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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Weird. The Walmart in his district must have missed the memo. His price is under 25% of what you'd actually pay.

Screenshot of a package of 80% lean ground beef showing a price of $7.23/lb.

From Walmart web site for the store in St. Cloud MN.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You don't say? Wonder what we can do about that.

Color image of the Standard Oil Octopus. A very large octopus with its 'head' in an oil tank labeled "Standard Oil" reaches all over the country and world grabbing control of various politicians and government institutions.

Originally came out in 1904, around the era of Trust Busting.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hell I am old enough to remember that encryption == munitions. Our law surrounding tech are profoundly stupid. 1st Ammendment protected image of DeCSS below. Just don't compile it!

An image of the DeCSS decoding algorithm in C.

The image is protected by first amendment, but the argument back in the day was the implementation was not.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So you know. www.abop.org/physician-se...

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dear moslty useless Google AI, tell me about this Metaxis guy...

Screen capture of a google search for "Eric Metaxas critique"

"Eric Metaxas faces widespread critique for his pivot toward right-wing Christian nationalism, controversial historical revisionism, and hyper-political rhetoric. While his earlier biographies on figures like William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were widely read, his recent work has alienated historians, theologians, and moderate Christians."

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'm not proud of this. Nor am I surprised. via: anisota.net/harvest

A word cloud based on my posts.

The word frequency is:

1 fuck 25
2 bullshit 19
3 seems 16
4 news 13
5 course 12
6 tell 12
7 trump 11
8 mean 11
9 hope 10
10 those 10

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Stole this from some random redditor. Fits though!

A four frame cartoon.

Frame 1: a character pulls on a rope, as in a tug of war. Shirt reads "Jesus' Teachings"

Frame 2: Slight zoom out from prior image. We see that character 1 is being assisted in his pulling by another cartoon character. This character wears a shirt labeled "Atheists".

Frame 3: We see two characters pulling on the opposite end of the rope. One wears a shirt reading "Christian Nationalism" and the other, in a top hat and suit is labeled "Capitalism".

Frame 4: Character wearing "Jesus' Teaching" shirt appears alone with a speech bubble readin "Huh?"

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As I have already said, European leaders, with Ukraine’s support, will attempt to oust Donald #Trump - Elliot Higgins #coleallen

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Please don't post this image all over the internet.

An image of Caroline Levitt with her child and a pardoned Thanksgiving turkey.

The image show lines on Ms. Levitt's face which is apparently illegal or something.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

How did this discussion begin again?

Screen shot of the head of this thread, showing who responded to whom.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

<insert Mr. Creosote.gif> (sparing you the video clip, watch at your own risk)

Mr. Creosote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

He is played by Terry Jones, made up to look enourmously overweight. Like comically large.

He is dressed in black tie at a French resturant. Bad things are about to happen.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Released a couple of weeks before the election.

Cover of the Economist magazine from Oct 2024.

There is a roll of $100 bills with flame coming out the back as if it were a rocket launching.

The Text on the cover is "The Envy of the World: America's Economy A Special Report"

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Gosh who'd buy that pile of crap for $6,000,000,000? Oh, look it's our old friends Russians and oil state money!

Screenshoot from Wikipedia article about the buyer TAETechnology.

Funding
Main financing has come from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., Rockefeller's Venrock, and Richard Kramlich's New Enterprise Associates. The Government of Russia, through the joint-stock company Rusnano, invested in Tri Alpha Energy in October 2012, and Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano CEO, became a board member. Other investors include the Wellcome Trust and the Kuwait Investment Authority. As of July 2017 the company reported that it had raised more than $500 million in backing. As of 2020, it had raised over $600 million, which rose to around $880 million in 2021 and $1.2 billion as of 2022.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

"Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'" www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Stolen from reddit.... but accurate.

A man in a suit kneels in front of a school desk. Behind the desk is a young girl, apparently weeping.

Text on the image says: So you see, Sally, when we give all the Halloween candy to the rich kids, it'll create more candy for everyone.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

On the off chance you simply don't understand, here's the definition of "mark". Now, ask yourself the old question about who is the patsy in a poker game, and reread your post.

Urban dictionary definition of 'mark' as 'the target of a scam'

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

<audience> "Where's your fucking neck"

The criminologist from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Who, famously, appears to have no neck.

(audience participation quote from the Alabama theater show (houston) circa 1982)

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

There are less pleasent remedies as well. I think they might prefer taxing.

"Liberty Leading the People"

The goddess liberty leads, french flag in hand, a group of armed commoners over a pile of aristocratic bodies.

(actually about the 1830 revolution, not 1789, but close enough to make the point I hope)

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Drove by some of my local anti-fascists this morning. They don't get around much, but they support us.

Image of my local military cemetary. Endless identical headstones.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Perhaps ready the post I replied to? In virtually any measurable sense (baring only overt, public, state sponsored antisemitism) Stalin was at least irrationally bloodthirsty as any Nazi you might care to name. We were allied with him, doesn't mean he wasn't a pile of shit.

I’ve got HUGE problems with Stalin but this equivalence is insulting. Under no reasonable metric is the USSR, even at its most depraved and paranoid, as bad as Nazi Germany.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Apropos of nothing: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda poisoned their young children prior to their own sucides. Their bodies were then tossed into a muddy trench and partially burned with gasoline. Then the Soviets got them.

The Goebbels family in life. Mother, Father, 6 young children and one older stepson (who was not there and died in 1967).

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Learn your trade. We'll stat easy

book cover of The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Oh, look, the consequences of my own actions! Soybean farmers cry because of impending poverty. www.rawstory.com/farmers-tari... www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...