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@datashade.bsky.social
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I am not Bob the Angry Flower. I am not a content creator. I am a normie-adjacent weirdo with a lifelong lucky streak of falling into the social orbit of talented and amazing people. Ok, fine: "reply guy"

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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
which one of you chucklefucks bought an auger
A photograph of a 1950s flatbed truck laden with an auger and other boring equipment.  The door of the truck advertizes "Post Hole Service"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love Harbor Freight, like, as a concept. I'm pretty sure this is cheaper than it was in Dead Rising 2
A screenshot of a Harbor Freight online coupon depicting a PORTLAND brand Electric Pole Saw, a chainsaw with a 9.5 inch blade on a fiberglass rod extending out another 8 feet 10 inches, on sale for 54.99 USD. 

The pole saw is white and black with green accents, and clocks in with a 4.7/5 rating after 15,306 reviews.

In the 2010 video game, Dead Rising 2, a player who found the correct materials, transported them to a maintenance room, and who had unlocked the necessary combo card could combine multiple weapons into combo weapons. One of these was a chainsaw duct taped to a kayak paddle, creating a double-bladed weapon dubbed "Paddlesaw." Creating this combo weapon required going to a specific location for the card, and making it there with a chainsaw - weapons had limited durability, but trying to run past zombies with the chainsaw might result in dropping it.

The chainsaw in Dead Rising changes colors depending on the expansion/version/DLC but the paddle is always a mismatched color. 


The closest maintenance room to the card is behind a store that has enough money in it to buy 5 or 6 Harbor Freight polesaws at their sale price.
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wish they'd leaned into the Grosse Point Blank of it, but your character joins a private paramilitary contractor because the only thing you're good at is violence, and you promptly get fired because you prioritize saving lives over protecting property, then there's a mission to kill ex-coworkers:
An image from Saints Row (2022) showing a progress tracker for a challenge named "Hope You're Insured," asking you to dent an expensive sportscar and kill a Marshall, from the PMC you were just fired from, with an ambulance
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I understand what you mean, and I agree, but there is a perfect contrapositive to this and it is
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I cannot locate Tallarico's personal answers from the link that you provided. That would imply that you did not cite the article to give information, but rather to justify a standardized mental picture. That would make your statement a stereotype.
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"at last, a moment of peace" "yeah" "now we can concentrate on what really matters" "yeah" "finally" "yeah" "time to see if this pipe fits in these bicycle spokes" "what"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In the second Murderbot Diaries novel, the cyborg main character is opposed by a corporate executive, Tlacey, who is trying to kill Murderbot's clients to steal their work. Murderbot commits several of the acts of stupendous violence it named itself for and only too late does Tlacey try to negotiate
She said quickly, “So you’re a free agent, right? I can give you a job. Whatever you want—”
I thought, You don’t have anything I want. I said, “All you had to do was give them the fucking files and none of us would be in this situation.”
The look she threw back at me was startled, incredulous. I didn’t sound like her idea of a SecUnit, rogue or otherwise, I guess.
Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
[trying to read a review of the new Murderbot book] exCUSE me
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hasan is rude and aggressive to people, many of whom deserve it, sometimes using language that can be taken out of context to demean people he's not actually addressing. As opposed to establishment dems, who have never said something heinous out of context. Or in context lol
A screenshot of a search result pointing to a New York Times article from Apr 5th, 2019, where Joe Biden responds to women who say his past behavior has been sexually inappropriate by saying, in part "I'm not sorry for any of my intentions, I'm not sorry for anything that I have ever done"Kamala Harris at a podium, speaking.  Chyron reads: "VP Harris warns potential migrants: 'Do not come'"Dianne Feinstein meets a group of constituent children who came to her office to urge her to vote for the Green New Deal and dismisses their concerns by telling them "Well you didn't vote for me."
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A screenshot from one of the most incomprehensible parts of Metal Gear Solid, where the villain reveals his motivation for taking the path of evil: he is a clone created to be deliberately inferior to the main character
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Well. That is definitely an offensive spell
A screenshot from the game Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, showing the details of a spell entitled "Rumpolt's Revenge."  The spells in the game have a single-tap and press-and-hold effect.  The light version of this spell is described as "Condesates cheese from your own blood into a solid state in front of you."  The flavor (and I use the word regretfully) text for the heavy cast is "Slowly turns the target into cheese."
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.tumblr.com/ministarfrui...
it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get:  #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out:  Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it!🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people,
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
here it is. My state, Michigan, yearns for Moderate Democrats
A tweet from 2019 reading "blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
[bodyslamming the Menswear guy out of the way before he can deliver a thoughtful critique] if your jeans fit correctly or you knew how to wear a belt, the backs of the hems wouldn't fray like that, buy new pants loser
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Skeet from @tomscocca.bsky.social:
"The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It looks windy and cold, the Kurdish gentleman was simply wiping his nose
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Self-serious isn't the same as serious?
A screenshot from the Simpsons, where fire fighters are dousing Dr. Nick's office, while Dr. Nick stands by in singed and tattered clothes, gesturing in a half shrug. 

