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Chuckell

@chuckell.bsky.social
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makes books, reads different books

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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 11h
Problem is the bullets are just going to bounce off ol' Non here
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 13h
I would like to see I Play Rocky but it's M. Night Shyamalan getting The Sixth Sense made
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is awful but also what's up with that podracer in the foreground
Screen cap of Guardian article about a Houthi attack on the Riyadh airport with a pic that has a weird-lookin airplane-tow-er thing in the forgetting
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Planning to force my kids to watch Die Hards 1-3 so they can properly contextualize a Halloween viewing of The Sixth Sense.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Man, every episode of this most recent season of Slow Horses is even stupider than the last.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Made the life-affirming decision to simply block anyone who posts to commemorate a famous person's birthday with the phrase "X number of candles today for . . ."
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I gotta think the secret surprise cameo in a You Can See Everything is Emma Stone
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Weird book. Not funny at all. But still fairly recognizable as a Richard Russo novel.
Cover image of Under the Falls by Richard Russo
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe you, like me, chose not to see The Breadwinner--the Nate Bargatze movie--in the theater because it looked painfully retrograde, but if you, like me, have an 8-year-old in the house you might see it on tv now and you, like me, will realize that it's even worse than you imagined.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I always forget that the Slow Horses tv show is much dumber than I expect it to be.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm quite aware that nobody does any proofreading in academic publishing anymore, but I guess they've given up on it in trade circles as well?
Passage from Richard Russo novel Under the Falls, published by Knopf, using the word "grizzly" where "grisly" is meant.Passage from Biological War: A Scenario by About Jacobsen, published by Dutton, where the suggestion is made that Pandora's Box was something Pandora was trapped in rather than a box owned by Pandora.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No, @t-mobile.bsky.social, I don't want anything to do with fucking Starlink.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love nextdoor.
Local lunatic claims that AI only produces accurate information and won't guide people to some "fade or pseudo-science" only "pseudo" is spelled like "judo."
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you're thinking of reading The Ministry of Time read this instead.
Cover image of Retro, a novel by Jessica M. Goldstein
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avengers: Doomsday releases in a couple of months, and I've never seen my 15-year-old more excited about getting advance tickets for a movie. Sorry--those two statements are unrelated. The movie he's pumped to see tomorrow night is Primetime. I feel like I've done a good job.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does this building look like a big shark? Shouldn't that have been reserved for the Spielberg Museum?
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I haven't been too worried about the threat from AI but Donald Trump just claimed that it's a hoax and now I'm terrified
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always happy to see the Crosset Man in Scotland and he deserved better than getting murdered before the opening credits of the first episode!
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you haven't canceled your subscription to The Washington Post yet DO IT NOW.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zach Cherry and Paul Walter Hauser are both in the new Resident Evil but this is not good enough for me, I want a movie with the two of them headlining, playing brothers.
Side-by-side of Cherry and Hauser
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Living was one of the worst books I've ever tried to get through.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Listening to Adam Jentleson on Brian Lehrer, he's got a new book coming out and I've got to assume that if this interview is anything to go by, the book will have the words "y'know" on pretty much every other line.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My policy proposal: There should be no such thing as wills and estates. Give it away while you're alive if you want to, but after you die anything left over should go straight to the Social Security Administration to liquidate and use.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What if instead of causing human extinction, all AI was able to kill off was the internet and we all had to go back to living the way we did 30 years ago.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's always exciting to get a notification that someone has spread a post of yours and then you realize it was an account named Help Save My Son Nazeen From Painful Starvation And Grisly Death and you realize maybe they aren't exactly on the up-n-up.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Been watching "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe"--not a particularly good show, it is fun--exactly halfway between the delightful "Young Sheldon" and the execrable "Big Bang Theory"--but if it's not all leading up to an episode where Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage meet I'm gonna be disappointed.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When the squirrels leave walnuts in the bird feeder is that meant as like a trade?
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It would be pretty awesome if the creators of "The Bear" had just made up that whole "Chef?" "Yes, Chef?" thing.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lord how I've come to loathe the term "flag up."
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If your loud car is allowed to ruin my peace of mind, my piece of rock ought to be allowed to ruin your loud car.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Am I dead?
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sometimes I doubt John Fetterman's commitment to Sparkle Motion.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"It's made of chicken feathers and battery acid!"
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Took the boys out of town for a couple of days and the cats got to experience a weekend of calm quiet with their mistress, no one to chase them around, demanding hugs and squeezes well too bad, dicks, we're back.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I don't know about this thesis but I can state definitively that every piece I've ever read by David Brooks has made me think less of that particular human.
Headline of Atlantic article by David Brooks about how AI is supposedly making us "less human"
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If I were a corporate CEO I would try never to allow my existence to make the news near the word "chainsaw" lest it give people ideas. share.google/UvGpHlEuEat2...
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STIHL chief calls for longer hours without extra pay in reform push
In an opinion piece for Euronews, Dr Nikolas Stihl, chairman of world-leading chainsaw maker STIHL, calls for reforms including a 40-hour working week without extra pay to safeguard Germany's prosperi...
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I just realized the word BATHROOM could also be an explosion in a comic book
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Li'l guy spotted. This is actually the third praying mantis I've seen in our yard this year, which has gotta be a record.
Young praying mantis chilling on a planter pot
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This obviously seems like a stupid idea but realistically it can't taste any worse than the plain soda.
Mountain Dew-branded soap and body-wash announced.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The stick-his-name-on-schlock guy teamed up with the stick-his-name-on-garbage guy teamed up with the stick-their-colophon-on-anything publisher to create a line of unreadable books.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This guy stuck his card in our door the other day, has to be the most Liz-Phair-song name ever
Card for lawn service guy named Johnny Romeo
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Man, that trailer for GTA VI sure looks . . . pretty much exactly like what I'd expect GTA VI to look like.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At times I've seen you from the balustrade, at times I've seen you from the flagstones.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A real president would rename the stupid Mississippi. And come to think of it, all the states. Each state should be named the State of America. We should be the United Americas of America.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 27th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 11 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Seriously, a one-two punch.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Honestly I've always thought that the Kennedy Center is a little hoity-toity but that doesn't mean I can stand to watch it get torn down on the whim of a madman.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can remember Dolly Parton and have the thought "Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion!"
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm no finance guy but it seems pretty obvious to me that entrusting your money to a country that would elect a Donald Trump president would be patently stupid. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?
The US is scooping up treasury bonds in an effort to raise their price and push yields down – but it’s not working
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