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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh I was able to dig up a wedding photo!

Yzma and Kronk from The Emperor’s New Groove. They are both smiling. They are in love. It is likely but unverifiably the day of their wedding.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m glad to hear that! Unfortunately he’s (probably?) satirizing a real person!

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can try Mark Masters. +1 (651) 587-5130. I had a broken window frame and he installed an entirely new window, frame and all. This picture is much later when someone broke the glass but all the frame work was him and I was really happy with the job he did.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have severely underestimated the commitment of reading China Mieville’s latest 😅

The cover of China Mieville’s The Rouse, which is grey with bare trees visible and nothing else.

The Rouse is like 1200 pages and is about 2 inches thick.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I park near this one regularly and it tickles me so.

A bumper sticker that says “please be patient I am 9 years old”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m currently reading @alixeharrow.bsky.social ‘s The Everlasting and it is so wonderful to have a cowardly, nervous wreck of a main character to follow around, he immediately feels authentic and relatable

The Everlasting, by Alix E Harrow. The cover features a medieval sword surrounded by flourishing petals and flowers

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Breaking: Driveshaft will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

The band Driveshaft from Lost, playing their hit “You All Everybody”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A jeep near me has this presumably unofficial jeep decal and I find it so absurdly offensive every time I see it, hawking the jeep brand through tragedy

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The best thing about MapQuest is you can make your icon a mage or a unicorn instead of a boring blue dot

Choose your Questie page on Mapquest, featuring a pixel wizard, unicorn, rogue, and orc.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“Guys, I know a guy who would be great. His only tattoo isn’t finished but it’s just a maze!”

The actor Matt Walsh on the TV show Community. He’s shirtless and he has a swastika tattoo that he says is going to be a maze but in actuality the character is a white supremacist neonazi

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Last night I finished Dolly Alderton’s Good Material and it was just delightful. Already a lovely read but then the last quarter hooked me in and I stayed up too late finishing it! #📚💙

The cover for Dolly Alderton’s Good Material, featuring a colorful drawing of men’s and women’s shirts hanging on a clothesline and appearing like they’re holding hands.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

May have possibly bitten off more than I can chew. Caro Summer!

A snapshot from my Libby app where I am checking out Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, which is obscenely long

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just discovered that Seth McEvoy’s Not Quite Human series is available on archive.org! Very excited to dive back into these books.

The cover of Not Quite Human #1, Batteries Not Included. A scientist father is holding wires connected to a boy whose chest is open exposing his circuitry within. The man’s daughter is standing there and appears to be getting zapped as her hand is glowing with electric energy.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you win your challenge you should get your time out back.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

@robdelaney.bsky.social look at this shit. After I told my wife I requested it from the library she just casually mentions she owns it. She’s even already read it! Sitting right here this whole time waiting for me.

The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Lovely evening kayaking along the lakes.

POV of someone in a yellow kayak. They are holding the paddle out in their hand. They are in a beautiful lake and want to seem cool

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Now I want the same version of this game that can pit 82-0 teams against one another.

82-0 with James Harden, Kevin Durant, Giannis, Tim Duncan, and Wilt

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Is Wilt one of the mandatory players to go undefeated?? This is crazy

A team going 79-3. Gilbert Arenas, Kevin Durant, Clyde Drexler, Dwight Howard, and Wilt Chamberlain

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Best I’ve done so far. Luka, LeBron and Kareem on the same team feels like an NBA Jam cheat code for sure.

82-0 result showing a team going 77-5. The team is World B Free, Luka Dončić, LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

All I know is he needs to be dealt in!

All of the guys who have played the joker all playing cards together

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

At first I was upset you brought this to my timeline, but this exchange made it all worth it.

Sippyphus: “Yikes! Glad I avoided him when I first saw him.”

TheCybersmith: “…How old are you?”

TheCybersmith: “Oh, wait, you meant me, not Hitler.”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Just finished @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social’s The Mezzanine, a funny and intimate look at the mundane day to day of our lives, immediately relatable in revealing our universal quirks, although I don’t remember ever stabbing a childhood friend over crayons 😂 #📚💙

A footnote from the book that reads:
At that age I once stabbed my best friend, Fred, with a pair of pinking shears in the base of the neck, enraged because he had been given the comprehensive sixty-four-crayon Crayola box—including the gold and silver cray-ons-and would not let me look closely at the box to see how Crayola had stabilized the built-in crayon sharpener under the tiers of crayons. Over the next week and a half, Fred, very aloof, worked his way through every size and style of Band-Aid that Johnson & Johnson made (his family, rich, could afford the comprehensive variety box, which included shapes that no longer exist, to my know-ledge), refusing to show me the (very minor) wound, stringing out my guilt and curiosity by wearing the smallest Band-Aid, a tiny flesh-colored fried egg three-eighths of an inch across, long after I was sure he had only a faint white asterisk of a scar underneath.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Just found out the Not Quite Human books are out of print. What kind of future is this?!

The book cover for Not Quite Human books 4, Reckless Robot. It features a blond haired boy staring into the distance. His shirt is torn and his chest reveals an electronic panel smoking and sparking. A girl is grasping his arm and staring at him in alarm. It looks fucking rad!

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I think this finding is key and will be the difference-maker as AI becomes more and more unavoidable in our society (willingly or not). Especially for those who are trying to learn! Otherwise it just completely destroys that dopamine hit we’re supposed to get when we do something right.

