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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A telling observation re: approach to law: Liberals usually don't assume 100% compliance from civilians or LEOs, and try to compensate for that in their policy. Conservatives assume 100% compliance from both. LEOs in violation get ignored, while civilians in violation get demonized and abused.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A much darker post. CW: Abandonment and allusions to suicide. For any of my friends who see this, worry not for me, this is not a cry for help. I'm doing pretty great, and I'm not going anywhere. nacustis.substack.com/p/suburban-g...

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Suburban Gothic: Chimneys

A darker tone, and an exploration of a common mystery. CW: Abandonment and vague references to suicide

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I TOLD YOU! I was calling it "Hot Winter" two years ago! I'm a trend setter! A trend setter!

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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2025

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

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God @thegodshow.com · 18/07/2025

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Kind of like how conservatives are pissed about Captain America and Wolfenstein. Y'all, you could've stuck with the whitewashed corporate evil and most of the world would've been none the wiser. Nobody forced you into those Nazi caricatures.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I was wondering earlier why so many people seem to get taken in by obvious political ploys. My theory right now is that politics generally becomes simpler if you stop listening to what they're saying and pay more attention to what they've done in the past and who they are as people.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I got some script notes today and it's totally fine.

an angry opossum in a garbage can with the caption, "Writers defending their manuscript when given a minor critique: don't touch my garbage!"

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I'll take "'Businesses' I'd create if I won the lottery" for $500. Along with more dedicated "third places" with low-cost space and board game rentals, and crafting studios where people can teach classes or just vibe while they do their thing in a shared space.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Grab an apple and walk around the house eating it, totally normal. Get a second one and do it again? Sure, the first didn't do the job. But sit down at the table with four apples on your plate, then eat them one at a time? Apparently that's "psychopath behavior."

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I always told myself that if I had a kid I'd never not answer any of his questions. I didn't know the kinds of repetitive, "come on, you know the answer already" questions I'd get from my 5-year-old.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got yelled at on this website today and somehow did not write a story for a magazine about how I'm reorienting my entire political orientation to piss off the people who got mad at me, in fact I learned I was being a bit of a butthead and, despite disagreeing, listened to their concerns, AMA

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Want something to do that will keep your hands busy while listening or speaking? Want a way to stim without looking like you're not listening? Want just enough mental engagement to shut down the urge to multitask? Want people to approach you and show you their passions? Introducing: Knitting.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A fresh one, hot off the proverbial presses. Lighter on the horror, heavier on the symbolism and emotion. This one means a lot to me. Everyone needs a witch friend. Enjoy #SuburbanGothic: Labyrinths. open.substack.com/pub/nacustis...

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Suburban Gothic: Labyrinths

Everyone’s home is built atop their own personal labyrinth.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2025

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

🧵 because I can spell "brevity" but not define it. Brainwashing is scary because it can take a sane person and make them insane, or a friendly person and make them hostile, or a whole person and make them broken, on a fundamental level. Even worse to me is when those things are baked in to start

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I've never seen someone so succinctly sum up the underlying beliefs of my interaction with the Divine. Not a single point of disagreement from me.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I think the primary thing that's driven my leftward progress has been the continual discovery of the thorough insidiousness with which our society and culture have been intentionally shaped to crush human souls into compliant workers and breeding stock for the enrichment of the owning class.

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

this is why we call them nazis. they're not cartoon villains, they are people who do this. then they go home and sleep fine and come back to work do they can do it to another family

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/06/2025

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Why they are sold as toys, we cannot fathom. #SuburbanGothic: Someone Had to Warn Them open.substack.com/pub/nacustis...

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Suburban Gothic: Someone Had to Warn Them

At some point, you died.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Me on weekends.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

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Jean-Luc Picard @spacedadsupport.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

You are allowed to take up the space that you require to exist. That is the minimum. You are allowed to take up more beyond. Your presence and your voice matters.

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Incoming Transmission...

You are allowed to take up the space that you require to exist. That is the minimum. You are allowed to take up more beyond. Your presence and your voice matters.

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Pretty much true.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This has been a good reminder to me that this isn't just a group of people "doing their job for a bad leader." These people are actively, gleefully evil and fascistic. I'd be shocked if anyone had received orders from "on high" to do this. I'd bet the brownshirts did it of their own accord.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My friend took me to see Katacombs, Dave Hause, and @frankturner.bsky.social in Richmond on Tuesday. It was my first ever non-Christian concert if you don't count Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I've got some thoughts and feelings about it that I want to share. It was an emotional experience for me.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Elmo must be defended at all costs.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Another. This one was written a while after Curse. Both Curse and Death Rite have special meaning to me. Curse is about suffering and beginning to heal; Death Rite is about reclaiming your power. #SuburbanGothic: Death Rite nacustis.substack.com/p/suburban-g...

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Suburban Gothic: Death Rite

Only perform this rite in last defense of your self, or against one justly convicted of crimes of the heart.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Another: One of the very few attempts I have made at poetry. #SuburbanGothic: Cloaked in Anonymity open.substack.com/pub/nacustis...

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Suburban Gothic: Cloaked in Anonymity

In times of old they roamed the woods,

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Slowly uploading all of these to the Substack. I give you one of my earliest and shortest pieces: #SuburbanGothic: Passengers. open.substack.com/pub/nacustis...

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Suburban Gothic: Passengers

Sometimes your car scrapes when it leaves the driveway.

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Nathan Custis @nacustis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The older my son gets, the more heavily my parental duty weighs upon me, as I realize just how easily his mind is molded by my words and actions. And the older he gets, the more furious I become at those (mostly religious teachers) who held similar duties in my childhood and failed to uphold them.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In the 90s, I genuinely thought the Internet would cure loneliness. But it turns out that for me anyway the Internet addresses loneliness the way alcohol addresses anxiety.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

One thing I didn’t understand about having kids is I assumed, like adults, when they get tired they’d get sleepy and then go to sleep. But kids don’t get sleepy when they get tired, they just get increasing less pleasant to be around until you force them to go to sleep.

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