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I guess my question is, what's he doing about it? The guy's got enough money to have real power, plus he's a name in the biz, there are definitely things he could do to head this off or blunt the impact. But is he? I say, d'you want a Butlerian Jihad? Because this is how you set up for one.

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TOAD ORGY My next groove-metal band.

Heh. Nope. She never sided with the bullies or the squares. Always kind, always polite, pretty much never neutral.

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💕 Zal is quite the grand old man here! I remember seeing vids of him raising a clutch of baby emus years ago.

Learned Edmund is back! And gnoles! I need to buy this book.

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Yeaaahhh, I got familiar with SVN at my last software job but git is apparently the thing these days. Probably just as well I'm not in the field any more. 🙁

I knew I was Officially An Old Guy when I heard The Clash in the grocery store. Not the Muzak version. And, sadly, not Lost In The Supermarket, either; IIRC it was Should I Stay Or Should I Go and I almost went. My eldest son has experienced this with Breaking Benjamin. Time accelerates.

That's... sacreligious, I think.

And- an important point for an oft-unsupervised lizard-friendly kid- they bite a *lot less* than alligator lizards. As I have found. 😆

I certainly #FoundThatLizard - love those little guys! Western Fence Lizards have been a fave since I was eleven or twelve.

Needs a Daniel Craig guest spot as icing on the cake- but yes, this is lovely.

I think that's their point, although they'll pretend it's a coincidence. Schrodinger's Nazi, simultaneously making a deliberate callback to the Thirties and also just coincidentally sounding like that, depending on who notices.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yeah, those twelve words in the TPUSA OP are doing the work of fourteen there, too. Every accusation a confession and in this case a bonus dogwhistle- or is it more of a shout? 🤬

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If nothing else, online culture has demonstrated the existence of a whole crap-ton of terrible, selfish, love-lost people, so you've got all kinds of nominally real-world scenarios to work with. Break legs. Lots of legs. So many broken mangled legs. ... wait.

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Colin Gerbode @brainguy63.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Call me an extremist but many of our current national ills can be traced back to our failure to fully support Reconstruction. That and not prosecuting Nixon have led to (waves hands) this. Going forward we gotta deal with the racial thing, and we gotta go hard on rule of law.

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all your patty are belong to us

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But did he have the ALF pogs?

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Self-awareness is woke, apparently.

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Yeah, something something Venn overlap something. And the assholes can and do appropriate the same language we use.

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Honestly, the animated Batman films (and show) are up at the top of the rankings. The writers really got the character.

Ugghhh, I gotta go over that in the next couple days. What a clown car. Swalwell's still on there, too. 🤬

Sounds like something the Dem leadership would say.

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Not gonna lie, his "clean house" is giving some unpleasant vibes. Like, the ethnic cleaning kind. What the fuck do I know though, I'm just a lefty kiwi-with-googly-eyes.

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Ahh! The detail that lets the other details fall into place. I had thought taxidermy might have been involved, but a ceramic squirrel is much better.

... how does one manage that? Without getting bitten or clawed to death, that is, never mind the squirrel's general lack of stabbiness.

Yeah, that stuff definitely has the "celebration of life now that it's over" look to it. But with stars and stripes! 😂

😍 Every time I sit at my desk a cat jumps into my lap. It can make typing... interesting.

That certainly puts his take on Il Douche into perspective, doesn't it?

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Shouting? Or yawning? Who can say.

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Heh, right down to the unsettling noise!

... and one might just possibly think that PERHAPS a smart guy who'd been to, say, Harvard, might be able to draw the requisite connections despite the near-inevitable Smart Pundit Guy Temptation to sanewash everything our Dingbat-In-Chief does. But one would apparently be wrong.

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"President Donald Trump blamed his ally's condition on Democrats" Our skills in necromancy and the black arts are legendary, I'll admit. But we've been expending all our mystic might to keep Chuck Schumer's undead career shambling along. 🤷‍♂️

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Oooh, a ZOG reference, surely this is the clear-headed, rational, completely not prejudiced in any way leadership that California needs. 🙄 It's not even an *original* bit of bigotry. Not a speck of imagination in the whole tirade.

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"A casual observer"... One would have to be more than a little bit "casual" to believe that, I think. Casual to the point of "unserious", maybe.

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Oh FFS, after Trump single-handedly ran the nuclear agreement through the shredder, bombed Syria, *and* hired John Bolton to run the State Department I was expecting an attack in his *first* term. And Dickless here thought This Guy was gonna have a rational, measured foreign policy? BASED ON WHAT?

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Comet should've been happy with his brief affair with Loki, is all I'm saying.

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