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Mediocre Mycroft

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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Based on the photo, it seems unlikely there were 100 cars at the intersection.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've only seen Iron Man and Iron Man 3 and been told this is very odd indeed.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The discrepancy between the headline and the subheading gives it away here. No answer is going to be the right answer in every case. Saying there's a universally correct solution is to insist only the default of staying in contact is legitimate.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The man has sunk untold capital into industrializing his own insecurities. He lives 24/7 in the office of a factory that manufactures his lameness.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I was kind of irked by how often the twist was "It's actually a woman's fault this happened."
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
17th century England: famously lax on social customs
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's useful to think about these in terms of what happens when you exercise your right to just ignore them. Ignore Woke 1 excesses? Virtually no issues. Ignore right wing excesses? You may end up imprisoned or murdered.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can't help but think it's significant that right wing anti-academia grievance has circled back around to academic word salad.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I seem to recall a safety meeting on the Damen/Lincoln intersection resulting in a big shoulder shrug because the city said there's nothing they can do about Irving Park as it's a state highway.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Strictly speaking, he didn't offer it as a definition.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The thing about a fight is that it's like driving a car: if you're feeling comfortably safe going in, that's when you're most likely to get yourself badly hurt.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Also he has a vested business interest in polluting the public discourse with asinine takes.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
However much the chuds complain, Nolan has nothing on James Joyce, who turned Odysseus into a pot-bellied sexually-divergent Jewish cosmopolitan.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
He should probably force a large group of restless people to listen to his increasingly long speeches in a Bucharest-like urban locale. That would be smart.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't know, seems like coining a neologism that has nothing to do with its root word is a recipe for misunderstandings.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I still go on brewery tours, like some kind of idiot.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"When I pointed out the difference between skillfully prompted AI videos and sloppily prompted ones, [the art historian] did consider it, but it was the first time she had thought about it" - a thing that most assuredly happened.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A lot of people think politicians stealing huge sums of money is already the norm. It's harder to get people to doublethink their way into believing the reflecting pool was always coated in sludge.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If Caligula defeated the sea, surely we can conquer this pool.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I'm going to keep saying it: July 4th is coming up...
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A few tweaks and this could be a speech by Napoleon the pig in Animal Farm.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I fear if I see another video of a British person eating biscuits and gravy I'm going to turn into Bill the Butcher.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I've given up trying to convince people this show existed because I just end up sounding like my neurons are firing in the final spasms of brain death.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That's us men, always committing felony assault and kidnapping against our bros.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Like half the things being dumped in here are not actually the ingredients listed. Normally, I'd consider pointing that out petty, but it's literally the only point of the video.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It could happen on July 4th, if our hearts have their full measure of hope.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Apparently it was first like a podcast, but from before they had stuff to play podcasts on. Sounds weird, ew.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I hate to dip into this well, but there is a lingering class element in all this. Gender expectations for middle class vs. working class men have historically been very different and that lack of integration keeps leading us back to where we are.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I could have sworn in one of the prefaces or something Zinn acknowledged he was doing a sort historiographical performance art ("the left can do biased history too" type thing). Might have been a later edition, when the damage was done.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's happening again...
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Tangential to your point, but I just realized how much she's resembling a mashup of the Duvall and Dunaway characters in Network.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
240th of the constitution going into effect or something.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It's a great way to learn about all the brunches your friends are having to which you are not invited.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Man, imagine if it happened on July 4th.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Not exactly fraudulent, but learning Wittgenstein knew fuck-all about mathematics was disappointing.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is a textbook example of now not to do humorous writing: if the audience drinks Miller Lite, the joke makes no sense. If the audience doesn't, they're outside the frame of reference and can't get it. This is for no one!
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Donald Trump: Ingmar Bergman protagonist?
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Going to the park to say fuck you to the geese.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Also, the point of the text screenshot is to show the [sic] next to "Kate". Instead of "Katie". The horror.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I'm not a journalist, but it seems less than top form to interrupt a subject when they're answering you to, not even correct them, just add more info about yourself?
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What next? A salad made of eggs?!
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It's becoming increasingly clear that Democrats are going to need to start treating churches the way Republicans treat universities.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm often amused by the thought of the founders of Cafe du Monde seeing Union ships blockading the city and thinking what the hell, let's start selling coffee and doughnuts.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The reason we believe or disbelieve things comes largely from context clues (e.g. the person saying it is someone who should know what they're talking about, the proposition was produced consistently with previous true things, etc.). The internet is first and foremost an obliterator of context.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It seems plausible people are grasping for technical objections when the real concern is that they are facilities for companies whose executives have demonstrated themselves to be of extremely low character (a serious issue that's difficult to address in itself).
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Name of the Rose is just on the wrong side of Nominalism.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Russian Doll and High Maintenance come to mind.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
None of these people even have an idea what production bottlenecks they expect the tech to solve. They just hand-wave towards a generic idea of productivity.
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Mediocre Mycroft @mediocremycroft.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I continue to think it was an ill omen for our society when the Sokal affair happened and the consensus reaction was anything other than Alan Sokal just being an asshole.
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