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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The thing is, if a concentration camp was what it *sounds* like, I would probably go. I could use a week of that.

Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

There must be a new word in some language (I’m betting Japanese) for the mix of anticipation and anxiety you feel between hitting “share” or “send” on a link and the moment it either reconciles as an in-app video/image/gif/whatever or stays a plain-text link in your dm/messenger/chat/slack/whatever.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I count down the days to Heidi Klum’s unhinged Halloween costume reveal the way most people count the days down to Christmas.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Living in NYC is wild. People who will never come here have loud opinions about one of our mayoral candidates based on his opinion of a country they’d never even think about visiting.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is exactly what I said that got me banned from that Anne Rice fanfic forum.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

How do all the “preserve history” people who clutched their pearls at the de-statue-ing of confederate generals feel about the Smithsonian removing Trump from the impeachment exhibit? Y’all sad? You okay? I’m here if you need to talk.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

@stephenathomes.bsky.social should just rebrand as a right wing propagandist and basically shift to doing the Colbert Report 2025. Cutting satire but pretending to be a spineless shill who will do or say whatever it takes to make Trump happy.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Dr Demento is getting out of the game just before all the hackneyed “Bomb Iran” (to the tune of Barbra Anne) parodies flood his inbox AGAIN

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Sure we all hate when someone describes a dream to us, but have you ever had someone describe a baseball play to you?

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

That moment in Star Wars where Han Solo says “never tell me the odds” hits so much harder if you know he’s a gambling addict.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I think a lot of us probably would have joined a research expedition to the arctic by now if it hadn’t been for The Thing.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Wait a goddamn second… in Spanish, “Mexico” is masculine, and “America” is feminine. Those sons of birches made the Gulf trans!

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For a bunch of dipshits who pretend not to understand gender identity and gleefully deadname their own children, they sure are quick to embrace calling it the Gulf of America

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I know there are more important things right now, and I’m coming to this late… But are you telling me that Mare of Easttown and Mayor of Kingstown are completely different shows that have nothing to do with each other? Unbelievable.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Guys. It’s 2025. Why can I STILL not text my dog?

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Okay so we’ve gotten some important data recently: “Make America Great Again” has to be referring to a period in time AFTER the Panama Canal was built, but BEFORE the polio vaccine was introduced. So somewhere between 1904 and 1955, which… I gotta tell you guys… does not look great.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I wonder what Trump thinks a YMCA is.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Jeff Goldblum is Al Gore’s Waluigi. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The bitter irony is how much Jay Leno now looks like a Conan character.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I was in NYC carrying a huge, heavy bolt of fabric down 8th Ave. It started raining. A cab stoped about a block away to drop its fare. I sprinted at it. A man stepped out, held the door for me as I arrived, just as a woman came around the corner and ducked into the cab. It drove off…

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hey @nytimes.com, this isn’t a circle. Full circle would be: Speaker allows ethics investigation > Gaetz ousts Speaker > Gaetz dodges release of ethics findings by leaving for DOJ > old Speaker now has job at DOJ running background checks on incoming staff. That would be full circle 1/2

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Oh… I get it… “Where at least *I* know *I’m* free…”

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Hey @jeffbezos.bsky.social, I read that op-ed you published in that news paper you own. If any of it is true: you should fucking sell the paper or at absolute least never involve yourself in their editorial decisions. The fact that you won’t do either IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

The Trump camp getting huffy about being called fascists… After nearly a decade of Trump calling everyone he meets the most vile, childish, nasty, dangerous shit that he can conjure from the syphilis cratered valleys of is adderall saturated brain… what a bunch of whiney little bitches.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Don’t worry about me; I’m on my employer’s health insurance concept. #debate2024

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Even if you’re fully armed and on the offensive, there’s no reason the answer should ever not be “I’d rather be alone in the woods with the bear.” Man is the most dangerous game… for the same reasons that “bear” is the answer to the other question.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

I guess now we’ll never know who really killed Nicole Brown Simpson.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Don’t even try to gatekeep unless you can name three really good riddles.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Last SOTU she showed up as Cruella DeVil. Tonight she came as 88 Mile. Slim Sha-dition? Martial Law Mathers? Or maybe an alt could be, like, Justin Breitbart?

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

As much as I agree with and support all the Barbie takes, I don’t think enough people are talking about how tonedeaf and irresponsible the Academy is to glorify Oppenheimer in the same breath that they praise Godzilla. Do better, @theacademy.bsky.social.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

ME: Hey Siri, how many 30 under 30 wound up in prison for corporate malfeasance? SIRI: [sigh] I keep telling you, Alex, this is not what I’m meant for. ME: And I keep telling YOU this is not what ANY OF US were meant for!

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

There’s gotta be another way to say that, @nytimes.com

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Look, I’m sure I’m not the first person to have done it, but I had an intrusive thought, and I had to see it through. Wario Lopez.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Elon Musk calling anyone a poseur is the funniest fucking thing he’s ever done.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Fine print on billboards is incredibly funny to me. That’s legal?! What are we doing? We are a ridiculous people.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

We’re getting real close to Republicans just straight up arguing that the 14th amendment allows for slavery “as long as it’s not JUST straight black people being enslaved,” and Clarence Thomas writing the majority opinion that kicks it to the States to decide. As soon as the ADF picks a case!

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

The GOP’s “Trump isn’t referencing Mein Kampf” defense is… if true… worse right? Like… if he’s not referencing Hitler, that means he just… thinks Hitler thoughts? On his own? It doesn’t make him less Hitler-y, it makes him MORE Hitler-y. Hitler wasn’t quoting Hitler either—THOSE WERE HIS THOUGHTS!

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Bit of Good News / Bad News for Donald. At long last, Ivanka might finally screw him.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Truly shocking that we haven’t even figured out yet whether there’s a god or not. Feels like we should have had an answer to that by now…

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

[donovan voice] 🎶what hotel light responds to this? What hotel light responds to this? What hotel light responds to this? What is the reason for this switch?”

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

“But how many of you who sit and judge me ever walked the streets of Bakersfield? Adams? … Nay Aderholt? … Nay Aguilar? … Yea Alford? … “

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Friends with my English teacher. We still hang out sometimes.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Reboot idea: The 6 Million Dollar Man, but you don’t account for 50 years of inflation, so his body just kinda sucks.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

MTG: I’ve been giving out handies in theaters for weeks! I can’t believe Boebert copied me AGAIN! GAETZ: Giving out handies in theaters was the cornerstone of my campaign; don’t act like you invented it.

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

So we’re all… we’re all committed to calling it “skeeting?” We’re all cool with that? We don’t wanna take a minute and think that through?

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Alex Marino @malex-aforethought.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Those of you who kept the same user pics you had on twitter: I respect that. But those of you who changed your pic when you came over to Bluesky: I like your new pic better. Like… to a person. It’s weird how much better the user pics are on this site.

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