Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Oh this has notifications now huh, maybe I’ll come back or I mean maybe I won’t and I’ll just read posts on my lock screen wtv 010
Reposted by Shieldscait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there 259377887204
Reposted by ShieldsThe Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-... 182253594801
Reposted by Shieldsnattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025surely i’ll get my wallet back if i can prove the wallet inspector was lying 102011254
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 26/01/2025*Worf, speaking in calm, formal tone befitting an officer* "This is true, Bestie." 030
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Always reading this in the @theryangeorge.bsky.social Producer Guy voice 010
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Everyone talks about the old molten hyperdiarrhea gummy bears but the true demon sugarfree candy is the Redvines, because you know it’s *almost* worth it 020
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 01/01/2025i didn't go out but I *did* get back on waiting lists for a sleep doctor and a new therapist sooo 020
Reposted by ShieldsGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I wrote about THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, its enduring emotional power, and the importance of throwing objectivity aside and opening yourself up to cinema. Free and open to the public, a small Christmas gift from me to all of you <3 www.patreon.com/posts/118684... 311030201
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 25/12/2024M’lord. Their time grows short. There is aught else we can do for them now but administer Bark of The Peppermint 040
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 23/12/2024It’s Christmas Eve Eve Eve. What Nth-Order Christmas Abstractions are your three spirits *Of* tonight? 110
Reposted by ShieldsDavid Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 19/12/2024the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker* 1303505999713
Reposted by Shieldsonion person @junlper.beer · 19/12/2024NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy. 180115092656
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 19/12/2024*bro hugging a newly introduced acquaintance* “Stoked, I’m sure” 010
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I said on the Cyberpunk 2077 Reddit that the more I play the game the more I hate Johnny and wish I could just get rid of him and someone actually replied “Seems like you didn’t play enough to like him. Later in the game you somehow gravitate to him” 140
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I love when cats do things that express affection because it’s clear they invented them from pure, original environmental inputs combined deep instinct. 110
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Anyone responsible the decision to have push notifications that try to cajole you into engaging with an app should be banned from working in any field related to user experience for life 010
Reposted by ShieldsMr Cigarettes @nitricacidbottle.bsky.social · 13/12/2024His life insurance policy holders have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. 0371
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 13/12/2024it's not every day that you get to text someone a sentence like "I found the uncanny rubber simulacrum of Peruvian-Washed Alfred Molina far more upsetting" 010
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Well it looks like I'm going to spend the next nauseating presidential election cycle hiding and playing witcher 4 010
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Me wilin out in the group chat in response to the nth return of 90s raver-type big pants 040
Reposted by ShieldsRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO. 828404247367
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 08/12/2024So I was comparing notes with a coworker on ADHD meds and we realized that the drug I’ve been jumping through hoops for 6+ months to get covered was approved instantly for them. Can you guess what company we both have our insurance through? 010
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Today was a pretty productive day off, I woke up late, forgot to eat until afternoon, got sad about some bullshit, and generated several excellent emoji with the prompt “oscillate emoji” 020
Reposted by Shieldsjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 08/12/2024this paragraph caught my eye. apparently if you've publicly complained about your insurance they might have you on a person of interest list 1684355880
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 07/12/2024It’s good to know other keen minds are picking up on this 030
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Ok at this point I’ve seen soooo many dating profiles with things like “disability rights” and “end LGBTQ hate” in the interests but listed as “Apolitical” that it’s gotta be some ad hoc code for leftist, right? Like it can’t be at face value, right? Right? 010
Reposted by ShieldsErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Noooooooo you can't say it's good that an evil person got killed in a way that makes countless other evil people worldwide real fuckin nervous all at once in a way that u can physically feel in the zeitgeist around you, that tickles the soul and delights the senses, what are you, some kind of ghoul 8656471194
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 04/12/2024everyone screenshot this for your less-online coworkers, friends, family so you can gently and poetically articulate how a narrowly centrist, context blind editorial voice on the part of our media and respectability politics have trained us for our whole lives to reflexively ignore atrocities 020
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Life hack: If you loudly say “hello!” To the Salvation Army bell ringers in front of your grocery store before they can say it to you first the whole interaction becomes roughly 25% less annoying 110
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 03/12/2024In the ultimate wherever you go there you are I’ve fled the utterly depressing invisibility of my twitter account, a wall strewn with 0 like posts, to this new land of promise, where I am now being followed primarily by bots 120
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 02/12/2024One of the most challenging philosophical questions which arises from a close reading of Byrne, Et Al, is if one can truly say that the line which exists between the observer and The Good Thing is in fact straight when we know it is traversing a curved spacetime 010
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 02/12/2024winter light reveals the true color of black cats is Hyper-Orange 060
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Time once again to share my own festive winter Mandala Effect — I have vivid sense memories of a slow, maudlin, growling Tom Waits cover (There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays, but there is no evidence it ever existed in this universe 020
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 30/11/2024My Death-Upon-Hill UX opinion is that every single page of every single app should support a universally functioning “pin” feature 120
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Ok I survived another Black Friday in retail but I work today and tomorrow as well and I’m realizing I have no idea what they’re called 110
Reposted by ShieldsBEAUTY PILL @beautypill.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Read James Baldwin and listen to Fugazi. Approach the world accordingly. 1017327
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 28/11/2024woke up with a tiny but impossible to ignore cut on my nose despite wearing a large apnea mask all night wtf 020
Reposted by ShieldsJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024what can men do against such reckless hate, bestie? 1958253
Shields @shieldsup.bsky.social · 27/11/2024One of the most wonderful things I ever witnessed was an all day argument about if Pearl Jam was “dad rock” which was finally settled when the x-er who refused to accept it told Siri to play some dad rock and of course, the very first song 010
