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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb

@strangeclay.bsky.social
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excellent tip 😯
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's him That's his horrific mouth
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They're very ergonomic!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This stupid bastard
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Which aspect of current you would 20yo you hate most? No one is ever asking this
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That party *was* great! I remember it very fondly!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This but with door microscopically ajar will add to both the mystique and the sense of beleagueredness
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
How did I not know you have a Survivor blog?!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thank goodness I married a man who knows about unique identifiers
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I feel like this idea is 10-15 years out of date. Instagram used to be the platform of putting on a perfect public face; it's really not anymore. LinkedIn is the only one I can think of that still is, but like, how could it not be.
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Love as it was meant to be: among VIPs
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I got an academic publishing scam email once from Sincere Cory. I think about him a lot
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A lot of these lines do feel like an actor who just learned his character is being written off the show
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I feel like the sentence "cheap things are no longer cheap" could use some reflection
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In honor of our nation's birthday, I will be performing, solo, the entirety of Edwards and Stone's Tony award winning musical 1776, except for the songs about slavery, which are uncomfortable and unpleasant: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com
1776 - Complete Backing Tracks - YouTube
A series of instrumental/karaoke tracks for the musical 1776, music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, book by Peter Stone. Peter H. Hunt directed the original p...
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
One of our fridge drawers is broken because I couldn't get it back in the groove correctly. I feel you
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
People absolutely *pour* money into youth sports, and I naively thought they couldn't possibly be expecting a return on investment. But I guess of course they are
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Writing Station, USA!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sometimes the excuse is that the institution has never worked that way/does not have the power being ascribed to it, and furious people have no recall of times ignorant people have asked them to do something that isn't their job This response is guaranteed to humble and placate the furious people
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ha, sorry! It is pretty much my only online alias anymore. It's totally healthy
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hooray, Tom! I'm thrilled to hear it.
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I guess the big issue is how to get on actual TV, huh
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Sometimes I fantasize about just putting stuff like this on a YouTube channel and seeing if it can go viral. Maybe it's delusion but I feel like I have better marketing ideas than the PACs
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Aww 😞
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It is such a shame it is no longer free
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Marshmallows too! Gluten free AND fat free!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This is the attitude among many of the students and coworkers I've talked to today. There was a brief panic and then a sort of beautiful resignation
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I read this article this morning and thought it had some good points about where the vibes are concentrated. fortune.com/2026/05/03/a...
fortune.com
America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn't healed | Fortune
It's not a mystery why everyone got sad in 2020. What is: the fact they never recovered. Sam Peltzman sees a "segregated happiness society."
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It's rude is what it is
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I've actually been in search of a song about the season (now fast approaching) when the boys have gone. Still waiting
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Checking my promotions tab to learn it's been a rough day on the free crochet pattern email list. A number of people would like to DELETE their accounts, SERIOUSLY, this random spam is not what they signed up for when they signed up for free internet crochet patterns, STOP, STOP REPLYING ALL STOP
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Year of Szabo!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a drawing of a robot with a red light coming out of it
Alt: Anime robot with ominous red light coming out of the forehead
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'd like to encourage anyone in my orbit to call their local cowards, er, representatives today. Just saying the words back to them feels worth doing, so they can hear the apocalyptic promise he's made as many times as possible.
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
To your point, Gamergate was 2014-2015 and had all the ingredients, and those conversations reached further than the gaming community (which itself was just becoming mainstream culture)
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Oh yeah, this is like, one of them... prisoner's dilemmas!" (Sits silent, motionless under a single spotlight)
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I think it's weird that Annie was allowed to even participate. She *just* got there! Also it *is* a terrible subplot
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ah, the Ron Paul stickers in the bathrooms at college
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How are you doing now, in the future
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
As you say, it's also an impression that's like 15+ years out of date. I will say there are some famous counterexamples (50 Shades, notably), but again, even that's 15 years old
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
They are my great little guys
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Fucking hell
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm terrified of it, having known someone who had it
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What?? That's bonkers
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
But I've also had readers talk to me about their experiences with, say GoT or LotR in a way that suggests they do have a little 1:1 memory database for those details that I simply have never had
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I think of it sort of like a Jeopardy clue sometimes--if you can provide two associative avenues from which to reaccess the information, so much the better. Like in your example, maybe a recurring setting plus a notable manner of speaking, as opposed to just name-dropping "Mr. Boss."
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Yikes!!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🙅
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
So many additional choices for my newsletter!
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Bastard Child of the Nuclear Bomb @strangeclay.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Did you know this is the place we've gone to see indie wrestling Just thinking about various crowd sizes
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