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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band: Metalloidica

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year, blueskyers! Hope it's a good one.

A small white stuffed yeti with a happy smiling face sits on a brown velour couch cushion. Did I mention he's smiling?

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I know it's a regional thing on the other side of the country but if a dude defends a Nazi tat then that speaks to both his judgment when he got it and his emotional maturity and priorities right now. OK, you were a teenage edgelord. Did you grow the fuck up? Not enough to own it and get rid of it.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I noticed (with some gratitude) the blocklist of Fed agencies that just set up here. Just went through a similar thing over on FB. The Admin is making a social-media putsch, to salvage some relevance I guess. Time for blocking.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

There is a difference between “this serves as a distraction” and “this was created solely as a distraction” that apparently some folks have difficulty with. A thing can serve multiple purposes.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Regardless of party or ideology, launching bombing raids with neither direct provocation nor Congressional approval should be grounds for impeachment. The President doesn't have the authority to start a war on his own whim, full stop. If Biden or Obama had done this, there would be howls.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The "inherent authority" argument can be extended to literally anything, making the President an unchecked dictator. Pretty sure that's not what the Constitution is all about. Authoritarians always claim to act for the State, or for the People, but they reject any authority but their own.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! I'm about halfway through Alexandra Fuller's memoir of growing up in post-colonial Africa (Rhodesia and Zambia, so far), "Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight". It's rough, and thought-provoking.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

OK, here's mine- Don't let society convince you that you're a bad guy or that you don't need them any more. Umm. Well then. 😬

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

1/12 Like a lot of people I've been hearing and thinking about the recent revelations that Neil Gaiman is apparently a rather nasty abusive sex-pest. I'm a fan of his work, and worse Corey knew him and considered him a friend, so it hits kind of hard.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Happy muppet-dog wishes everyone a joyful holiday season! (Yes, he got gifts too)

A small fluffy white dog winks at the camera, tongue hanging out playfully.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I gotta buy this- for myself at very least. I enjoy her work way too much 😜

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This looks fun. Pick a movie, *one* actor stays in, the rest are replaced by Muppets. Kelly's Heroes, Donald Sutherland stays.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I don't want to be a good person. I want to do good things, if I know what the good thing IS. But if I hurt someone by accident or through carelessness, I darn well should own it, apologize, try to fix it and do better, not weasel out by claiming I'm a "good person". I'd rather do the right thing.

Image is a 3D rendering of a fist shoving a large gold word "LOVE" at the camera.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you want good blocklist fodder just drop into any well-connected account's post about trans issues and bingo, target-rich environment. Most of these chuds haven't even posted any of their own stuff; they're just here to make noise on legit posts. BLOCK DON'T ENGAGE. youtu.be/PzHLPnGuVSQ?...

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Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio)

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've got a bunch of her pins- they're solidly made, great colors, and funny as heck. "Meatball pythons", "Unicorny", Mothman, it's all good.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Not that I usually look for people to block but these jumped out at me.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

These skeets make me chuckle skeetily.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

“But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags that time could not decay I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet Democracy is coming to the USA” — Leonard Cohen

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Voted a few days ago, but I wanted to keep the vibe going and maybe make some *good* history on this damned timeline, for a change.

Picture shows an oval blue sticker with an American flag superimposed, with the words “I Voted” in white all-caps across the top.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

It's early voting season and some places may try to make that hard for you (hope not!) Just in case, here's a place to get solid info, and help if it's needed.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

This shirt speaks to me- or for me, either one.

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Stop Project 2025 Comic @stopproject25comic.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Hi. We’re a group of comic book writers & artists who are furious about Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation’s plan to consolidate power under authoritarian rule. So we made a bunch of comics to explain their agenda and move you to vote against it. stopproject2025comic.org

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Stop Project 2025 Comic

Trump's Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. Don’t let it do either. Read on, then vote.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Make a movie better by adding lmao "We're gonna need a bigger boat, lmao"

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

In the interest of a mature and robust civic culture and debates over matters of public interest, fuck this guy and fuck you if you vote for him.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

This is a good idea. Liking a post is fine but doesn't increase its reach or anything (bsky's rules not mine.)

