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@tlbjames.bsky.social
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Science-literate Gen-X misanthrope married to @TLBTim.bsky.social. Grizzled copy editor, proud dogfather, rude grammarian, self-pub'd queer SFF/horror author, podcaster since 8/10/06 (@TrashSprinkles.bsky.social), and pragmatic nihilist. He/Him

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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 1h
"G-Go on without me . . ."
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 1h
FINE. THE VOID KNOWS WHEN IT IS NOT WANTED.
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Cat Cat Meme
ALT: Cat Cat Meme
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 1h
The void is the absence of thought.
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Derpy Black Cat with Tongue Out
ALT: Derpy Black Cat with Tongue Out
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 2h
But the void has no sides!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 6h
The image is of a four panel comic. 
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see  see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.
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OnlyFangs🧛🦇⚰️🖤🩸 @binkytoes.bsky.social · 2h
The artist sells prints. www.rubyetc.com/shop/h7z4vh9...
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Being Bold - Square Print — Rubyetc
(8 × 8 inches) Unframed Hand signed Printed on heavy (300gsm) card stock. [please note card stock is made from 100% de-inked post consumer waste so it is white with a very subtle da...
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 2h
Void: TIME IS MEANINGLESS.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 2h
that* (I love how autocorrect changes perfectly correct words at about the same rate it ignores obvious typos. 🙄)
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 2h
I mean, $14.99 is basically like two people paying $7.50/ticket at the movies—which is a STEAL in 2026. Not that I'm saying we should do thiat since I've already pre-ordered the Blu-ray set . . . But that doesn't come out until next March, so I'm not NOT saying that . . . 😬
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 2h
That's where we spent our first wedding anniversary after falling in love with it on our honeymoon!
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 3h
More and more . . .
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Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.com · 4h
the first new MST3K episode is out: "Sting of Death," with a poster I drew! I also designed and drew the frame they're using for all the posters www.rifftrax.com/mst3k-sting-...
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 6h
October 9: is this fence an innocent bear bordering a children's playground or is it a demon trapped in wooda
a wooden fence board the top of which is carved to look like a bear (it even has a snout due to a lucky knot placement). however the ears look like devil horns and the holes for eyes are glowing green from the grass visible behind them
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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 8h
It's important to remember that this kind of performative dehumanization is a show of loyalty. @tante.cc wrote about this in relation to the press, but the deeper reason AI people keep saying the most shameful anti-life shit is to show that they're willing to burn their family for the ideology.
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The Test
Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa...
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 8h
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting around, facing away from each other. Stealthily, Green turns around to look at Blue, who is oblivious to being watched.

Sneakily Green stretches himself out, landing a kiss on the back of Blue's head. Blue is mildly startled. As he turns around to look at Green, Green has already turned back the way he had been, acting oblivious.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 7h
support my new book kickstarter ✨ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning. Hail Scruffy. 👿
a cute tabby cat dressed as Satan
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 6h
🦢🦢🧵🥲
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 6h
here’s my submission for: “I said I liked it. I didn’t say it was good.”
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 8h
On a good day, I like to think of myself as a collection of loosely organized networks of caffeinated chaos monkeys. On a bad day, a 'nip'd-out ginger cat with half a brain cell on a mouse farm.
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Stewly the Cat's Goofy Stare
Alt: Stewly the ginger cat's goofy stare
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 8h
I'm almost 100% sure I'm undiagnosed ADHD. Too much makes sense when I learn about characteristic behaviors (e.g., unhealthy level of hyper focus; executive dysfunction; instead of finishing one task at time in one go, getting distracted and starting another which leads to another which leads… )
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 8h
Tim and I are the same dynamic. Hits me hard, barely touches him (except one time it hit us both about medium, like the scales momentarily balanced).
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 8h
SAME. Both counts.
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mentally I’m here. Caught some awesome alligator gar in the San Jacinto River yesterday. Happy to see so many giants thriving so close to the Houston metro area
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 18h
call them Nazis to their face e-i-e-i-o
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 18h
I don't, she might've been down back in the day.
Painting of Texas Governor Ann Richards smoking a cigarette.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 18h
Could we recognize that finally and please not repeat it this time?
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 18h
It's not hyperbole. It's history.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 18h
It's not a contradiction, it's an escalation. First they outlaw us. Then they start deporting us. Then they start shooting us in the streets. Then they start publically executing us. Then they start executing us en masse in camps. And by us I mean everyone who isn't a wealthy cis-het-white-xian man.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Bex @bexthebard.bsky.social · 21h
A touching or incredible story online is now more likely to be a damn fiction created by ai than a real human experience, & cool or cute videos are now most likely bot generated as well. We were all happier before we were scrolling & this may be what brings many of us back to our physical lives.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 18h
It's not hypocracy. It's because they both publically harm minorities and control everyone else through fear and cruelty.
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OnlyFangs🧛🦇⚰️🖤🩸 @binkytoes.bsky.social · 19h
It was terrifying 😂😂😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrate...
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Extraterrorestrial Alien Encounter - Wikipedia
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
I'VE HEARD IF THAT! I'm kinda sad I never got to experience it. But then again maybe I'm glad I never got to experience it. I'm pretty fifty-fifty on that, tbh.
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OnlyFangs🧛🦇⚰️🖤🩸 @binkytoes.bsky.social · 19h
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
dics.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
I think she's more into nordics.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
The like was because I'm happy for you not because I forgiv mean he forgives because I am not the I am not repeat NOT the cat. . . . (You're forgiven.)
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
For my BS friends, @stinasdemons.com and @richtate.com because I immediately thought one of them reposted this but (TWIST!) it wasn't!
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
Huh. I guess sometimes the void DOES stare back.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
When you put it like that . . . 🥲
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19h
Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 19h
Well. I guess we all know where you'll be on October 28th.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 20h
Was gonna say that typo in "friend's" was because something's wrong with my i's, hence the drops, but then realized that would give me away as your secret-super-genius cat wh¡ch Ì def¡n¡tely am not.
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 20h
Would that make it Idiocracy's sequel? Canonically speaking?
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 20h
Already am . . .
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Sunshine Love
Alt: Animated nodding old-timey smiling red-eyed Moon
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James @tlbjames.bsky.social · 20h
Now is the time to spoil him with his favorite treat(s). Just until the end of the med course. Or longer. I'm not the boss of you and I am definitely not your secret super genius cat hacking into your froend's social media to tell you this. Mrow.
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