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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is my second of two attempts so far.

ID: Scooby Doo comic panel edited to look like a YouTube video. The panel itself has Fred, Daphne and Velma looking at something together in varying reactions of interest, Fred saying "okay then," and Daphne saying, "I'll do it. This could be fun!" Velma looks nervous, but intrigued. The cursor is showing a preview of later in the very same video, and all are looking at the preview as they express this interest. In the preview, the three are engaged in sexual acts together.

macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I would probably commit crimes to get this in higher definition. How, how do you make your characters look so goddamn amazing. I mean, there's so much more than looks to love but SERIOUSLY. I wanna be just like her I swear and that's such a bad idea.

ID: Comic panel crop. Ro from Heartstrings sits on a log with her chin propped up on one hand, wearing slacks and a white dress shirt open to the third button or so. She is slightly flushed, her shaggy hair hanging unkempt around her face, as she smiles dreamily. The wrist of one hand shows a tattoo sleeve is hiding under the shirt.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That's reasonable. Unfortunately, I can't think of an example of a character saying something that's normal to them but sounds utterly horrific and/or bizarre to those around them. If only there was an example of that somewhere in fiction. Someone saying "lol just like my childhood" to great shock.

ID: Yellow Brick Ramble panel crop. Ozma looks mildly surprised and concerned, pauses, and asks, "Why are you all LOOKING at me like that?" /end ID

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think about Berthold Brecht's "To Those Who Follow in Our Wake" a lot lately. And, as someone in the replies was surely also paraphrasing, Oliveira's words in the wake of the Pulse massacre. (I bet Bsky will be as uncooperative as ever with these images.)

Transcript of the third and last part of a poem, translated from Bertholt Brecht.
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You, who shall resurface following the flood
In which we have perished,
Contemplate —
When you speak of our weaknesses,
Also the dark time
That you have escaped.

For we went forth, changing our country more frequently than our shoes
Through the class warfare, despairing
That there was only injustice and no outrage.

And yet we knew:
Even the hatred of squalor
Distorts one’s features.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow hoarse. We
Who wished to lay the foundation for gentleness
Could not ourselves be gentle.

But you, when at last the time comes
That man can aid his fellow man,
Should think upon us
With leniency.

—Bertolt Brecht, An die Nachgeborenen first published in Svendborger Gedichte (1939) in: Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4, pp. 722-25 (1967)(S.H. transl.)

Social media posts by meakoopa responding to a post where Josh Barro complains, "I think this is unfair. It is not weird to oppose gay marriage and also be horrified by the murder of gay people." Meakoopa quote-tweets, "Oh sorry if we are being unfair, unfortunately you guys murdered all the nice gays and now there's just us: the assholes. The queers who were nice/patient/gentle all got shot or bullied to death, all that's left are me and the other pissed-off cockroach motherfuckers."

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

(Repost from Mastodon: ) If I had a nickel for every time a Sam Neill character fumbled a baddie named Claire, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

ID: Screenshot from Until The End Of The World, a Wim Wenders film. In a messy study full of paintings and books, a man and a woman stand, the woman looking away as the man, played by Sam Neill, says, "No, Claire, I'm sorry." /end ID

ID: Screenshot from the movie Event Horizon. Doctor Weir, played by Sam Neill, is in a mildly padded, tiled room, wearing a jumpsuit. He looks in the direction of the camera with a desperate expression and asks, "Claire?" /end ID

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Piss and whine, you fake socialist. Deliberately trying to make room for the dismantling of the rights of women by attacking the rights of a few of them? What next, relitigating segregation? You know who your allies are in this fight. You know you're standing with fascists. You like it that way.

Social media post by Anthony Oliveira: "The queers who were nice/patient/gentle all got shot or bullied to death all that's left are me & the other pissed-off cockroach motherfuckers"

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I apologize for breaking this. orz

Cropped image of the reposts, quotes, likes and saves. Notably, 666 likes.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

[ID: Industrial warning label. Text says, Warning! This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh, but cares a lot, so please stay out of its way. It would be very sad if it accidentally hurt you. /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

XD Thank you. I needed this tonight. I have found the dopamine. I will now go to bed.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

@spice-aisle.bsky.social I managed to get way behind on Heartstrings, just caught up. heartstringscomic.com/comics/579/#... This hit really hard. I used to have a seemingly endless well of anger, and little feels worse now than frightening someone else. Poor Ro. Rough day.

ID: Page from the comic Heartstrings. Ro, a punk rocker, confronts a young and frightened little shit who is attending the same meeting. Ro's fist is clenched, still at her side but her body language is threatening enough to scare the other woman. Seeing her fear, and her own clenched fist, Ro becomes afraid of what she may have been about to do, and/or of the fear of others, and unclenches it and walks out of the meeting. Others present call after her.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Because of Peter S. Beagle's "The Ballad Of Eleanor Roosevelt", when I hear someone with a degree of fame say they're nobody's saint, I always think of Brecht. "Unhappy is the land that needs heroes." Great joke on your second sponsor's part, btw.

