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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 19h

And to be clear, that doesn't mean she'd make parole under our system, I don't know, but I wanted to establish why every single aspect of this carnival of sickness is so vile to me

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 19h

In my country, which doesn't have executions nor life without parole as both are grotesque human rights violations, she'd have already fulfilled the minimum requirements of a life sentence and would be on her parole cycle already. Anything beyond that is just sadism for the sake of sadism.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 20h

To be clear, logging on to find someone has left your writing a glowing review is one of the highlights of any writer's day. So for these scum to have corrupted that and taken that pure joy from us, so that we can no longer trust so much as a comment of praise...I have no words for my contempt.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 20h

What really gets me are the AI-adjacent scammers who lovebomb your snippets and samples and scenes to make you think you're talking to a new fan, trying to goose you up into paying for "art collabs" that are just AI slop.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 20h

Tell your parents BUY ME WRAITHSTORM OR GO TO HELL

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 21h

Loona is the kind of character MADE for long-form series writing. HB marinates us in her trauma-informed distancing reactions long enough that when it turns around and those walls start breaking down, we *really* feel it.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On a broader sense I think social media equalizing things like actual boots-on-the-ground journalism and TwerkDick67 spouting the worst media takes you've ever perceived, has been a pretty terrible thing for the collective brain of humanity 😑

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I find myself curious. Seems like a great way to jumpstart kids into Who and science fiction more broadly.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had several other articles in the same edition of that paper but I wager my mutuals would be most interested in the Maiden part

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fun fact, the same show I wrote about here can be found on Maiden's Flight 666 DVD for the performance of Hallowed Be Thy Name

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it's neat that my first-ever piece of writing published in an official physical form was this newspaper review of an Iron Maiden show in 2008

Photo of an article I did in 2008 for the Durham College Chronicle looking at Iron Maiden's 2008 Toronto gig

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I owned a fandom-themed boutique coffee shop I would totally put a print of this on the wall.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually went in and read the writeup now, very cool 👍 Though I actually feel the review almost understates how much raw ENTHUSIASM there is performance-wise on the new EP recordings ngl

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fuuuuck 😱 that's what I get for thinking I could coast on short forms

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey remember when the literal receipts came out that HHR were funneling profits directly toward an auxiliary literal Nazi label and the metal world was pikachusurpriseface.jpg for a whole week and then went back to But Muh Riffs Yeah Judy ain't going to associate with that shit, good shout

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To the fucker who put up the transphobic sticker in my workplace that I ripped down, I wish you exactly what you wish on others

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought it was just a rock star or actress she likes, but....huh....

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Think I've finally reached the point after The Kyre Crucible's beta process where I've fallen back in love with the novel. Man. What a tight, razor-sharp, luridly gritty facepunch of a book this is. This is a story completely unafraid of being what it needs to be. Can't wait for y'all to see it.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun fact, the original copy John mailed to me at the height of the pandemic mailstream chaos never arrived so I bought it again on Amazon a few months later 😅 Worse things than supporting a band twice! Btw if they repressed it with your true self represented I might buy it a third time for that

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Without question my favourite of the shorts so far, nightsky sisters gelling exactly as hoped for

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The insane multimedia brick joke that is us assuming "My World Is Burning Down Around Me, by Fuck You Dad" was just Via being snippy at Stolas, then the S1 soundtrack drops and that song is in fact on it by that name, and now this short confirms the band really is just called Fuck You Dad

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just looked up the trending tag for "Julie bots" and I feel like I'm living inside a @dustinkcouch.bsky.social post rn

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FERRYMAN WANTS HIS MONEY, YOU AIN'T GONNA GIVE IT BACK

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watching Interstellar again. Used to think it was far-fetched that humanity could be propagandized within a couple generations into collectively thinking the moon landing was faked. I no longer see it as far-fetched

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trying quite hard to rationalize myself out of dropping over $100 CAD on cards of #HelluvaBoss characters as D&D archetypes. No matter how awesome the designs came out. I need to be saving right now. No matter how cool these are. Aaa-

Stupid, stupid edit of the scene where Gandalf says "Don't tempt me, Frodo!" but Frodo is whited out and replaced with Sharkrobot

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was able to put a full-time-job level of time and effort into the monthslong final edits process of what I think is my best novel yet in 2020 because of Canada's covid benefit, which was basically a pandemic UBI, so I feel this in a deep place.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lyrically sitting at the golden mean of antifascism and video game inspired stuff, melodic death metal just like your gran used to cook up in the old country, helmed by some of the brightest talent of the modern metal underground. But the physical versions are like extremely limited so get one today

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True-crime sensationalism framing like yours is a cancer on society

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I need (white, predominantly) America to understand just how surreal it is for them to decry executions yet boost for life without parole as the only "logical" alternative. My country doesn't have it b/c it's a human rights nightmare. Most countries don't. & this shows MOST VICTIMS DON'T WANT IT

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My dad's work laptop had TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND viruses and I'm losing my goddamn mind

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching 1408 as I get back on the seasonal horror train after a smol break, and I've always loved this movie but I think I'm watching it right now because @caseyexplosion.bsky.social mentioned it the other day

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🩷Unity - Carmilla’s Cariña🩷🔞 @unityfyne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OCTOBER HAS BEGUN

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Speaking as someone who works at a company that's doing Christmaween right now, we don't like it any more than y'all lmao

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In short, were it a person, the US criminal justice system would be a sociopathic serial killer and mass abductor with delusions of absolute righteousness. It's fucking Jigsaw with more rape and racism.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

-This same system demands an infinite number of mulligans for all the people it has either wrongly killed or kidnapped or tortured or raped, or simply overpunished beyond any point but sadism. It hates humanity, simply put, but demands absolute authority over that humanity.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A system that behaves as though it doesn't believe true rehabilitation or redemption are possible or even desirable outcomes, that none of us are any better than our worst day, that punishment is the only worthwhile state of being for those who transgress. HOWEVER-

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That is, when they're not getting the wrong people, or enacting disparate outcomes based on race or other factors, or forcing completely rehabiliated people to die in confinement decades after rehabilitation in non-human-compatible squalor.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A kidnapper, abductor and torturer who believes with all their heart that they operate in the interest of absolute justice, and what's more, that their word is literal law. They have lots of fans because they go after people who transgress society's laws...much of the time.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember that doc that analyzed America's corporate landscape and decided that if corporations were a person, they would be a clinical psychopath? Let's try running that thought experiment as it applies to the US criminal punishment system.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In all sincerity, she's already served three decades and is by all accounts rehabilited, so in my country - which doesn't have executions or life without parole, because both are human rights nightmares - she'd be up for parole by now. Instead we see this horrific shit.

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