There is no caption present, but this scene is known for the phrase "inflammable means flammable?"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My people, academia, yearn for courage
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's irrefutable!
A copy of the Book the Angry Flower comic from https://angryflower.com/1249.html

The pertinent panel is the last one, where Bob holds up a sheet of paper and says "you will LOVE this! It's IRREFUTABLE! I would even say UNFALSIFIABLE!"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
... but 26% IS more than a quarter. I hate that it's always the dumbest motherfuckers alive who are predisposed to be smug dismissive shits
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Search your camera roll for “Hell”
A screenshot of a Mastodon post from user Pepis on September 21, 2018 that reads:

*Extremely Hillary Clinton voice*

You can pokemon go
*cocks gun*
to hell

*BLAM*
tell seth I said hi
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Imagining the kind of person who'd need a three pack of these
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A screenshot of an interaction from Tumblr.com

An account named drakensberg-blog posted "The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor."

poupon replied "how dare you say we piss on the poor"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'll apologize in advance, I'm not going to do alt-text for the rest of these, so if you need that, skip the rest of the thread.
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I was looking for this image on my phone, but I found a bunch of others so now it's everyone's problem
A screenshot of a tweet from @JaneOst_ on February 3rd 2019, reading "blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Two panels showing captioned still images of a Werner Herzog interview.  

In the first, he is speaking into a microphone with his hand out, palm open, with a somewhat bemused expression; the panel is captioned "There was a roar of disgust against me."

In the second, his fist is clenched and his face is angry; the caption reads "So I shouted - Happy New Year losers!"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
hOrSeShOe LefTiStS
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
she did the meme
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Shipwreck's trying to make it sounds like the IRGC is overriding the president, but when I read those two statements, they read as the same idea, phrased differently
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
No. Kamala Harris would not be doing this. With the backing of Democratic Senators like Elissa Slotkin, she would be issuing sanctions against Iran, killing innocents through lack of food, medicine, and fuel instead of bombs I've never seen her even attempt to disavow prior administrations violence
A screenshot of a Google search summary resulting from an attempt to locate any comment by Kamala Harris on the United States government's extrajudicial murder of a 16-year-old American citizen in the Obama administration, where an administration official Robert Gibbs infamously quipped the child "should have had a far more responsible father," because Anwar had run away from home to find his father, who had been in hiding for two years.  This was an act of such obvious evil that even The Atlantic was critical.

The text reads "Based on the provided search results, there is no direct evidence of a personal or policy connection between Kamala Harris and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen killed in a 2011 Yemen drone strike
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The search results discuss Abdulrahman al-Awlaki primarily in the context of the Obama administration's drone policy, with some mentions in articles criticizing extrajudicial killings. 

    Abdulrahman al-Awlaki's Death: He was killed in a 2011 CIA drone strike in Yemen at age 16, two weeks after his father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed. Attorney General Eric Holder later stated that the younger al-Awlaki was not specifically targeted.
    Context of Mentions: Mentions of al-Awlaki in the search results often appear alongside criticisms of drone strikes and discussions of foreign policy, sometimes featuring commentary on the "silence" of political figures regarding such actions. 

The provided snippets do not show Kamala Harris addressing or engaging with the case of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki."
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'm sure as soon as David has finished blocking everyone else he'll get around to answering this question of mine
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
White Guy with a Five Year Plan for Black People is definitely the kind of thing we're worried about if Lesser Evilism continues to control the Democratic Party!
An image of Martin Luther King, Jr giving a speech, pointing empathically towards the audience.  The image is edited to add the meme trope "laser eyes," and there are captions reading
"SHUT THE FUCK UP
White Moderate"
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm not wading into that thread with Elias but ... Harris lost millions of Biden voters, but they didn't all swing to Trump. 4.4% is more than his "1-3% low info swing voters," and more people didn't vote in 24 than voted for Biden in 20.
A bar chart showing US presidential election results comparing Dem to GOP to Did Not Vote going back 50 years.  DNV wins every year except 2020, followed by Harris losing 4 percentage points in 2024.

This does not prove, but certainly supports, the notion that "blue no matter who" does not win elections.A map of 2024 US presidential results, but with Did Not Vote as a candidate, winning 265 electoral votes to Trump's 175 and Harris' 96, carrying 21 states, beating Trump by 9 million popular votes
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I was going to screenshot your other reply and ask you to draw a comparison between your own emotional responses which you consider a flaw, and ask you to extend some grace to the proportionally large population of trans women on here who get very upset about Gavin, but uh.
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Hmm. n=1 is a poor sample size, but have you tried using a question mark? This reads like an attempt to correct or argue
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A strategic error, a political error, and a moral error
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I voted for Harris. But, uh. Then what happened? Maybe at least SOME people DO need to like their options.
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DataShade @datashade.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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