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Mr. Zack

@thatwordyguy.bsky.social
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Nerd, former lit major, enjoyer of bitter drinks. "Inauthentic" MPLS Resident. He/Him. Words & things: thatwordyguy.blogspot.com RPG Nonsense: antagonistrelations.blogspot.com/ RPG Bluesky: @antagonistrelation.bsky.social

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Antagonist Relations (Zack) @antagonistrelation.bsky.social · 6h
Eves is helping me run Shadow of the Weird Wizard tonight. We'll see if the party nearly dies in a fight with giant ticks again or not. #thedustballs #rpg
A fluffy gray cat with dark tabby markings on her face laying on a brown couch next to the Shadow of the Weird Wizard GM Screen which shows sinister ruins.
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Buzzard - Doom Folk @buzzarddoomfolk.bsky.social · 16h
When we take the tyrant down Joy will ring for miles around On his knees he'll atone For all the sorrows we have known We’ll pass around and try on his crown And throw his gold in the deep blue sea The soul of conscience shall be free buzzarddoomfolk.bandcamp.com/track/take-t...
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Take the Tyrant Down (Acoustic Mix), by Buzzard (Doom Folk)
from the album Take the Tyrant Down (Acoustic Mix) b/w Hunchback, Vicar, and Wizard
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 16h
This is what Klobuchar is good at, small flashy moments that really don't matter in the grand scheme of things, times where those smarmy prosecutor skills can shine. She is shit at doing the hard things, taking a stand for something that matters. Will she commit to fight for our trans neighbors?
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 16h
Not going to lie. It's fucking infuriating seeing all the praise for Klobuchar (rightfully) eviscerating Schmitt... She could have been using that skill this past year and a half, she should have been using it to fight for US, for MN... Instead she voted to confirm Trump's nominees.
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Vitsy14 @vitsy14.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are not a serious country, part 24.
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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 18h
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/09/2026
The current widespread displeasure with MPD for mismanaging their budget was preceded by years of false claims from mindless police boosters that cops were starved of funding. It gave political cover for shoveling piles of money into a furnace as a proxy for safety.
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ICE OUT State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quick reminder that while O’Hara is gone (and this article frames him as the problem), Jacob Frey is still around, and he allowed this to happen. Jacob Frey is solely responsible for this. You don’t hate the mayor enough.
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Antagonist Relations (Zack) @antagonistrelation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Extremely excited to have gotten the HOTDOG SHOP in Happy City while playing on Board Game Arena tonight... I've never seen it come up before, even though we've played many, many times both virtually and with our hard copy. #boardgames #happycity #hotdog
A screenshot of the virtual tabletop of a Happy City game on Board Game Arena with the HOTDOG SHOP card highlighted.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introducing Gurpo
A drawing of a small blobby figure inside of an enclosure with string coming off it, with text saying "introducing Gurpo, the new wearable personal assistant. Gurpo is not a computer program, he's a real tiny guy who is trapped inside your medallion necklace. 
Gurpo hates you, but is incapable of doing anything about it, and he has to answer your questions or he gets electrocuted. It's non-lethal.
If you shake his enclosure hard enough, gurpo will throw up!"
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can write to Kare11 here to complain about the transphobic language: www.kare11.com/contact-us Hey cis allies! This is where you can ally!
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Contact KARE 11
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Princess Buttercup: You Mock My Pain
Alt: Princess Buttercup: You Mock My Pain
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grab one of my absolute favorite books, a perfect blend of fantasy and noir, set in a claustrophobic & beautifully described decaying city between wars. Dark without being overly gritty, one of my favorite depictions of an urban landscape.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A digital illustration done in a black and white woodcut style similar to Totentanz images by Holbein and others. A skeleton wearing a jester-type cowl with two floppy horns with bells on the ends, and another garment around his shoulders and boots all decorated with bells. He his high stepping and playing some kind of flute. Black lines radiate out from behind him and a banner wraps around at his hips with the words ‘maybe it will happen today’ on it.
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Leland Sage @lelandsage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw this so now you must as well.
Meme with a picture of Trent Reznor and french fries from Sonic, Burger King, and Wendy’s with text which reads:

