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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we're all eking by indefinitely on any old hardware storage and memory we can use, bewitched by some Soviet curse, and yet every basic type of service, smart device, app, and software or OS version update is designed to require more exclusive dedicated memory

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perversely fascinating to see new NAS and RAID-capable arrays coming out these days which are reasonably priced and innovative

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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We tried to nominate him for an honorary degree at McMaster but he didn’t really want it since he had one from McGill. We nominated him for his contributions to the understanding of religion.

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is an excellent full history of the show and people involved, and the long road to this series being made.

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Deliberating all evening whether to change my desktop background to a Caspar David Friedrich painting or a Moebius. Couldn't decide so I defaulted to the safe usual choice (something awe-inducing from the NASA or US Geo Agency's picture-of-the-day archives).

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

a mundane but impressively hideous crisis of modern life: the complicated multi-step cleaning process it is to remove, from anything at all, that adhesive gunk left by cheap generic retail stickers

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the Hamilton discourse is really just: 1) H was fine but also very oversaturated as a phenomenon, and 2) the point at which something is the most culturally uncool is in the decade after its initial peak influence

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Babe, it’s 2:04 AM and you haven’t even left bed to go install a video game you left off at 31% completion 2 years ago

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Noticed Zotero is hiring an Account Support Specialist over in Falls Church if anyone in the DC area is, or knows someone, interested in applying to this: www.zotero.org/jobs/zotero_...

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emptyvessel @emptyvesselnz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wake up this morning feeling like you wanted to listen to a livestream from a beehive? The internet has you, plus a few other interesting environments too. wavefarm.org

screen grab from https://wavefarm.org showing a list of livestreams from various environments, including a new addition from the inside of an apiary.

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“pervert glasses” is the right idea, but much more effective I think to brand them as “gooner glasses”. anything anyone says in defense of their use is immediately hit with a barrage of “ok gooner”

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

gotta respect French cuisine for keeping the techniques the same as they were before the invention of electricity (constant stirring, all the time)

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I will politely assume you all are also drinking coffee and following this dive stream mapping unexplored ocean floor off the east coast of Trinidad www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB17...

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Site 7A | SOI Divestream 956

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I haven’t seen The Odyssey yet, but not surprised at people saying the long runtime is imperceptible. Nolan’s style is recognizable by how his movies are meticulously edited to continuously flow smoothly, at times feeling almost like a montage.

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

waiting for bread to take on the branding of craft beer “this bread was made by the devil himself”

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

if you've never done it, highly recommend being sick in bed while binging a Criterion Channel special collection all at once in a week/end like it's a streaming TV show. I did this with one of their past Noir collections and it beamed the genre blueprint into my psyche by the end

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

as the game industry collapses due to mismanagement and goes all digital, gamers are going to pivot to physical media (books)

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

people think chess is the ultimate puzzlement master key game, but this is because they’ve never played the Adventures of Lolo for NES/Famicom

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

gonna have to buy the Earthsea books, since they are perpetually in demand at the library, and kinda silly I don’t own them given how many books I have

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

this guy and the gen z looksmaxxers are like if clive barker’s commercially unsuccessful violent erotic body horror movies from the 90s were totally square

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

70s Judas Priest is English, 80s Judas Priest is American

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

safe to assume none of the masked guys in dc today have girlfriends, huh

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

an under-celebrated aspect of Poe's writing is just how funny his stories are

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

there's a mouse named Algernon who can more quickly and reliably do whatever it is you struggle to finish

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

instead of "soccer", the USA should call it "kickball"

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Leaving Las Vegas, but instead of drinking themselves to death, the main character takes endless expensive nootropics and brain/memory enhancing supplements every day until they ????????

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

😱 How I Went From Making Youtube Videos in My Parent’s Basement to Living in Bali as One of Many NSW Grifters Destroying the Local Economy 🤫

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Maybe it exists and I can’t find it, but I would like to see a collective imprint which is intelligent middle aged folks (who don’t make video games their identity or some kind of personal brand) writing casual video game stuff

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

feels insane that we haven’t gotten a Wishbone reboot limited series doing Brothers Karamazov with Gary Oldman as Wishbone’s degenerate dad

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Elden Ring's presentation = Berserk's aesthetic and atmosphere, GRRM's lore and mythos—and Moby Dick's prose

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

instead of reading finnegans wake, i’m going to make my local LLM talk to me in the prose of finnegans wake, no clarifications regarding terms. is this anything

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

one thing about terrible actors: they never seem to be having fun

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

can’t believe i missed the hunter-gatherer vs agriculture discourse

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

as we age and accrue injuries, warming up before exercise becomes a longer and more comprehensive process until it takes so long and is so strenuous it supersedes the exercise activity altogether

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

one possibility: the Elden Ring movie ends with a mischievous hair metal or rap song featuring lyrics about the characters and events of the film

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Nate Frey @natefrey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Based on what happened to the music industry over the past 20 years I am not optimistic

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

contentious social/historical conflicts of the human world are a moribund minefield, and yet one day these will be discovered to also exist within animal societies, and we can then fund think tanks around different positions within those societies, with sea creatures doing talks in headsets

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

dopamine management: the ultimate life hack (achieved by not approaching life as something to be hacked)

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

been looking for undersea footage, project streams by marine research teams. best find so far: marine biologist who made a youtube channel and uploaded ~60 different 2-3 hour videos from the POV of tagged sea turtles temporarily wearing non-invasive cameras youtu.be/6REPn6YKNpY

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TurtleCam #53 - Through A Sea Turtle's Eyes In the Bahamas!

YouTube video by Dr Nathan Robinson

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

has any person drunkenly challenging other people to fight them ever won the resulting fight? i feel like the answer is no

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

{painting of Norman Rockwall standing up} there should be another James Palmer magazine but for video games

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

the joke here was that Debussy’s influence is clearly audible in Uematsu’s iconic FF scores, so it would have been really funny if every time he presented his new project plans to the team he forgot that every previous time it was also just “Debussy” written in giant letters on a whiteboard

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

the future of the web is print-to-order self published lulu books by people who can’t get hired in academia or their area of interest or expertise, popularized by reviews of self published books in zines and group chats

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Metal Squad Party Force @simoniouspunk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

One very similar marketplace which was massively, broadly popular in the major cultural centers of pre-modernity, was the patronage of personalized magic, sorcery, witchcraft dealers providing spells, rites, or enchanted jewelry for… health/beauty/wealth/love.

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