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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like that they made him emperor primarily because he could do the thing with his eyes, that is to Klingons what being handsome was for JFK

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ZHUGE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 🌈 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We will probably be ok, mom has good insurance and she just needs some rest but I hesitate to burden her further, I'm waiting on my next paycheck to take care of my bills, anything helps: ko-fi.com/shuchancellor

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

language model programs have no conscious intent or ethical understanding and they never will. you can program them to say they do, but they fundamentally cannot

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it is not really surprising that hollywood has chosen to not produce a Millennium Challenge 2002 movie. but i would like that movie to exist, it would be funny

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it is really amazing that a huge corporation spent more than a billion dollars on a trilogy of movies in one of the most popular franchises of all time without even a rough draft of where the story was going to go. not answering the question it's just weird

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m quite certain that he’s no more fit to command a whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me he’s a baboon.

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Iris/アイリス 🏳️‍⚧️ @irisdescentbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

funniest rom hack reasoning of all time

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All serious like I’m making an actual point: when are democrats gonna go back to lip service and pablum instead of making concrete promises

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

general reminder that there are 2 early unreleased videos up on my patreon and an additional one that is patreon only, wow, link in bio. sorry to push the patreon relatively hard lately but you know how circumstances can be

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

getting banned from WoW for calling a character 'poop mcballs' was funny in 2005 when everyone playing it was 15. now everyone playing it is 45 & it is just sad. grow up and pretend to be an orc properly

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

"That's seven," said Vena. "Seven of us, against one of him. Seven against one.
And he thinks he's going to save the world.
And he knows who we are and he's still going to fight us..."
"You think he's a hero?" cackled Mad Hamish. "Hah! Wha' kind o' hero works for forty-three dollars a month? Plus allowances!"
But the cackle was all alone in the sudden quietness. The Horde could calculate the particular mathematics of heroism quite quickly.
There was, there always was, at the start and finish... the Code. They lived by the Code. You followed the Code, and you became part of the Code for those who followed you. The Code was it. Without the Code, you weren't a hero. You were just a thug in a loincloth.
The Code was quite clear. One brave man against seven... won. They knew it was true. In the past, they'd all relied on it. The higher the odds, the greater the victory.
That was the Code.
Forget the Code, dismiss the Code, deny the Code... and the Code would take you.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

writing a thing about the extreme evilness of the mainstream UK press and blanking on the usual video essay "here's something to maybe be hopeful about" sign off. what do you do about an industry that is entirely top-to-bottom bastards

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i don't think they bought it, i think they were attempting to manufacture it

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ricky gervais simply cannot write! he can't do it!

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it is incredibly fucked up that the UK government and police consider it a much worse crime to wear a t-shirt or wave a placard with 'palestine action' on it than to block ports and attack lifeboats

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Star Trek Shots @startrekshots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn on the set of "Emissary", STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993)

Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn in his seat at Quark's (note the lack of replicator and generally unfinished look of the set) during production of "Emissary".

Morn originated as a sketch based on a bulldog which Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore drew on the back of a shooting script. According to Westmore, the Morn mask underwent several revisions to fit alongside the franchise's aliens before it was approved by the producers: "Several heads were made for Morn to appear in DS9: 'Emissary'... some of the heads they felt were a little too far out, that they weren't quite STAR TREK."

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like Ed Sheeran being like "I never spoke about politics. Because my music is about unity, not division" and then the music is like "la la la la I want to touch your body wow. sexy crazy body wow"

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

when the republicans are weak, the establishment dems will weaken themselves also so as to not win by too much. if they had future sight and knew which policies would result in a resounding victory and which would result in a nailbiter, they'd pick the nailbiter policies every time

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

posted some waffling about starship troopers on patreon 🕷️🔫

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*gripping a usb hard drive and pretending to wrestle with it* guys help i got skynet trapped in here. bail me out quick

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

trump & co have hit the accelerator towards the end of the US as a superpower i think mainly because they believe in their own propaganda. you're meant to bluster about iran, but actually know your military couldn't take them if they stood up to you. trump is too one-dimensional for that sorta thing

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

starship troopers video is most of the way there. on patreon over the weekend i hope

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Ash @h1twom4n.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every so often I remember the Chinese emperor whose last line of defence was basically water magic

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i disagree with hasan. i think the al-qaeda group has killed more people than the united states military

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the dual purpose of "our AI is getting too powerful!" is firstly to generate hype & secondly to provide a reason to scale it down that isn't uh oh, this nonsense is very expensive and we can't figure out a way to make a profit with it

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it is remarkable that this has happened despite a near-unanimous effort from mainstream politicians and news media to prevent it from happening. there's some hope there

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the only threats "AI" poses to society are when people put it in charge of things that require thought, or crash the economy over it, or destroy the environment to power it. but it's people doing all of those things. AI poses zero threat by itself as it cannot do anything due to not existing

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

when a progressive politician in the US refuses to engage with culture war nonsense and sticks to the issues in an interview you get people saying "centrist dems, take note! here's how you answer this question" & yeah they already know sadly. they like the right-wing setting the agenda

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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think this was ultimately the right move.

The passengers (excluding the hijackers) and crew on board Flight 93 were nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2001.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i got so bored of the recurring "is starship troopers fascist" discourse a few years ago that i went and read the book to see. it is fascist yes

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

some figures on the US right have argued against the US having a strategic petroleum reserve for decades, hoping to make money off of supply shocks. they'll probably be happy about the hormuz situation draining it

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