marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It is absolutely sports (laudatory). The groups compete for weekly music show wins. The fans make power rankings of the best singers and dancers and complain about management. 010
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Do you have any criticism on the shark science of this wine description? 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 30/11/2025And unintentionally on theme of problematic* creators whose art still provides insight (and enjoyment) *of varying degrees 020
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 30/11/2025This reminds me of one of the later Ender’s Game books, where there’s a planet of people who interpret OCD as actual messages from the gods. Although framing it as god rather than demon didn’t seem to make their compulsions any more bearable. 161
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Just learned that my bf has a completely different line for the expression “first the worst, second the best, third the ___”. Me, my friends, and a small selection of Gen Alpha niblings we polled think it’s “nerd” (with one variation of “turd”). My bf knows it as “third is one with the hairy chest”. 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Am I the only one who remembers this Adult swim fake infomercial youtu.be/xg29TuWo0Yo?...youtu.beLive Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult SwimYouTube video by Adult Swim 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Did all of us play WoW? Is that another over represented cohort on Bluesky? 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I opened Bluesky for Charlie Kirk updates and this is immediately what I see 020
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Just read this one and now the second act of Hamilton makes more sense! 110
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Dainty ANGEREY Scared Glam Color preference: green, or maybe black/white 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Once I was in Europe and a Scottish woman asked me where I was from, I said the United States, and she literally responded with confusion “but you aren’t white” 180
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Over 2K at the Aliso Viejo protest, right in the middle of rich white southern Orange County. A towing bed with a cyber truck on it drove by and everyone cheered. 020
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Spotted in Orange County, I just assumed we were over represented in Disney adults :P 070
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Peppermint Pattie, Marcie, and sometimes Lucy, and sometimes the Little Redheaded Girl all have crushes on him. I’m not saying he’s successful with the ladies, but he’s definitely in a better position than your average hoe-less dude! 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Ohhhhhh that explains the disorienting mix of like millennial waggish internet list + Facebook boomer drink from the hose content 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I’m curious if anyone shares my experience of this smear campaign being way less visible than Amber Heard. Is it not being on Twitter, or the landscape of TikTok changed, or have I just done a good job of locking down my YouTube algo? Or since we lived through Heard, the investigation came sooner? 3100
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 14/03/2025For sure, I think we’ve all encountered Bellatrix-thirst 120
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I have often thought the fascist takeover in those books, and especially how people like Umbridge played a role, was insightful (ironic given JKR now). The rich and the racist and the criminals were into it. They took over the govt and school and newspaper. They weren’t masterminds, just cruel. 2121
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 12/03/2025People have a hard time understanding that you can be racist without meaning to be. That’s why they think “I didn’t bring up race” or “I would say the same thing to a white person” are good defenses. 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I think this is literally true, in the sense that they don’t interact with enough black and queer people, so they are always a decade behind trends. I think this whenever I see a Mormon influencer who looks like a 2015 era beauty YouTuber. 020
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I remember your theory that some alt-text complainers are just mad they aren’t in on the joke, and then not long after I saw this post confirming it 020
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Seeing it written like this, literally feels like patriarchy/misogyny. The double standard, boys will be boys, look what she was wearing, boring mom and funny dad. 2222
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Watching the 50 years of SNL music doc, having the best time 010
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Blaming/worrying about the youth is the mind killer 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 10/02/2025And for “is not investing in competence a kind of maliciousness” I’m torn. It’s like trying to explain how epistemology connects to morality - it’s complicated? Plus once you get enough people working towards something, even if they’re bad at it, it kind of works, in a Twitch Plays Pokemon way. 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I would read that blog, esp focusing on how this plays out in organizations. It comes up so often in interpersonal conflicts and the line between lazy and manipulative is hard to parse. (I searched “weaponized incompetence Reddit” and this was 3rd result) www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromo...reddit.comFrom the TwoXChromosomes community on RedditExplore this post and more from the TwoXChromosomes community 110
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Honestly just curious, why do you reply with the same pic of Oliver Willis every day? 100
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Whenever I watch ITYSL I become increasingly convinced that this is actually the pinnacle of acting performance 1374
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I’m not excited about the Mufasa movie either but that at least does make sense why you would spend a hundred million dollars to make a CGI lion. I respect the swing though. 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025It’s even funnier bc it’s a good movie apparently! The brits are annoyed, but they’re also making what I assume are puns/references to Robbie Williams songs that I don’t know. 100
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I’m obsessed with the different realities where for some people Robbie Williams is a huge pop star and for everyone else it doesn’t even register as the name of a famous person. 100
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I annoy my friends by yelling “reality is constructed!” every few months. By which I mean, reality, as experienced, is subjective. I have also been viewed as crazy/untrustworthy, and sometimes it’s been true bc my brain was lying to me, and sometimes it wasn’t but it’s shockingly hard to prove. 191
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 08/01/2025James Bond movies have a lot of Looney Tunes in them and THATS GOOD 000
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 05/01/2025I think people also use gesundheit (and salud, etc) because they specifically don’t like saying “bless you” for its religious vibe. And it’s also just fun to say, which of course is true of OP’s other examples too. Fun as in delightful, not funnily absurd. 150
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 04/01/2025youtu.be/B9Z5YtWOJBM?...youtu.beBig Boys - SNLYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 130
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I hear you on all of that. Saying “go to therapy” is basically cliche now, but boy did it help me. Took several years though… and it’s still hard to walk the line between being too hard on myself and giving up. 010
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 04/01/2025(And of course for the misogynists, it reinforces reasons to hate women for being shallow.) But also, it provides an easy mental off-ramp for guys to just say “well there’s no point, I’m too ugly and dumb to even try.” And it’s not like women don’t do this too, I know I’ve let my brain tell me that. 150
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I don’t disagree, but I think I was getting at a slightly different flavor of entitlement related to not wanting to change or grow or sacrifice. I think the blackpilled guys like the “you gotta get rich and jacked” advice bc it fits with things they already admire/desire for themselves. 1140
marikobean @marikobean.bsky.social · 03/01/2025*Jenna Maroney voice* Did you know that before Steve Alten was a novelist he was in sports medicine 010
