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Not unlike how it turns out the Curse of the Billy Goat was a load-bearing structure in the soul of America. Remember 2016? We were all so HAPPY for the Cubs... and then it happened.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

Ah, yeah. Camera ran into it, huh?

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there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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There's a country song that claims that the singer is "pretty good at drinkin' beer" and then cites Bud Light as their favorite. So, no, clearly you are bad at drinking beer. Similarly, if you take your steak well-done with ketchup, you don't actually like steak.

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The instant you start apologizing for being a pervert, you've already lost.

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Noah Brand @noahbrand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Fascism was a response to Weimar hedonism" is also a current Nazi talking point. I've seen them say that burning Magnus Hirschfeld's books was morally right, for example. Not just using trans folks as a wedge issue electorally, using them to rehabilitate the reputation of Adolf Hitler.

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With the understanding that this is magic-wish levels of impracticable: archive.org.

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Tony Zaret @tonyzaret.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Due to a lack of teen-friendly ‘third spaces,’ young people are invading fandoms and ruining them with toxic antishipping - a problem we’ve solved with Teen Tents™! A full acre of third space where kids can be kids instead of leaving unwanted ‘constructive criticism’ on my Dora the Explorer darkfics

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Noah Brand @noahbrand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most fun day at work all year.

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It's a consistent pattern with him. When presented with a word he doesn't know, he switches to a similar-sounding word he DOES know.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And to clarify, that's not out of context. This guy's entire deal was explicitly bondage.

1970s Legion of Super-Heroes panels, showing a horny bondage-themed villain scheming about how difficult it is to put the entire Legion in bondage simultaneously.

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Theory: Trump resembles a movie/TV villain because generations of writers based villainous characters on him (at least in part). Elon et. al. resemble movie/TV villains because they do not understand stories and thus have deliberately chosen to emulate those villainous characters.

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I wrote John Bellairs a fan letter when I was 9 and HE WROTE ME BACK. That meant a great deal to little me.

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Sheza Floppe Presents Popeye — Tijuana Bible Museum

The source is a Tijuana Bible titled "Pop Eye" and attributed to "Sheza Floppe". The full publication can be found here: tijuanabibles.org/bibles/TB046/

tijuanabibles.org

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People love auteur theory because humans love having a human face to praise or blame. So we take an artwork that's the result of hundreds of people's work, and stick one person's face on it. Sure, it's stupid, but monkey brain wants a face.

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Fukuyama: the way to avoid this trap is for everyone to read my book, which is titled ironically (world follows basically exactly what he says) Everyone: haha your book title was wrong

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WEIRD TERROR outsold NORMAL MUNDANE TERROR by like three to one. NORMAL MUNDANE TERROR was mostly stories about tax audits, oncologist visits, and the slow, painful realization that at some point you became married to a stranger.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, and speaking as a diagnosed autistic weirdo, being autistic is not incompatible with being an abusive self-absorbed asshole. It's easy to be be both, and it's creepy to assume that the one would somehow excuse the other.

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Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Noah Brand @noahbrand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's cut together beautifully, too. It has a sense of rhythm and flow that's surprisingly subtle, but very obvious when it's missing. It also makes 80s-90s kids say "Whoa... white Jackie Chan?"

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Noah Brand @noahbrand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, you know, unexpected situations arise. Sometimes those situations involve soup.

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That's a good way of looking at it. Not unlike how Shakespeare ruined THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by making the scheming villain, Shylock, into a relatable character who insists on his own humanity. Suddenly it's a comedy that's not at all funny.

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Kipling wrote beautifully about India, in KIM and other works. A surprising number of his works embrace multiculturalism in certain ways. He was ALSO the most imperialist fucker that ever fucked an imperialist. I'll always remember him as the last right-wing writer who understood poetic scansion.

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IF this is real. Let's not all snap at the bait until we're sure.

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This motherfucker writes as though e.e. cummings' skin is being worn by Ezra Pound

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"Damn, girl, you think you're Posh Spice but you hang around a high school..." *sudden voice and posture change* "...I meant to say that Emma is a stunning and classy lady and I'd be lucky to get near her. I'm going to go slam a car door on my own head for unrelated personal reasons!"

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