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@bsky.enthusiastick.com
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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
Oh, also: this thing where flight attendants are allowed to read ads (for e.g. credit card reward programs) is absolute bullshit. Passengers are a captive audience!
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 29/09/2026
In conclusion: I hate you so much, I hate that coach-ticket flying is like this, now, and I especially hate that something as marvelous as flying through the sky has been rendered thus (by capitalism.)
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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
It's been a quarter-century, which seems time enough to conclude that DHS was a huge whiff, that accomplished few of its goals and consolidated our state at our worst. Bad job, everyone! Pack it in.
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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
even though it was only ever about format, not genre, as you discussed? And ultimately, I found you having time enough to name-check Call Her Daddy and yet never mention any of the innovative fiction things creators have done and are doing in the medium was simply too crazy-making to ignore.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/09/2026
impossible not to notice the shape of the hole, its absence increasingly a gaping wound. I get it: you (and your producer) are focused on the slow demise of journalism, and your anxieties about that. It weakened the conversation, for me– are we talking about the term referring to a different format,
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/09/2026
Holy heck. I was not expecting any reply to my snark; forgive me for forgetting that you're a human being who reads her own comments, too. And the funny thing is, I did get something out of the episode, overall? I was just really bothered by what you chose to gloss over cutting out, like it became
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/09/2026
Did you consult with someone like @planetoffinks.bsky.social, when crafting this masterwork of satire? Or?
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 10/09/2026
long-running, serialized show (including, of course, Serial, which you lionize breathlessly!) And all of it taking place in a universe in which fiction podcasts apparently don't exist! It's news magazines and interview shows and talk, all the way down!
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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
But I get it: my supposed party would rather defeat its own left flank than ever hold (let alone wield) power. Ever again.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 30/08/2026
Although while we're at it: Hakeem Jeffries is rizless and ineffectual and Democrats at the national level deserve better.
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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
Anyone who doesn't understand this is obviously just a moocher, one of only two types of guys that exist in the world. And also the overwhelming majority, so if you'll excuse me, I need to radically transform myself into a wealthy capitalist (ideally in as ostentatious a way as possible.)
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 21/08/2026
And, if they all just went on-strike for like a couple weeks, we'd fall to our knees and crawl to invite them back. And/or torture one of them with a car battery to convince them to be dictator-for-life. We need them, we need them so bad, just you wait–
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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
But one of the things I continue to value is that it remains possible to reblog a post from someone, on Tumblr, without feeling like doing so is tantamount to endorsing everything they've ever said over their entire lifetime.
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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 · 27/07/2026
My family used to see a staging of the tale as a straight play, every year at the Hartford Stage. This vibes like an adaptation of that? A telling of the familiar Dickens, with an emphasis on the Ghost of Christmas Past's portion– and yet another in an endless series of redemptive vehicles for Depp.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 25/07/2026
The fascism is coming from inside the house, and I will simply not be reading you, for a while. For both of our sakes.
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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
A valid point; it truly is such a multi-faceted colonial white supremacist wrongness.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/07/2026
yes! 😄 thank you for noticing
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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
But probably I will enjoy them that little bit less.
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/07/2026
And therefore, in your view, those stories fail to hide the ways in which they're changing your mind and touching your soul. I think you're wrong in a way that diminishes you. And diminishes all of us, and the undertaking of art. This will likely not stop me from buying or reading your books–
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eben @bsky.enthusiastick.com · 24/07/2026
Dear Mr. Weir: I am sorry that you have mistaken your own distaste for bad artifice, for stories that do a poor job concealing their intentions, as a distaste for stories that preach to you–
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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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