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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 2h

Bro you should visit my realm some time

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 3h

Tell me you're not talking to me without telling me you're not talking to me

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 4h

It's funny how, it's interesting to, it's striking that

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 4h

I had assumed romance was like any other genre fiction (most bad, some good) but the reaction to that JCO post got me to look up some Best Romance Novels Ever lists, and I think less of them now lol. 99% of the books listed are from the last decade or so, with always an Austen or two to elevate it

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 9h

If that creature visits again, I think I'll have choice words to say.

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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't Change Mind right now, there are enemies nearby

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I basically think all male-only institutions, associations etc should be abolished

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel very strongly that people who are fluent in more than one language are by and large my moral superiors

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

on the count of three everyone reason with perfect clarity

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I'm wearing Wizard Stink

SOMEONE TOLD ME I SMELL LIKE I CAST SPELLS

and now, this is my signature scent.

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We stopped by this spot yesterday on the way home after 6 hours on the road and caught the biggest flocks of egrets and sandhill cranes we'd ever seen. Big groups of cranes kept gliding overhead to land

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bro your ass may be necessary. But it's not sufficient

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(°○°) @rarecryptid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No, this is a fridge, which, with the addition of a human skull and a set of scales laden with florins and guilders, might remind the idle snacker that amid the shady boughs of Nature's bounty gleams Temptation like a baleful lure to bring all Men to their ultimate and eternal Ruin.

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Mark @samueltwain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

daily affirmation

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got today's Blird Game in 🐦🐦! 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 app.academy.allaboutbirds.org/blird

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Blird Game | BirdWise ID Quizzes

A daily bird identification game. Identify today's blurred bird in less than 5 guesses.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a different angle on Oriulus venustus

same structure as image 2, but in ventral view both of the pair of gonopods are seen. the upper blade has an s-shaped wave and a groove along the underside

the posterior gonopods, same structure as photo 4 of quoted, look like a U with the tips thickened and twisted forwards

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry to say I have just now heard the Texas song organically for the first time, in a rideshare in Montréal

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here is a copy of Blood On the Moon (1984) on which James Ellroy has inscribed "DEAR READER, MOLTEN HOT COUGAR JIZZ"

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Recruiter sending me a followup email email starting with "No pressure"—how exactly would you pressure me lol

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cutting loose helium balloons is a hilariously inapt image for an article as whiny as this. If you love them, set them free...

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Visiting Montreal (and Canada) for the first time... seems like a very cool city. Didn't realize they had cities like this in the Americas north of the 30th parallel

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Male Fantasies: Women, Floods, Bodies, History

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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 26/09/2026

oblique strategies

a sign by a paved path that says “STAY OFF COURSE”

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not fundamentally opposed to it but I'm increasingly finding myself a bit... bored when I encounter the "meanwhile, back at the ranch" parallel structure in novels. How about we try sticking with something for a bit

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They just released Sam's Top 100 Meandering Walks He Took in His Neighborhood of the 21st Century, and people are stirred up about it!

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not a serious list. They don't have the 2017 Youtube Upload Of Smiley's People (1982)

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Body horror"? I sure hope it does!

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

First thought when reading the list of TV shows: god, I've watched so many of these. What am I doing with my time.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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J HELL P @jlp.systems · 24/09/2026

I had to make this a jingle

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two things can be true at the same time. Some people say three things can be true, but they're idiots.

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The word inscrutable is heavily over-used. Most things can, with enough time and thought, be scruted.

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm typically a highly agreeable person with strangers in person, and I sometimes wonder if being a bit more abrasive online is a good exposure practice for that, or if it mostly just ends up being displacement.

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horse chestnut @natehousley.com · 24/09/2026

I know things are bad but if you like watching small time comedians doing crowd work there’s probably never been a better time to be alive

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