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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 12h

Going back in time 20 years to tell my thenself that I'm outraged over mistreatment of TSA agents, who are so far down in the Homeland Security malevolence rankings that they're playing pickup matches against the Coast Guard

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man, JD Vance must be so excited to defend this he is practically vibrating. "People need to grow up and have a serious discussion about whether my wife and children deserve to live here."

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And like most racial stereotypes, it's inaccurate. Señor Don Gato rather famously suffered a rather grisly death from this very thing!

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can be smug about this whole Choosin' Texas thing because I, a non-country listener, have known about it for quite a while now because I am culturally sophisticated (I watch @shadowtodd.bsky.social videos)

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My problem with Backrooms (2026) is the same problem I have with backrooms (the creepypasta) - the horror creatures. The space itself is fascinating. The creepiness, and the danger, should come not from the hostility of creatures, but the indifference and incomprehensibility of the rooms themselves.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Operation Go Back in Time to Save the Big Bopper and Only the Big Bopper From That Plane Crash Day: 17 Attempt: 43 Result: Failure Comment: I have begun to fear that the theory that there are certain 'fixed points' in history are true.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Ben & Jerry's flavor "Chubby Hubby" is actually a cheap Americanized version of high-end Italian gelato favorite "Chusband Husband."

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please, he's a writer and artist whose preferred subject matter is romance between moral philosophers and sentient plants of all types. Just calling him a Kant/Ent creator is reductive and a little insulting.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guy who runs with knives, to guy who likes to run up the fans of windmills: Well, first of all, the title is very misleading. It's actually just a bunch of robot bullshit.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sad Zach Braff, screaming into the rain from the top of a bus. Beside him: Patch Adams

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

State Building After Infinity: Common Features of Post-Rakatan Polities

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up yo' vocab

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The diesel trucks are dying; e-trucks struggle to be born. Now is the time of monster trucks.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Neagley, the show that dares ask "what if a Reacher were smol"?

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stg if a single one of you mfs starts with the "I could fix her" ...

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look, see, it's because the beginning of Gravity's Rainbow- goddammit don't make me send this to my undergrad thesis advisor, he deserves better

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sure your AI man can fulfill your physical and emotional needs, but can he do a vulgar roast of other guests at the party? And make it more vulgar? Using forbidden words? Until AI can do that, I assure you men are quite safe from replacement.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Marc Maron says he's read the first six pages of Gravity's Rainbow a dozen times. The first six pages - that's just bananas!

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the last time, the Pope is a CLERIC not a WIZARD, he does NOT contemplate orb

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I must insist on this one.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Marc Maron says he's read the first six pages of Gravity's Rainbow a dozen times. The first six pages - that's just bananas!

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The genius of Minard's chart is that you can really visualize how many men of Napoleon's men quite before the STD screening and how many actually penetrated Moscow.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm not tagging him because I don't want to blow up his spot if I'm right, but Chuck Tingle frequently talks about how he has another showbiz-adjacent job when he's not in his Chuck persona, and I'm pretty sure it's professional wrestling. (Source: nothing but intuition)

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mr. Sad Man - go to a show I'm sure some laughter will relieve your woe no need to cry 'til your face is splotchy just go and see the clown named Pagliacci

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I haven't heard any chatter about this and I'm genuinely surprised. Is no one else hearing that drum beat behind the copy and yelling at the screen?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If this was a case of, "look, there are X niches and they're (mostly) full of capable people" that'd be one thing, but instead we have a guild where a lot of the niches are occupied by mediocre professors and sex pests, who the guild protects *at the expense* of the supposed 'glut' of adjuncts.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey kids, it's me, the guy from the Rammstein parody where I dress like a Minion and sing "Gru hast mich," and I'm here to remind you not to be a "minion" to distracted driving. Your could "ramm" another car, and that would really be "despicable." Banane! (That's German for banana)

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The last decade, people are all 'cuck this' and 'cuck that,' but you know who no one is talking about? Bulls. That's messed up. They're just sitting there while someone else gets all the attention. That is specifically not what they signed up for.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I know some people have come off looking bad when interviewed by Isaac Chotiner, so I'm protecting myself by having the whole thing filmed by Nathan Fielder.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And Alexander wept, for he was a big crybaby. Wah wah my empire's too big.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

OMG the Meta ad I'm watching (and cannot even skip) is about the future and AI and optimism for everyone and the song they're playing I swear this is true it is motherfucking Five Years by David Bowie from Ziggy Stardust &c. You remember, the song about how the human race will die in the eponymous

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That viral post about statistically improbable Shakespeare made me wonder: Imagine an alternate history with no Shakespeare. There's another playwright/poet instead from around the same time. Same volume of output, and, here's the big thing, same influence on English-speaking language and culture.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My hot take is that changing maps to reflect relative sizes more accurately rather than flattering old prejudices DOES promote an ideological agenda, but it's a good ideology and we should support it.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Chief: You get those mugshots of the arrested clergy. Photographer: Sure did, boss, real fuckin cool just like you asked

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Boston area folks! Come see our show! Sept 5, Green Room: www.eventbrite.com/e/havana-goo... Sept 11, Union Comedy: www.crowdwork.com/e/friday-nig...

An ad for the two shows in the post. There's a hand sticking up out of the water. Spooky!

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The dialect quiz put me in Utah, but the heat map was hot red over where I grew up fine whatever but excuse me wtf?

Question 43: What do you call the insect that flies around in the summer and has a rear section that glows in the dark?
lightning bug
firefly
I use both interchangeably
peenie wallie
I have no word for this
other.

Peenie wallie.
PEENIE WALLIE.
Apparently some people call that bug a peenie wallie.

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In heaven it's exactly the same, except they feed each other

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still not over how Fox cheapened beloved The Critic Jay Sherman by sticking him in a crossover to prop up that awful Futurama prequel

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Boston area folks! Come see our show! Sept 5, Green Room: www.eventbrite.com/e/havana-goo... Sept 11, Union Comedy: www.crowdwork.com/e/friday-nig...

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They really did a "One must imagine Wile E. Coyote happy."

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ghpelton.bsky.social @ghpelton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The new Cat in the Hat movie and the new Tom & Jerry movie trailers (saw Coyote v Acme tonight, great flick) both seem to be based on "What if we took these old but maybe still popular characters and added just way too much lore? And impossibly high stakes? To cartoon cats? Kids want that right?"

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