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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 4h

Kindergarten. The bullies made damn sure I knew I was weird pretty damn fast.

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Kindergarten as well. The bullies descended upon me almost instantly and I had no understanding as to why they picked on me so fast -- kind of a giveaway that I was clearly not normal.

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 5h

Divest from Harry Potter and JKR, y'all. It's okay to feel sad about no longer engaging with something that meant a lot to you, but a fictional world that funds a very real assault on trans rights will never be more meaningful than caring about the safety of trans folks.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 6h

The women in this country really need to go full Lysistrata at this point. Also, to all the other “good men” out there: yes, we all need to do a better job of confronting the Shane Gillises of the world when they vomit out hateful misogyny like he did Saturday night.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 11/10/2026

If Presidents Clinton or Obama talked about Russia and Putin the way that Trump is doing so now, the Democrats and Republicans alike would be pushing through impeachment hearings with amazing speed.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ten years ago “they have public executions” was regularly cited as proof of the barbarism of countries like Saudi Arabia. Now we’re doing it. I mean, my god, what have we become

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 07/10/2026

It comes as no surprise that I had a stress-induced hive attack this morning, thanks to the most recent Hell Week at work. Nothing really to add or pithy to say, that I haven't already said numerous times about working for Satan, Inc.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 07/10/2026

I will readily admit that I never got the hang of Xitter, so trying to move my social media presence to here from the dystopian Facebook hellhole hasn't been easy for me. However, Meta seems determined to make sure that I find a way. I really just wish the character limit here wasn't so miserly.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you're still on the fence about whether AI is good or bad for society, consider this: The fascists desperately want it

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 19/09/2026

One week from today, I’m going to an event dressed as The Party Wizard. I feel like I absolutely nailed it.

Picture of me as The Party Wizard: green sequin jacket, disco ball staff (which I made myself,) purple sparkly shirt, rhinestone-covered green belt, heart-shaped sunglasses, and a rainbow-pleated pride kilt.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 12/09/2026

Somehow, I think the ladies will *easily* outlast the right-wing alpha-wannabe males. Also, on behalf of the feminist hetero males, I welcome this course of action. Willfully remove your misogynistic DNA from the gene pool, please.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 12/09/2026

Once again, right-wing alpha-wannabe males engaging in an action that isn't the flex they think it is.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 10/09/2026

Totally worth every penny the pledge I made to @rifftrax.com, the movie ticket tonight, and the Lake Ontario-sized beverage I bought at the theater.

Hurried photo I took of my photo and name in the Kickstarter section of the credits to tonight’s MST3K: The Rifftrax experiments episode at the theater tonight.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 09/09/2026

Imagine how much more space it would take up if I left some of those MST3K box sets and RiffTrax DVDs in the bonus packaging they were originally included in. (Instead, those are on display in my office.) Hope you enjoy the show as well!

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 09/09/2026

I believe this should give a sense of just how excited I am to see MST3K: The Rifftrax Experiments episode, Sting of Death, in theaters this evening. @rifftrax.com @mst3kofficial.bsky.social @frankconniff.bsky.social @billcorbett.bsky.social

My collection of MST3K, Rifftrax, The Film Crew, and Cinematic Titanic DVDs and Blu-rays... as well as some other sci-fi media.

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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The bread is poisoned and the circus is too expensive.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 07/09/2026

In two days, you can experience MST3K in the theaters for the first time in 30 years. As a bonus, for the first time ever, you can see my name and picture in the Kickstarter section of the credits! Can't go on Wednesday? There's an encore performance on Sunday. @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bikes are an economic disaster. The only things I bought for my bike in the past year were brake pads. At this rate, how are corporations going to make money? How are they going to buy politicians? How will I ever go into debt? Who are we going to bomb? The whole foundation of our economy is shot.

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 27/08/2026

So true. Frankly, much of the user experience with computer tech in many different ways peaked 10-years ago. The internet itself, its subjugation by apps, the reprogramming of autocorrect, and the imposition of AI on all of us are all just the most obvious aspects of the enshittification.

