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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Relevant reading for 2026. Be ready and brace yourselves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_De...

en.wikipedia.org

Nero Decree - Wikipedia

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not fair. They should have asked him his name, what time it is when the big hand is on 5 and the little one's on 3, and which one of the following animals is a horse. He would have absolutely "aced" it.

Headline: Trump stands in silence then walks off as he's asked 3 humilating questions in front of Xi

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. Tuberville's brain shat its bed so hard, the seismic effects summoned me back from my burrow deep within the ground. What the actual fuck. Time to give Tommy the "person woman man camera TV" test? www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/sena... My warning to Tubby: never get in a PR battle with furries.

excerpt from above-linked article, from "and in one bizarre tangent..." to "...you can't make this up."

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Coming up out of the burrow just to spit some venom at this study. Because WHAT FREE MARKET. There hasn't been a "free" market in America since the subprime crisis. Hell, there hasn't been a free market in America since Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819). Corporate hegemony is NOT a free market.

CBS News poll question: "[do you] consider the free market system to be..."

good for the us economy (66%)

bad for the us economy (34%)

something that would look very different from this monopolistic shit and might still have actual fucking small businesses cause if we can't have even joann's fabrics you can go fuck yourselves sideways (one frothing mad ponybug)

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Show me why the GOP has no future in one image." Remember when they at least pretended one goal of their policies was to improve the general public's economic security? Remember when that was supposed to be the end point of all this? Not that it was ever more than lip service, even from Dems.

Screenshot of https://amac.us/newsline/the-socialist-plan-to-gut-the-constitution-spark-a-communist-revolution:

“You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”

To anyone with a basic understanding of economics and the real world, that’s the stuff of childish fantasies. It might be laughable – if it weren’t becoming a mainstream position on the political left.

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All-Devouring* Scourge of Terra (Mrs.) @martianempress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Gonna keep making noise about this. Read this. Post it. Post everywhere you see a MAGA. Reply with it. Show coworkers & family. monthlyreview.org/articles/why... No, of fucking COURSE they'll rationalize it away. But confrontation with our most iconic genius might get some dissonace brewing...

monthlyreview.org

Why Socialism? - Monthly Review

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the... RE...

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All-Devouring* Scourge of Terra (Mrs.) @martianempress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

While we're on the topic of disrupting their days... This is the perfect time to call Mitch McConnell's office at (202) 224-2541 and ask them "Hey, are we gonna hear from Mitch soon? Or are ya still sewing on the marionnette strings." Trust me. I could HEAR the weariness in the intern's voice. 🤣

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You know, I used to be a pacifist.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This map made me feel a bit better, especially after I looked up the population ranks of the remaining states with positive Trump approval. ""Real America"" is now down to... Idaho (37th) Wyoming (50th!) West Virginia (39th) North Dakota (47th) We lunatics are clearly gonna run this asylum soon.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Betteridge's Law: it's never, ever wrong.

Headline: "Are Democrats Finding Their Spines?"

Wikipedia: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Will nobody rid me of this meddlesome U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor?"

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Good news, everybody... 😈 If it's not true, it should be trivially easy to prove. Didn't he just get a Very Normal third checkup this year? They could reassure us so easily. But they went full DARVO, like they always do when there's an awkward truth and that makes me smile. Go little tumor, go.🎉

lgbtq nation headline: white house calls dem rep dumbass and bi**h for suggesting trump has a terminal illness

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Apparently JD Vance has said that the assassination of Charlie Kirk inspired him to... have a fourth child with his wife?! There's only one possible explanation for this bizarre behavior, and it's coming this summer from A24. They are doing some occult Malkovich shit at the White House for sure.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Also, if some of you could mention to MAGA family/coworkers that Albert Einstein, George Orwell, and Helen Keller were all card-carrying socialists and report back to me, I would be very gratified. I keep hoping to get someone with that one-- not that facts matter to these people but shock is fun.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The Mysterious Project ("annotating the entire New Testament with anti-MAGA sentiments") is on hold for now. In the meantime, I just wanted to give y'all this little bit of ammunition for next time you're arguing with your MAGA relatives/coworkers about "welfare."

screenshot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_in_the_United_States#Older_history_(from_Paine_and_Spence_to_1900)

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Toroth (they/them) @torothhatchling.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So if anyone is hiring for someone with team lead experience or copy writing or copy editing or data auditing or wants to commission me for writing or music please get in touch.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is a real excerpt from a real piece of AI slop I ran across. I normally try not to circulate this crap, but this one just felt like... a cultural moment, you know? #STOPDICTADRS #FREDOM #TИRANNY

Blatant AI slop political cartoon of a right-wing protest. The only legible signs include "STOP DICTADRS!" and "FREDOM! TИRANNY!"

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hisshiss, all. 🦄🪲💋 Won't lie (even though that's a changeling's favorite thing): I left because I got really mad at the way ideology is created here, and the seeming impossibility of forging actual community. I'm back for this one very specific reason. Dunno if I'll do it, but... if so, buckle in.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” —JG Ballard

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"Manson Family Intentions Unclear After Mixed Messaging About Tate Family, Beatles, Piggies"

BBC headline: "Trump's Iran endgame unclear after mixed messaging on war aims"

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Hahaha! Silly Bluesky, you can't kill a changeling! Back and feeling weirdly hopeful.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If her heart's not in it, I guess by definition neither is mine. Not that changelings have hearts. But my hemolymph is tired, sad, and sick of this place. A substantial minority of Bsky's inhabitants are *absolutely exhausting people* and I'm just done for a while. Sorry.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I mean, I'd do my old web research job free, especially for a good social cause. I'd probably volunteer at a cat shelter/cafe. And I'd write the comic full-time, which might mean actually getting to finish Volume 2 in my natural lifetime.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 4 spaceships

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Okay, I'm reposting "Golomb's Don'ts," because because I think this might be the single best piece of advice I've ever received, period. This was a big help in shaking me out of my teenaged fundie phase, and I think it contains a lot of cures for what's ailing the USA right now.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

English needs more words for stupidity, yanno? There's literal cerebral disability and then there the subtler kinds, like "your beliefs ate your critical faculties," "you never grew up and learned any emotional intelligence," and "you just literally don't think you can be wrong, don't you."

