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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 12h

I love how in 70/early 80s horror when they're like, "The devil waited for a cynical time, when society would fall apart and morals fall by the wayside." And I'm like, yeah (takes a drink), it's never getting worse for society than the 70s.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bezos is talking about AI productivity leading to single-earner households and short work weeks, but he can just do all that right now if he really wanted to. What does he need to be more efficient at this point? Just double a bunch of people's pay right now! Literally why not?

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Scheiss Hund @pespizero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'divided by age and homeownership' may as well be the epitaph of the country at this point

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Patiently waiting for the op-ed saying the right-wing base should reach out to socialists they disagree with to find common ground and heal a divided nation. I'm sure that's coming any week now.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There should be a support group for Kyle Gordon coming for your favorite genre and nailing it to the wall. Dude finally did a goth song and cooked so hard.

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Kyle Gordon - Blasphemy (feat. The Vigil) [Official Audio]

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look, there's a secretly mega-popular music genre in America that mainstream culture ignores due to snobbery, and it's called Latin music.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remember when older people used to complain about young people saying "like" and "um" to fill space in sentences. That's roughly how I feel about the word "slop" these days.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At some point, we're gonna have a recall of rat meat caught in the wastes.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have no expertise on trans people, but if a democratic candidate started fear mongering or equivocating on immigrants, not only would I stay home, my mom would remember their exact words for about a decade. If somebody told me to be an adult and suck it up, I would know they're racist.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, I certainly won't be buying Robert Kraft's next album.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm currently playing Palworld and anticipating Dune Awakening next week, in the exact same genre. Feels unwise, somehow. Like, I just did base building and crafting. And yet... #blutoid

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why do people act like they need to qualify supporting Macklemore's politics by making it clear they don't think he's cool or like his music? It's okay. Nobody's asking you that.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe it's just my own algorithm, but is everybody on YouTube doing a health scare now? Apparently, everything on Earth will either add or subtract 30 years from my life. If I wrap a falafel in salami, does it balance out to a net zero?

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Bloxxy System | use #tags @bloxxel64colonthree.xyz · 11/09/2026

I will reiterate, do not buy GTA six do not support rockstar in any other way, fight for the rights of your local game developers #gamedev #workersrights

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I finally actually watched that Zelda trailer and... it's incredibly charming and looks good? Are people okay?

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It is time... for a rough denim Kirby. A Kirby you can strike a match on. Only a Kirby that can grate cheese is tough enough to brave this fallen world. #blutoid

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I played that Final Fantasy Resonance demo and It's exactly what I wanted it to be. It's like Octopath, but the ghosts work almost like job classes and it has a break system. Can't wait to play the rest of it. #blutoid

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.

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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms

Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I just saw Coyote vs Acme and it was phenomenal. Can't recommend it enough if the premise interests you at all. It's really funny and creative and sweet. It's amazing there needed to be a fan campaign to get it released. #blutoid

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's kind of funny how so many of us are bracing for GTA 6 impact like the Enterprise is about be rammed or something. Like, we're all about to be tossed from our chairs by explosions that fill the room with smoke. But I think it's going to be okay. We'll survive the coming storm. #blutoid

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I would prefer the money go to a better world but I would rank "burn it in a big pile" higher than letting the people who have it now keep it.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The evolution of computer mice is funny. The newest mouse is usually ultra-light, has speed-holes now, and sensitive enough to put your pointer on the literal moon. Meanwhile, I want a mouse that's large, heavy, and slow, because I have adult hands and my monitor is not a 56'' TV.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026

I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:

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I Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't Evil

Apple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I need journalists to start asking both parties what policies/actions are expected to produce "affordability". B/c it seems to just be a free pass to say the word affordability.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Maybe hot take: It's funny to see so many people vindicating Kingdom Hearts, years after organized collections have been made available, as if the critics were crazy. No, the mismanagement was the whole problem. The collections are why you can claim it's easy to follow.

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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

The Titanic sinking under a moonlit sky.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm a huge fan of Jordan Peele's movies, but I will never not immediately think of the continental breakfast guy. Absolutely iconic.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I just joined DSA, b/c I'm mad about politics quite a lot for someone putting $0 into doing anything about it. So now I have a little skin in the game. I like their product and think they should have some walking around money.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

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Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026

you can always block that guy

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026

the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons

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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 26/07/2026

I just saw a reel of a young man doing a thing called “What’s on Grandpa’s Turntable” - & he reviewed the album the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. I’m just going to lay here and turn into dust now.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Imagining a trailer for a Doctor Who prequel that goes "before they were Ncuti Gatwa, they were..." and going through every actor including William Hurt before getting to the new first-first Doctor, starring in Normal Gallifreyan.

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 12/04/2026

'politically homeless' is the one that most screams 'i think of myself as a good person but whenever i say what i believe people call me racist'

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Folks, Linux already just works I genuinely don’t know what else to tell you. I put it on my PC and it just worked. I push play on steam and run Deadlock and PoE 2 as good as they ever did on my old ass hardware. You are waiting for nothing. The future is right now.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One of my favorite things to see on Bluesky is somebody quoting what they tell you is just the most toxic, disgusting post and you look and see "Blocked" instead. Lol.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21/07/2026

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Alright America, now what's the next international sport we can pin a halftime show on? Chess? Figure skating?

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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MonkeySkeleton85 @monkeyman85.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If it's any consolation, we can legitimately call our tormentors evil without qualification, and anybody who tries to both-sides and moderate the history of the 2020s is going to look like an absolute idiot. Imagine trying to tell a school-kid, "Put yourself in RFK Jr's shoes."

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