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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My favorite useless nerd argument is “European knights would stomp a samurai because pop culture gets samurai wrong, *proceeds to list a slew of ways pop culture gets Medieval European combat stuff wrong*”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/02/2026

Turning Point USA Halftime Show Opens With Snake-Handling Preacher

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

There is something darkly funny about Europeans getting mad at Trump for short-selling their Middle Eastern imperialism in Afghanistan.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The French are taking this in good, friendly stride. A few weeks back, the Onion made a joke about the British, and you’d have thought the kingdom ran out of Blanded Jelly-Mush.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Grouchy Star Trek fans will tell you Older Trek is infinitely better than New Trek and they point out an episode, and it’s two guys in silly monster-costumes saying dumb shit like “I narfled the garthok in the Siege of Doop-Doop” as if were goddamn Shakespeare.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I’m gonna be that rare BlueSky person who goes “good for them! …who the fuck are they? I’m not about to pretend like I know who they are without Googling.”

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I dunno, they were super-chill with helping America pillage the Middle East over the previous 25 years.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It’s weird seeing Europeans go “we helped America invade the Middle East!” as if this was ever a good thing. Y’all saw financial and imperial opportunity and took it without a second thought. Y’all are *still* extremely islamophobic to all the refugees *you* helped displace.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize, so I just might wage war” is something else.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They’ve certainly accepted far worse movies with less of a cultural/artistic footprint

The Criterion Collection presents:

Michael Bay’s “Armageddon.”

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

Blazing Dragons, a point-and-click adventure game from the PS1 era.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

One of the most frustrating things I learned last year is that pretty much all of those “read 54 books in a year” types are being extremely disingenuous. Yeah they’re reading that number of books, but it’s mostly stuff like graphic novels and YA garbo.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

cannot emphasize enough how indie/selfpub authors are out here doing storytelling that publishers refuse to publish and fascists hate (not all,we're a diverse lot with a gross subset that's AI content creators not writers) you want to disrupt the status quo? Find (& support) the artists doing it.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Darkstalkers is such a weird series. If all you know of it is the fan art, you’d think it’s this sexy gothic horror thing. The reality is that it’s an absurdly silly game.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Half the comments in this are sad fatties who are just mad they’re being told science.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A big reason most people aren’t having kids is because they can’t afford it. Like always, the problem is capitalism.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Today’s fun “whelp, guess I gotta look this up” #writing experience: Colostomy bags! How they work! Detailed, horrifying pictures of what *everything* looks like! All in service to a shitheel of a tertiary character that deserves to die but will, in fact, not!

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

When I think back to my time playing FFXIV, the bigggest thing I remember is all the teens and twenty-something’s glomming every conceivable sexual orientation onto every single character and getting very mad when other people didn’t agree.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Comments section goldmine. The Onion makes years of tired “America fat/stupid/violent” jokes and it’s fine. They make one tired “British food bad” joke and the Brits get almost as fired up as they would if they ate a single jalapeño seed.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

[most viscerally personally unpleasant person you've ever met] i'm going to lead a mass movement of the workers

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

BlueSky is mostly people who used to cyberbully on Twitter and then got mad that only the Nazis can do it over there now, but BlueSky ain’t ready for that conversation.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I love how every time the news devotes five minutes of their 24/7 Epstein coverage to literally anything else, these dipshits go “I GUESS WE ALL FORGOT ABOUT EPSTEIN” Grown-ass adults who don’t realize the rest of us have object permanence, too.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Let's not forget, millions of Americans voted for Trump. They are our fellow citizens. So regardless of where we stand politically, it is imperative to reach out and tell each and every one of them that they are stupid fucking assholes.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

As someone who’s not believed in God for several decades at this point, there is nothing more cringe than seeing people loudly proclaim how stupid religious people all are. Like, Elon Musk is an atheist. You think *he’s* smart?

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Hi. I’m one random fucking insect bite.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I’m happy folks are playing Silent Hill f, but every time I see someone go “the first playthrough’s ending only left me more confused,” I think “…really?” It’s not that difficult to figure out if you’re halfway paying attention. We had it pegged by the time Hinako returned to her house.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Despite the global crumminess of 2025, I got a lot of my goals accomplished. And considering the ever-present imposter syndrome, that’s saying something. Here’s hoping the New Year will have just as many personal victories.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Part of the story I’m working on involves one of the characters being dragged through the dirt and it is both satisfying as a writer and also heartbreaking seeing this character’s plans all crumble to dust.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I’ll never say Street Fighter 6 is a bad game — far from it. But I do feel justified in saying it’s not nearly as exciting as I’ve wanted it to be. I put *months* of cumulative game time in SFIV. 6>5, sure, but there’s just something missing and I’m not sure what.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Where exactly did this “Avatar is actually extremely culturally important” discussion come from? It feels like an instance of a friend showing you their favorite movie, you going “yeah it’s alright,” and they took that way too personally.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I tried giving TikTok a shot. I don’t know if it’s just my algorithm but holy crap is that place full of misinformation and propaganda.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

People who fire off fireworks on Christmas at 12am are weird

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Vince Zampella, one of the creators of Call of Duty, died in a car crash. Allegedly he was driving his Ferrari on a public road way too fast. If this is true, I kinda have a hard time lighting a candle for someone who was actively endangering lives by being an asshole. So I hope it’s not true.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We rewatched JoJo’s Bozarre Adventure: Golden Wind. It feels like the main reason Fugo left the team is that Hirohiko Araki realized “a Stand that causes an extremely fast-acting fatal virus” is a hard counter to basically anything King Crimson could do.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I saw a YouTuber in their 40s who peaked before 2010 on here, and they were still obsessing over YouTube drama from 2013. I had to block just to never see that level of embarrassment ever again. It was *so* bad. Just vindictiveness towards perceived enemies for still being sorta-relevant.

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This isn’t me undermining this but yeah, kids are always gonna prefer the easy option. Especially when the hiring process is far more concerned with whether or not you have the degree as opposed to whether or not you understood the stuff required to earn said degree.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It’s weird how everyone retroactively decided the moral of Jurassic Park is “capitalism bad” when at no point does the movie paint John Hammond’s ideas as anything worse than misguided whimsy. The “underpaid” programmer is a villain in the movie. Hammond literally says Nedry is bad with money.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Yeah it was definitely this one match in 2025 that was when boxing became a corrupted, scandalous joke of a sport 🙄

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I have a feeling that when Trump finally croaks, there aren’t going to be nearly as many attempts at punishment for all the jokes. Nothing like Charlie Kirk. They blew that chance.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Are folks still trying to arbitrarily change “metroidvania” to something a lot clunkier? I remember that being a really stupid thing a few years back.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The Angry Video Game Nerd popped up on my YouTube feed and he… grew a beard? It’s a good look on James. Nothing but love for the bearded AVGN.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The furry thing has always been strange to me. Not yucking anyone’s yum, you do you; it just ain’t for me. Ninja Turtles, though? Those guys are cool. Give the anthropomorphic animal a sword and/or a gun instead of a massive package and/or titties, and suddenly I’m all on board.

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CW. Lawrence @cwlawrencewriting.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I saw someone on Instagram complaining about how Barnes & Noble stripped out most of their chairs and it’s more difficult to just go in and read for free. Man, if only there was a building designed for you to just go in and read books free of charge 🤔

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Going into 2026 like:

Nancy in the museum where hands off so she's touching a precious vase with her foot

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