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 24/11/2025

Wisdom from an amazing little girl. op: carmenveal via IG

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I can't offhand... but it stil absolutely blows my mind that The Chair Company is set about 20 minutes' drive from where I grew up. My very first arcade experience was in Canton, OH, actually. #🪑co Yeah, nothin' there but football. The idea of putting a mall there NOW is indeed finest comedy.

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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Funny story: The Institute of Pony Studies has released a statement that their previous alarmist announcement was a practical joke and you should go back to loving ponies and welcoming them into your homes. They add that you should say the invitation out loud.

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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 21/11/2025

Speaking of things that were trendy despite being basically poison and got shoehorned in where they were unwanted and unneeded during the 20's, one of my local friends has begun referring to genAI as "radium"

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Reweth 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🐦‍⬛ @birb.mom · 21/11/2025

Had to research to find out if the quote was real, and it is.

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Toroth (they/them) @torothhatchling.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

PLural friends and folks. So is there kind of a mostly polite way to start a conversation asking who's fronting without it being weird or nosey. It's a lot easier when I see someone face to face to tell but harder via text. Any guidelines?

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It's funny how in a way, my spirituality is the exact diametric opposite of the narcissistic "NPC" crap in my previous thread. In my world, EVERYTHING'S a PC. You. Our neighbors. Kids in Gaza. Our cats. Stuffed animals. People's headfriends. EVERYONE. Everyone but most execs & pols.😏 #metapeople

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I appreciate how unapologetically MEAN Bunlith is in the Witch Upstairs pilot. Antihero goals there. 😏 I do enjoy indulging in the mammalian pleasure of Being Nice and I can't claim my reform arc wasn't super fun. Friendship is... it's good, okay?! It's pretty good. But still. Some damn people...

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

When I see the word "NPC," I reach for my revolver. Look at this narcissistic BS.🤬 Reminds me of the goth-pagans my ex hung out with in college, the type who'd look in your eyes and condescendingly inform you you're a "new soul" (which really meant "you're not in our clique & we don't like you").

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I just want my sprouts back. Truer words were never spoken. #plur1bus

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Alicia E. Goranson | Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll @aliciagoranson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Once more I must implore you to listen to our horny, sacrilegious, trans-as-fuck anarchist audio drama about queer vampires, erotic debate clubs, and socialist policies blooddollpod.com #seattle #vampirethemasquerade #transgender

blooddollpod.com

Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll Audio Drama – A Blood Doll radicalizes a coterie of Seattle Kindred vampires.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This is why I don't talk to fandoms anymore. Maybe the guy just wanted to tell a story and it came out this way completely regardless of your politics? By all means, criticize any bad gender/politics takes in Pluribus. But if you're dismissing it as All About one bad-faith political take? Fuck off.

PLURIBUS SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!!

Mutually contradictory search results for Pluribus commentaries. The first insists it's "another lesbian bait and switch sci-fi" (which is not an unfair critique but ffs H**** ISN'T EVEN TECHNICALLY DEAD and did it ever occur to you that she might be RESCUED); the second dismisses it as "yet another LGBTO propaganda sci-fi piece" and insists it's deliberate propaganda and not just... you know... lesbians exist and this protagonist happens to be one because that's what the creator's muse told him was right.

Both these people can go fuck themselves at this point, but the first one is allowed to use something soft; the second one has to use a jackhammer. >_<

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Gentle reminder: EVERYBODY who instructs Bluesky that we Must Never Post in any certain way here will be muteblocked without apology, no matter how much I liked you. Zero exceptions. I will preserve the Old Nanny-Free Internet by any means necessary; that includes those who embrace the Inner Cop.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If you see this, quote with a vampire who isn't Dracula. Colin is my personal hero, role model, and spiritual advisor. He taught me how to exploit the awesome forces of snoo. Of snoo. *cough* Anyone? Nobody's curious what snoo is?

media.tenor.com

a man sits in a chair with candles and the words i 've been experimenting with humor

Alt: Colin Robinson has been experimenting with humor. To drain energy.

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Alicia E. Goranson | Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll @aliciagoranson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Hey new folks! Check out our prestige audio drama "Blood Doll" - a romantic tragedy chronicling the rise (and fall) of a human in the vampire world. A human who thinks vampires can be better than they think they can. And proves it.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Be careful out there today, mammal friends. Remember that the most ruthlessly subversive thing we can do today is turn up in vast numbers... then mill around peacefully, make a few friends, and go home. Don't forget they'll be actively trying to ruin this plan. Don't give them a thing.

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm "spouse." Your friendly neighborhood changeling is about to face a gauntlet of chirpy ChatGPT-loving toxically-positive extroverts who don't see anything at all wrong with office culture. Only you can save us. Please help us find a job--so we don't have to become much less weird to survive. 😱

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Schadenfreude @normalpony.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

None of the above. I'm YOUR BEST FRIEND! Trust me. 🦄🐞🫶

Either R.J. MacReady or a all-consuming alien shambler. Both are fine companions!

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