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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 21/06/2023

“average starfleet captain commits 3 war crimes a year" factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. average starfleet captain commits 0 war crimes per year. Captain Jonathan “War Crines” Archer who committed 10,000 war crimes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Women's sports discourse (especially in lib-left spaces) made a lot more sense to me once I remembered that 1) In the USA sports is basically a religion and 2) No group/identity/ideology in the country has a monopoly on turning off their ENTIRE %+$#ing brain when it comes to religion.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The main reason I could never become a Utilikilt Guy is that I view kilts, and other skirt-like garments of similar length, as shorts with additional problems. I respect the cargo pockets, though.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are entering "People talking shit about Trunk or Treat" season and 90% of the people doing it are going to be IDIOTS who do not like BONUS CANDY.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like selfie technology has really improved hairdressing because you can just show the Last Known Good Configuration.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And "allies" who grab Chick-fil-A on their way to the Harry Potter release party never had to think twice about how to respond to criticism ever again!

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BestGoShoeless @bestgoshoeless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I never understood this fully until Covid: actual circumstances that doomsday preppers should have embraced...and they just couldn't. They'd spent years in maladaptive daydreams about hunting other humans and couldn't come to grips with the fact that they just needed to mask up and stay home.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(Watching the newest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds...guest starring veteran actor Joe Morton) Me: oh damn, it's a BADMIRAL! 💜: How do you know? Me: They hired JOE MORTON! In 2026! 💜: ... Me: The DAD from Scandal! 💜: Oh damn, it IS a badmiral!

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Its worse than that! I hear this new place called Piggly Wiggly is making customers- even the ladies!- collect their OWN GROCERIES off the shelves as if they're some kind of...CLERKS! Can you even imagine?

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I walked into class. The TV was on. We watched. Another kid said, "This means war" and I remember thinking "Okay, but with WHO?"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(The kids found the "National Flags" pogs that I use as game tokens.) Me: ...and THAT flag is from Nepal and THAT flag is from Thailand! 5yo: We've BEEN to Thailand, Daddy. Me: No we haven't, baby-baby. 5yo: Yes we have! We went there when I was three! Me: ...That was Legoland. 5yo: Oh! Okay.

A bunch of actual 1990s with national flags on them.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Here are a few different stand-alone episodes from different series: action-y eps, funny eps, character eps, weird eps, AND moralizing/preachy eps. Not all eps are this good, and there are some REALLY bad ones over 60 years, but all of these eps are known for being just solid hours of TV!"

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s funny to think that until recently, if someone asked a question online, normal people would sometimes say “google is your friend” just like that in those words

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

True story: When I was a college freshman some of us former theater/choir dorks were chatting about songs we'd done. I sang the first part of this exchange, and a girl across the coffeeshop from us took up the response. We CRUSHED IT... then she rushed off before I could get her name. (1/2)

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's 2026 and Pepsi is still using $*#% "Semi-Charmed Life" as fun and peppy music for their stupid soda commercials and I just want to scream.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cargo pants and waist/sling packs are in SENSIBLE STYLE. ...which means we're about five years from a fashion-backlash in which pockets are outlawed and the only acceptable way to carry a wallet and keys is a metal briefcase with the Lament Configuration on the latch and a live rattlesnake inside.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I get that there’s something genuinely rewarding about getting super into food and wine and noticing the subtle interplay of tastes and textures but there’s also something genuinely rewarding about getting fucked up at Olive Garden so there’s lots of beauty in the world if you are willing to look

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some of my very favorite Trek episodes and moments are the silly ones, but they're fun in part because they are a CONTRAST to the serious character moments, thoughtful themes, and drama. Bits of candy in the trail-mix and whatnot.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I live with a 70-year-old Indian woman who REFUSES to let me cook rice. If I open the container she'll appear from SOMEWHERE to make sure that I do not incorrectly or cultrally-insensitively combine 1) Rice and 2) Water. (She'll eat what I make. She respects the skillz...EXCEPT for this. And tea.)

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/08/2026

many of u appear to be trying to play a sophisticated game of chess while your opponent is pointing a gun at you and also pulling the trigger on the gun pretty frequently and you're being shot by the gun a lot

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think that Scouting would be all-in on land acknowledgements if the practice wasn't so liberal-coded in the US.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ridiculous. I always remind my coworkers that it's their "night-night time" and you can be DARN sure my kids know when their Mama and I have "the Mondays".

