parking lot in SoCal. Theme parks, malls, sports stadiums. www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202610...
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Six Flags Magic Mountain goes full power with solar carport
Power is flowing full force now from Six Flags Magic Mountain's parking lot solar canopies. The installation is the largest solar carport in California.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 02/10/2026
If you’re going to a SoCal haunt this weekend, any SoCal haunt, maybe be extra kind to the monsters out there in 100° temps wearing *layers* of foam latex and silicone and fabric (especially the ones trapped inside stuffy mazes that basically turn into ovens) for your entertainment. Seriously.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 02/10/2026
Is there *nothing* that fucking clown can't ruin? 🤨🖕🍊🤡
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If only it had been this way. Justice denied! 👇 👇 👇 👇
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 29/09/2026
Once again I’m so impressed by how quickly JustRead is constantly updated with both fixes and new features. If you read on an iDevice and feel abandoned by your current app, check it out. apps.apple.com/us/app/epub-...
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EPUB Reader - JustRead App - App Store
Download EPUB Reader - JustRead by PETR JAHODA on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like EPUB Reader - JustRead.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 26/09/2026
The problem with new Siri in iOS 27 is remembering to use it, because Siri was never particularly useful before this. 🤨
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/09/2026
COME FOR THE WEEKEND…. STAY FOREVER wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/8285029...
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 22/09/2026
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 17/09/2026
For no reason at all, thinking about the amazing opening scene of X-Men 2 with Nightcrawler again this morning. Bamf! Bamf! Bamf! youtu.be/T_sqR3qWptM
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X-men 2 - Night Crawler Attacks White House!
YouTube video by corecentrally
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 16/09/2026
Ridiculously customizable, works great with Calibre, syncs across devices, and very cool stats tab. Best of all, the developer has been *AMAZINGLY* responsive. If you’re an iOS reader, especially one that likes to maintain your own library, this is your app. apps.apple.com/us/app/epub-...
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EPUB Reader - justread App - App Store
Download EPUB Reader - justread by PETR JAHODA on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like EPUB Reader - justread.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Imagine having enough cases of bestiality in your recruits that you have to loosen hiring rules to get enough of them in.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just to be clear: It's bestiality, not beastiality. You can remember it this way: Melania Trump always says, "Be bestiality."
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 15/09/2026
“Please deposit twenty-five cents for the next three minutes.”
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 14/09/2026
Welcome to iOS 27, everyone. 😏
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Makes me wish we had one. Or, maybe, just one that isn't monumentally stupid.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wait, Russia has agreed not to hit its own refineries? God, he's so stupid . . .
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 14/09/2026
@ultimatehaunt.bsky.social’s intro talking about the origins of superstitions and why they persist in this episode is great. overcast.fm/+ABQ-mIDZla8
overcast.fm
David Bertolino — Working the Fright Shift
Season 3 of Working the Fright Shift opens with a landmark conversation recorded live at the world‑famous Halloween convention, Midsummer Scream. Ted Dougherty sits down with David Bertolino—the creat...
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 14/09/2026
Again. And again. And again. Not a parody. The actual President. Fuck him, and fuck anyone that was racist, greedy, or just gullible enough to vote for him. I'm tired of this shit.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This will be on the screen at the start of the next "Planet of the Apes" or "I Am Legend" end of the world flick
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 14/09/2026
Just watched a decade-old Elementary episode in which they foil a complex multi-year plot to plant evidence of nuclear weapons development in order to push the US into attacking Iran and risking WW3. Or, I suppose an egomanical doddering old fuck could just do it on a whim. 🤨
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 13/09/2026
Cory Doctorow talking about correlation v. causation when it comes to “AI” (or “why LLMs suck at chess”) is well worth a listen. His talks and interviews almost always are. overcast.fm/+ABBanQEneHo
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Why AI Can’t Replace You with Cory Doctorow — Factually! with Adam Conover
We’ve been told AI is supposed to be a tool for us to use. But more and more it feels like we’re the ones being used to feed the machines, before they inevitably replace us. Joining me today is author...
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 13/09/2026
Made my save against Apple shiny last year, but…
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 11/09/2026
I don't typically write about 9/11 (I don't believe I've done so since the LiveJournal days, when it occurred in the first place) but I was actually thinking about it yesterday - and not because of the usual rigmarole leading up to memorial ceremonies. No, it was because of a pedicure.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 09/09/2026
The Rat Queens are my favorite fantasy adventuring group, full stop - this from a guy legally named after one of his original D&D characters. If you've never partied with the Queens, here's your chance. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
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Rat Queens - Vengeance on Villains
From Rat Queens creators Kurtis Wiebe & Roc Upchurch - a game that the Queens always deserved! A fast-paced, co-operative deck-building tower defence game where friendship makes you stronger and villa...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
the issue isn't that Donny chose to wear jet-black roadkill atop his pumpkin head. the issue is that anyone who would voluntarily do that is too impaired to run a country. thank you for your attention to today's very strong, very powerful post like few thought possible. link is here: bit.ly/4qUncRi
so, why am I making such a big deal out of Donny wearing some fucked-up whatever-it-is on his head?