[ID: A page from the Bertholdt Brecht play The Life Of Galileo. Highlighted are the lines, "Unhappy is the land that has no heroes!" and the reply: They lead him to the door. When they reach it, Galileo begins to speak: No. Unhappy is the land that needs a hero." /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Nor for the glorious, glorious bullshit. <3

[ID: Screenshot from Space Pirate Captain Harlock. Harlock says sardonically, "So, being an alcoholic is useful for once!" /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

*hugs?* That always feels so insufficient. How does one show they care over the internet? And what use is it? It's better than not knowing people care, I guess.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Adding alt-text (hope it's satisfactory)

[ID: Julia Kaye autobio comic. Julia listens to the new Sabrina Carpenter album while packing a suitcase. She says "This music is well-made but feels like it's for girlier girls than me. Ones that... didn't go through the trauma of not having been able to experience the sort of girlhood they wish they couldn't had and now feel too changed to embrace girlier media. ... Oh." She sits back and cries a bit. "That's not processed at all." /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

[ID: El Goonish Shive panel. Grace and Justin talk to each other in the card shop while a customer looks on. Grace says: That was a joke. Nobody can tell when I'm joking. I should buy a small sign that says "just kidding." Justin laughs a little at that, and she replies, No I'm serious. /end ID]

[ID: El Goonish Shive panel crop. Grace and Justin talk to each other in the card shop while a customer looks on. Grace says: That was a joke. Nobody can tell when I'm joking. I should buy a small sign that says "just kidding." Justin laughs a little at that, and she replies, No I'm serious. /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Make him dab, like he does in the comics!

ID: Rom Spaceknight, a robotic-looking superhero from Marvel Comics, ducks and shields his face in a manner that looks like a dance move called dabbing. /end ID

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I have now caught up with Heartstrings and wait patiently for the next page. Mostly patiently. It would be difficult to explain why I made this silly edit but I assure you, everyone in my gaming group fuckin' lost it.

ID: Ro from the webcomic Heartstrings, a butch dyke punk singer, looks out of sorts as she begins her show; her eyes have been replaced with the Special Eyes from the bug-eyed Mass Effect meme and she in fact says into the microphone to her adoring fans, "I have special eyes." /end ID

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The night side of Charon illuminated by Plutoshine, in a photograph by the New Horizons probe on its way out of the region and deeper into the Kuiper Belt.

A low-resolution image of a single spheroid lit from two sides, the solar terminator visible on the right while a softer light shines from the upper left. Charon's night side, lit by plutoshine. Taken by the the NASA New Horizons probe in 2015.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Alt-text on image; CW for Nazi bullshit.

ID: Social media post by Bruno Dias quote-twatting Politico: "On this website you can't say lol about Charlie Kirk's death but you can imply that autistic people are a problem to be solved." Quote-tweeted article by Politico has headline "Trump's Tylenol diatribe was rooted in frustration. The president wants to solve the autism problem even if it means pregnant women don't treat their pain and delay their kids' vaccinations." /end ID

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

[ID: Panels cropped from NSFW comic Alfie. A wall-eyed old caravaner takes a drink from his tankard before flatly saying, "Tits." /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

[ID: Legend of Galactic Heroes screencap. Admiral Bittenfeld stands in his seat, angrily stating, “When a devil gets caught by a monster, I, as a human being, can only hope that they both die.” /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

no new pictures, where are you at mentally?

ID: Cropped panel from Yokohama Shopping Log. Director Alpha looks out from a ventral window of the Taapon, looking down at the clouds and the world below. Her expression is difficult to read, her emotions reserved and quiet, but there's a melancholy to it.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I have found so many uses for this screenshot.

[ID: Serial Experiments Lain. In a dark room, Taro says to Lain, "The Knights aren't just ordinary crackers, Lain." /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I sometimes wonder what my next eggshell holds.

[ID: cropped panel from El Goonish Shive. Tedd says, in wonder and awe, "I'm -- That's a thing? There's a NAME for it?" End ID.]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy. Oh no.

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If I may suggest an alternative:

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I've gotten far more use out of this image than I ever would have expected.

[ID: Captioned image from Dominion Tank Police of Buaku and the Puma sisters. Impact font capital letters say, Me and the girls on our way to steal your piss. /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Why is "vote blue no matter who" only ever intended to justify fascism?

[ID: Social media post by one Nina Turner. Shows a picture of Gavin Newsom personally tearing up a homeless camp. Text says, "You know, the Democratic Party could help organize a general strike instead of eroding democracy in response to the GOP eroding democracy. No, the man who rips up tents of the unhoused is not going to be the savior of democracy. He's playing the media game to run for president." /end ID]

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Twenty year old anime. I guess some things don't change.

ID: Action-filled screenshot from Cromartie High School. An intense Yakuza-looking fellow has smashed something over Freddie Mercury's head, against a backdrop of the Southwest US wilderness at sunset. He is complaining, "Is the US a place that you can't live without transportation?!"

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macksting @macksting.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Finally getting around to Cromartie High School, and of all its running bits, one of the funniest to me is the recurring bit where literally all these guys are 16.

[ID: Cromartie High School screenshot. Against a bright yellow flaming dramatic background, a man's face stares toward the viewer intensely. The caption is talking about his great physical strength. He looks to be in his 20s or 30s. He is described as "Jackson Setouchi, age 16." /end ID]

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