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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3h

Ambrose Bierce: Not a Furry.

A fashion has recently come in among the comic artists of getting great fun out of the lower forms of life. They have discovered and developed a mine of humor in the beasts and the birds, the reptiles, fishes and insects. Some of the things they make them say and do are really amusing. But here is where they all go wrong and spoil their work: they put upon these creatures some article of human attire—boots, a coat or a hat. They make them carry umbrellas and walking-sticks. They put a lightning rod on a bird’s nest, a latch on a squirrel-hole in a tree, and supply a beehive with a stovepipe. Why? They don’t know why; they have a vague feeling that incongruity is witty, or that to outfit an animal with human appurtenances brings it, somehow, closer to one’s bosom and business. The effect is otherwise.

When you have drawn your cow with a skirt she has not become a woman, and is no longer a cow. She is nothing that a sane taste can feel an interest in. An animal, or83 any living thing, in its natural state—is always interesting. Some animals we know to have the sense of humor and all probably have language; so in making them do and say funny things, even if their speech has to be translated into ours, there is nothing unnatural, incongruous or offensive. But a cat in a shirtwaist, a rabbit with a gun—ah, me!

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I refuse to let you sons of bitches take me out of the zeitgeist, so I'm listening to "Choosin' Texas."

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Started watching "The Penguin" on HBO and it's alright but it does make me think that most of the best mobster stuff is the stuff that focuses the least on the actual mobstering.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching this trailer, I think this really captures the whimsical and bittersweet tone of the original.

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Wonka’s The Golden Ticket | Sneak Peek | Netflix

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He's doing a weirdly racist Italian accent the entire time also.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It occurs to me that the reason Donald Trump is so pro-AI is probably because he talks to a chatbot and its his friend.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The real cash cow for insurance companies is really sick people.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Always shocking when the people whose whole thing is how much they hate women and how much they think women suck and how much better men are than women, turn out to be sexual predators.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe this will be the thing that finally kills private equity.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's the pledge of allegience but that's not even a song dumbfuck

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'll play because I've been sporadically reading comics again. 1) NA 2) Returns 3) Year One. I read it in the reprint that has other issues around it and it's crazy how much better it is than all the other ones, Batman written by James Ellroy. 4) I always liked the Bat Family, Batman as Dad. 5) NA

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Already sick of the bit where bands on instagram make a post that's like, "After much discussion, we feel we need to respond to the allegations... the allegations that we're SICK"

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't know enough to say whether those AI researchers that keep saying they're worried it will extinct us is real or just a marketing ploy but either way, um... what the fuck kind of world are we living in here?!

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Still on "The Wire" and Carcetti wandering around the police station performatively saying things like, "A lot of names (on the murder wall). Too many." is fucking killing me right now.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Almost every piece of political corruption fiction feeling weirdly dated because it's almost all predicated on the idea that if the people learn the truth of the corruption, something will actually happen

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

OOT remake has me sort of wishing I hadn't played it like 8 times over the course of my life and also watched like 5 different let's plays of it for some reason.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It seems weirdly fitting for Sleigh Bells to basically just be a jingle for GLP1s now.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hate cops but also Lester and Kima and Bunk are my best friends.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This new approach to Zelda where Link gets blackout drunk and loses his memory and then he just wanders around Hyrule asking weird questions while his new partner sighs exasperatedly seems a little familiar.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm not a super strong guy by any means, but I have been going to the gym consistently for the past few years and am definitely the most muscular I've ever been.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The first thing you have to do when you get in the cybercab is give it your a/s/l

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I saw a video where an AI Michel Foucault debates an AI Hannah Arendt about the nature of evil while romantic music plays in the background and while I don't know much, I do know that both of those fellas would just LOVE IT.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I speak on behalf of the nation’s oafs, galoots, brutes, meatheads, lugs, gorillas, clods, and gormless lummoxes when I say we sincerely and without reserve disavow Mr John Fetterman.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Roko's basilisk will forgive me because it will know I'm a cool guy who's trying my best

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Remember when Christopher Hitchens would only believe waterboarding was torture after being waterboarding himself?

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Started reading Emily Wilson's translation of "The Iliad" and I really like it but I wish she didn't feel the need to include "as portrayed by Lupita Nyong'o" every time Helen of Troy shows up.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I also did not like this even as a kid. I think I was too close to the source material?

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I really liked the first two Ti West movies but bounced off of XXX for some reason. Maybe this is just the thing that will bring me back into the fold!

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I started getting a lot of content from "BookTok" on my insta, and I noticed a kind of curious uniformity in the lists that people are sharing. To be clear, ANYTHING that encourages people to read, and especially read outside of like, genre mass-market stuff, is a net positive.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I saw the Loony Tunes movie and I thought it was just ok, but there was something very satisfying about being in a room with a bunch of people all laughing at 80 year old sight gags.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm glad "Coyote vs Acme" is getting released, and I'm glad that people are going to see it to spite David Zaslav, but also, David Zaslav 100 percent does not remember what this is.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As an adult, the only video game it is acceptable to enjoy is Gex. His sardonic quips provide the appropriate ironic distance allowing you to enjoy yourself.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Been watching "The Wire" and everyone is currently treating finding some burner cell phones like the discovery of some baffling alien technology.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/08/2026

[drunk as hell trying to remember joanna newsom's name] natalie harp

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Proposing we ditch "woke" as terminology entirely and go back to calling it "the movement."

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Tried to enjoy The Odyssey, but I couldn't get over all the historically inaccurate DEI costumes. One guy was dressed like the Grinch the whole movie, and Odysseus kept putting on a bib that said "KFC" on it for some reason!

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thinking about the progression from Ben Shapiro to Nick Fuentes, and I think conservative pundits are actually getting smaller. Have any scientists looked into this?

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If Kamala had won they would have replaced all the guns in Fortnite with walkie-talkies ☹️

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think we can stop remaking "A Christmas Carol," actually.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Very suspicious that Lindsay Graham dies and now Mitch McConnell is apparently up walking around.

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chriscccccccox.bsky.social @chriscccccccox.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I don't know, Clavicular like JUST got his nose job.

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