because it’s a microcosm of why Prexnit Fuckwit is so thoroughly unfit for office, that’s why. once again, he’s acted first and thought never.

he blundered into looking like a dipshit on the tarmac in Morristown, the same way he blundered into going broke running casinos, or blundered into completely botching the response to a pandemic, or blundered into an unwinnable war in Iran, or blundered into obliterating our military readiness, or blundered into economy-destroying tariffs, or blundered into defiling so many of our hallowed national institutions, or blundered into making all our allies hate us — by acting first and thinking never.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/09/2026
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.
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The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 06/09/2026
🤷‍♂️😂 music.apple.com/us/album/wel...
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Well, This Is Shit (Electric Timebomb Remix) by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq & Victor Ghastly's Electric Timebomb on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:22
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 05/09/2026
If you’re looking for a ridiculously customizable full-featured and *supported* ePub reader for iOS, especially if you have a Calibre server, take a look at justread. apps.apple.com/us/app/epub-...
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EPUB Reader - justread App - App Store
Download EPUB Reader - justread by PETR JAHODA on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like EPUB Reader - justread.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 01/09/2026
So, the backstory of B-horror movie Hungry, about hippos being imported into Louisiana to replace cattle is true? 😶 www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
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How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers
In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make "lake cow bacon"
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 30/08/2026
So hooray for Lake Ontario and all, but… It is Sunday afternoon as I write this, and I assure you MapQuest Knott’s is very much open.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 29/08/2026
Fake, but too good not to share anyway.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Immensely proud of these folks at NASA. He's using them as a prop for his bullshit and they are in no way accommodating it. He'll likely respond to this by defunding NASA, calling them "not nice people."
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 28/08/2026
You're earned at least a week as my new default nav app, MapQuest. Welcome back. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...
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Lake MAGA Tears - MapQuest
Check out my custom map where I renamed Lake Ontario to Lake MAGA Tears!
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Donny was asked to comment on Dolly Parton, so of course the stupid shit started yammering about how much she really liked him. shut the fuck up, piggy. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I compare the lives of Dolly and Donny. spoiler: he sucks. link is here: bit.ly/45MWccS
yesterday, the pants-shittingest fuckface ever to soil himself in the Oval Bordello was asked to share his thoughts on the passing of an icon.

‘me,’ he replied. ‘me me me.’

‘me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me.’
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 27/08/2026
"I hate to break it to the President, but we don't have a problem with Canada, dude. *You* have a problem with Canada. I say we let them fight it out. Donald Trump against 31 million hockey goons on the White House lawn." Fuckin' Eh, Jelly Roll. Fuckin' Eh.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 27/08/2026
Kybook 3 still works, but hasn’t been updated in forever and I’d worried about it suddenly *not* so I found justRead in the iOS App Store. So far so good, including Calibre/OPDS support!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/08/2026
If you missed it the first time around, I highly recommend listening Jad Abumrad's podcast series "Dolly Parton's America." www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton dying hits so hard. She felt like one of those figures who always was and always will be. She felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be. As beloved as her music is, it’s even better than people give it credit for. There won’t be another one like her.
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 25/08/2026
This. 🥹
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 25/08/2026
Well, fuck. Never mind her music - by all accounts, literally *all* of them, Dolly was just one of the kindest, most human humans ever. She was *universally* admired. And now she's gone, but the abomination that represents the absolute opposite of everything she was remains. *FUCK*. 🤨
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A saint like Dolly Parton dies. And a demon like Donald Trump lives. If there is a God, he doesn’t like us. 😢
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 23/08/2026
Fuck. Summer. 🤨
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Hendel Thistletop @belchingdragon.com · 22/08/2026
Had no idea this existed until it popped up in one of my horror groups this AM. Now it’s high on my watch list. youtu.be/pgtdkuNFoKk
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Is God Is | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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