Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Let’s get dangerous” — Darkwing Duck, ripping off the condom 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Look folks if it’s this or fimbulwinter let’s unleash Fenrir and get it over with 0104
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Heads up to everyone who's going to decide to do a Sam Neill dive this weekend and is about to hit Possession for the first time, you are in for a ride 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Kind of feel like Platner is the one who tanked Platner’s campaign so it’s weird to see people yelling at literally anyone else about it 010
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The list of HD-2D rpgs I’m very interested in has slowly ballooned over the last few years and Nintendo decided to put all of them on sale so I’m about to spend a bunch of money and then complain about not having enough time. 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Of course it would be funny if it happened on Saturday but remember there’s no bad timing for it. Friday, so we can make “missed it by that much” jokes? Sunday, like it was just to spite us? Five minutes ago, before I started typing this? All hilarious. 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Turns out we’re cool, but she does think they’re cowards for not including the Apollo 11 footage 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Googling “which slang terms are appropriative” and becoming extremely sad 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice & Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice & Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026FINALLY something I can rephrase in iambic pentameter The mites come out your facial pores at night They fuck, and then, they go back once again 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026To be clear I'm not saying I'm going to buy this without discussing it with her and she'll be mad. I'm saying the very fact that I want this will put irreparable strain on our marriage. 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Well, that's it, my wife's gonna leave mecriterion.comThe Complete KubrickA titan of cinema whose influence extends across visual art, philosophy, politics, technology, fashion, and beyond, Stanley Kubrick created an unprecedented string of masterpieces, from Paths of Glory... 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026A reminder that while the current dumbest way a president has died in office remains ”ate too many cherries“ Trump has always been one to shatter precedent 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Advertise your BlueSky account with a Simpsons GIFstatic.klipy.comThe Critic Rosebud Frozen PeasAlt: Clip from The Critic, which is decidedly not The Simpsons, of Orson Welles advertising Rosebud Frozen Peas as “full of country goodness and green pea-ness.” 120
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 20/06/2026There’s a certain build of dog that’s big and floofy enough that when it curls up to sleep it’s indistinguishable from laundry, and while that’s not for me I respect that there are people who see that and think “yes; no notes.” 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Give everyone who worked on this movie way more money I’m not kiddingpolygon.comObsession continues to break box office records as it prepares for its next big milestoneThe viral hit horror film Obsession is nearing yet another impressive box office accomplishment. 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"We noticed you ordering pain medication and an icepack, would you like our AI's advice on when to see a doctor?" Oh so society is DOOMED doomed. 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026hahaha j/k there's no way Disney would portray a Nazi as the bad guy 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026All of the speculation about the new Spider-Man villain is way off; Sadie Sink is *clearly* playing a genderswapped version of Swarm 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Our brains aren’t built to handle big numbers. I’m trying to tell myself that a trillionaire has as much money as a million millionaires and it keeps bouncing back as nonsense. 010
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Been thinking a lot about that Maron bit about not knowing the difference between “I’m happy” and “fuck this is good coffee” 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My “data centers *aren’t* raising your electricity prices, actually” PSA is raising questions already answered by 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026You ever send an email and then think "wait, did that actually say anything?" 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Look if it was good enough for Shadowrun 3E 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026He's going to fall asleep on camera, leave after 20 minutes, and then complain tomorrow about how all the players sucked, right? We're all expecting this? 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Once again there are Too Many Games and I need people to knock that shit off 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I remember being told "I'm being nice by using a paddle; my dad hit me with a belt and his dad hit him with a switch" and it turns out that attitude is a lot more prevalent than you'd think 020
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Every so often I think about how for an entire year they would play “Proud to be an American” immediately after the national anthem during morning announcements and we all just accepted that as normal 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Been considering my Sight & Sound list recently and I think it currently stands at: The Asphalt Jungle Drive My Car The Godfather The Hustler In the Mood for Love Lawrence of Arabia Raiders of the Lost Ark RRR The Seventh Seal Sunset Boulevard but Chinatown might bump Asphalt Jungle & now you know 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Discussing Python dev packages and it's taking all of my willpower to not interject "Anaconda? Don't want none!" 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Made it all the way home before I realized they'd given me the wrong type of McFlurry and we can all agree those calories don't count, right? 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I just watched A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and good lord is that a beautiful movie 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026But on the plus side, Google now gives me five results I don’t want instead of twopcgamer.comValve's Steam Deck price jumps by nearly 50%, now costs $949 for a 1TB modelThe state of the world has caught up to Valve's hardware. 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Weird, “I want to pay off the people who tried to overthrow the country ” has always been a rubberstamp 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Now that I’m… Jesus, seven years past some pretty severe burnout, I think I might be able to start writing again. I want to keep it manageable though, and everything I had cooking before the Bad Times was a massive novel-length project. Where did all my short story ideas go? 220
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026We made Jimmy Carter sell his fucking peanut farmapnews.comUS government agrees to drop tax claims against Trump in broadening of IRS lawsuit settlementThe U.S. government has agreed to permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump, according to a settlement document that is part of a deal to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against t... 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Obsession has some really striking moments, and Inde Navarrette is fucking amazing in it, but it does steer into one of my most-disliked ending tropes so that’s a bummer 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Can we just take it as given that Elon has a racist take on everything, and only report on the particularly weird or novel bigotry?avclub.comWorld's richest film bro very mad at Christopher Nolan over casting of fake 3,000-year-old womanWorld's richest film bro very mad at Christopher Nolan over casting of fake 3,000-year-old woman 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I'm probably not the first to ask but: in the Kelvin timeline, what the hell are the lyrics to "Intergalactic?" Was there just always this nonsense phrase in there until Amanda Grayson saw the chance to do the funniest thing? 100
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I don't focus on this enough. Tolstoy wasn't thinking of a Japanese guy when he wrote Ivan Ilych but that doesn't mean it was a mistake or an insult to interpret it that way. 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026People are going to say with a straight face that he *needs* to serve a third term because otherwise he’ll be held accountable for his actions 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026On a large enough scale money isn't real and math becomes optionalpcgamer.comGameStop confirms $56 billion eBay acquisition bid, promises $2 billion in cuts at the company if the takeover is successfulHow GameStop will actually be able to pay for the much larger eBay is not entirely clear at this point. 000
Nicholas Peterson @fencingmonkey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Eurogame where you operate a lingerie shop in Alabama called Bras Birmingham 000