I think you owe me a great big apology

TERRIBLE FRIES
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve signed up to run 3 one shot #RPGs @conofthenorth.bsky.social 2027 & I am looking for players to test out these modules several times before February. I've put together some details here about all 3 games here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #twincitiesgeeks #minneapolis #ttrpg #rpg
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Antagonist Relations - One Shot RPGs I’ve signed up to run three one shot RPGs at Con of the North 2027 and I am looking to run these modules several times before February 2027 so I can make sure I wo...
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rare both floofs are within arm's reach for pets moment. #catsky #thedustballs
A fluffy gray cat sits on a red and white blanket on a man's lap on a sofa, looking up at the couch cushion her sister has settled in to smoosh. The second fluffy gray cat is partially obscured by the cushion she is sinking into.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another week of listening down. #WeeklyTunes #LastFMCollage #LastFM
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom:

Green Lung - Necropolitan
Astral Elevator - The Tear Garden
J.G. Thirlwell - Imponderable (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Kneecap - FENIAN
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
Poison Ruïn - Hymns From The Hills
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Edward Ka-Spel - Hallucinating Happy Land
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Christian & Mauro

Creekbed Carter Hogan - Peasants Revolt
Hawksmoor - Yclept Thorn
Pig - Hurt People Hurt
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
Cinder Well - A Blooming Body
Emma Ruth Rundle - These Killing Times
Sir Richard Bishop - Hillbilly Erotica
Dirty Three - She Has No Strings Apollo

Ditch Girls - Ditch Girls
Panopticon - Det hjemsøkte hjertet
Ghold - Bludgeoning Simulations
The Body - Master, We Perish (Expanded)
Froglord - LIVE BY THE FUZZ OR DIE BY THE SLIME
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Running some Vampire the Masquerade tonight while Eves provides support. #caturday #thedustballs #catsky
A fluffy gray cat lays very flat on a love seat as she snoozes.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve signed up to run 3 one shot #RPGs @conofthenorth.bsky.social 2027 & I am looking for players to test out these modules several times before February. I've put together some details here about all 3 games here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #twincitiesgeeks #minneapolis #ttrpg #rpg
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AR - One Shot RGPS
Antagonist Relations - One Shot RPGs I’ve signed up to run three one shot RPGs at Con of the North 2027 and I am looking to run these modules several times before February 2027 so I can make sure I wo...
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Antagonist Relations (Zack) @antagonistrelation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After my current Werewolf chronicle ends, that group will be switching to Unknown Armies and I really, really want to convince my players to do a fast food magicians campaign so I can finally use all the deliciousness from Break Today... Check out the alt text for nutritional info... #ttrpg #rpg
The cover of Break Today, the Mak Attax sourcebook for the Unknown Armies RPG showing a fast food worker and magical adrpt floating cross legged in front of a fast food counter. 

From the Atlas Games Website:
Break Today at a Glance
Get a combo meal of occult knowledge with this Unknown Armies second edition supplement about fast food conspirators Mak Attax.
A super-sized amount of inside info makes creating a scenario or campaign about Mak Attax super easy.
Hack the new magickal schools, archetypes, rituals, and rules for use in other stories or campaigns.
Fries and Universal Transcendence: More about Break Today
Upsize your soul one fast food burger at a time with the bizarre occult conspiracy known as Mak Attax. These mystically aligned restaurants serve up magical enlightenment along with their value meals. Either they’re complete losers or the most dangerous threat the world has ever faced.

