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Youtube essayist and occasional convention panelist. Popping off non-sequitors into the void.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 22m
I think I'm just wired differently, but so many activists seem to think that the challenge is "getting the message out there" rather than "cutting through the noise, avoiding being ignorable".
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h
Stole this meme in 2022
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The accurate statement of Trump's "acumen" is that he nearly bungled two elections that should've been layups and that a different Republican could have won 2020 (that was the phase where most world leaders were seeing a boost rather than the late-pandemic era).
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Three websites. (1) Millennial poasters who left old Twitter and bounced off Mastodon; (2) MSNBC retirees graduating from Facebook; (3) Brazilians
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gonna start running Polymarket bets on "where did my Roomba get stuck this time?" (today was new, wedged between a cabinet and the patio door).
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A thought on AI p-doom stuff is that Logic is a bounded concept. The doomers assume a scenario where logic is taken to its extreme conclusions but capital-L Logic only functions within the boundaries it was created for.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
imagine a man who is cleaner than clean, before whom Mr. Clean himself would weep with jealousy.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan headquarters, ~ 2015 "What is your pitch, Mr. Kojima?" "Naked. Norman. Reedus."
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's not impossible this or that Democratic politician won't throw trans people under the bus. But the fact you all were screaming that the actual literal transsexual in Congress was three Ronald Reagans in a trenchcoat makes it all background noise after a point, so I'll just get mad if it happens.
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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I heard this was a yuri anime but they didn't need to be this blatant about it (Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games)
screenshot of an anime where one of the characters in frame is wearing a shirt that says "I hate testes" in English, the subtitles say "I'm fine. I threw up once a week studying for entrance exams too."
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This week on "Do Explain the Joke:" Old Tom, Real Old Tom, Dead Tom explain how meeting the audience's expectations can be just as good as subverting them.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lowkey "Strategic Bombing Works" is the worst myth to come out of WWII.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/08/2026
you can’t control where glonzo goes and these fools really ought to know that
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On Friday We Dance
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Peacemaker Opening Opening Dance
ALT: Peacemaker Opening Opening Dance
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
DC Elseworlds where Superman was named after the Soulja Boy song and not the other way around.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cleaning out Google Photos and Discord is busted right now so let's pick out some winners. Starting in early 2014 there are several of these when I was doing Smash Bros Wii U/3DS roster bets.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There were no Italians before the 19th century (before the 1790s if you want to get pedantic), just people who spoke Italian.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it wouldn't solve all of america's problems but legalizing non-dealer models of car sales would probably defang a lot of the GOP donor class
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
some thoughts on this week's My Adventures With Superman, current episode spoilers ahead, talking about how this Cinnamon Roll of a character has terrible anxiety:
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#Otakon 2026 cosplay pics thread. 1 and 2: Marvel Rivals Magik and a delightful couple playing Robin and Brook (post-3D2Y) from One Piece.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Time for a periodic Cleaning of My Screenshots Folder in Windows. Looks like the last time I did this I stopped at the beginning of April, 2025.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
pop quiz, what do the people of Taiwan want?
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My take on "Bloodless Quant" is that there is an is/ought distinction that can be played for bad faith both by economists and their detractors. Economics describes systems and models how the system acts under different circumstances. This can be used for "just world fallacy" purposes/
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
channeling Steven Wright: "My doc prescribed these anxiety pills, and yup, they give me anxiety."
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What if Marley from Marley and Me and Mac from Mac and Me and Dupree from You Me and Dupree got in a fight?
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Ike Makos @ikemakos.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is perhaps the most Ur-Trump Scheme possible: demanding payments that you have no means of collecting in exchange for services you have no means or intention of providing
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Alternatively get someone who's very charismatic and trusted by people on the social left and have them run on economic populism and never bring up idpol once. The ideal here is to avoid having to have people do struggle sessions for either the center or the left
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Welcome to Detroit home of the Big Fist
A sculpture of a giant black metal fist near a public intersection near the Detroit waterfront
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Teens in church unnerved after bald pastor very pointedly reads 2 Kings chapter 2 while an animal in a cage covered in sackcloth snorts and growls.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Too damn hot to do anything today: anyone got TV/movie recs?
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Pitching a Lenin-themed weekly planner labeled "What is to be Done"
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Always Sunny moment that popped in my head just now: "Su casa es no mas, su vida es *no mas*. Somos extremos!"
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh look out, it's some cringe lib singing about voting. Someone tell The Onion staff.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Monica Rambeaux (Captain Marvel II) also a cop originally and SHIELD in the MCU.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
free idea: Juche Demon Hunters. Soft power coup for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Cregger's Barbarian needed one scene deleted to really step up: the scene where AJ talks with his friend at the bar and admits to the broad strokes of what he's been accused of.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
youtu.be/4XzmEzgyl_g - new video about Andor and the interplay between hard power and consent of the governed.
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Andor and the Problem With Power
YouTube video by Left Below
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My only friend is Jesus. We hang out by the circle K chatting up the hookers and when the cops come by he changes our malt into water until the heat's off.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The year is 2026. Male-on-male rape is the only form of sex considered straight by the authorities of masculinity. (trying to fit this Platner stuff in with other bizarre fantasies and hangups of my supposed Alphas).
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Joe Gannon @jmgannon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This UFC thing along with the failed concert series and an unsolvable war, blocked drone-port/ballroom, no slush fund, is looking more and more like an act 3 denouement in the making.. a collision of horribles for demented donny.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
You know how Fox News' mission was so that no Nixon Resignation would have to happen again? Well the current brouhaha in Texas is aimed at "A Roy Moore cannot lose to a Doug Jones ever again"
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 28/05/2026
a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes
ARGENTINA | Tech billionaire Peter Thiel relocates to Argentina, citing
concerns about the U.S. future and shared ideology with leadership.
(NYT)
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Future President James Garfield at the first official Decoration Day, Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 1868: "But, thanks be to God, this arena of rebellion and slavery is a scene of violence and crime no longer!"
Seen from the western slope of our Capitol, in direction, distance, and appearance, this spot is not unlike the Vatican Mount; though the river that flows at our feet is larger than a hundred Tibers. Seven years ago, this was the home of one who lifted his sword against the life of his country, and who became the great Imperator of the rebellion. The soil beneath our feet was watered by the tears of slaves, in whose hearts the sight of yonder proud Capitol awakened no pride and inspired no hope. The face of the goddess that crowns it was turned towards the sea and not towards them. But, thanks be to God, this arena of rebellion and slavery is a scene of violence and crime no longer! This will be forever the sacred mountain of our Capital. Here is our temple; its pavement is the sepulcher of heroic hearts; its dome, the bending heaven; its altar candles, the watching stars.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 22/05/2026
i don’t think this is any formal theory of the US, but my own personal understanding of our history is that large chunks of the US have been mad with the desire for new and more, but that large parts of our problems come from the deep despair of getting what you want, and finding it sawdust to eat.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I am very much not a "why bother voting for Democrats" guy, but sometimes they try so hard to make me one.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law, and the country becomes a holding pen. Whoo-ee this is good stuff betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
betterdonkey.substack.com
The VRA Was the Nice Version
SCOTUS has forced our hands, and now patience is our enemy.
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