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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 14h
First date with my wife of 35 years was, no joke, to see Koyaanisqatsi.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe you need to get out of your ivory tower and spend more time listening to dudes getting knocked across the room by kinetic energy beams.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's just like in Revelation 5:6 where the angel says "BEHOLD THE LION OF JUDAH" and John looked and saw a big unkillable beefy dude.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gender-swapping Malfoy is "anti-trans," in the sense of "anti-trans stuff generally is a mess of contradictory crap that doesn't make any sense."
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love that you pointed out this important insight and did it in such a funny way.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My "Assasinating Me Would Be Futile" t-shirt is raising questions...
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
LOL how it misses the central image of the entire poem because it can't resist over-explaining/misquoting that removes what was load-bearing ambiguity.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If an AI pope was a good idea, God would give us one.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As a Protestant I think you're allowed to have a chud-presenting leftist patron saint who is still alive, so Alan Ritchson, obviously.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn, girl, are you... Ariel? Shadowcat? Sprite? Because I can't remember your code name to save my life. (Dies under the rubble just out of earshot from Ms. Pryde.)
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mmm a delicious dimension of red punch. People assume it's spiked, but Cyclops's eye beams are non-alcoholic.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The immigrants are vigorous and get discharged before ICE arrives." So God delt well with the nurses and blessed them. (Exodus chapter 1)
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We've checked and while there's nothing in the rulebook forbidding the Pope to ask God to grant a team victory, if the Pope or God were to reach onto the field and come in contact with a ball, it would be ruled dead and baserunners placed where the umpire determines they would have been.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first one of these you hear might catch your attention but I'm certain our brains will quickly notice how all these LLM jingles are the same and they'll get zero traction in anyone's brain.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And maybe the Buddhist understanding is more like, you're supposed to try to be like the Buddha but actual enlightenment comes from some higher source in spite of rather than because of your efforts?
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, no I don't mean to get into some uncharitable caricature of Buddhism when I'm really thinking of (in my view impoverished) versions of Christianity that see Jesus as just kind of a good example, which feels like it turns the Good News into: "Try harder! Jesus did it; why can't you?"
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait so is it like, "Look the Buddha did it; so can you!" (Narrator: The Buddha just pretended to do it.)??
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something has gone awry if Christians are asking themselves if it's okay to say "God, please bless this animal that somebody loves."
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You just need to hire Geoff Johns to write the next Wonderella reboot and you'll be in it for sure (though you'll have to compete for screen time with nine other wonderellemotions besides the classic Apathy).
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good soundbite is "more dice = less random"
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, and I'm not sure even those people are a "problem" rather than just some people being annoying about it on ex-Twitter. I don't want to ditch worthwhile ideas just because someone online was being weird about it.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can see his scientific method there. Instead of finding evidence that special boys exist, he does a little just-so evo-biology thought experiment, imagines an "outcome" that special boys must logically exist, and bases his entire argument on this "outcome" he just imagined right in front of you.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tired: Imagining computers mean something when they say stuff. Wired: Imagining ravens mean something when they quoth stuff.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My kids played the LEGO Star Wars games before seeing any of the movies.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But the Internet always has somebody take things too far: "Okay so let's build a database of every single movie that does or doesn't have that one thing you kinda weren't in the mood for that one Saturday last year."
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Many of these started in reasonable places: "I don't need to watch a dog die in a stupid action movie as a cheap way of making me hate the villain. I'm tired of lazy writers using rape as the woman's tragic backstory." Good art about these topics doesn't oblige me to watch every hack version.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And that final panel about Batman's reward is some crazy icing on the cake.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who *doesn't* look strong, vibrant, and fit compared with Trump?
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Were editors right about this kind of character? I hated mascots when I was a kid. (Wikipedia: Executive Editor Whitney Ellsworth...insisted that a teenager be a member of the Justice League but also that this teenager be hip...)
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I neither have kids that age nor want to do it; just wondering if the new rule creates any perverse incentives.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So any time my team is losing I can just get the match cancelled by being a jerk?
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She had a similar interaction with Spider-Man in one of her solo comics, and I will happily read any comic where a psychic reads the mind of a straight-up exceptionally-better person and reacts to this encounter with humility and gratitude. I can't read minds, but I wanna be more like Emma here.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Right, exactly. Sorry I was just trying to be silly.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There might objectively be overlap in pitch between lower female voices and higher male voices, but it's just common sense that a talking lion would sound recognizably like a male human being, right?
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In order to fall to The Dark Side, you must kill a character who is named in the credits of the movie.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Famously you can replace in the script the words The Force with The Plot. The Force can have a will if it wants the same things that George Lucas wants.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We out here doing Pokemon the favor of telling kids to give up on the hobby if they can't afford scalpers prices, and if they have the ingratitude to turn around and sell those kids cards at the regular price anyway."
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These nasty underpants gnomes are right that SCALPERS --> ??? --> Pokemon Increases Profits, but they're too stupid to realize that ??? = Pokemon prints more cards so they don't lose a single customer to scalpers' prices.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I need to know whether this was a foreskin activist with poor reading skills or an Anabaptist.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump out here every day swearing allegiance to the Supreme Intelligence and renaming Lake Ontario makes Cruise look boring and normal.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
His fan-fic is a polemic that fantasy settings must be consistent. I doubt he'd find plausible that a society could function if it was totally fine to kick a man in the balls whenever you wish, but rape? He thought a Star Trek utopia, but with rape, is plausible enough.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Living in the USA, I'm turning to Psalm 94 frequently.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
His entire business philosophy has always been, "If you hire people or buy stuff, you don't actually PAY them for it. You gotta just take stuff and keep the money or you're getting screwed."
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Of course there are lots of regular clips from his show that also get 5, 10, 20x more views on YouTube than the 1-2 million people who saw them aired.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've thought that Mary's "How can this be?" means partly, "Is God gonna become a swan or something?" and Gabriel's response a reassurance that God would do this with her spiritually not physically, so the creeds and gospel are specifically saying that Mary was not raped like Leda or Io.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's a bit less silly if Speed Force is a fundamental force like gravity, or there's a higher-order direction for Scott's force and the missing action/reaction to come from/go to, but this being comics the Speed Force and Punch Dimension have to be *places*, which is yes, very silly.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To be fair, your pants are made of the electromagnetic force.
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is the Jun Principle (Gatchaman)?
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Urthman @gndwyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Thick Of It had a great bit where Peter Capaldi's character is known for profane tirades and unleashes a torrent of abuse and florid profanity at a woman who has pissed him off and she just rolls her eyes and says, "I hear much worse every day from my middle-school boys."
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