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Brandon

@optimismprime01.bsky.social
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he/him. big ol nerd of: music/guitar, ttrpgs, pc games, sf/fantasy, politics, food. not here for followers, if i don't follow you you'll get blocked.

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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 20h
Wtf horse
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Wtf horse
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
a horse looking like "bruh wtf"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A horse looking like "bruh wtf"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A black horse whose face reads "what in the everloving absolute FUCK???" without any words
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
who needs a ketchup jug
Pictures of hellman's ketchup slices
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
two (sfw) panels from notoriously nsfw webcomic oglaf; depicting two dwarves looking stunned followed by their heads exploding
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Is that good game show
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i remember it differently. (but yeah, i guess my kid memory mixed up the asteroid field with a ship graveyard. good correction!)
pompous dbag captain hammer, played nathan fillion, looking like a pompous dbag
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enshittification by Cory doctorow
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
it's CALLED human clay, mike
a beige ass looking creed album where a muppet melts into the sands of time
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
takes like this? i was hyperventilating laughing at it last night
Insanity in text form
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
all depends on who's in power apparently (i know this is a gallows not a guillotine but it's still worse!!!)
A gallows and hangman's noose framing the us capitol building as someone wrapped in a trump flag looks on
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
i no longer follow a dutiful dreamer because they have yet to correct this statement; cavemen did not have a legal system.
a dutiful dreamer making an uncorrected falsehood
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Is that good
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
a cobweb-covered phone, labeled APATHY: if we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it's this tweet irl
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
this is honestly a hilarious post, i can't wait for @jaredlholt.bsky.social to pull himself away from talkin' shift about cars to see this
jared holt(?) (not the extremism researcher) with a 90s toyota supra
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
these are... not the same person.
michael edison hayden; author.michael hayden; cia director.
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
an ancient tumblr post

fortzancudo: i think it's very brave and sexy of me to still play pokemon games in the exact same way i did when i was 5 years old - ignoring all stat changing moves. this is an offensive move only household. if you effectively stratagise[sic] using stat changes in battle Fuck You

6cubed: the only stat we care about changing is changing the enemy'shp stat to zero
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
dork, to computer: say "i am alive"
computer, to dork: >I AM ALIVE
dork, to dork:  oh my god
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
only one person
ka$h patel looking as shocked as ever
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
can't be a typo, the government said the site has three e's!!!!!
This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in freeedom250.org.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
i think the alleged elites can drop less than $20 on some shrimp, fries, and a drink without it bothering me, even if it's twice in a day
A picture of the culvers butterfly jumbo shrimp value basket; a 6 piece is 13 bucks and a 10 piece is 16. the horror, the horror.
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In this era of post-materialism, where the traditional left-right divide has given way to more vibes-based politics, this test hopes to refresh the outdated policy-oriented political compass tests to be more up date with the real issues of the 2020s.
The test has 64 questions and scores you on four axes.
Chud vs Woke: Identity politics and culture war issues.
Techbro vs NeoLuddite: AI, crypto, biohacking, and futurism.
Hopepilled vs Doomer: The system, conspiracies, and public revolt.
Davos vs Dubai: Globalism and nationalism
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
respectfully disagree, this is the only good political quiz I've ever taken. @edzitron.com may disagree tho.
The Political Quiz making the rounds right now, 86 woke/14 chud, 30 techbro/70 neo luddite, 36 hopepilled/64 doomer, 75 davos/25 Dubai

You closest match: ed zitron, podcaster and pundit
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
this administration wants to have it both ways
A screencap from aaron rupar's coverage of the news 
HEGSETH: the document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have one
BRENNAN: the JCPOA said that too 
HEGSETH: but they didn't have the threat of military force the way we do that Iran respects. President Trump led with military might. A screencap from aaron rupar's coverage of the news 
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz: no one here is bombing their way to a deal... this president has always put diplomacy first
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
a game show host getting the audience to chant "IS! THAT!! GOOD!!!"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
a game show host getting the audience to chant "IS! THAT!! GOOD!!!"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
zach reino on dropout dot tv's smartpants, explaining that sand is bones, bones is sand. the whales eat the bones into sand.
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
a still reading "I love sweaty basketball players" from an old video of george takei responding to homophobic vitriol from former all star tim hardaway
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
finally
a screenshot from the web game 82-0, where you try to build a team across eras that can go undefeated; this roster was my first one to do do. 1990s era Stockton, 2020s era shai gilgeous-alexander, 2020s era giannis antetokounmpo, 1980s era larry bird, 1960s era wilt chamberlain
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
fake
a screenshot from kevin j kruse disproving it
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
in case anyone is wondering what the argument for 100m is...
a chart of us racial demographics showing there are slightly more than 100m people of color in america per the 2020 census
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
a matt bors comic of a maga supporter turning nazi because someone "bullied him"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
works well enough for me!
a faux star trek ds9 episode title overlaid on a view of the station: WAR CRIMES ARE OKAY IF YOU'RE STARFLEET
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
three figures dressed severely in black, labeled "proper literature" tut-tuting about something while another figure in a space suit and jetpack shooting out gouts if flame and smoke hovers over them with a finger raised, saying "you're all just jealous of my jetpack"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
three figures dressed severely in black, labeled "proper literature" tut-tuting about something while another figure in a space suit and jetpack shooting out gouts if flame and smoke hovers over them with a finger raised, saying "you're all just jealous of my jetpack"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
a take on the old "moon's haunted" meme, done quickly in ms paint

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early
astronaut: moon's got bears
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's got bears
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
evergreen comic
person: say "i am alive"
ai: >I AM ALIVE
person: oh my god.
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
then why do the hallucinating machines programmed to tell me what i want to hear tell me they're alive when i ask if they're alive???? checkmate
man: say "I am alive"
computer: >I AM ALIVE
man: oh my god
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
showing my posting through it (@jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social) coin in return
a truly cursed image of kash patel
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
without downloading anything new, where are you mentally? I PROTEST. i am NOT a MERRY MAN.
a chibi picture of lt. worf rozhenko, from the star trek tng episode "qpid". he is in a robin hood inspired scenario and dressed as will scarlet, about to protest that he "is NOT a MERRY MAN!!!"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
better (transparent) image than the one i did last night
a picture of a delicious-looking chocolate cake, with a single candle in the middle and ringed by 8 raspberries around the perimeter of the top. it is labeled, in the style of megritte, "le gateau est un mensonge" - the cake... is a lie
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
FIRST
a picture of C3PO and R2D2 from star wars labeled "ce ne sont pas des droïdes" in the style of magritte's "this is not a pipe"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
yup
a silken windhound in a distinctive "cockroaching" pose, upside down and twisted in ways that defy euclidian geometry
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A game show host prompting the audience to chant "is! that!! good!!!"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
a picture of jd vance at the vice presidential debate saying "the rules were you guys weren't going to fact check!"
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
a mock challenge coin depicting fbi director ka$h patel in the inimitable style of artist rob israel, he's depicted as having two bloodshot eyes, one much larger than the other, is sweating profusely, and holding a beer bottle in his left hand. in a circle around him is inscribed:  PATRIOTISM AND VALOR IN FOOD DELIVERY ORDERING
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Brandon @optimismprime01.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
if you want to fully understand (you don't, trust me) i refer you to qaa as always
screenshot of a podcasting app
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