One bright spot: how participants used AI appeared to make a difference for individual outcomes, according to the research. Those who self-reported that they essentially prompted the chatbot to cough up the answers unsurprisingly had a worse time once the AI rug was pulled. Participants who instead said that they asked the chatbot for hints or clarification — as opposed to outright cheating — appeared to be better off sans AI assistance.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Update on my Easter bread! The sprinkles make it so much nicer to look at!

Two loaves of Easter bread on a baking tray. The bread has some colorful pastel sprinkles on top!

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

For the very first time in my life I’m attempting to make Easter bread. It was one of my favorite parts of seeing my relatives each Easter. My uncle would make several loaves and they’d be devoured in minutes!

A loaf of uncooked dough that has been braided together out of three snakes of dough

Three snakes of dough all roughly the same length

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My kids really enjoy April Fools Day and this one really had me guffawing

A cereal box of Honey Bunches of Oats only a piece of paper has been taped to it so now it’s called Honey Bunches of Poop

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

@rincewind.run Holy shit Micah this might be the funniest footnote I’ve ever seen. A true “Goddamn it, Terry!”

From Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery: “Many people who had gotten to know Rincewind had come to treat him as a sort of two-legged miner’s canary*”

“*All right. But you’ve got the general idea.”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Reading Thomas E. Ricks’ Waging a Good War and I think I need more Dems to digest this. Statements mean little when the actions of politicians frequently fail to meet the moment or acknowledge the conflict we’re currently engaged in.

A page from Thomas E. Ricks’ Waging a Good War. The highlighted text reads: “In doing so he was following a basic rule of insurgency or counterinsurgency: in a war in which the people are the prize, every action should have meaning and send a signal. If it doesn't do that, then carrying it out should be recon-sidered. All operations send a message, inadvertently or not. The more political the conflict, the more important it is to keep that in mind.”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

What’s next Tim, Mummenschanz?!

A picture of mummenschanz guys with clay masks surrounded by members of the Muppet Show cast. Miss Piggy is in the center looking defiant, as always.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I was at the library today and saw this collection and because of this thread I immediately shoved the book into my 10 year old’s hands. “It’s time you learned something, son.” Grateful for the opportunity to introduce my children to The Far Side!

The Far Side Gallery 2. The cover features an archaeologist opening a coffin containing a cow mummy.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

@jamellebouie.net Just saw this take about Spider-Man and would LOVE your thoughts on it!

A Reddit comment that says “My controversial take is that Spider-Man 3 is better than Spider-Man 1…”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Just finished Percival Everett’s The Trees and holy shit what a hilarious and savage ride. The best satirist since Jonathan Swift maybe? A more brutal and poignant journey than James and well worth sitting with. #📚💙

Chapter 71 of Percival Everett’s The Trees, the only line being “Ho to Hind: ‘What the hell is going on?’”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Monarca is the resource I’ve been using.

Monarca to report federal activity in the twin cities area. 612-441-2881

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I can’t believe I could see this tonight. What majesty!

A streak of orange, red and green aurora across the night sky

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Very eager to get into this book #📚💙

The book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.

The book is all orange except for a black chalk-like sketch of a little girl holding flowers and holding up a peace sign with her fingers. Above her, a rocket in the same black chalk style hurdles directly at her.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I’m about 70% of the way through it but @drewmagary.bsky.social’s The Hike is currently on sale wherever ebooks are sold and it is very good and uncomfortable! There’s also a crab!

The cover of The Hike by Drew Magary. It features those words in large letters and in the middle is a blue crab. I don’t know if the species of crab is specifically a blue crab, only that the color of the crab is blue.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social Literally just saw this on Steam and thought "Oh, shit that sounds like a Casey Explosion game" and then noticed who recommended it haha!

An ad for the game Hellclock, which features a man pointing a gun standing in front of a giant clock face. There's some sort of giant skeleton/demon in the background.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Maybe the funniest bumper sticker I’ve ever seen.

A bumper sticker that reads “PLEASE BE PATIENT I AM 9 YEARS OLD”

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I’ve been thinking about this for the past few hours on and off and I’d love the Citadel from Mass Effect

A massive space station with 5 long fins coming off of a central hub. Each fin stretches with skyscrapers and buildings. Like a ring world but not ring shaped.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Just finished and really enjoyed The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins. A great blend of mystery and cosmic horror! #booksky 📚💙

The cover of the library at mount char. The foreground is the remains of a book with a large hole burned through the pages. Through the hole, in the background, is a silhouette of a house with the lights on. There’s a faint sunrise (or set) on the horizon beyond the house.

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Finally caught Jurassic World: Rebirth. Big congrats to Beluga whales for the surprise heel turn!

The D-Rex from Jurassic World: Rebirth, which looks like a scary, camo version of a beluga whale

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Just finished Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People. While it wasn’t revelatory to discover that Facebook was an evil company, Wynn-Williams is a talented writer who was able to spin a gripping tale of her time within. 📚💙

The cover to Careless People, featuring a shark fin prowling through a blue square

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Chris @monsterbeard.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Just finished @bridgetgillard.bsky.social’s Little Bossed Everywhere. A disturbing look inside the cultish workings of MLMs from its very beginnings to present day.

The cover of Little Bosses Everywhere, a green backdrop with a pyramid stack of women in pink and holding handbags. The women look like paper doll cutouts, all the same. We see them from behind.

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