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Sean Bell

@seancmbell.bsky.social
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Writer. Broke. Bylines: The Intercept, Heckle, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald, Source, Jacobin, openDemocracy. Scotland's leading expert on Elvis Presley-related sandwiches.

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Weed Detective @wolfmanzack.bsky.social · 21h
Eat this if you want to see god
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
every generation gets the Martin Luther it deserves
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 03/10/2026
Dune 3
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who gives a shit
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Six hundred thousand dollars is not dabbling."
Groucho Marx: On a sunny Thursday afternoon in October of 1929, Max Gordon, the Broadway producer, and I were playing golf at a swanky Long Island country club. We were smoking five dollar cigars and rolling in wealth, all gained from our Wall Street speculations. We were making around twenty-five hundred dollars per day. We spent some time that sunny afternoon plotting ways to boost the take to three thousand per day. The next morning the telephone rang and Gordon's voice moaned, 'The jig's up. Wall Street has crashed and we're on the bottom layer.'

Q: So that was your biggest mistake — dabbling in the stock market?

Groucho Marx: Six hundred thousand dollars is not dabbling; that's swimming in deep water. That was bad enough, but the biggest mistake was playing golf with Gordon. He beat me out of three bucks and a tomato surprise.
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh sorry you don’t like STAR TREK?? just bc most of it is bad??? grow up
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At this point, I'm pretty sure I've read more columns fulminating about loud music on buses that I've actually experienced it happening.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Massive Layoffs Will Return After Avengers: Doomsday
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 01/10/2026
It is Hallowmonth, so I am contractually required by the radge basturt spirits of my ancient forebears to post a *proper* Jack O'Lantern for the benefit of all you sweet summer children of America with yer cute lil pumpkins.
A proper jack o'lantern carved from a tumshie, a hideous leathery visage like the head of some terrible burn victim left languishing in an insane asylum for decades, the bandages stained filthy to the point of solidity, with a sick sheen. Pumpkins? Pfft!
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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026
Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996
A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Somebody" is doing a lot of work here. Which "somebody", precisely, is in a position to put their slop in front of the director-general of the BBC's eyeballs?
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish so much he was still alive and healthy and had his best work ahead of him, but that isn't in the cards. His writing lives on fortunately, as his beloved wife made sure here: kalebhorton.ghost.io
kalebhorton.ghost.io
Kaleb Horton
A Writer From Bakersfield
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if I simply abandoned my email inbox and walked into the woods
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My favorite thing about The Departed is that Judith Butler was once asked about guilty pleasures, and said something like "the worst movie I like is The Departed". I like The Departed too, Judith. Very excited to check out this episode.
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Mormons I caught peeking through my letterbox should be grateful I don't take home security more seriously.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026
we're democratizing access to the ostentatious kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder that only serial killers used to have access to
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What I'm bringing to the job interview
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Zevon did songs for all occasions. 'Werewolves of London' is for when you're in the mood for some classic rock. 'Play It All Night Long' is for playing on repeat, at maximum volume, when you're just fucking *daring* your neighbours to do something about it youtu.be/4W07dFdGadE?...
youtu.be
Play It All Night Long
YouTube video by Warren Zevon - Topic
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meadow!! @meadowdetector.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the only cishet person from Boston I want to hear talking about lesbian bars is Jonathan Richman
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At a book fair and cackling that they've put every book out on the stalls except this one
A stack of mostly empty plastic crates that were used to transport books. The only book left in the crates is a Robert Galbraith one
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Henry Hoover
ALT: Henry Hoover
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 23/09/2026
get in the hedge trimmer shinji
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
going back in time to beat the shit out of joan didion before she could write ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live’
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🦇🎃BLEAKSIGILKEEP🎃🦇 @bleaksigilkeep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aubrey Plaza
Is
Wow Platinum
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026
queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You don’t miss it, when new marching orders get sent out
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Ben Gellman-Chomsky @benjgc.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
To quote Spencer as Huey Long, “Send ‘em three bottles of whiskey and three shotgun shells, and tell ‘em to choose.”
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rare misstep in the marketing for Megalopolis was that it didn't have a line of tie-in cookies. Really think it could've made the difference
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 26/09/2026
sorry I can't stop looking at 90s clip art. here's some good shit from Index Stock Photography's 1997 sampler archive.org/details/inde...
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
look, you have no idea how many socks i have eaten this week
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who fucking cares?
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Helen Lewis is like the number one person who doesn't get to go "haha can you believe these self-absorbed losers who think all their niche drama is serious business"
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winston rowntree @winstonrowntree.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thrilled for everyone who worked on this season of peopleWatching -- world-class talent that hugely deserves this kind of recognition. Animation rules!! www.iemmys.tv/2026-interna...
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Many years ago, when I was in college, someone sent out a campus-wide email warning us not to approach squirrels, with one glorious typo: Squirrels, the email warned us, often carried rabbis.
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 09/09/2023
this city is afraid of me. i have seen its true face.
a smiley face scrub daddy sponge in the sink in a puddle of bright red beet juice.
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Sean Bell @seancmbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We are Venomworld."
Queen in Black #4
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
good advertisement for the stupid machine, gimme da stupid machine
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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remembering our friend and comrade Natália Urban. ​"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." — Eugene V. Debs
Natália and a friend taking a close-up selfie outdoors at a political rally for Lula. Natália on the left wears a red baseball cap featuring the MST (Landless Workers' Movement) logo. The woman on the right wears a red cap with the word "LULA" in white text and holds her fingers in an "L" gesture. A crowd carrying red flags and banners is visible in the background. A black-and-white selfie of Natália, wearing a black-and-white pattern keffiyeh scarf around her neck. She is outdoors at a street demonstration, with flags and other rally participants visible in the blurred background.
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