Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 2hCoyote vs Acme was fine. I mean, I liked it. It wasn't amazing, but it didn't have to be, and it always should have just been released. The messages and acting were better than the actual plot progression. 010
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 11hWithout guessing why, here's what I've observed: People (in the USA, at least, which is what I can speak to) felt social pressure not to make trouble in public. Somehow, it became clear that there are no real consequences for making trouble, so people stopped checking themselves. 1101
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 13hFinally tried to watch BIG MISTAKES, and like ... *every decision these characters make is frustrating*. So frustrating that I cannot finish this. Somehow, this is more frustrating than BEEF. 100
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13h"Incumbent president keeps on doing things he knows makes voters mad, tells voters to suck it up when confronted with their anger" is both an absolutely insane way to do politics and, bc of that insanity, is likely gonna produce a map of results that is unfamiliar to us compared to past results 1338
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 16hI find it so hard to morally bridge the gap between - No state or entity should be given permission to kill a person and - The entire planet would be better off if its ruiners were no longer alive Two ideas I put about an equal amount of stock into 050
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 16hI remember answering the phone at work in like 2008 and a truck driver goes, "The road I was supposed to take has a low bridge. How else do I get there to deliver?" Dark ages. 160
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 16hI imagine if cancer ran attack ads about chemo, most hosts would still vote for chemotherapy. 080
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12529271748
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Excellent descriptor of Roman Catholicism tbh 182
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...404media.coFederal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and UnconstitutionalFlock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. 131483478
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails Unfurledviolet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026People criticizing Pope Leo for blessing the White Sox but the last Pope Leo gave a special Papal medal to the guy who invented wine with cocaine in it. We just have to accept that Popes Leo like to party. 3427
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The further adventures of "My Neighbors Elected Gutter Racists, Largely On Purpose" 073
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Starting a conspiracy theory where the Netflix sound is saying Bidoof and there were originally supposed to be all these Bidoof tie-ins, and then there was this huge falling-out between The Pokemon Company and Netflix that they're all still seething about to this very day 240
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Finally just turned off autocorrect and autocap out of spite. This is either going to go very well for me, or you're about to read some weird, weird shit. 060
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails Unfurledjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia 12150184
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I get angry and/or joyful regularly, but I (rarely) get sad -- and when I do, I get *sad*. Like a minecart on track that won't stop until the track ends somewhere. Well, I'm in the cart. And it's fine; I know the track ends somewhere. But this fucking mine is *deep*. And regulations are lax. 1100
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is so many guys Rotten players should have been / need to be Reverse Rudy'd by the people employed by the team gross enough to keep them on the roster. 060
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have this quote, among others, hanging above my desk at work. 0130
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledUnsanctioned Buffoonery (Dan) @offtheupright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The way I always say it is these are not low-trust people, but instead of putting appropriate amounts of trust into many people they put an insane amount of trust into a tiny handful of people who do not deserve it. 1435
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledBilly @billygomila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Research" has unfortunately meant "Google until I find a result that confirms my priors" for a long time now 1927
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative. 301515209
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't get how we have no mechanism for punishing attempts to try every nuisance lawsuit in your imagination to become a dictator. I don't mean impeachment. I mean a self-executing law. I get that we don't have those really in the USA, but hey, we ought to for this one. 010
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cool! For the first time in a while, we've hit the "If I post, or even read, *anything* else today, it will not go well for me" threshold. Take care of yourselves. 0151
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledSuzzi @suzzisulli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Historians will never believe that the once powerful American military was run by a failed Fox News host and he hired 3 rich, white men who had never served to be in charge of “the future of warfare”. What a fucking joke! #Blues 2520474
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails Unfurledg.h. kirsch @gh-kirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy. 16682101
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My partner and I don't have a car (I don't drive or bike), and when we take the bus or a Lyft or walk through and visit spots in, say, more than one neighborhood in one weekend, the folks at work tell me, "Whoa, you guys are always busy." 270
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11946851165
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The circumstances are *awful*, but the AEW show tonight that some of my friends are at is legendary. RIP the Bastard. Up the wrestlers. What a night. And it's only like 2/3 done. 130
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My partner is *perplexed* that my BlueSky feed only told me about the Cornell rapists two days ago and not (apparently) several years ago. I don't really know how to respond to that. 370
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I honestly forgot, this was the part of that bill that a lot of us were waiting for, because it's going to fuck large numbers of people as a self-own October Surprise. 080
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Both of those movies kinda suck shit and also this is true. Into Darkness was a fucking *failure* 171
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No matter who you are or what you want: If you vote for a candidate on the basis that you believe they will do only the things you want, *that will not happen* Politicians have agency. Elect a piece of shit with shit for brains and a heart of lead, you get whatever they excrete. 121
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Google AI's impression of my Twitter handle is "a Magic: the Gathering player or fan who famously interacted with Mark Rosewater in 2011." And that mostly false factoid is, genuinely, more recognition than I expected to have attached to my name. Not sure what to do with that. 050
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026 Barack Obama and a bunch of otherwise abhorrent Blue Dogs made a gig lifestyle possible without incurring a lifetime of crushing debt. 080
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Organic exchange of ideas and viewpoints pales in comparison to *my* social media strategy of being witnessed by bloodbags (my followers)." 151
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most labor-intensive project of the year, support staff quit, boss is away and can't help, the free coffee tastes awful and I can't buy better coffee for two hours. Hank-Williams-ass day 140
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Like, we would literally be better off if we simply did not have a president after Biden's term expired and shit just went on autopilot. 634719
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Frat contacts privilege putting ghouls into positions of power gets my fucking bile up like little else. 040
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with Expressive Julie Newmar Faces? 020
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wish you could block people physically. Like, I'd hit the Block button, and they'd bounce back, startled, while trying to walk into the kitchen or something. 271
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm weirdly happy that there's even one The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis GIFstatic.klipy.comDobie Gillis & Dwayne Hickman: Rejection SceneALT: Dobie Gillis & Dwayne Hickman: Rejection Scene 581
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledWaffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We already have all the smart cool people on our side and it’s not enough to win, we need those other ones too 0113
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails Unfurledjaykwonovich.bsky.social @jaykwonovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want him woke, I want his family woke, I want his dog to have pronouns.static.klipy.comNo Doubt Man Pointing DownALT: No Doubt Man Pointing Down 1455
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 29/09/202626 years ago, in writing "The Way I Am," Eminem had more awareness of the difference between memetic "information" and the truth than *most* of This App has, and that's ... that's sad, folks. 061
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Related: the best Batman stories in the modern day are the ones where it's largely focused on his friends or foes going "🙄 Fuckin' Batman, right?" and doing their own thing while Batman is in it for ten minutes just like "Justice *has* no social skills 🦇 🦇" 040
Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Spending my lunch break cleaning up the 11-page timeline of our D&D campaign for posterity, wyd 040
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails Unfurled𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026will cinemasins and its accolytes ever answer for thier many crimes 2614
Reposted by Theseus, His Sails UnfurledMollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports. 121104336