Learn more about the Maks’ real nutritional value in this Unknown Armies second edition supplement. Inside, you’ll find detailed background information, GMCs, artifacts, rituals, new archetypes, four new magick schools (anagram gematria, plutophagy, herpemancy, and geomancy), rules for familiars, and scenario hooks). Also coupons for a free combo meal.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF.
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The Perfect Organism
Alt: Ash from the film Alien covered in white synthetic blood saying "The Perfect Organism"
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Antagonist Relations (Zack) @antagonistrelation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I'm not picking another d20 style fantasy game, then I'm going for Unknown Armies...
The cover of the first edition of Unknown Armies, a roleplaying game of transcendental horror and furious action by Greg Stolze & John Tynes
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JD Vance wishes he had as much rizz as Saquatch shaved bald...
A screencap from the Venture Bros season 1 ep, Home Insecurity, showing Sasquatch partially shaved and smiling sitting next to Brock Fucking Samson in a dodge charger.
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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why is the DFL not running ads saying “republicans sent ICE to terrorize minnesota, to kidnap and kill your neighbors, don’t vote for Republicans at any level unless you want to see more Minnesotans dead”
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Answering only in Dada-style sound poems.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll be packing up these games and a few more to bring for #boardgames night at Broken Clock Brewing tonight at 6:30p, though Evie will be staying home to keep an eye on her rascally sister.
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Dreamboat Branny 🦢 @bransonreese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
swanboy.com/comic/robert...
First panel of today's Swan Boy. Two kids ride a shopping cart into an already injured man.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll be packing up these games and a few more to bring for #boardgames night at Broken Clock Brewing tonight at 6:30p, though Evie will be staying home to keep an eye on her rascally sister.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tossin' up some 'Leftovers'... thatwordyguy.blogspot.com/2026/09/mitt... #musicsky
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Mittwoch Mixes - Leftover Mixes Volumes 1-3
Five years ago, in 2021, during this project’s (relative) infancy, I put together some Tasting Menu Mixes , gathering up tracks from some o...
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tomorrow, Thurs 9/24, come play board games at Broken Clock Brewing from 6:30p-9:30p More details in the thread below.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tomorrow, Thurs 9/24, come play board games at Broken Clock Brewing from 6:30p-9:30p More details in the thread below.
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Mara Abolish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not just No but fuck No on this. @elliottpayne.org @senatordoronclark.bsky.social zero appetite for any public dollars going to a stadium for billionaires. Including any fancy accounting or TIF . I don’t want that on city books like we had for years w the Target Center. Just No.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Eves was helping me pick out some #boardgames to bring to Broken Clock Brewing this Thursday for Board Game Night from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. As always it's free to attend & we'll have a selection of games. #twincitiesgeeks #minneapolis
A fluffy gray cat with darker tabby markings steps on an array of board games set out on a table.

In clockwise order, those games are:
Tokaido (mostly obscured by said cat)
Escape the Dark Sector
Lost Legacy - Flying Garden
Saboteur
Saboteur 2
Tortuga 1667
Lost Legacy - The Starship
Coup
Get Bit!
Mind Up
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Eves was helping me pick out some #boardgames to bring to Broken Clock Brewing this Thursday for Board Game Night from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. As always it's free to attend & we'll have a selection of games. #twincitiesgeeks #minneapolis
A fluffy gray cat with darker tabby markings steps on an array of board games set out on a table.

