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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

The only solution is to lean into the silly.

Closeup of a smiling auburn-haired woman wearing an HTC Vive VR headset over her face. Two googly eyes the size of silver dollars have been affixed to the headset, giving her the appearance of a cartoon character.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

The whole world lines up to tell trans people we’re wrong. They don’t need any help from me; that job is handled.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a Disney Princess, wrong answers only.

Pam Poovey from Archer. In a scene set in her spy agency employer’s 60s-style office, Pam stands with her back to the viewer. Her blond hair is in a high, well-kept updo, but she is naked from the waist up. Her back is completely covered with a tattoo of a nine-line poem written in a gothic font:

For the Angel of Death
Spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face
Of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers
Waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but
Once heaved,
And for ever grew still!

Above the poem are haphazardly-inked tally marks totaling 13.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 31/08/2026

“I want everyone to remember why they need us!”

John Hurt, as High Chancellor Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta, rages at his cabinet, looking down at them from a meters-high video screen à la Big Brother.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

The opening credits image from The Brady Bunch, featuring the stars in a 3x3 grid against a plain blue background. Left to right from top left we see Marcia, Carol, Greg, Jan, Alice Nelson, Peter, Cindy, Mike, and Bobby Brady.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 21/08/2026

Okay yes that’s a surprise, but this is an outrage. We used to have laws against false advertising.

An icon showing that “Panama” hats come from Ecuador.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 14/07/2026

Dear Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Great fucking job. You really nailed this issue. Take a victory lap, you earned it.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: "At those town halls, what I saw was that the people who were the most upset, a lot of them had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice and they view their best shot of their student getting a college education as an athletic scholarship. And so when we rush to moralize and be like 'this is all about love vs. hate,' I think we miss some of the nuance."

screenshot of a CNN chyron that reads: SUPREME COURT LETS STATES BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM GIRLS SPORTS

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 17/04/2026

The “Donald Trump’s Face“ labeler’s detection algorithm is prone to false positives, but sometimes you can’t really blame it.

A frame from Hogan’s Heroes showing Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink, in full Luftwaffe uniform. A warning banner from a labeling service runs above the image and says “⚠️ Contains Trump’s Face,” with “Hide” off to the right.

Colonel Klink does not look much like Donald Trump, apart from both being white male Nazis.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 17/03/2026

Serious question: Has this ever worked, anywhere? “You killed my kid because you don’t like my leader, so I’m going to depose my leader for you.” Because not only have I never heard of it working, I don’t personally know anybody who would react that way. You kill my kid, I‘m blaming you, not Trump.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in The Avengers standing behind his office bar saying “Not a great plan.”

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 09/03/2026

Economically, legally, politically, sure, that all makes sense--they control the system and the system is rigged. But that brain rot has extended to everything else: geopolitics, climate, infectious disease, computer science, orbital mechanics, thermodynamics… everything. Everything‘s The Onion now.

Headline from The Onion, March 26, 2003: “Point/Counterpoint: This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t.”

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 16/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Rubicon of American politics.

A bridge crossing a river (the Laguna Garzón in Uruguay) where the two sides of the road split to form a complete circle in the middle of the crossing.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 25/12/2025

Eagerly awaiting news that the second instructor, who gave the same grade, was also stripped of teaching duties. Unless of course this is less a story about academic freedom and more one about transmisogny... 🤔

Quote from the article: “A second instructor for the course agreed with the grade, saying the assignment was not followed.”

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 19/12/2025

A modest proposal. Let’s just watch them lose their entire minds.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 19/12/2025

Oh, definitely. Protip: Hang around the bar and wait for someone else to order a drink. You get all the value, save $8, and don’t have to drink something that tastes like Hawaiian Punch mixed with Everclear.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 19/12/2025

Sadly, the machines that actually *are* “push button drink mai tai” are crap at it. 2/5, cannot recommend.

A fully-automated bar on Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas. An industrial robotic arm sits below a hundred inverted liquor bottles mounted to the ceiling. There’s a shaker mug at the end of the arm that is lifted up to receive booze. On the bar below, a plastic cup sits on a conveyor belt waiting to receive the finished cocktail.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/12/2025

Ever notice how some couples look more and more like each other the longer they’re together?

Melania Trump scowling while wearing a stupid hat that’s too large, pulled down hiding her eyes behind the brim.

Donald Trump sneering while wearing a stupid hat that’s too large, pulled down hiding his eyes behind the brim.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 06/12/2025

picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account

This image shows three people in a vintage computer room from the mid-20th century. The man in a suit looks surprised, standing by a printing machine. A woman in a skirt and blouse is excited, with her arms raised. Another woman in a green dress in the background appears shocked, standing near a tape drive. The room is filled with old computers and machinery, suggesting a significant moment, either a breakthrough or a problem.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 04/12/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy Yeah this works

The “woman making a disgusted face vs an intrigued” one meme. Next to the disgusted face is the text “weird AI music”. Next to the intrigued face is the text “Weird Al music,” in a sans serif font where the lower case l is indistinguishable from the upper case I. The second photo has been photoshopped to put curly black hair, glasses, and an accordion on her.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 23/11/2025

a movie that takes place where you’re from [Literally the school building I went to for 7th grade. It’s actually in Georgetown, TX, not Austin.]

In a scene from the beginning of Dazed and Confused (1993), students on bikes and on foot flee a school after the last day of the year.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 27/10/2025

“Tiger, elephant, giraffe“ 🤔

A sample of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. The first few of questions are connect-the-dots, draw a cube, draw a clock, and identify drawings of a lion, rhino, and camel.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 16/10/2025

“Women don’t like the vehicle.”

