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Marmota

@groundhog0.bsky.social
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Grumpy Groundhog Grognard.

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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 23h
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealion...
en.wikipedia.org
Sealioning - Wikipedia
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 23h
Every now and then I imagine how much worse things would be if they ran on merit instead of blackmail and graft.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"I'll wait here while Jim pets the ooh, wow no; hope he's insured by... Mutual of Omaha."
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of sockpuppets cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Aww. Good night, Bugtown.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
not finding it anywhere; what's the source?
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Home Safety Hotline" by Night Signal is somewhat like that!
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Stochastic terrorism, right there; calling for his followers to attack people. Louder for the ones in back; "The people worse off than you aren't the ones keeping you down.".
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A mashup of James Randi and Bob Vila would be comedy gold. TAKE MY MONEY.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Love to hear the garble of him trying to explain how 'completely eliminated their nuclear program" could do that.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If it were a city that voted blue, and/or 'full of immigrants', he'd be cheering. He'd only be just ok if it was conservatives, as long as he could still declare martial law over it. Guy sees people as marks, props, or in the way, not as fellow human beings.
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Columbine @redcolumbine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Outsourcing your hobby or pasttime is the ultimate sad person behavior. That's a level of depression I can't comprehend. You can't find joy in any damn thing at that point.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The three-tailed rat nesting in an old Weed Powder tin just told me it's fine, nothing to worry about.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I so want to ask one if they can still roll coal if running on just liberal tears.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Paris-Calais, Eurotunnel, Folkstone-London, Mornington Crescent! (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning... for anyone confused)
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's this thing with human actors and muppets that also applies to humans and cartoon characters where there's basically two working stances; play it human as a foil, or be a fellow muppet. I think the casting for CvA was perfect in matching up the right actors for the right stances!
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More than a bit typecast which probably doesn't bode well for long term career prospects, but he does absolutely nail big, dumb, and playing the absurd with a straight face. Maybe he'll age into being the next Leslie Nielsen. I lost it at the 'Tweety' conversation scene! *chef's kiss*
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Obstructed license plate. Obstructed tail light. Unflagged extension. Any bets on whether they'll get stopped and ticketed or not?
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sorry, their performative cruelty towards homeless people is apparently a higher priority.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I recall a lot of bus shelters and benches all along the T getting removed about twenty years ago. Boston Ave and Winthrop, on the Tufts side inbound to Davis, still has a shelter because, I think, Tufts stopped removal. The other side of the street, outbound from Tufts to West Medford, does not.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Prisoner's Dilemma; once bad faith actors reveal themselves, they've broken the social contract; continuing to expect cooperation is the canonical definition of insanity. "Maybe Scrooge will..." nope, they already got three ghosts, two boats, and a helicopter. Let the floodwaters rise.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Creators want more time to be creative, but consumers just want more to consume. The "AI Debate" is, if nothing else, getting people to tell on themselves which side they're on. They then want to own their promptslop, which tells us they've never read Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants" either.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How wonderfully Lovecraftian!
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
coffee|nose>keyboard "Inside you are two wolves; it is Saturday night at a Furry convention."
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love an in-game lampshade someone said about Skyrim; "The puzzles were to keep the zombies in, not the living out". Kind of like 'bearproof' camping storage. Still with you a 100% on how insulting where the wizards (devs) think the line is between "smartest bear" and "dumbest human".
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really hope some wag gets him hyped about Super High Intelligence Technology being even better than just Super Intelligence.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deplorean is the one that stuck with me, but incEl Camino is also pretty good.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*Opens the trapdoor marked "USENET", gestures with both hands, quietly closes the marked "USENET".
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
seconded this. ymmv but I find that weather/altitude headaches are helped by completely drying out my sinuses. Only helped, not fixed, mind.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That is an expression I've only seen on toddlers trying to break other toddler's toys. It does not belong on adults.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DND_(vi...
en.wikipedia.org
DND (video game) - Wikipedia
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only):
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Greg among those who has being saying it for a good while. There are Democrats who want more than anything to be the polite wing of the Republican Party, and ol’ Gav is one of ‘em.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder if it created more cops and soldiers before or after. Probably fewer priests; easier to be a scout leader than a youth pastor, apparently.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As if the predator class finally noticed where a lot of honest people were coming from, and some combination of "shut that down before it catches on more", "fresh prey", and "make the ugly parts worse" ensued.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe start with a few more; there should be a dramatic scene when the head count drops to less than a minyan...
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I figure they'll push for the return of lead paint next... I'm sure they miss their childhood 'wall candy'.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yep, it's appalling how some self-identifying liberals will still baldly admit there are demographics they consider exempt from equality. This is not the flex they think it is.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So now I wonder how much of their supposedly self-inflicted predator problem was an intentional dismantling. 2/2
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
TIL... Scouting as I knew it barely exists anymore, and except for the ugly parts (superstition, jingoism, blind reverence & obedience) that I thought it got rid of by the 90s, conservatives think the rest of the oath is 'woke'. 1/2
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Moments of liminality...
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Church of Republican Jesus, where war is a higher priority than taking care of everybody.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Blind spots coming and going; about a year ago I had a pickup driver brake-check and road rage at me for 'tailgating'; my mini cooper was over a full car length (1.5 mini coopers) behind the chonk lift gate of their detroit shitpile. They really didn't like me pointing that out.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Better yet, vote in person on voting day. Assume anything that can be tampered with or challenged after the fact, will be. And check your voting eligibility status. Often. Or at least on the day that voter registration ends.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There's no accounting for taste. www.boston.com/news/off-bea...
boston.com
A Mass. native is organizing a group buy of the MBTA’s iconic Red Line seat fabric
A Massachusetts native tracked down the iconic Red Line seat fabric and organized a group buy. More than 130 people want a piece of it.
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Awesome... still kind of hoping for a "you aren't going anywhere good unless you clean up your room first, young soul" religious stance, but baby steps, I suppose!
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Marmota @groundhog0.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIaI...
youtube.com
Devo - Head Like A Hole
YouTube video by Jim Bob
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