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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 01/10/2026

Had the first sword stream poster in my office for the last few years. Gotta figure out something else to hide the paint on the wall chipping. It feels like an insult to injury that the last thing of his I watched talked about Isabel Fall.

A photo of a corner of a room right next to a door. The door has a poster of a mechanical keyboard switch on it, the wall has a trans pride flag with the anarchist A high on it, at the bottom there’s a router, in the middle there’s a screw a picture frame was hanging on until a few moments ago, hiding the paint on the wall chipping

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 30/09/2026

I’d call Mormon socialism a red brown alliance but they could take an issue with me insinuating they’re anything but white.

A Bsky post by The Salt Lake Tribune saying:

Latter-day Saint socialist candidates were common in the early 20th century. How and why that changed, although socialist members are not uncommon in today's global church.

with a link to an article titled: Commentary: Latter-day Saints are no strangers to socialism - in the past and the present

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 16/09/2026

"I have never even once betrayed anyone, Haman. If you ignore some of my past actions."

A frame from Gundam Zeta, Char Aznable in a normal suit pointing a gun in the vague direction of the viewer, currently in the process of betrayal.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 15/09/2026

That was a fun kit to build

Megalomaria Mephisto plastic model kit. A plastic model kit of a cybernetic looking devil man with translucent horns sitting cross legged and playing chess

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 10/08/2026

You know what? Last week's been impossibly bad, but at least this one's starting better. At least on here, jury's still out on how things go in the meatspace, hopefully there's less feeling like I'm dying this week.

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The solution to the whole trans women in women’s sports and what the criteria of acceptability should be is simple. Two years of maximalist increase in funding for women’s sports followed by complete desegregation of every discipline.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 10/08/2026

One of these days I will get a second joke but not today. Everything is nationalism now, everything is fandom, everything is border policing, everything is panic about those form beyond the border coming to take what is ours because that lets us define what "we" means.

The cover of Rudolf Rocker's Nationalism and Culture with the world Nationalism replaced by the word Fandom

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 09/08/2026

That... hmmmm... I feel like some amount of ideology might be happening here but I can't really put my finger on it... hmmmm

Bluesky trending topics:
1. Backlash against AI data centres
2. Israel-Gaza conflict and genocide claims
the word claims is underlined in red

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 08/08/2026

If I say that Ball is my favourite design from Mobile Suit Gundam, and that it's, in fact, transition goals, does that make this post mechsploitation?

Ball from Mobile Suit Gundam - a space vehicle retrofitted for combat, a perfectly round body with a fuel tank on the back and a set of grabber arms in front, there's a round front window taking up about a third of its body, and a big gun attached to its top

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 30/07/2026

It's even more important to recognise this as "Look at the trannies asking me to stop financially supporting organisations pushing for their genocide, thinking they get to plea for compassion as if they're not just filth beneath my feet" in a mocking voice to make us sound hysterical

A Ken Jennings bluesky post saying:
This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 30/07/2026

It's important to recognise this rhetoric for what it is. The way we understand there's no such thing as a pass to say slurs, you need to understand you should always err on the side of the oppressed people saying "don't do the thing that harms us" and this nonsense is a common tactic for bigots.

A Ken Jennings bluesky post saying:
They were like “Trans people are not a monolith” and “Like-minded allies may disagree on specific media boycotts” and stuff like that. It was a huge load off my mind!

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 16/07/2026

For thinking through this kind of stuff and the broad societal implications of it I very much recommend The Extended Universe by @vickyacab.bsky.social

A hard cover book with a Kobo e-reader on top of it with the same book open on it. The books are Vicky Osterweil’s The Extended Universe How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 08/07/2026

Marx's understanding of feminism can be described as not fully formed or complete but it remains robust enough for later feminists to build on top of it. One of the more recent examples I find deeply valuable being Social Reproduction Theory which explicitly credits Marx for his feminist work.

The cover of the book Social Reproduction Theory Remapping Class, Recentering Opression Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya Foreword by Lise Vogel

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 24/06/2026

We talk a lot (as we should) about the society wide surveillance scheme that's ID laws sold as a way to keep teens off social media but I think we need to pay more attention to stuff like the "parental controls" Apple introduced this WWDC or stuff like this Mosyle email I just got promising to give

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 25/05/2026

Best Star Trek captain. Wrong answers only

Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan in Babylon 5

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 18/05/2026

If you see this, post a pic from your device without context

A photo of a giant plushie of Pikachu suspended from the top of its head, its skin stretching, inside some sort of a gambling machine promising you can win the plush if you can cut the string it’s hanging from.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 18/05/2026

Since it took a bit to get the hardcover internationally I got the ebook in the time it took the physical version to arrive. But now it’s here it’s a sign it’s Discord Friends Book Club time. Just to streamline all the conversations where the book keeps being relevant.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 04/05/2026

I grew up watching the original Clash of the Titans which I still love. Krull exists in roughly the same space. The story is more thread bare, but the characters work well, the effects are clearly technically worse but all the more charming.

A still from the movie Krull. Seven indistinguishable figures in the distance running across a large alien looking bridge with a waterfall in the background.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 04/05/2026

You're never not aware of all the papier-mâché every shot is filled with because you're constantly going "wow, that's some great looking papier-mâché". The artifice is on full display in way that feels like a refreshing contrast to modern MCU style cinema but also impressive in its own right.

