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algo-chasing psy-op, hi-concept reality-based ventures. when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty (but we stay silly though.) “[T]he misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed– the bitterness of those who fear the way of human progress.”

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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 01/10/2026
I really don't want to miss @miniminuteman.bsky.social in Boston, but this con crud from #LasVegasClocktowercon has me feeling pretty rough, and even masked I am not sure that I should subject strangers to it. 😔 🤧
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 29/09/2026
Dear airlines: I hope one day that the checked baggage upcharge problem (which you created, and which makes us all hate one another, but especially you) is regulated out of existence. Until that day, I'll keep sticking my bag in the bin three rows up, because the one by my seat is already full.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 27/09/2026
I feel like you can tell #LasVegasClocktowercon is the real deal because so many people stay the full day on Sunday (in-spite of travel expense.) #MagiciansGamblersAndDrunks
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/09/2026
Confronted by the horrors of an early-morning existential revelation that Wahlburgers is a semi-successful airport restaurant chain. Is this what it is, to be from New England? Say hello to your mother from me.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 23/09/2026
So just double-checking: I specifically pre-ordered a signed copy through not-Amazon, but am not receiving one after all, because my beloved @bookshop.org seems to have gotten just completely hosed by their distributor? This era of late capitalism sure is accursed! I hate it here!!
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 21/09/2026
A drinking straw has only one hole (though I will concede: that singular hole has openings at either end.) All opinions other than this one are wrong.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 17/09/2026
Sam Altman is trying to kill me, specifically.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 15/09/2026
On this week's episode, @hankgreen.bsky.social making his wife Katherine (and himself) laugh breathlessly about Jance Dance Vance's real names (or lack thereof) is honestly such a good bit. Marriage goals. #piples
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 13/09/2026
My viewpoint has evolved: let's not settle for merely abolishing ICE. Let's dissolve DHS altogether.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 11/09/2026
Acting like what's happened is any more serious than the President promising every American a pony if the Republicans retain control of the legislative branch in the midterms is journalistic malpractice. How will it work? It won't. Also Mitch McConnell will ride in on the back of a unicorn, I bet!
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/09/2026
Hey @willa.bsky.social ! I wanted to congratulate you on this week's episode of Decoder Ring. Truly, a staggering work of speculative fiction! In which you breathlessly discuss the history of podcasting– repeatedly (one presumes, ironically) using the word ‘narrative’ to refer to any
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 02/02/2026
When you are gone, we will not say your name. What you have done will be undone.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 02/09/2026
“Centrist Democrats” are my adversaries. They would rather defeat the soul of the party (of which I am begrudgingly a part) than defeat our mutual opponents or implement any sort of agenda. Sincerely, all of you, from the depths of my soul: I hate you, and I hope that you (fix your hearts or) die.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 30/08/2026
RFK Jr is a lying ghoul who should not be welcome in public life.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 21/08/2026
I read [the Cliff's Notes of] a one thousand-plus page novel, and it's my entire personality, now. I understand the truth that the whole world runs on the output of, like, approximately 7 guys (who all happen to be wealthy industrialist capitalists, who are never ever wrong about anything.)
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 19/08/2026
Dear voters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: the top-two primary system is quite bad, actually? What are we doing, why does polling show us as likely to vote against our own interests this way?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 15/08/2026
Saying into a microphone, where people can hear him, that he intends to declare the Hormuz Strait a territory of the USA is a recipe for turning this conflict into an actual Forever War. I don't care that it's Friday, I don't care if he intended it as a joke; it's an impeachable international gaffe.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 11/08/2026
Dear U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@fetterman.senate.gov): YES PLEASE DO LEAVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IMMEDIATELY, BE CAREFUL OF THE DOOR ON YOUR WAY OUT. STOP THREATENING US WITH A GOOD TIME AND JUST GO ALREADY, YOU FECKLESS LIAR.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/08/2026
Honestly, I shouldn't have any idea who Asmongold even is. But I think I have the most-ethical possible position: he should be permanently de-platformed from Twitch & YouTube. He has a right to freedom of speech, and those places should condemn and remove him for what he's choosing to say.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 04/08/2026
It's the *parameters* of a deal, you ignoramus. The ‘perimeters’ is closer to the truth? The outlines of a deal that doesn't exist, has never existed. You are a liar trapped in a war you chose, but I admit: it galls me that you cannot even competently pretend to know what you're talking about.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 02/08/2026
One of the things I continue to value about Tumblr culture, even as the site experience is forever-degrading (and being worsened by the transphobic and anti-SW actions of its staff)– sorry, necessary disclaimer and digression–
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 02/08/2026
Seize the means of football. Globalize FIFA, and run the World Cup as a public good, for the best interests of the sport.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 25/07/2026
Honestly, in light of the zombie resurrection of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, basically all published journalism will be spending a week in the penalty box. Do you write for a paper or magazine that is published? Did your organization send a representative to that farce?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/07/2026
It is a small joy, seeing people tell on themselves. The heroes of the Odyssey myth were Greeks around the Aegean Sea thousands of years ago, before we ever invented whiteness. If you think they must, can only accurately, be portrayed by Western Europeans, congratulations: you are racist!
