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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In the whole of the American Bottom they Gentrified Chunkey

Paragraph from Graeber and Wengrow's "Dawn of Humanity" describing the increasing stratification of Cahokia from AD 600 to AD 1050 as revealed by the game "chunkey", p.465

Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Almost like we wouldn't even need a way to distinguish ourselves as individuals if there weren't a premise of the Other against and with whom to define and identify

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Increasingly convinced we need to destroy every online community and subculture with the sole exception of video game speedrunning

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Mama," she seems to say. "Put your fucking kids to bed, this is our time now."

My cat Minerva with one outstretched paw resting on my foot

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Impossible not to immediately think of Albert Speer and his theory of Ruin Value (Ruinenwerttheorie), the construction of aesthetically-pleasing ruins, typical of the Fascist desire to already have accomplished something historic, faux citationality in lieu of real accomplishment.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/09/2026

Kind of feel like getting into bed and vanishing like old sick Yoda

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More and more I read shallow art criticism from people accustomed to writing product reviews, and what keeps precipitating out is an instinct to autobiographize, as though the displacement has occurred in the viewer, not the text. It kind of is all bean soup recipes, all the way down

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every moviegoer has seen problematic stuff, no era of movies is perfect, that isn't what this is about. I just feel that so much old movie discourse is people trying to do scholarship while wearing their fandom hat.

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Aleph, The Black Ram @alephblackram.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Christian transphobe infighting

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history's radical traditions means finding theory in the most meagre places. The most squalid atmosphere. - Lola Olufemi

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shrilly informing my stomach that if it doesn't stop producing poop I simply shan't eat anymore

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fantasizing about a future where archaeologists in five thousand years unearth a culture replete with this striking iconography; what could it have meant to the primitives and how was it used in their simple but beautiful rituals?

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

True crime has really just broken people’s brains. Millions of people perpetually worried that they’re at acute risk of vanishingly rare crimes, convinced we should curtail civil liberties as a result. A generation who thinks of accusing strangers of heinous crimes as simple entertainment

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Katy // is listening to the wolfman take a piss @katysaint.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his balls? "No!" Says Lil Jon, "It belongs to the windows! To the walls!"

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Tyxi @tyxi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think bad game design is okay as long as it's funny

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Oh man, the moon does look incredible tonight.

The moon in Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It's huge and crashing and it's got a creepy face, like a zombie.

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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Stories can be improved via the inclusion of lesbians

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When we talk about "civil rights," it's important to keep in mind that the right of women and girls to access the public sphere without being subjected to sexual violence or harassment is usually considered less important than the free speech rights of men to harass them.

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Love to read such dry, clinical descriptions of my own boring psyche

'Conversely the development of spontaneous individuality implies by necessity some degree of adjustment. Henri Bergson has pointed out in his "Laughter," that the psychological calcifications which make an individual comical in an esthetic sense indicate some failure in his maturity and are bound up with his incapacity to cope with changing social situations, going as far as stating that, in a way, the concept of "character" denoting a rigidified personality pattern impervious to life experience is comical "per se."'

Theodor Adorno, The Stars Down to Earth

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This has come to be my opinion of most media discourse. The policing of others' likes and dislikes in art is just a displacement of the anxiety that our moral outrage is not enough to implement even such token requests as "please don't rub it in our faces that rapists and pedophiles rule over us."

"This indicates the most important construct of the column—that of readers who are or feels themselves to be basically dependent, who find themselves incessantlyin situations which they cannot cope with by their own powers and who are beset psychologically by what has come to be known as ego weakness, but is often expressive of weakness in reality."

Theodor Adorno, The Stars Down to Earth

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

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Aidan @aidanpanettiere.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

this could be how I decide a lot of stuff going forward tbh

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Nosfrogtu @pogue.omg.lol · 17/07/2026

they should invent a video game where it has stuff in it i like and nothing i don't

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"How's your new book about the concept of time coming along?" Carlo Rovelli:

Picture of the table of contents for The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli, cropped only to show the first section, titled "Perhaps Time Is the Greatest Mystery"

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If, in the course of decrying any of America's many problems, you feel the need to use another country or culture as some kind of shorthand that epitomizes the problem (a country which often exists in the context of America's globally destabilizing influence) I'm gonna mute you

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Having been castigated for years for pointing out the obvious Libertarian themes of every Brad Bird movie, all this does is make me remember that there is never a point in debating Libertarianism on its own merits because if you wait long enough the sexual predation always emerges

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I remember the bartender leaping on the bar to dance where I worked in Grand Rapids the night we heard the news

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Pasiphaë, you better not be in a hollow cow when I get there

Giulio Romano's depiction of Pasiphaë entering a hollow cow, with a helpful caption describing the same

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Clemmy's desire to know what's going on (new snail tankmate) is at odds with her desire to hide in cave

A picture of Clementine the razorback musk turtle craning her neck all the way out to peer over the driftwood she's hiding behind

A picture of the cave Clementine has scooped out under the driftwood. A turtle backside protrudes from the entrance.

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Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today: Finished reading a book Also today: Started reading a book

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Amish Super Model @amishsupermodel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wife: Do that thing I like. Me: *alphabetizes spice rack*

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My life is like "Honey, stop playing Pokemon with the kids, I want to watch Xena" and yet somehow, depressed

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I don't judge an unreliable narrator. There are days I'm not even a reliable writer.

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

When you have only one hind leg, flaunt it

A picture of my cat Minerva chevroned between my legs with her one hind leg extended into the air, saucily

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Damned

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

just think: someday we may treat artifical intelligence with the same contempt we give the traditional kind

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Rachel @happymaskseller.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I have a blue house with a blue window Blue is the colour of all that I wear Blue are the streets and all the trees are too I have a girlfriend and she is so blue

A screenshot from the video game Blue Prince showing a single card of blue graph paper with the word Blue written on it. It is being held by the player in an abstract blue room that is so secret you better play the game to find out more.

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feers @feerstactics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

truly honest to god evil country. the united states must fall for there to be peace on earth

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