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

It's a damned shame that The Simpsons isn't what it used to be, but I know a guest star that can catapult them right back to relevance. All they need is the right couch gag.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Ya know, it's a really nice feeling to think that we could actually make some GOOD history in November, instead of just heading off the other kind. I'm all in for defeating Proj2025 and the Orange Nuisance, don't get me wrong. It's just gonna be all the sweeter to vote the first woman into the WH.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

OK, it takes no real insight to say that Political Violence Is Bad, but for the party that wears AR-15 pins and puts Punisher stickers on their trucks and has a "promising candidate" state out loud in public that "some people need killing" to ask sane people to tone down the rhetoric is... ironic.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Combining film titles- a fave pastime! The Man Who Would Be King Kong A Hard Day's Night Of The Living Dead Moby Dick Tracy

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Prompt: "Make band bready" Can't believe nobody's done Bred Zeppelin yet, but OK

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Hey, sure, I'll bite. Do the thing if you like. Pronouns: He/him Height: 5'7" and shrinking Shoe size: 10W Smoke: nope Tattoos: none yet, one planned Piercings: left ear Fave drink: nonalc is an Arnie Palmer, alcoholic prolly vodka/grapefruit or a mai tai for fancy. Water's OK too.

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 17/06/2024

Anyway probably if you think you have any trans people who take T following you, please be kind and repost this. It is the first I've heard about it and I had to seek it out myself, I'd have been on this two weeks ago if I knew

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Grief is like dust. It'll build up and then sit there not doing much until you stir it up, then it gets all over everything. Looking for a card this morning, I sorted through stuff and brought back memories and, well. There was actual dust too, I'm not a great housekeeper, and the analogy hit me.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

A political opinion. Take it as you will. (text ended up longer than the allotted 300 characters, try as I might to trim it.)

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"I'm not gonna get angry if someone doesn't vote for Biden over Gaza, I get that.
But if anyone just *refuses to vote*, they're spoiled dickheads. There's down-ticket races. We need Congress not to be run by assholes. We need as many statehouses as we can get.
Make the symbolic protest against Biden if you must but if you don't show up at all you can kiss my rational pragmatic ass."

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

OK, you're going to be a vampire (I hope this is voluntary!)- who's turning you?

Image is a screencap from the film "Vampire's Kiss", shows Jennifer Beals in black lingerie with fangs out.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

They say you can tell a lot about a person from these categories: Eggs: Scrambled moist (I SAID IT) Steak: Not any more, BBQ/tandoori chicken for me Milk: Whole, cream w/coffee Alcohol: Meh, beer's OK, rum or vodka very occasionally Warm Drink: Hot chocolate, coffee with everything, or black tea

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

OK, Jack Dorsey says people left Twitter for Bsky, great, then they asked for & got mod tools, sure, and wait, that was *bad*? Who was this thing made for again? Is this Jack's Walled Garden, or is it for actual people to use? Fuck off back to Twitter, JD. Enjoy the Nazis.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

So I am given to understand that the cicadas are emerging from their long sleep. Soon the woods will ring.

(3D render) A cicada stands on two of its legs while vigorously playing a white electric guitar with the other four. Next to the shredding cicada, a speaker stack rocks back and forth while an amplifier bounces atop it.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Welcome to Bluesky, we have rules here: You can't get what you want 'Til you know what you want.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Regarding DEA's pearl-clutching about potential ADHD medication addiction- it bears remembering that DEA itself was a Nixon creation built to prosecute the 'War On Drugs', aka "we'd like racism that sounds more like law enforcement, please". Those chumps have been on the wrong side since the get-go.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Final cat pun on this Friday before Caturday- Cataract. The influence of a certain fantasy trilogy is apparent. www.deviantart.com/brainguy63/a...

(3D render) A waterfall cascades down a rocky cliff face. At the top, on either side, stands a massive statue of a cat.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Cat pun for Thursday- Catwalk. There were a bunch of ways I could have gone with this one and I sort of feel like I took an easy out by setting up a runway-style catwalk. I blame Right Said Fred. www.deviantart.com/brainguy63/a...

(3D render) In a dimly-lit space, a crowd sits watching a spotlit grey cat walk nonchalantly down a runway.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Cat pun for Wednesday is Cathode. No cats were harmed in the making of this image. www.deviantart.com/brainguy63/a...

(3D render) Two vacuum tubes stand by themselves, each containing a cat curled up inside.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Apropos of a post I just saw (link below) it strikes me that a big chunk of actual human art lies in overcoming constraints life has imposed (including self-created ones) and incorporating them into the work. Another thing "AI" pretty much by definition can't do. bsky.app/profile/life...

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

ICYMI, I have a new novella out! You can read the entire thing for free at @reactorsff.bsky.social.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

It occurred to me just now that I missed my cat pun for Monday. Sorry about that. For today, I give you Caterwaul. www.deviantart.com/brainguy63/a...

(3D render) A masonry wall stretches back out of frame. Cacti and desert plants grow at its base. Atop the wall, a Siamese cat looks back at the viewer, while at the wall's base a black cat rears up as if to try to climb.

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