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/07/2026
Wow, no yeah– late to the party (forgive me, it's summer) but Andy Weir's episode on @hankgreen.bsky.social's excellent Humans podcast does, in fact, reveal that he has a wildly-flawed understanding of the nature of art (including his own) and its role in culture. That's rough, buddy.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 18/07/2026
It's the economy, fuckface.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 14/07/2026
Netflix is cannibalizing YouTube. Which is cannibalizing TikTok. When all of tech is once again revealed to be an ouroboros human-centipeding its own hype unto infinite degradation, does someone jump out from behind a curtain and shout, ‘The Aristocrats!’ as a punchline? And is it Larry Ellison?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 13/07/2026
I don't believe in eternal suffering, I don't hope that anybody is burning in Hell (and will be honestly disappointed if that turns out to be how the universe works, that would be so boring and senseless.) But I'm glad that Lindsey Graham is dead; he was one of the architects of what's gone wrong.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 07/07/2026
Being an artist will hurt and heal your heart.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 04/07/2026
Talk about giant-killing. To have watched a team representing a nation of only half a million people come so close to doing the impossible, only for it slip through their fingers. Your hearts are broken, Cabo Verde, but in our minds and before our eyes you were audacious and mighty.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 30/06/2026
Impeach SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts (preferably utilizing a catapult or trebuchet.)
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 26/06/2026
Every person I hear saying, "Republicans became the party of white nationalism so gradually, I didn't notice" must counter the fact that people have been shouting it in their faces the entire time.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 25/06/2026
By any sane reckoning the DSA is a center-left movement within the otherwise center-right Democratic Party in the United States (this in contrast to the far-right Republican Party.) Unfortunately no one over the age of 60 seems able to reckon sanely in this country?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/06/2026
Watching footage of @thewheatgerm.bsky.social consuming four consecutive shots of Kentucky bourbon– an alcohol he clearly does not enjoy– at a distillery in Paducah is honestly such an affecting exercise in empathy. I am wincing on his behalf.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 22/06/2026
Attention @codyjohnston.bsky.social, have you nothing to say about @danielobrien.bsky.social's obvious ripping off of Some More News's thing (the existential threat of Feral Hogs) for the main story on @lastweektonight.com ??
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth. Take a moment. Celebrate and express gratitude to the black people enriching your life. Mourn those who have been lost in the ongoing struggle. In your lifetime, you have witnessed regression, the loss of progress hard-fought and too briefly won. Take solace; we begin anew. Listen.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 16/06/2026
I haven't seen the memorandum, but my understanding is we lost the War in Iran. Happy Birthday Mr. President (my condolences on being revealed as the loser you have always been.)
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 16/06/2026
“People just don't know how to accept gifts, especially taxidermy.”
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 14/06/2026
Stop proposing individual solutions to collective problems.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 13/06/2026
Good night, workers standing around on the scaffolding that you put up today outside of the Kennedy Center. Twice. Good work (I guess.) I understand that his forsaken name will almost-definitely still be there, in the morning.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 11/06/2026
Listening to an NPR report that begins, "the United States and Iran are redefining the word 'ceasefire'" and– no, they aren't. That simply is not a reasonable framing of what is occurring in reality. Do better, @steveinskeep.bsky.social.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/06/2026
Genuine question: does anyone use this post format who isn't a right-wing shill lying to frame their nonsense as good-faith?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 03/06/2026
President Donald John Trump objectively is a fascist.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 28/05/2026
Wait, I've seen this one already, (it's a rerun): the Dems succeed in flipping seats, but also lose ones they have now. So despite the churn, they net gain zero seats. Right?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/05/2026
Thinking about (and revisiting) it, in light of the second season of Daredevil Born Again, and also having lived through intervening American politics and police re-militarization and ICE, The Dark Knight Rises is such a deeply-weird movie.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 09/05/2026
It is increasingly evident this spring that Chief Justice John Roberts has won his long war against voting rights in the United States of America. I truly am unsure what the appropriate response ought to be–
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/04/2026
Say what you will about the Base 3: the two technically pre-convention games in which I played yesterday were a BMR followed by S&V. #F3C2026 #F3Con2026 #Final3Con #Final3Con2026
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 20/04/2026
The starry clear night skybox in Pokopia is really beautiful. I like to think I would have taken the time to look and notice that, even without @anyaustin.bsky.social giving me language with which to talk about it? But as we are all products of our accumulated experiences, I can't be certain.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 18/04/2026
If Everyone Hypes It, We All Starve (Eat the Rich)
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 09/04/2026
I'm sorry, @netflix.com – you expect we're all going to pay HOW MUCH, per month, starting in May? 😄 That's cute, that you think that. I guess it's time to become one of those intermittent subscribers, who maaaaaybe pops back if big content drops, a couple of times a year.
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