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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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If an AI future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
iran probably don't know it but they could get trump to completely throw israel under the bus forever in exchange for a golden statuette with 'strait of hormuz winner' written on it
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John Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 08/04/2026
We lost, destroyed what shreds were left of our diplomatic reputation, exposed the weaknesses of our war doctrines, depleted our stockpiles, lost expensive/irreplaceable weapons systems, killed service members, spiked the world economy, enriched Iran, and got zero concessions. Did I miss anything?
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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We didn't deserve this day.
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We have made this product/service worse, but don't worry, we also made it more expensive.
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It's been non-stop hits. Shadowbringers is as good as I remember, but I've been doing other quests too (Stormblood Dark Knight Quests, Pilgrim Deep Dungeon) and I keep getting blindsided by absolutely heartbreaking writing. It's kind of a masterpiece.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
If you continuously rob banks every day on camera and those sworn to charge you don’t charge you then yes that effectively means bank robbery isn’t against the law or it means there is no law. And people notice.
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I just wrote a passage in my thesis about how you could measure human life in terms of the resources required to sustain it but most people would find doing so morally repugnant, and then some AI tech bro suggested exactly that, which I feel has really made my point for me
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 22/02/2026
Thanos, in the middle of saying "I am inevitable," immediately before clowning himself out of existence.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
millennials claim they can’t afford a $600,000 house, but somehow they have $9 for a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket? wsj investigates
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 11/02/2026
Something about fiction writing is that my characters take on aspects of me, in certain ways
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
...hang on. Is the Gatlean Empire just a straight stand-in for America?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The thing that made XIV unexpectedly great is that it is both a Final Fantasy and an MMO: it takes advantage of the longer, multi-player, serialized aspects of the MMORPG genre/medium to tell a definitive Final Fantasy story of unique breadth and depth.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Been playing FFXIV for over ten years now, and been on a recent (albeit sporadic) kick of playing New Game Plus. I really never expected to love an MMO like this. It's definitely among my favorite Final Fantasies. It may honestly be among my favorite video games of all time.
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Jelly @jellyjampudding.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
my headcanon is that casinos are a naturally occuring biome in sonic world
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
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jake.world @jakedotworld.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Money insulates, our economy makes vast wealth self-sustaining. No amount of failure, incompetence, or even criminality will harm them. Tesla as a company is cratering, and yet the stock price rises, simply by virtue of billiomaire co-investors wanting to keep it high.
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jake.world @jakedotworld.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The whole problem of the world today is billionaires have outsourced any and all consequences for their actions and behaviors and as such can keep making terrible choices that make things worse for all of us without ever compromising their ability to keep making bad choices.
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I see where Emily (and similar critiques) come from: people who were NEVER fans of an artist use the artist's revealed issues to validate their dislike of the art. But there is something valid in seeing how an artist's revealed issues (i.e. Rowling and Whedon) change our understanding of their art.
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Almost certain it's a Billy Joel song or a musical number, but I've got to think about it some more.
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Tangential, but Dracula's Lament is really a straight banger. youtu.be/k3SsYyTUu50?...
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Dracula's Lament (full song)
YouTube video by DanWilkinson92
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
would do a super gay cover of Rilo Kiley's "Does He Love You?" but that's just "Good Luck, Babe"
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Trunp's rise to power is infuriating because of the number of failures required to get here. Republican and Democratic politicians failed to oppose him (though in different ways): Republican voters failed by rallying behind him, while Democratic voters failed to build a coalition that could stop him
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
There's hard work ahead of us. First, the immediate crises (like ICE behaving as American Gestapo) have to be confronted, contained, and combated. Once we're through these crises (and we will get through them), we have to begin the much harder work of making sure such crises never happen again.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
i think we can all agree that ‘that’s what she said’ is a pretty low form of humor but last night my friend tommy was talking about how he set up a rowing machine in his apartment and said ‘if it had been even just an inch bigger i would be slamming into the walls’
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
dennis duffy is so hot to me. my kingdom for a guy who wears a gold chain, makes great chili, and sucks in every way
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🏴 Elder 🏴 @eldergodsdoom.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I need folks to understand that the constitution has only ever applied to *certain* people under *certain* situations. “But that’s not how it’s supposed to be!” Correct.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The worst outcome, incidentally, is watching your father choke your brother until he is dead, then watching your father turn to your sister, and then your mother, and then to you. This is why stopping your father is necessary, and the shovel might eventually, however regrettably, come into play.