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People: You can't just post one line from a song & expect everyone to know the song Me: Hwæt!

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Also, Leia is a goddamn LEADER. A future GENERAL. Also a PRINCESS. One of her soldiers is hurting. One of only three allies she knows for sure is alive in the whole galaxy. She put ALL HER PAIN ASIDE aside and did LEADER SHIT to get Luke back in the fight.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm so sad about the "critically acclaimed character actor turn" we never got for John Candy. You know he would have been terrifying as the villain on his season of Fargo.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Friend: What a way to learn Bayonetta is being added to Mario Kart... Me: Not gonna lie, I had to Google to figure out how you got from Point A to Point B on that one.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about somebody. Probably somebody I know. Possibly even me.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Every time LeBron moves teams I'm reminded that "taking my talents to South Beach" is a top-tier euphemism for oral sex.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Decades later I still draw out nerdy coworkers by sharing @loresjoberg.bsky.social 's joke about the D&D Paladin with the evil car.

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Moist Owlet (Flushable) @g-sharp-major.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Australian Gumbo Recipe: Start with a kangaroux…

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, remember that many people with disabilities are paid below minimum wage and many can’t get married because they risk losing their SSI benefits. SSI recipients cannot have more than $2,000 in their bank account.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It appears that my ancient "ARMY" PT shorts are now just "MY" PT shorts, and presumably soon to just be "Y" shorts. (The answer to "Y?" being "because I'm too cheap to throw out a drawer of perfectly good swim trunks just because it's 'cringey vetbro' coded to wear them a decade post-DD214.")

Outdated US Army PT uniform shorts with the "A" and "R" worn off on the word "ARMY"

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Why don't Americans support this obviously beneficial policy?" 1. It hurts the ultra wealthy 2. It helps Black people 3. It seems gay

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wait, if people don’t have internal monologues how do they replay conversations over and over until they are convinced they came across as an idiot and have to go lie in a ditch for the rest of their lives?

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

18. Moon Landing Day should be a national holiday. Every event, every war, every scientific discovery, every act of religion done by a human being took place on or in the skies above one world, and then in a moment one person touched the surface of another.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I cannot forget about Troy (2004) because it led to a drill sergeant delivering a spontaneous literature class to a platoon of injured infantry trainees, most of whom REALLY wished he would've just forced them to do push-ups on top of fire ant nests instead. (1/13)

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 15/07/2026

HEADS UP, GEN CON ATTENDEES! The Saturday of Gen Con, disgraced former Border Patrol Cmdr Greg Bovino is holding a rally 30 minutes from downtown Indianapolis. There may be some charged-up racists in the area before and after. Plan accordingly and exercise caution.

Text of an online invite from https://www.heritagerallies.com

Greg Bovino
FORMER U.S. BORDER PATROL COMMANDER AT LARGE
Saturday, August 1, 2026 | Fishers, IN
A rally to energize the base and help us save our nation.
$50 general admission - dinner, 2 drinks, and networking with fellow patriots who care.
By invitation only. Request yours now.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On the tenth anniversary of the premier of Ghostbusters (2016): It was FINE. It was FUN. It was FUNNY. It had FLAWS. It BAFFLED ME that so many prog-ish internet decided that hyping this pretty-okay major-studio nostalgia IP reboot was where to draw battlelines against the Bad Nerds.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I dislike American football to a degree that borders on stereotypical but Poe Raven, mascot of the Baltimore Ravens? Real cool dude. Always glad to see him around town.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

💜: So the park ranger told us that native species have adapted to eat spotted lanternflies. We don't have to kill them on sight anym- Me: Screw that! I didn't fight in the LANTERNFLY WAR just to turn around and let the Spotties win now! This is blatant LANTERNFLY PROPOGANDA!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What we already know is horrific. Imagine how bad discovery would be if the government is willing to pay our fees (something the government doesn’t readily do) just to avoid it.

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Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

💜: The weather is TERRIFYING. You should send one kid home with Nani and take the other with you. Me: To maximize the chance of at least one of them surviving the journey? 💜: Because they've been arguing and neither of you needs distractions. Me: We're basically saying the same thing. 💜: 🙄.

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