Closeup of Kurt Russell’s (“Stuntman Mike”) car, from the movie Death Proof (2007), driving on a two-lane rural road. The car is a black 1968 Dodge Charger. We see it from up close, directly in front of it on the road as if it is about to run us over.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 08/10/2025

Kevin Costner, best known for his role as Alex Marshall in Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill (1983).

Still frame from the opening credits of The Big Chill. In an extreme closeup, we see Kevin Costner’s forehead and hair.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 07/09/2025

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

Image of Doctor Teeth from the Muppets. He is a green plush muppet with shaggy red hair and beard, long orange nose, and prominent upper teeth with a single gold tooth.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 01/07/2025

We’ve come so far from the days of Ed209.

In a still from Robocop (1987), the robot ED-209 enters through the ornate wooden doors of an executive office suite.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 01/07/2025

Hey now, be fair, he is *absolutely* revolutionizing US healthcare.

A blank template of the “for the better, right?” Star Wars meme. In four quadrants, we see Anakin and Padme sitting in a field of grass conversing. No captions are provided in this template, but in the original movie, the four lines are:

Anakin: “I’m going to change the world.”

Padme, grinning: “For the better, right?”

Anakin: stone-faced silence.

Padme, crestfallen: “For the better, right?”

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 17/06/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I feel good about my chances.

In a scene from HBO’s Rome series, soldiers Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) and Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd), dressed in chainmail and red cloaks, ride horses through Gaul.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/06/2025

Such an ambitious shoot, but they couldn’t have gotten that look anywhere else. I made a pilgrimage to the location back in 2017. Hour away from anything but cows, and the roads are only barely maintained.

A grassy mountain meadow in late summer. Evergreen trees surround the meadow in the middle distance, with forested mountains beneath a hazy blue sky in the background. There is a small fir tree in the middle of the foreground. To the right of it is a rustic wooden sign reading “PAINT YOUR WAGON Movie Site, Filmed in 1968.”

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/06/2025

Everybody is dunking on this unfairly. He doesn’t say he talked to an *American* astronaut on the moon, people. 🙄

The Nazi moon base from the film Iron Sky (2012). Sitting atop the rough lunar surface, it looks somewhat like a Gothic cathedral, except it is in the shape of a swastika with the arms arrayed around a central dome.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 11/06/2025

Honorable mentions: Andor’s finale is really Rogue One, which I think is a good movie but not up to Andor’s level. Burn Notice had a very rocky final two seasons, but the last episode itself was great, and the last *scene* of that episode is the most perfect final moment of any TV series.

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor in a scene from Andor.

A closeup of a snow globe sitting on a table in a scene from Burn Notice. The globe contains hotels and palm trees and its base reads “Miami Florida”.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 11/06/2025

post a show (or four) that are finished and stuck the landing (finale) The Americans Breaking Bad Mr. Robot Ted Lasso (Yes, I know Ted Lasso is getting a fourth season. I think that’s a terrible mistake. Regardless, until it’s undone by S4, the S3 finale is perfect TV.)

Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Philip and Elizabeth Jennings in a scene from The Americans.

Bryan Cranston as Walter White Sr. in a scene from Breaking Bad.

In extreme closeup, a single tear falls from the eye of Eliot Alderson (Rami Malek) in a scene from Mr. Robot.

Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and Rebecca Weldon (Hannah Waddingham) converse in the empty stands of Richmond FC’s stadium in a scene from Ted Lasso.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 20/05/2025

The female (left) and male black-headed grosbeaks who frequent my feeder.

A pair of black-headed grosbeaks perch in front of a lush Pacific coastal rainforest. On the left is a female, with a tawny underside, brown top, and white bands on her wings. On the right is a male, distinguished by an intense orange underside and black top.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 19/05/2025

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game

Screenshot of Ultima VI, featuring 320x200 resolution 256-color art.

Screenshot of The Lamplighters League, featuring 1920x1080 resolution 24-bit color art.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 18/05/2025

Some people like to say there is no such thing as a perfect movie. They are wrong.

In a still from The Princess Bride, Wallace Shawn (Vizzini) casually holds a dagger to the throat of Robin Wright (Buttercup) as he pontificates. The two are in a green hilly setting. Before them is a table spread with a white cloth on which are bread, apples, cheese, a bottle of wine, and two cups.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 18/05/2025

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... Well, the math checks out: trans hacker; VR designer played by a trans person; witch; and introvert.

Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The cartoon character Violet Parr from The Incredibles.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 06/05/2025

Artificial intelligence when I was a kid.

The Merlin, a red plastic electronic game toy. It is a long, boxy shape, looking as if it were a telephone designed by the original Star Trek props department. There is a speaker grille in the top section; in the center section, a keypad with 11 buttons that feature red LEDs rather than digits; and at the bottom four recessed buttons reading NEW GAME, SAME GAME, HIT ME, and COMP TURN.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 03/05/2025

if u see this post your getaway vehicle

In a scene from Animal House (1978), a homecoming parade float zooms past spectators lining the curb. The float is styled like a white two-tier birthday cake, with red “icing” along the edges and spelling out “Eat Me” in cursive on the sides.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 22/04/2025

The process of selecting a new Pope:

In a famous photo from the 2000 Florida election controversy, a man in a pinstripe shirt stares at a punchcard ballot through a magnifying glass. The photographer has positioned themself so that the inspector’s left eye is comically enlarged in the lens of the glass.

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