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Me: I'm writing a story about [X]! My subconscious: You are writing a story about [Y] and as soon as I get your attention, you will have no choice but to change everything.
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LIZ 🌟 LOCAL CLOWN @lizschmidt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Rewatched Sinners today, and I’m sorry but if you don’t think this movie deserves the accolades it’s gotten I’m gonna look at you funny.
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a close up of a man 's face with the words " no vision " below him
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words " no vision " below him
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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
do you ever just think about how mad max fury road is a perfect movie
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
gosh, I wonder if there's a clear and obvious progression from "fascists targeting 6th graders playing volleyball" to "fascists putting people in camps and killing them in the streets" that we have witnessed over and over again, making pushback back on the former essential to preventing the latter
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It's a truly phenomenal movie and Geoffrey always stuck out to me. I went on a historical deep dive the first time I saw it and learned that some French nobles considered him the most dangerous man in Europe. Funny how the weight of history changes what gets remembered.
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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 18/01/2026
The biggest example of this is of course the document that begins with proclaiming that it is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal. The grand opening gesture, and the belief in it, was only marginally blemished by the fact that its authors condoned and perpetuated slavery
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
food, shelter, healthcare, education, freedom from torture and equal treatment under the law are (amongst others) all human rights, and none of them require us to be nice to fascists :)
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
the difference between you and a fascist can't just be that you hate different people, it has to be that your principles apply even to the people you hate
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"what, so we should care about the human rights of fascists now?" yes! a human right that can be denied to any person can eventually be denied to every person! rationalising the selective dehumanisation of people we don't like is literally how fascism justifies and perpetuates itself
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Jennifer's Body was literally what got me thinking about this! And yeah, the turn on Megan Fox was REAL indicative of the particular misogyny of 00 - 10. I think it was especially vindictive BECAUSE she was the exact kind of hot our culture valued and still had the "audacity" to speak out.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
sean just now, apropos of nothing, looking up from his phone: man timothy mcveigh is still kicking timothee chalamet’s ass in the wikipedia power rankings
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Just realized I've been a Megan Fox stan since the first Transformers movie (in which she manages a shockingly good performance, given Michael Bay)
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
IT'S SO GOOD
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
that well-known species, the Big Whale.
Cracker insert reading: true or false? Elephants are the biggest mammals in the world? False, the big whale is the biggest mammal.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
(unwrapping my double cheeseburger) WITNESS ME
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Reiterating this in light of the news of the DNC axing any review of why they lost so disastrously in 2024. There are only a few paths that lead to a better future and we must advocate for those paths fiercely and decisively.
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John Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 18/12/2025
I am having a hard time imagining being this pathetic and needing adulation at all times while ALSO being the god-damned president. It's like trying to imagine moving along the surfaces of a hypercube built out of the concept of malignant insecurity.
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Kennedy Center to Be Renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center' after Board Vote, White House Says
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, will be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursda...
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Voting is necessary, but not sufficient. One of the reasons we're in such bad straits is because, in spite of a historic mandate in 2020, Biden and the Dems writ large were desperate to return to the status quo, and so did not confront the massive reforms needed to actually keep our country safe.
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Quick and/or Dead @quicked.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Dollhouse, like most of the Whedon television shows, is some of the best TV ever made, but Whedon himself should likely never work again, not only because of what he did, but also because of what seems to be a real ongoing refusal to acknowledge that what he did was wrong.
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