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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's been deleted but sweet Christ, what a hideously contemptuous way of talking about people who are trying to make a small amount of money off of something to which they've presumably dedicated thousands of hours. "Higher, more respected caste"? What in the ever-loving fuck are you talking about?

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I took a spontaneous walk through a cemetery today and happened upon a spot I'd like to show to any antivax people I happen to encounter: the grave markers of four children from one family who died before thd age of six.

Caroline, daughter of H. & L. 1868-1874
Josephine, daughter of H. & L. 1873-1874
Eleanor, daughter of H. & I. 1878-1879
Ethel, daughter of H. & I. 1889-1873

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can't recall the last time I watched a movie, got to the end credits, and immediately decided that I want to watch it again and show it to everyone I know. This thing is a masterpiece. It's hilarious, instructive, and existentially horrifying all at once. It's my entire worldview captured on film.

Poster for Buffet Infinity, now streaming on Shudder and AMC+

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Unfortunately, we live in a time when I see something unbelievably stupid and I have to ask, "Is this AI?" so I searched "Luke Bryan" and what I found is that the country star may be off by a factor of ten when he estimates his own mental age.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My grandmother used to say, when there's no more room in the tiny car, the clowns will walk the earth.

Ken Foree in the original Dawn of the Dead

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Wow! This guy must be tough! He doesn't even need basic emotional control, or coherent sentences."

Hollywood producers in The Simpsons, looking at a tiny ad that says "Flim Springfield" and deciding that the underlying lack of effort means that "this place must be hot."

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Right here, if anyone wants to come over.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Had to steal this from Reddit to post over here.

Folks: The older you get, the more conservative you become.

Me getting older: [A picture of Saw Guerrera from Star Wars: Andor]

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

People have also illustrated it. This is the first pic I could find.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If anyone in Buffalo isn't doing anything tomorrow evening and wants to take a bike ride, we're going to St. Mary's School for the Deaf and the Richardson Complex, to mark Disability Awareness Month. We'll also pass by the Darwin D. Martin House.

Instagram post from Colored Girls Bike Too reads: Our July 18th ride has been postponed to July 30, 6PM to 8PM

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The blood tech three months from now:

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yeah, man, that's what people have been telling you to do for as long as you've been quote-posting and replying to every single person who expresses irrational hatred for you. It's weird that you're only making this decision in response to the backlash against your most obnoxious opinion to date.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"People are capable of being unsatisfied with larger amounts of money, therefore your professed satisfaction with a smaller amount of money is irrational and imaginary." OMG, fuuuuuck yooouuuu.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Man completes reams of paperwork, achieves little.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think we've lost the plot where criticism of "influencers" is concerned. "They're only doing this highly risky, extremely difficult thing for attention!" Yeah... That's what people do. This isn't like someone yelling their Instagram handle in a crowded restaurant. I think attention is warranted

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Again: nobody is fucking claiming otherwise. This is a new, dumber evolution of the "waffles tweet" phenomenon. A guy said, "I would like people to survive and also avoid an uncomfortable temperature shock," and everyone is reacting like, "Oh so you think your discomfort is WORSE THAN DEATH??"

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The guy in the France24 clip didn't say "it's a problem." He offered a simple recommendation. It might have been based on nothing more than his own subjective sense of comfort, but you know what? That's okay! We can have innocent disagreements about stuff! Not everything is an existential threat.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This thread basically boils down to, "I want drugs without accountability over how I use them."

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

While it does indeed seem like therapy didn't work for you, it also sounds like you've dramatically misjudged the reasons why. And that isn't to suggest that more therapy is the answer. I'm skeptical of it myself. But "just talk to the computer" certainly ain't it, either.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Really? You're "blown away" by the idea that people who might be having difficulties in their relationships to other people would be skeptical about the utility of spending LESS time communicating with actual human beings about intimate topics? That's a concept that you can't wrap your head around?

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

You think that "more guns won't fix the problem" is akin to "it can't happen here"? You know how I can tell that's fucking stupid? The United States of American is awash with firearms and It Is Happening Here.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That is emphatically NOT the reason why the 2nd Amendment can be hard to defend, WTF are you talking about?

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

dangerousminds.net/comments/mot...

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Every so often, I'll glance at a Star Wars discussion thread and be amazed all over again by the fact that people who refuse to shut up about their hatred for The Last Jedi also seem to have just... not watched it? The protagonists' failure is not an oversight. It is the *whole point of the film.*

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Call me a luddite, but I don't think there's a set of policies available that will make it possible to increase energy consumption exponentially forever while also increasing energy capacity exponentially forever and never incurring any negative consequences to the environment or human life.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Why the shit has Google Maps started referring to the Town of Tonawanda as "Tonawanda Town"? No one anywhere in Western New York has uttered that phrase, ever. This is Gemini's doing, isn't it?

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"There's been much debate about which of us is worse at our art form, but I think we can all agree that neither is as bad as Donald Trump is at running the country. Michelle will not dance and Critter will not come down, will not get his feet on the ground at the Trump Freedom 250 event, by and by."

Michelle and Critter from the closing moments of The Girl in Gold Boots.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Best shot/chaser post I've seen in a while.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I got this email yesterday and I must say, it seems like a real problem that a person can subscribe to "the official streaming platform of the FIFA World Cup 2026" and then also be subscribed, incidentally, to a 24/7 stream of right-wing propaganda. I don't think we should allow that sort of thing!

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's just post after post after post from this prick, calling everyone's perceived precarity an illusion, saying, "Jinkies, what a mystery!" and offering no explanation whatsoever as to why the widespread availability of consumer goods might not be enough to make people feel secure and fulfilled.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

EVERYONE: Here are some of the myriad subjective experiences that I face every day which might partly explain why people are broadly hopeless and pessimistic. WILL STANCIL: All of your experiences are wrong! Look at the DATA!

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What if - hear me out on this, Will - all of those obvious explanations are correct in their own right, but are part of a larger picture of the consequences of worsening global authoritarianism? What if it's not so much a *mystery* as it is complex, systemic and demanding of multifaceted solutions?

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ironic to see this coming from Stancil, because while he's right in the second half, his relentless "vibecession" posting reflects the very impulse toward easy answers that makes public opinion so ineffable. Neither voters nor analysts can accept that there isn't One Weird Trick to put things right

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

You... don't think this is controversial?

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Social media gives everyone license to infer whatever the fuck they want about anyone at any time, based solely on whom they've decided to be mad at. This is surely great for people's brains.

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

As someone once said of the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: this is like going in for surgery, being given the choice between a doctor who's facing a malpractice suit and the manager of an Arby's, and saying, "The Arby's manager has never done this before. He might be great at it!"

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A Dead, Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Curious if Parker can read between the lines of Platner supporters coming into her mentions to say that the big problem with Democrats, historically, has been "performative identity politics purity test shit."

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