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Robert Vaux

@rvaux16.bsky.social
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Writer, critic, ND, proud progressive and professional weirdo. Watching things on television that are different from what's happening. All opinions are my own.

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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 2h
10 years' gone from the TTRPG industry, and I'm still shocked at the abuse and toxicity that comes flowing out of it like a ruptured sewer. I used to think it was just indifference in the face of a few bad apples, but there's something fundamentally broken about it. The cruelty really is the point.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 18h
What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?
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Kikuchiyo in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 21h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“.. The cost to insure the debt of both companies against default .. is increasingly moving in lock-step, a sign investors are beginning to treat the two credits as intertwined. “.. You have to consider your total Larry Ellison risk,” Goodman said. $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
catwoman didn't vote (felon); joker didn't vote; poison ivy and bane voted mamdani (left-wing); mr. freeze, scarecrow, and harley quinn voted for mamdani (edpol); killer croc, two-face, and clayface voted for cuomo. penguin voted for adams (also on the turkish payroll).
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘Think you’re gonna take Marty from me, ya little punk? We made Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, he’ll never leave me! Ya hear?’
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JFC.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"Voters have a regret or two, and we've seen this in poll after poll. The regret has grown since the beginning of Trump's presidency" -- Enten unpacks polling showing that Kamala Harris would easily beat Donald Trump if they were both on the ballot again next month
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rolling into October...
Professor Fate and the Hannibal Twin 8 from the movie The Great Race.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "They came up with the word 'affordability' ... it's phony" (Note that the crowd isn't into Trump's affordability denialism at all)
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's a poster you had up in your room growing up?
Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of my favorite bits in Veep involves JLD's character forced to learn the ins and outs of the NFL -- which she couldn't give two fucks about -- just to make conversation with key lawmakers. Somewhere in the Multiverse, she's chuckling softly to herself RN.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On making Villain with Burton: He said to me: ‘You know I’m very glad you’re playing this part, Ian.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because you remind me of Elizabeth.’
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.
Leonard Nimoy in his Mr. Spock costume, leaning against a stylish car.
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Careful, Jenn Bites 🧛🏻‍♀️🩷🧛🏻‍♀️ @alldolledup44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WANTED: someone to grease me up like the saxophone guy from The Lost Boys. No weirdos.
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hear it all the time. “I was in Autistic Burnout last week but I'm out now" I get why people say it, but that's not what Autistic Burnout is, and calling a bad week burnout is part of why so many of us miss the real thing when it's already here.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 20/09/2026
james talarico and mary peltola are not campaigning against trans rights or executing a Turn Towards The Center; if you are, currently, claiming that they are, you are actively participating in a GOP rope-a-dope and you should stop thread:
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump's performance tonight in North Carolina is a disgrace and the crowd isn't into it at all, but you could've said the same thing about innumerable rallies of his in 2024 and then 77 million Americans voted for him anyway. I hope we're smarter now!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/09/2026
If you’ve ever dated an abuser, you recognize this language immediately
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OK, the TMZ footage of Mitch McConnell is genuinely one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen. youtu.be/A9Uo_NbR8Gw?...
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Mitch McConnell Resurfaces After Months of MIA | TMZ
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"C'mon baby, take a chance with us..." youtu.be/HSWtc01BlqM?...
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The Horror - Apocalypse Now (8/8) Movie CLIP (1979) HD
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think every person who does the stupid "why should I give my votes to DEMOCRATS?" act despite acknowledging and knowing every bit how horrific MAGA is--centrist or liberal or leftist, cis or trans, man or woman or otherwise, anything at all--is choosing to act like a vicious, spoiled brat.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lucille Bluth saying "It's one vote Michael. What could it cost, 5000 dollars?"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
it is fascinating to see the extent to which professional republicans still do not understand the nature of the voters trump brought to the polls when he was on the ballot www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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‘They will crawl over glass to vote for the president’: Trump needs to put himself on the ballot to juice the base
The president’s two-day midterm convention in Dallas is going to be the Trump show. Republicans are hoping the president will use it to turn out his voters.
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When an autistic human shares their life and thoughts with you, it’s because they like you, feel safe with you, trust you. If you use that opportunity to make them feel small, refer to them as self-centered, or reject them, you really don’t know the first thing ✔️
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Between the new movie stuffing David Zaslov in a locker, and my apartment complex being literally overrun with coyotes and roadrunners ATM, I'm enjoying a hard-earned W for my favorite Looney Tunes character.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What's an example of perfect casting?
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Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A lot of people *need* Dems to be incompetent and evil because if they actually aren’t, then that means those people might have tricked themselves into helping the GOP. So they make shit up that Dems never said and accuse them of believing it. It’s literally a delusion of self preservation.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The cover of Ms. Magazine #1 from 1972.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/08/2026
That boot’s not gonna lick itself.
Google Maps shows “Lake America.”
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
life comes at you fast
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Above all, I am so deeply embarrassed that Canada has to deal with this petty manbaby bullshit on top of everything else.
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He sacrificed his NFL career for his beliefs. "Colin has ​used his platform to advocate for equality, human dignity, and social change, even when ​doing so came at significant personal and professional cost," said Lonnie Ali, CEO of the Muhammad Ali ​Center. www.reuters.com/sports/kaepe...
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Kaepernick to receive Muhammad Ali humanitarian award
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose protests against racial injustice a decade ago made him one of the most prominent athlete activists in the U.S., will receive the ​Muhammad Ali Center's ...
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry's IMDb page contains almost 250 credits, but one of them will always be first among equals. RIP, you magnificent creature. 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWoY...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show "Sweet Transvestite" (1975) - (4K)
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The very best of us. RIP.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey, I hit 1,000 followers! Thank you all for making room for my reposts and foolishness on your feeds. I'll try to present only the choicest morsels of Internet for your consumption.
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Thank You from Stormy Zelda Luci the Dog
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A cover mock-up of The Amazing Spider-Man showing Spidey punching Jake Lang.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Your favorite Disney Prince (Wrong answers only)
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Odysseus cry
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
trade war with Canada is the worst because obviously Canadians are mad about it and obviously they're mad at Americans about it and they're totally right on both those things and also I am an American
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/08/2026
at this point, every country targeted by trump's trade wars should be making decisions which cause the american consumer maximum visible pain between now and november
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
no, no youve got it all wrong, its nothing weird like sex shes just worshipping him and sees herself as his ethereal caretaker and celestial concubine but theres no sex or anything crazy like that
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.
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Army Of Darkness Bruce Campbell
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026
Just weighing in from vacation to note the obvious: Ossoff's use of "Natalie" in that address was a brilliant way to play the attention economy. It works *because* it drew controversy -- by drawing controversy, it drew eyeballs & ears to a story Trump doesn't want in the news.
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