SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I was registering people to vote at an event yesterday, and a boomer woman came over to proclaim that while she used to be a feminist, it's no longer necessary because women won the fight and now have it better than men; no longer do we face harassment at work. And we can get credit cards. 24710
Reposted by SpookyManulCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious. 42309594
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026we should just call everything in America America. where do you live? Oh, America, AM. On the corner of America Street and America Street. Yeah, I am pretty close to the America River. The America Mountains are really pretty this time of year. 100
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🎶 turn around, don't drown every now and then i fall apart 🎶 000
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I thought of the heads in Geneva too, and wondered what other bizarre economic structures exist of which I might be unaware... (Stuff and Money is a fascinating book - recommended) 020
Reposted by SpookyManulAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/07/2026hearing lindsey graham got his head stuck in a honey jar and as he was struggling to pull it off he stepped on a roller skate and slid across the room where he fell out a third story window and into a hippopotamus pit 2174597
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 01/07/2026ok now i've come around to the idea that he is trying to get excommunicated on purpose 000
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026it happens so fast as well... hiking on a trail that turned out to be much hotter and sunnier than expected, i suddenly could not go one more step. i felt so ill and i could not think. it happened so fast. thankfully i wasn't alone and it wasn't too much further to the car. 2101
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 24/06/2026like all of us the san andreas is stressed to the point of completely snapping seriously though, if you are in the LA area you need to be prepared with stored water, food, and other supplies if you can. And the more people that have CERT training, the betterlaist.comNew earthquake study finds San Andreas fault is primed for a big quake"We should certainly expect to experience large earthquakes in our lifetimes," one of the researchers told LAist. 010
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 16/06/2026and "make a new plan" which is awfully light on the details. thanks for nothing paul 051
Reposted by SpookyManulCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae 192940743
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 08/06/2026we should just start calling Pasteurization like "TradCooking" or "Milkkmaxxing" or something and see if we can start a trend 020
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 28/05/2026hell yeah i'm in the BTS army Bartleby The Scrivener 030
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I did not know this. Everything that sucks in America is because of racism. Everything. I do know that a person who leaves a $9 tip on a $621 bill is a complete piece of shit who should never eat a meal without a loogie in it the rest of his life 040
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 23/05/2026do you think Medusa had to sleep sitting up in a chair 100
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 23/05/2026i wonder if the ratio of suckers born per minute is a constant, or is it now > or <1?futurism.comThe Trump Phone Appears to Have Already Leaked Its Customers' Personal Information Through a Glaring ExploitTrump Mobile's Trump phone isn't even in customers' hands yet, and it's already allegeldy leaking their personal data to the world. 030
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 21/05/2026holy shit. there are a lot of not great things about living in the current day, but i am so glad to exist contemporaneously with anesthetics 010
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 13/05/2026No brain please don't play Tom's Diner, I'll do anything you want. I'll even stop doomscrolling, I'll take a nap... anything 110
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 11/05/2026What are we going to do about it? Better start thinking that through, if you are an American w/a uterus 120
Reposted by SpookyManulLane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 11/05/2026Oh look, we're suddenly doing Odyssey discourse again. You all should stop it. My definitive, discourse-ending essay is available. www.hipcrimevocab.net/there-was-ne...hipcrimevocab.netThere Was Never an Original Odyssey: On Nolan, Homer, and the Manufactured Authenticity of a Composite TextA critical examination of Nolan's retelling of the Odyssey and why everyone should shut up about it. 5171
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 07/05/2026When I was a teenager and read it in school the translation we read contained the word "beeves" as the plural of beef (as in cattle) and we thought that was the funniest thing ever. We laughed about it for months. It still makes me laugh. Beeves. Beeves 060
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 28/04/2026i have talent and i've always made things. but what i always lacked was money, and the time that money buys you. the jobs i've done to pay my bills could have been done by anyone, but my art can only be made by me. we squander everyone's gifts in this society. UBI now and forever. 04820
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 22/04/2026this is how cold reading works. they invented a robot TV psychic and told it to read medical imaging 000
Reposted by SpookyManulJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe 293522466
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 02/04/2026help i've got the 4 Ps of incandescent rage: Perimenopause, Professional burnout, Politics, and Prednisone 140
Reposted by SpookyManulJimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 28/03/2026finally saw hamnet, don’t know what the big deal is 211410
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 15/03/2026THROW 👏 THE 👏 OYSTER 👏 GUY 👏 BACKdailymail.co.ukDem Senate candidate backtracks on apology for 'Nazi skull' tattooIn an interview this week, Graham Platner started to push back instead, defending the tattoo as merely a 'skull-and-crossbones' and 'an eminently reasonable thing'. 001
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity 050
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 08/03/2026as it happens I'm reading this in las vegas, the least real place there is, hundreds of people around me, shopping, gambling, as if nothing at all is wrong and that the unreal is real 0162
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 07/03/2026it shouldn't cost so much to have a peaceful life 010
Reposted by SpookyManulKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/03/2026They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that 251125993492
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 01/03/2026i just think someone ought to put another ferret in the large hadron collider. just run one through really quick. it's worth a try. 020
Reposted by SpookyManulHoward Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I can't provie a full timeline cleanse, but here, courtesy of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Associated Press, is an eastern screech owl asleep in an antique store. (The owl was gently, and without incident, removed by NYSDEC and released into nearby woods.) 514757
Reposted by SpookyManulLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive 135170575212
Reposted by SpookyManulDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: To stymie ICE, look at the sources of its power. That includes money but also co-operative 287(g) agreements with state and local govts. Blocking and reversing those agreements weakens ICE capacity. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-federali...donmoynihan.substack.comA Federalism Bottleneck?The Subnational Levers Constraining ICE 15420198
Reposted by SpookyManulErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/20261. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen... 23362813402
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 23/02/2026FML, I have a line item on my to-do list that just says "get ready for" 010
Reposted by SpookyManulA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed. 181281324
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Yes and this is why we need to work on formalizing real children's rights in this country. 0133
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 15/02/2026oh the giddy anticipation of Presidents' Day Eve. I'm going to leave out teeth *and* milk and cookies for the best chance of a new president in the morning! 040
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 15/02/2026it's probably going to be easier if they make a list of everyone who doesn't hate ICE 060
SpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 12/02/2026we are living in a Mr Show sketch. i don't know how, but Bob and David manifested this timeline 000