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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 8h

It didn't have to be this way. All you had to do was say "sure Van, those crow cornfield lyrics sound great, I'm excited for our new album" like a professional.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 8h

Society if the white edgelord podcast comic Lorne Michaels tried to hire for SNL, and then couldn't because he said something out-of-pocket about Chinese people on his podcast, but he still gets invited to host every year and is allowed to bomb in the monologue, was Nick Mullen

A family of five plus a dog approaches the crest of a hill and beholds the mid-century utopian sci-fi cityscape before them

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10h

The BBC miked that guy with tourettes at the BAFTAs who specifically asked not to be miked

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 11h

A hell of his own making. None of this would've happened if he was a little bit open-minded about "over and over the crow flies uncover the cornfield"

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 15h

"I've never gone behind Mr. Burns's back before, but Sideshow Bob's ultraconservative views conflict with my choice of lifestyle." Of course Blue MAGA sees that episode and compares Trump to Smithers instead of to Sideshow Bob.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Multiple presidents including Trump have been talked out of firing nukes the exact same way as the movie portrays.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That sounds like you threatening to spam shock gifs of the execution. I'd better block you now so I don't have to see that on my feed in two months.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is that a threat? Also who are you quoting when you say "Naturally"?

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think "intend" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence because a lot of these people are going to claim they were watching it accidentally.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Word for word, that's going to be what thousands of people will tell themselves to justify watching the execution spectacle.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To every American leftist who spent the past ten or so years cracking edgelord jokes about how cool it would be to bring back the guillotine: congrats on getting exactly what you wanted because it sure as hell wasn't a workers' revolutionary victory you stupid fucking slack-jawed lynch mob attendee

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I see someone comparing livestreamed executions to Roman crucifixions, the first thing I do is admonish them for comparing white people to Italians.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The puppet show movie Mario makes in Infinite Jest. The Party of Disappointed People in William Gass's The Tunnel. Most stuff by Thomas Pynchon and Ishmael Reed. PKD's later pink-laser-beam-era work.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And now here we are with a state-sanctioned Christchurch livestream. I'm real sorry that Lance Oppenheim was so mean to you, Mr. Hansen. That must suck. Poor you.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It didn't. It was a movie that asked whether it's right for a civil society to have police stings as entertainment. Whether the people caught are the worst people on Earth is irrelevant. THAT'S what was so threatening about that movie.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can't help but think chud influencers were told to spread that "Primetime was portraying those predators sympathetically" BS talking point by White House insiders who knew this was going to come out

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The guy getting beaten is shaped nothing like Kissinger. The narrator was just beating up somebody else while Kissinger died comfortably in a hospital bed. That's not a criticism of the poem but it is my interpretation.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't think the channel that hid Jimmy Savile's crimes for decades should be talking like that

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Getting real "it's cool and not creepy at all when a woman teacher has sex with a male high school student" vibes out of the way many of you are talking about that woman who pretended to be a substitute teacher so she could beef with minors

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay that crosses a line. I did not consent to being dragged into your fetish whatever.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Admitting defeat"? Dude, it's a movie discussion. That would be a weird way to talk about a competitive sport. By the way, to anyone else reading through this argument: yes, this other person is in fact representative of all anti-Digger critics.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Was this your attempt at a bit? It's kind of a hack bit to put a bunch of typos in an accusation of illiteracy.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"First off, again, learn to read. You are insinuating that I'm calling Wicked better filmmaking. I am not. I'm using it as a example of the double standards of people who protect this ugly movie." Corrected.

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That is not why people say Wicked looks bad. No one forced you to cite Wicked as an example of better filmmaking. I refer you to my previous comment:

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dude, it's a creative decision made with a color palette. Chill. Do you get this pissy about O Brother Where Art Thou using a washed out color palette?

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hey I just wanted to thank you for corroborating what I'm saying

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It ran its natural course and didn't become a forced meme, so of course to these people it "failed"

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh god, do you remember when the BBC did that series with Steve Coogan? Like it wasn't enough to let all that happen, they had to put out an evil version of 24 Hour Party People about it

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Asteroid City gets away with having a stupider more self-indulgent metafictional turn than Digger because it also has bright saturated colors

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey, that's not funny. Some of us DNC consultants worked very hard to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That fucking face the stagecoach driver from Pinocchio makes when he says that the boys don't come back from Pleasure Island "...as BOYS!"

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd be down for a NIN doc that's 2hrs of Phoebe Bridgers explaining Trent Reznor's entire career to Bokeem Woodbine

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What other examples are there of venial sins becoming cultural sacraments? Does Mardi Gras count?

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought the ultimate Mormon sin was drinking an extra sugary soda pop

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Look I'm not saying I don't understand the point he was trying to make with that but still goddamn

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Les Claypool played with pro-MAHA Sean Lennon, son of notorious N-word fan John Lennon

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're right about "pissed" being better suited for describing drunkenness than anger

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What? It's just an ordinary krabby paOH MY GOODNESS

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Steve Martin Hobgoblin @ok2baluddite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What does Dan do immediately after his first TCOP gig? The producer offers him a pill "for headaches" and he takes it without asking questions.

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