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Saving Private Equity

John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wrote a fanfic once with almost exactly this premise, except the "misspelled" word the know-it-all character pointed out really was the right word, not just a bluff. I won't link to it for reasons, but the word was "lightening" so you probably can guess the fandom.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

True, but it's easy to figure out from context what he means, so we'll allow it.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Because choosing not to do something that you know would benefit others is a sign of sociopathy

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Gotta be honest, I didn't even know UW-Parkside had athletic teams until today. Not being in the WIAC really diminishes their profile.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I mean, it's pretty much just how it's spelled. What's hard?

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fans of Elvis Costello may know this guy as "Mr. Oswald with the swastika tattoo" from "Less Than Zero." He'd just sung that line on SNL before saying "there's no reason to do this song here" and launching into "Radio Radio," which doesn't require knowing who Oswald Mosley to fully appreciate it.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hard to think of a comics executive who deserves one more

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Anne Loves 🔜 NYCC @annecomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Jenette Kahn getting a standing ovation is one of the best things I’ve seen ❤️

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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pumpkin Spice Scottish Highlander

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Cassandra Cain 🦇 @dailycasscain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pride and Predator.

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Holly Glightly 🧿 @hollyglightly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Are you there God, it's me Batman

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

About *two* dances, if we count the Transylvania Twist.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know much about women's basketball, but I do know the name Sue Bird and my understanding is that she was very good. As someone who knows ball, am I right to find it curious that she's not on this list?

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sure, and maybe people are being polite by using this one instead of embarrassing a real person with a real business. It's just odd that it exists at all.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The question I have about this is, why does it exist? As far as I can tell, there is no such place as Route 88 Bar and Grill. I don't think you can rule out the possibility that someone used generative AI to make it so they could point to it and say, "Look at how terrible AI flyers are!'

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Respectfully, it's because you kept guessing the letters you knew instead of the ones you didn't. If you'd guessed, say, OVENS on the third guess, you could've gotten it in four. Of course, if you were on hard mode, that wouldn't have worked ... but, that's why you don't play on hard mode. 😀

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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pumpkin Spice Coeur D'Alene

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's the name of the community college operated by the Naval Academy, mini-Annapolis

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I believe today is the 5th anniversary of the original posting of this list

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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pumpkin Spice President Carter

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's wild to me that the Orioles looked at what happened this year, kept the GM and manager in place, and fired the mascot. www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

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Orioles team mascots, Oriole Bird and Mr. Splash, among laid-off employees

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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pumpkin Spice Lyndon Johnson

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Paxton probes ... children's underwear" -- Reuters

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not sure which post you were responding to but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with mine.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We actually have hosted a lot of people affiliated with the ICECUBE project at my hotel over the years, so if you think about it, we share in this honor.

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1948

One-shot Wonder Woman villain Dr. Frenzi addresses a rally, saying, "It is time to give America back to Americans! Don't let foreigners take your jobs!" His assistant, Josie, passes a collection box through the crowd. "Tonight the GREEN SHIRTS ride again to purify America," he threatens. After the crowd disperses, Dr. Frenzi hugs the collection box and tells Josie, "America is the land of opportunity and this is MY opportunity to make a FORTUNE!" Sensation Comics #81, 1948, "When Treachery Wore a Green Shirt!" Joye Hummel, writer, H. G. Peter, artist.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I agree; her transphobia aside, what's the point of a longer version of what's already been done? If we need a long-form retelling of a children's fantasy series, let's see a decent adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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$Anand Giridharadas: "I think he's exactly right, but I want to say a couple of things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting, cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering. If you look at the population of, well, all people in cities who particularly come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, you look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country, okay? "And the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing. And there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book and their child's face and choose the verse in the book over their child's face and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho. And those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have Friendsgiving dinners with them. You live in LA, you are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories. "And so cities— every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, ah, look at these cities. But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of."$

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I considered that possibility but it seemed implausible because the HBO series premieres on December 25, so where's the temptation? Is a leaked vopy out on the dark web or someting

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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A Christian Resistance @xianresistance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Republican Congressman Dennis Hastert (1942~2026) was a truly evil man who has harmed untold millions of people, both through his politics & by his own personal actions. May God have mercy on his wicked soul, & give healing & peace to his victims.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More people need to follow this bot. It's impossible to doomscroll when a nugget of pure nonsense pops into your feed on the regular.

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John Heaton has had enough of Halloween @jheaton416.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I get and 100% support your decision to not send your money toward JKR these days, but both the book and film series were finished well before she came out as a TERF, so why didn't you check them out at that time? Asking from genuine curiosity, not looking for a gotcha.

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