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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

So how many times did this fella deny recognizing Jesus before the cock crowed?

Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I have once again reached the part of my favorite novel where Somerset Maugham's self-insert turns directly to the camera and insults me personally.

A page from Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. The highlighted text reads

"I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again," said Philip. "That's only a laborious form of idleness."

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"Progressives aren't providing a strong position on falling birthrates" is bananas framing. 7% of the total humans who have ever lived are currently alive. If rates don't plummet, we're fucked. Immigration solves labor, which in any case is much less important. Only the left takes it seriously.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Is this like a British Museum-style restitution, Returning the Nazi gold to the new generation?

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I am not at all a costume person, but this Halloween, I keep catching sight of myself in mirrors and wondering when I started dressing up as my father every day.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Funnily enough, Mitchell and Webb (of "Are we the baddies?" fame) had a radio sketch about exactly this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYy...

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

86 47. Because "The Constitution prohibits the acting president from holding any office of trust, and the fact that his handpicked lackeys on the USSC set up absurd roadblocks against enforcing the law makes them criminal co-conspirators who are likewise barred from office" is too hard to chant.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Some real gems on Temu once in a while.

Product image of a crucifix with the figure of Jesus suspended horizontally from the cross by a rainbow-colored resin cord. Text over the image reads "Color: Rope skipping old man"

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Very weird tech support issue at work. I eventually managed to get the rep to admit that the troubleshooting step they were asking me to perform before honoring the warranty was a Kafkaesque request akin to a coroner asking me to give a headless corpse a sandwich. It's the little things.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Twelve score and nine years ago, a violent mob brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in navel-gazing and dedicated to the proposition that they shouldn't be hanged for treason. When it was finally stress-tested, it held up about as well as that sounds like it would.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I am the very model of a modern chipmunk animal. I exercise my voice and keep my diction understandable. I dress in tweeds and ride velocipedes about the quadrangle, And check the time when I've a mind on timepieces adorable; @dimension20.bsky.social #misfitsandmagic

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Lovely piece. Reminiscent of the closing scenes of The Ruling Class (1972).

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Metacognitive Obama: Let me be here.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Absolutely just bought some new accessories. dorotheasclosetvintage.com/pages/about-us

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Nailed it. Poverty isn't a plot device.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

O nightmare town of R'lyeh, Expectantly we wait! Beneath thy deeps, dead dreamers sleep And hostile stars aggrate. Here through thy dark streets creepeth An all-consuming blight; The madd'ning fears of all the years Shall spread from thee tonight.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Experimenting with format. Tried writing a story that can be sensibly read a few sentences at a time in the form of skeets. Not sure how well it works. #writingcommunity #writing

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Keeping It It's January 7th. I've been expecting for 6 months now. I haven't been keeping a diary, but I think maybe I should. Today at least was memorable, and I don't want to forget it. Will I give this diary to you, one day? Will I want to keep it? #writingcommunity #writing #horror

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The woods were wild when we were children, Fresh-grown and teeming with threats, And we went in unsupervised Through telephone wires. #writingcommunity #writing

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You remember George Kent, the best-dressed man in the first impeachment? I said at the time that what I wanted most in the world would be for him to host a travel show. Well, youtu.be/hSDztX44OhY?...

youtu.be

Eastern Approaches Episode 1

YouTube video by USEmbassyTallinn

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I always feel that unjust actions should be equivalently redressed; on this principle, I oppose the death penalty for all crimes except treason and support it for treason. Intolerable social ills that fall short of treason should be cured either by other official penalties or by unofficial actors.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I like but don't love musicals, with one exception: A Clockwork Orange. Better than either version of the book, worlds better than the movie by that Kubrick creep. Burgess's real message shines through: people can grow up, but nation-states are doomed to perpetual destructive adolescence.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Obligatory people and creations I adore thread: Terry Pratchett. The Discworld is a wonderful gift. Fiercely humanistic, bitingly satirical, hilarious and deeply moving, it is everything great fiction should be. GNU STP.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

We'll build a lever long enough And find a spot to plant it. Just hold on tight; when the time is right, They'll watch us move the planet.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Pauls and Rons and Ryans and Rands Sold their country to build their brands Jims and Teds and Kevins and Dons Clutched their pearls to sell their cons.

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