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Cleon

@cleon42.bsky.social
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Code monkey, leftist, Chicagolander. 🍉🍉🍉 He/him él/él sé/é он/его ער/אים דארטען, ווו מיר לעבן,ַ דארט איז אונדזער לאנד.

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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's enough to make you LIV-id.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh no, whatever will we do without a giant gas station?
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hot take: Nobody who shits on "liberal arts" degrees has ever tried actually studying a subject academically.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm jealous. :(
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I did this back on Xitter back in COVID days and saved screenshots when I left. It's got worse since.
I keep thinking about what would've happened if I'd pitchec a 2020 novel to an editor in 1998.

There's a global pandemic. Starts in China, spreads fast.

"You can't stop it, right?" editor says.

"Nope. You can't stop slow it. Masks like 1918, etc."

"Flu pandemic reference is nice," the editor says. "Wevdo this while we work on vaccine or cure?"

"Mostly we don't. A party makes it all political. If you do it, you're on the wrong side. So the virus spreads."

"Don't they come to their senses whrn it gets out of hand?"

"Not well. 2020 is an election year. And Internet talk is a big deal then. Everybody has a cell phone like a little computer...""Don't they spread information fast?" the editor says.

"Information. Misinformation. Disinformation, too."

Editor frowns. "This is pretty dark."

Me: "Oh. I forgot to tell you--while all this is going on, Donald Trump is President of the United States."

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE!!!!"
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is when the Triffids come...
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There's a reason why famed Star Trek writer Dorothy Fontana asked to be credited as "DC Fontana." :(
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ACKSHULLY Ben Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people, but one's Jewishness is NOT defined by a # of ritual acts. Stewart + Sanders are Jews. To my great consternation, so are you + Ivanka, even tho each of you violate more Torah concepts every day than either of them could in a lifetime.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 27/07/2026
she was arrested twice for shoplifting clothes for her children after her divorce and long ago paid her fines and served her time
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Robot Buck Rogers
ALT: Robot Buck Rogers
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Rage Bait Fish On
ALT: Rage Bait Fish On
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Graham literally torched his entire personality and dedicated his entire public life to Trump and all Trump cares about is what this will do for his precious election bill. Even for Mango Mussolini that's kinda cold.
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Holzman-Tweed (he-suite) @holzman-tweed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Periodic reminder that Al Franken had at least 8 accusers and that he stepped down the day they were going to begin the investigation he initially demanded. "What happened to Al Franken" is exactly the bare minimum that should have happened to Al Franken.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Climate gets hotter, people buy more AC, climate keeps getting hotter. Yay feedback loops!
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How popular is Ruby these days? It was all the rage 10-15 years ago but these days it seems to be rarer and rarer.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ooh! He can share a cell with Jeffrey Donaldson.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That's the look of a man who knows he's in for a rough time after the match.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"People are lecturing me about soccer and archaeology" And with those words, I have decided to campaign vigorously against the Internet. This was clearly a completely bad idea.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I swear all of Irish social media right now is screaming "Nuestro dia llegará!"
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think @demsocialists.bsky.social should just take this opportunity to tell the Democrats to go fuck themselves and go form their own party. This just shows how hollow the "vote blue no matter who" slogan really is.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I never would've expected to see *this* decision from *this* organization.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100th birthday to the 2000-year-old man, Mel Brooks. ביז הונדערט און צוואנציק!
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Melissa Benoist is Supergirl and I see no reason to pretend otherwise.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I'm a certified yank and *I* complain about temperatures over 20C. I spent way too many years in Georgia to tolerate 38C summers anymore.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
i do find the imagery of pouring endless, unnecessary money into a corroded mirror of rancid water a little heavy handed
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
At this point Vance is about three stages past regret. He's just better about repressing it than Rubio is.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"And you dare to call me a terrorist, While you look down your gun. When I think of all the deeds that you have done...."
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tim Curry is the only human.
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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026
My family left what is now Ukraine because of anti-Jewish pogroms -- and those who stayed behind were killed in the Holocaust -- and I am completely comfortable calling what is happening in Belfast a pogrom
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Mormons always seem surprised when they find out that other Christians don't like them very much.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I think he said it just to set them off. I don't disapprove. 😁
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you marched with Bezalel Smotrich, you don't get to claim the moral high ground about anything ever again. #israeldayparade
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
גוט נחת אלעמען!
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If you like paddle-and-ball games like Arkanoid or Breakout, please give my new Android game a try! 100% free-to-play. No DLC or in-game purchases or anything like that. play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Brick Basher - Apps on Google Play
A new version of the classic brick-breaking game
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pretty sure that's @cruachankeith.bsky.social, nach ea?
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"So about those Epstein files..." "Look! There are Muslims! They're Musliming! Remember how much you hate Muslims?" "...But Epstein..." "MOOSLIMS! IRAN! 9/11!" "They DID open a mosque nearby..." "INVASION! SHARIA LAW! EAT PORK FOR 'MURICA!" "We SHOULD ban sharia!!!!" "Dance, monkey, dance!" *fin*
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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 13/05/2026
hearty salute to the guy (David Wieder) who went and took photos of the graves of dozens of old klezmer musicians at Mount Hebron cemetery in Queens in the last few months and posted them on FindAGrave. I got notifications about a few but I didn't realize he has maybe done about 2/3 of the section.🕵️
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Looking for some folks to test an Arkanoid/Breakout style Android game. No pay but you will have my eternal gratitude. Shoot me a DM with your email address and I'll add you to the Google Play Closed Test.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Honestly the biggest tell was "Well, this has been a delight." You were *definitely* talking to a Russian.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I promise to vote for any candidate that will put insurance company advertising executives on trial for crimes against humanity.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Asps. Very dangerous. ...you go first.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
That moment when all of JewSky - left, right, and center, frum, atheist, and inbetween, literally everyone - collectively cocked their head and said "*huh*" at the exact same time.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
*record scratch* "Yup. That's me. I bet you're all wondering how I got here...."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In maariv Philadelphia, geborn un oyftsyen....
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Yiddish anarchists can't be musicians. They have no lider.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Years ago I was at a Palestine demo in Atlanta and some good-ol-boy in a ginormous pickup drove by and yelled "GO BACK TO SPAIN." To this day it remains the most hilariously memorable thing anyone has ever shouted at me during a protest.
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Cleon @cleon42.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Even North Koreans." But noooooo she's not racist. 🙄
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