In clockwise order, those games are:
Tokaido (mostly obscured by said cat)
Escape the Dark Sector
Lost Legacy - Flying Garden
Saboteur
Saboteur 2
Tortuga 1667
Lost Legacy - The Starship
Coup
Get Bit!
Mind Up
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✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
damn, see how easy this is to not waver on trans rights remaining intact while also pushing for better for us all? he’s not even DSA or super “radical” here & this should all be seen as the MODERATE position.
'Rights are rights...': El-Sayed answers trans question with four-word response | Michigan
Senate race
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed faced a question about transgender rights and hormone treatment during a campaign event. After the moderator called on an audience member, the attendee asked El-Sayed how he planned to support the rights of transgender people taking hormones. El-Sayed responded: "Rights are rights are rights are rights."
ET Online | 22 Sep 2026, 09:34PM ISTFOX NEWS
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POLITICS
Abdul El-Sayed touts
'whole a--' medical credentials while defending sex changes for children
El-Sayed pointed to the Right to Try Act to argue Republicans also believe treatment decisions belong with doctors
By Elaine Mallon • Fox News
Published September 12, 2026 10:43am EDT
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Lady Christy @ladychristyk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The 2nd Thursday of the month is this week, which means you could come hang with rad folks, play some fun games, drink some great bevs, and eat some terrific tater tots! Join us on Thursday night 6:30-9:30 pm! Tell your board game buds! ♟️🎲🥳
A promo flyer for Board Game Thursday at Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative that says the event is free to attend-games provided. 6:30 pm, every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month. The background of the flyer is a greenwashed photo of two pints of beer next to a game board
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A digital illustration of the giant anime robot Voltron. The one made up of five individual robot lions, not the one made out of cars and planes and stuff. His right arm is a red lion, his left arm is green. His legs are blue and yellow lions respectively. His torso and head are a black and silver lion the mouth of which is opened to reveal his humanoid robot face. He has a big red chest piece featuring a coat of arms-like crest and some red robot wings sprouting off his back. He’s seen from a dramatic forced perspective looking up from the feet against a spacey background with stars and nebular gas. He’s in the middle of one of his main moves which is where he slams his lion face fists together and draws them apart creating a glowing arc of energy that is going to form his giant multi-pronged sword that he uses to cleave whatever he’s fighting in twain. But it’s still just an energy arc between his fists and lettering following the shape of it reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unsurprisingly Green Lung's new album Necropoitan fucking rips.... 🤘💀🤘 youtu.be/7EeepVS9OXA?...
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GREEN LUNG - Dance to the Grave (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by GREEN LUNG
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unsurprisingly Green Lung's new album Necropoitan fucking rips.... 🤘💀🤘 youtu.be/7EeepVS9OXA?...
youtu.be
GREEN LUNG - Dance to the Grave (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by GREEN LUNG
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Antagonist Relations (Zack) @antagonistrelation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know that I've been neglecting this rpg focused handle, so I'm going to try to be better about posting here. This morning I'm excited to start running the Old-School Essentials scenario "The Hole in the Oak" for my RPG Church online group.
The cover of the Old-School Essentials scenario the Hole in the Oak which shows a bronze large bellied statue with vines growing on it in in a dark grotto with sinister infant creatures crawling around it.
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Another week of listening down. #WeeklyTunes #LastFMCollage #LastFM
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom:

J.G. Thirlwell - Music Of The Venture Bros Volume Two
Live in Berlin - Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld
The Joy Thieves - Apocalypse Pending
The Young Gods with the Lausanne Sinfonietta - 20th Anniversary - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Sunn O))) - Kannon

The Tear Garden - The Brown Acid Caveat
Berndt / Schmidt - Cloud Machines
Creekbed Carter Hogan - Peasants Revolt
Kiiōtō & Lou Rhodes - Black Salt
Áit Ait - The Ranger and The Stranger

Green Lung - This Heathen Land
Noveller - I Am The Weather
Big Brave - IN GRIEF OR IN HOPE
Cinder Well - A Blooming Body
Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug - Higgs Boson

Sir Richard Bishop - Hillbilly Erotica
Sonic Youth - Murray St.
anaerobic - TERMINAL
Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
Boris with Merzbow - Klatter

Nine Inch Nails - Not the Actual Events
mothermary - Non-Duality
One Leg One Eye - CRONE
Matmos - The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As #caturday wraps up, Nadja is really gettin' after the beans washing. #catsky #thedustballs
A floofy gray cat licks the beans of a footie that she is holding in place with a mitten as she lays on a blanket on the chaise of a couch.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
Yes, we want good candidates to win, and that's why we want to push candidates to be better. The insistence that they stay mediocre and uncriticized is probably worse for Democratic chances.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
Politicians NEED TO HEAR when there's disagreement. How else will they course correct? Why do you think they would be better candidates if they were surrounded by a heavenly chorus saying "yes, yes!"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026
And it's ODD for people to be like "sorry you're not allowed to criticize this politician, because there are fascists out there." ... do you hear yourselves?
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