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Ian

@brocktoon.bsky.social
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Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication. stuckness.ghost.io

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 12h
Ian's thoughts on the moral weight of *letting people know* what media you watch, loudly, and that it is Good is the juice. That's an omnidirectional thing politically. Outside some extreme examples (you read the Turner Diaries) I don't think your media diet says much of anything about You actually.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/10/2026
It's a dark and dystopian line of thought - the reduction of our moral weight in the universe to a balance sheet showing which content we've contributed view counts to
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/10/2026
It's YouTube, you can go watch whatever cancelled person you want, no one is going to know. But that's not enough, right? People need to be reassured that doing this counts as being a good person, mainly because there's probably not much else to count
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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's me.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Michael Cera doing a deliberately half assed Brando impression in The Return is absolutely sending me and the kid
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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
[0004882] Alright so I am unable to run the DwarfFortress.exe program
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My brother just sheepishly texted me that enough time has passed that he no longer clings to his inexplicable hatred of Morphine.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIf...
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Morphine - Cocoon (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Morphine (Official)
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What do you mean there's a long lost Morphine EP releasing from the archives?!?!?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A glorious bit of How It Works here, being said openly in public
Alex Wickham € @alexwickham
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Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5
UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City's punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter
They consider the Premier League's actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information
The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City's Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have a simple thesis: Isaac Holman in his Baby Dave guise is the Millennial poet laureate. I mean this with everything I have. Nobody articulates the class of living within the swirl of dreariness, absurdity, and beauty like the does. New song, I listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6B...
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Wings
YouTube video by Baby Dave - Topic
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not about the bunny
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is really worth noting that this is AFTER one of the great moral panics of our time. The outsized focus on Piker is one of the most astroturfed media events of the 21st century, conjuring up dozens and dozens of hours of purely negative coverage over months, and it has not moved people an inch.
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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No one can challenge me!
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Twin Peaks the Return is so good
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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our latest update gives you a glimpse of what a GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition character looks like. Special thanks @milonogiannis.com for making Hyperlynx look as cool as she does. gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Promotional image of a GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition character called Hyperlynx, including illustrations of young woman in a makeshift futuristic superhero costume by Giannis Milonogiannis. Game statistics are on the left of the page. Layout and graphic design by Chris Vermeren, game stats and text by Paul Vermeren.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again and again, crisis of communication, not a crisis of consciousness. We can't talk to one another. We can't talk to one another. We can't talk to one another.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A screenshot from Peep Show edited to show Pep Guardiola saying "The secret ingredient is crime."
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Put some Dijon mustard on leftover hotdogs because I want to feel fancy
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had a player do a casual rape reference at the TTRPG table. I said we aren't doing that here. Uncomfortable silence. Woman who played thanked me. Nobody ever mentioned it again, but the reference never happened again either. Player in question later cheated on his wife w/ a 25 years younger woman.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Like Liam, it's tough to navigate observing that men really hate women without sounding like a rube or, maybe worse, making a disingenuous one of the good ones pitch but it's true and it really does sometimes stop me in my tracks.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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90's Computer Games Box Art @90scompgamesboxart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
King of Dragon Pass (1999)
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
finally, a good threads post
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's happening. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Newcastle friends embark on 20-year board game battle
James Purcell and Andy Taeger are confident their friendship will survive the test.
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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
RIP Bruno Kramm, remarkable frontman of Das Ich. Not only was he behind the best music of the circa-1990 Neue Deutsche Todeskunst moment, but he put his money where his mouth was, running for office as official Pirate Party Germany candidate. Nobody quite like him.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the question of "are you alive?" is ultimately a political question about "are you someone to whom I am obligated?"
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean if you are a philosopher worth your salt you know the thinking/consciousness question is just a deflection that tries to frame a political question of personhood as a metaphysical question of the philosophy of mind
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I also want to revise by replacing Curb with PEN15
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Middle aged parents missing having a baby around: post a picture of you with a baby. Straight up, have to break the discourse. I'll start with two of my favorite photos:
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnuf...
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THROWN /// BODEGA
YouTube video by BODEGA NYC
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Sleaford Mods - Discourse
YouTube video by Sleaford Mods
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me walking into my next interview
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I want a big plate of buffalo wings
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
Wait you guys are getting job interviews?
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As an island of one I'm gonna wear flip flops to my next interview and be the change I want to see
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The discourse hurricane betwen iced coffee (bsky is two weeks late to this one it's been burning up elsewhere) and bar masking is here, intense, and nobody's going to remember a thing about it this time next week.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peter Hook
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Aaron Lerner @aaronclerner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It seems unlikely Manchester City will be punished in a way that adequately addresses almost a decade of systemic cheating used not only to win silverware but also to build an illegitimate foundation as a platform for continued success. But this is a modicum of vindication.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man, good for Hemme here.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Adding something longer to the pile for later but any discussion of Warhammer has to heavily consider the specific logistical and financial networks it's implicated in. Stock pressures, the CCG mixed with digital DLC release model is under pressure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLKr...
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Are FOREVER Products GONE For WARHAMMER?
YouTube video by Lords of War Games and Hobbies
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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[0009517] Plump helmet men try to become necromancers
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