Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 8hThere have been unconfirmed but consistent reports of normal people in Des Moines, Iowa, for upwards of 20 years now. But they're covering it up. 010
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 8hyeah it starts slow but Pepys really kicks off when you get to the Fart Arc 0130
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 9hsaw a cute clip of some nature doc about puffins and over the course of a minute or so, with a growing sense of unease and derealization, placed the voiceover as President Barack Obama 0190
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10hI need to find a Warner Safe Liver Cure comet discovery gold medal 060
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10hDon't worry, in the US that sort of thing isn't chauvinism. That's good old-fashioned patriotism. 010
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 11hLFI has its issues (what party doesn't?) but in comparison to the Democrats it is a great shining light of open-minded universalism and internationalism 050
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 11hA USian Democrat dismissing "progressive" political parties abroad because they're too chauvinistic is beyond laughable. 290
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 11hThe Democrats, thankfully, are not weirdly chauvinistic and conspiratorial. They are naturally, normally chauvinistic and conspiratorial. ☺️ 1171
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 11hYep, and yeah she was amazing in it. Sam Neil too. Given how much of it rests on their performances a remake seems entirely pointless 110
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Always knew him as an elder statesman of Irish letters, funny to see him as this leather-jacketed, devilishly handsome young man 050
Reposted by Samlolt64 @lolt64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My satirical woodcut of your station in life has taken the parish by storm 31106253
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026oh, to say something oddly non-committal before taking an accidentally fatal plunge 071
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Brighton is pretty nice.... And no, we've not closed yet. Still jumping through the hoops. 110
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Alright, I've decided to participate in and reproduce an all-encompassing, organizing world-system 3502
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We have already pulled the trigger... I think we got a good deal but we shall see. I ran the numbers and I think even in a pretty bad scenario where we need to sell in a year or two we're still roughly breaking even with our current rental situation. 110
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's good that it's impossible to separate the dishonesty from the stupidity. 010
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I really wish you the best of luck, I'm too much of a coward. Though we are getting a house so I guess we're also gambling... 110
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It reminds me oddly of people (myself included, sometimes) waiting expectantly for the markets to really "punish" Trump for whatever the cack-handed intervention of the day was. 120
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yeah I saw that piece... I mean, I would love for all this crap to deflate and disappear. I think there's a strong desire for things we are opposed to to be inherently self-defeating, but I think so few of them are... 120
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026When I read it I had just come from reading Male Fantasies and was like... this is basically a Freikorps novel 010
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And I'd be bummed out by my dog dying (and my wife too I guess), but actually *breathing heavily* I would find a new super hot wife, probably, who would be really into me, 120