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tgage @tgagemurphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Live your life so you are celebrated like Dolly Parton when you pass.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 25/08/2026

Yet another Tuesday wherein I wish I could rage quit my job with toxic capitalist metanat, burn all my bridges, and let the fires light my way.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 23/08/2026

This morning I pulled out my original Halloween denim jacket for the upcoming season, and finally took care of a serious issue. Gone is the death eater patch (which I had taken the care to perfectly place on the left sleeve,) and in its place is a far more reputable Eye of Shoggoth patch. #FUJK

Picture of my Halloween jacket with the Eye of Shoggoth firmly attached and the hateful Harry Potter patch that I removed as an act of solidarity with the trans community.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 21/08/2026

The "conservaitve wing" of the Supreme is nothing more than right-wing nutters who are using the appearance of being proper judges to undermine everything that they don't like -- even things are Constitutional, legal, and just. They are destroying America.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 14/08/2026

Just received my first email at work from someone who clearly used AI to write it and then just hit send. Fuck you, asshole. If you cannot be bothered to write your email to me, then I cannot be bothered to fucking respond.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 14/08/2026

Damn it, I hate it when I have to root for the lesser of "Zeus's wife, both these sides are just so fucking evil!"

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 07/08/2026

Betting markets are bad enough. However, the fact that people are willing to bet on this kind of thing shows just how deep the moral depravity in this country is.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 26/07/2026

Everything Scalzi says here about my wife, Sally… That’s exactly how I am about mine. I’m merely immensely far less known.

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God @thegodshow.com · 22/07/2026

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 17/07/2026

That moment when you’re dancing in your own living room, trying to get your Apple Watch to register as much movement as possible, and you then realize that you’re rhythmically waving the wrong hand in the air like you just don’t care.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 15/07/2026

I don’t know why I didn’t make this connection before, but clearly the idiot in charge of the military learned what it means to be masculine by emulating Attitude Era Vince McMahon.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 08/07/2026

I cannot overstate how important it has become to me that I own (to the best of my ability) the TV shows and movies I love on physical media. I've even started placing greater emphasis to listening more to my actual CDs on a 30-year-old 5-disc changer than to the files I ripped from them.

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Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

SF writers and readers are some of the nerdiest nerds on the planet. We love tech. We are so early-adopter that we imagined it before you built it. If you’ve lost us, you’ve lost the fight.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 03/07/2026

I am in the process of creating a “Party Wizard” costume for use at a couple different events later this year. Making some really good progress.

Me, wearing a green sequin jacket with a purple sequin shirt, and holding a multicolored disco ball.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The first thing a Democratic president and Congress need to do is fuck up the Supreme Court's shit. Because I promise you that these hypocritical fucks in the majority will take away every power they gave Trump if Democrats get the presidency.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

maybe now -- despite decades of evidence -- we can stop taking conservative arguments on good faith. they just want power and will do or say anything to get the power. there is no logical consistency or rules. they. just. want. power.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

love to live in a collapsing society

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 29/06/2026

Seeing footage of today’s Pride Parade in NYC has only strengthened my resolve to see one there in person with my wife within the next year or two.

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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 23/06/2026

Expand into any kind of artistic endeavor whatsoever: movies, music, comics... you get the idea. Fuck AI slop.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 22/06/2026

Today's reminder from @willbunch.bsky.social that the US is a police state. Anyone who claims otherwise is delusional or is absolutely okay with how federal law enforcement is currently militarized against any kind of peaceful dissent.

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The Minneapolis 15 ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up | Will Bunch

An outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 21/06/2026

I am now properly to celebrate on the day when the answer to “When Will You Die?” arrives. In case there are any questions, a bottle of something special has been put aside for that day as well.

Four-pack of fireworks I purchased today at Costco to celebrate the day when you-know-who is finally bereft of life.

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Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net · 17/06/2026

Early in our relationship, my wife, a children's librarian, insisted that I read Interstellar Pig. I was already a life-long reader of SF at that point, but that didn't lessen my enjoyment of the book.

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