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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My da was a Repo Man, his spirit is omnipresent here.

Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Riding separate horses down the same bloody trail in the same direction, congratulations on the perfect meeting of Souls.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe some pickled fish, if some is close at hand.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm probably one of the only people in your feed who read "The Beetle" during my formative years (because it was on our bookshelf, along with the "Bible of Animal Midwifery" and seemed more interesting) and wowza, it's a study in fear and loathing. Humans were bad in the olden days, too.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The other problem I see over the horizon is that they're not being careful about letting the demon out of his box. No sane person has control over these awful spirits and we'll all pay the price. Nobody takes faerie tales seriously these days.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

May I suggest vodka? Lots and lots of vodka.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My fave unreliable caption narration is the Matt Fraction and David Aja run of Hawkeye. His dialogue reads like a suave, cool superhero - while he's searching for his keys in the junk drawer of his tenement kitchen and tripping over his dog. Genius stuff.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well they shouldn't have featured Jumbotron pics of him in his underwear then.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Source: I live in a resort community in NE. This is definitely both, plus a way to get more parking within shorefront zoning. It seems to be a template that has been rejected here for both/all of those reasons.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 28/09/2026

mukhtar ibrahim, founder of the sahan journal, and ubah ali, a former WCCO reporter, have just launched the somali brief, an independent media outlet where somali americans can tell their own stories www.thesomalibrief.com

thesomalibrief.com

The Somali Brief

The Somali Brief is a digital-first media platform covering the stories shaping Somali American life.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know, a guy named Gulliver was really, really huge. . .

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For me it's the whole "whaddaya want" grandmother shrug that's the kicker. He's all butt-hurt about having to come out here and talk about it, we're wasting his precious grifting time.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me in my nettle undergarments, moisturized, unbothered, staying in my bog.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The "Lost Boys" phenom of disgarding the extra males from polygamous sects is certainly an expedient solution, but the AZ highway patrol could tell you it's a hard way to go. The original pump-and-dump, but with people.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The competition is so fierce becase the stakes are so small." Ambrose Bierce, or somebody

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Soldier Blue" and may I just say that when the movie ended nearly 300 cars simply stayed dark in the parking lot until a few people could function enough to turn the key and lean the rest of us out of the parking lot.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All I can assume is that Natalie hates Iran?

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My typical calculus for folks who can say this is yeah, get a bot/program/vendor to set it up. My personal hangup is minor heirs - if a kid's social stability is on the line you need a lawyer.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is always an interesting question because "it depends". Where do you live, do you expect anyone to contest your instructions, does it matter to you if they do, and are there individuals who might be injured in some way (minors, for instance) if your non-lawyered document went awry?

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Doomy/horny AI hysteria is the tech version of the Apocalypse-baiting that bedevils the rural church congregations every few years. Pastors and CEOs are furious about a system they can't control, and terrified of a death they can't predict.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Butter isn't an easy medium - I've assisted on the cow sculptures and working for days in a fridge is unpleasant - but I bet I could get a crew together for a mail carrier. It's 2026 and weirder things have happened, right?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An important message about the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia from @miniminuteman.bsky.social. It even has an IASIP joek in it. What more you want?

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"For every hour you travel from the nearest clinic, the odds of detecting an outbreak decreases by about 1/3." As rural living people we know this in our bones.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New bra specs just dropped: dinner plate, dessert plate, rimmed soup, slant coupe, delicate little ramekins?

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ah, the answer to "what was I going to read on my half hour lunch break" has been answered.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨Susan Collins at the center of a donations for contracts scheme that the feds were investigating until Trump returned to office and purged FBI/DOJ www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everyone in this thread was at the coffeeshop down the street when it happened, and my backhoe doesn't even have an auger. Any more.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel like there should be a "Scully Award" specifically for teaching your Mulder to jump through the hoops. Maybe it comes with ice cream?

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is what happens when I'm bored and run my tech copy through Google translate into French then into Pashto, and back to English and hit send. Satisfying, but not particularly helpful.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did they both use protection? Because I'm a) not assigning genders, and b) shuddering at the thought of offspring

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This. The magic/control isn't actually fire - think "spontaneous combustion". You can get that guy outside very easily and if you really hate that Barcalounger in the corner - poof. Move your combustion point about 5' up off the roof and that should just sparkle for a bit and then you're fine.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rails, like the Slow Loris, can only be hunted if you're not looking at it.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Opening up a post from Ribbonfarm in 2026 is just too big a blast from the past, I need more coffee for this.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My go-to digestive symptom picture is scurvy. Yeah, your jaw is tight, but do your teeth feel loose, also experience irritability, mood swings, bruising, bleeding from old wounds, a craving for the sea? Yeah. You have scurvy. You should leave the convention and drink a vodka with OJ, stat.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is like that guy who let ALL THE BUGS bite him and ranked them by agony factor, right?

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Surely she is immune from verbal shocks since the Rice Lorry Incident?

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Historically, it has always been sad (but correct) to have ethics.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Malicious compliance is a thing, is what I'm thinking.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh man, this deserves heritage status.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A random analyst wrote an AO3 fic providing a "SHIELD post-incident wider consequences analysis about the New York incusion" that has a beautiful take on the weird (non-military) human fixation on superheroes. Quality stuff. archiveofourown.org/works/441369

archiveofourown.org

Contrary Advisor - Oak (theleaveswant) - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Earning "Thought Points" sounds like a lot of work for somebody on a committee somewhere that will end up involving me. I recommend penalties. Harsh, harsh penalties involving forehead tatoos and sandwich boards worn by offending posters.

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Messier Object 44 @messierobject44.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, I hope so. I mean, echoes of Al Capone getting taken down for tax evasion but I'll take it.

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