A still from the movie Krull. Three horses with riders on their backs. The horses are running so fast they're setting the ground underneath their hooves on fire.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 04/05/2026

the most loving and weirdly high budget high school theatre production possible. It's a movie made with 500 bucks, love, and the most skilled and coolest art teacher in charge. (CN: image of a fake giant spider)

A still from the movie Krull. A shot through a cave tunnel leading to a glowing cocoon suspended by spider webs. At the end of the tunnel stands a giant white/translucent spider.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 04/05/2026

A movie that based on how I see people talking about it should be just forgettable and boring. Here's the thing however - Krull is absolutely beautiful. Everything in it is ok enough but the matte paintings, the costumes, the sets, the special effects - they're all like they came out of

A still from the movie Krull. An eye of a giant red face we don't see. The white of that eye is a big round room, the iris an opening leading out of it, the pupil a a redheaded woman in a white dress

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 04/05/2026

Ok, I'm gonna mention Krull for the second time today. I was considering doing a thread about it and this is as good excuse as any. The story of Krull is nothing to write home about, it's extremely simple with some "oh this is a TTRPG campaign" vibes. It's a movie nobody ever really praises.

A poster for the movie Krull. At the top is the title of the movie in all caps (KRULL). The centrepiece of the poster is the glaive a throwing weapon with five blades like a large folding shuriken. In between the blades we can see (in clockwise order) a white bearded man holding a sword, a glowing dome with two figures in front of it, a cyclops, alien soldiers, and a woman with long red hair

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 04/05/2026

I was gonna include one of the Thematic Apperception Test images in my reply to your previous thread and then decided that.... no, I can't do a real alt text for it that would be in any way helpful without feeling mildly nauseous at this point

One of the images from the Thematic Apperception Test, I'm sorry I do not have it in me to describe it

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 03/05/2026

The last sentence reads like Richard Dawkins is about to start explaining to me that the existence of chatbots proves the blind watchmaker theory. Which might be the funniest thing since a little jar of honey.

A Richard Dawkins tweet reading: My own title was, "If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?" If Claudia is unconscious, her behaviour shows that an unconscious zombie could survive without consciousness. Why wasn't natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 17/04/2026

Recently Seven Deadly Sins and the messed up things it does came up in a discussion somewhere and googling the anime made me note that for some time every show had to have a guy who literally looked like this, not even kinda like this, pretty much exactly like this.

An anime man with red eyes, spikey white hair and a single strand of hair flopping downwards towards his face

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 07/04/2026

Oh well, at least the AWS outage is over

Bsky iOS app displaying a blank screen with a red banner at the top reading “The server appears to be experiencing issues. Please try again in a few moments.”

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 03/04/2026

If you see this drop some armour

A shelf with a collection of VOTOMS plamo kits. 8 plastic robots based on the anime Armored Trooper VOTOMS.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 16/03/2026

Some time ago I made this as a joke about "everything is nationalism now" and the way fandoms move as *imagined communities* the way Rocker defines nations. This is inseparable from treating queerness as fandom and just making it obvious how much modern politics are just variations on nationalism.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 30/01/2026

You've fucked up when your argument against something can be summed up by a dril tweet except somehow you're serious.

dril tweet reading- the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 26/01/2026

The thing that is missing from all of these people is the recognition that their position up until now wasn't politically neutral, that it had material outcomes. The acknowledgement that the present reality is in part their fault. That had they listened, we wouldn't be here.

a bluesky post from Henry Mance saying: Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 06/01/2026

*Leaning over to the people saying AI is basically like cars and therefore trying to get rid of all of it is bit too extreme and difficult* “She’s talking to you”

A frame from the movie Fury Road. Blonde woman shouting “Then who killed the world?”

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 28/11/2025

sinhomosexual not to be mistaken for Shin Homosexual

Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 27/05/2025

Michael is King, while CMRN is Armor King, it’s simple and obvious.

Thumbnail image for the podcast Just King Things. Two cartoon men fighting, the one on the left (Michael) wearing a yellow tunic, holding a sword, with the head of the Tekken character King photoshopped onto him, the one on the right (CMRN) wearing s purple tunic, holding a sickle, with the head of the Tekken character Armor King photoshopped onto him.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 06/03/2025

Blame the misfortune of your birth.

Meowzie, the female Meowth from the episode of the Pokemon show where Meowth learns to speak.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 31/01/2025

Yes! I now get to play a random weird puzzle game about a chicken shooting cardboard boxes. Between this and discovering what that one show I remember seeing a few scenes from on TV as a kid that I could never find was (Spellbinder) it's been a good month for scratching life long brain itches for me

Screenshot of a game Kumoon featuring a yellow chicken holding a gun in a white room with red pillars of stacked boxes

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 26/01/2025

it's 4am here so I can't be bothered to actually do a bad photoshop but imagine I replaced the pill with the Bsky logo and it saying Bad for health and Bad for education

An image of the back of the red jacket of Shotaro Kaneda from the movie Akira featuring a red and blue pill with text reading "good for health bad for education"

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 18/12/2024

Anyway, owie, fuck migraines.

:sob: emote (a face with flowing tears forming a puddle) with :anger: emote (anime pulsing vein) on its temple inside :prohibited: sign emote (a red circle with a 45 degree diagonal line inside it)

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