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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm an employee of the healthcare facility, I have the company insurance, and I need a test done at the healthcare facility. And I have to cancel the test because it's too expensive. They want to charge me more than I make in two months for one test. Tell me how great American healthcare is again?

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Rewatching the original "Hellraiser" and realizing there's a whole dimension of horror I missed: despite (literal) hell breaking loose at home, the dude still had to go to work each day.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Got 100% on my important software certification test today...but I'm actually more impressed with myself for picking up a dropped pen with my toes while walking down the hallway carrying a brimming cup of scalding hot coffee and not spilling a drop!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2013's "Lord of Tears" is an excellent horror movie, and I love it as it is. However I do think I'd like to see a) a musical version, and b) a buddy comedy where Moloch the owl-head god and some haunted Scot solve mysteries together. And maybe they could visit America and fight Sasquatch. In court.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watched "Vampire In Brooklyn" for the first time since it came out, it's actually not bad. Better than you'd expect, really. Eddie Murphy can be scary when it's called for. John Witherspoon stole every scene he was in, I feel like we didn't appreciate him as much as we should have in the 90s.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pulling up pokeweed today I remembered to wear gloves...but the juice went right through them.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had a nightmare I was back at my old horrible job and monsters started attacking the building and in the dream I ran out to take my chances with the monsters rather than spend a minute longer with my horrible old manager. I woke up thinking "you made the right decision, dream self!"

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am in love with the concept that households with multiple pets experience "pet drama" between them, and must navigate all the intersecting relationships carefully to avoid escalating conflict.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I certainly did NOT see a video about "hidden death danger signs" and then spend 20 minutes attempting to locate my own pedal and tibial pulses to make sure they were in sync with each other. Ha ha ha. That would be nuts.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For a new twist on Xmas, replace Santa Claus with Hercules.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More pointless looking at real estate listings online. If the first word to pop into my mind when seeing a photo is "craptasm" I think that's a bad sign, right?

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've left instructions for the theme song to "Inspector Gadget" to be played at my funeral. There will be no explanations for this.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are way too many "retirement planning" videos online where some asshole tells you "oh, time is not a renewable currency, you should retire early and enjoy it before it's too late!" Okay, then, jerk, GIVE ME THE DAMN MONEY!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Call me crazy but if your boss makes more than ten times your salary you shouldn't be asked to donate cash to them or buy them gifts. Is that shallow?

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today I was powerfully tempted to reach out and pop someone else's pimple. I can't help but wonder what the fallout would have been if I had done so.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I could retire early and live in quiet comfort if I had just forty thousand times as much money as I currently have.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just looked a real estate listing and I swear I could SMELL the old carpets in every room.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watching a badly-colorized old movie, and there's a constantly fluctuating patch of oversaturated color in the middle of every shot, where the rest of the screen is more lightly colorized. It's actually a pretty cool effect and would have been awesome if done intentionally.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One thing I did not expect from my mother's aging is that she now will casually drop old family secrets into conversation. "Oh yeah, your great uncle used to cheat on your great aunt. My cousin had a drug problem. Great-grandpa had to leave town because he killed someone in 1901." Um, okay?

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A great deal of the history of office tech could be explained if we discovered that every printer ever made was possessed by an angry ghost.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wish I had the confidence of a policeman character in the first ten minutes of a horror movie, the one who says he's sure there's nothing awry and there's no monster and the first victim will turn up alive and well any moment.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Add 1970's "Queens of Evil" to the list of movies that had the bones of greatness in them, but juuuust didn't manage to pull it off. A little polish here and there and it could have really worked. I doubt a modern remake would be much good, though: too much of its charm is from its period.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wow! I found a house I can afford in my area! It's directly on the creek with all the radioactive toxic waste.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watching an old movie and really confused. Apparently the whole conflict of the thing is that the gentry were deeply, DEEPLY shocked to discover their servants had sex lives. That...was it. They caught the valet banging the maid and freaked out for an hour and twenty minutes. Values dissonance?

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1971's "Incense for the Damned" has all the elements of a great horror film, it just fumbles the execution. Still worth watching fifty years on. In the hands of a decent indie director a remake could be great!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Gee, who could have seen it coming? Legalizing sports gambling in my state did not, after all, result in the massive promised tax revenue "for education". What a surprise. Perhaps if we had better education the voters would have seen that coming.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching 1972's "Baron Blood" and all these minor characters are acting so overdramatic when they get murdered. His name is Baron Blood. He's literally back from Hell. Of COURSE he's going to murder you! What did you expect him to do, tickle you? Sheesh!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I love watching retirement planning videos. They all start off one of two ways: 1. "Helen makes $850,000 a year and has saved $5000 for retirement" or 2. "Jack and Nancy have $40,000 saved can they retire next year?" They'll be fighting over discarded potatoes in a dumpster next week.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Watching "The Vampire Lovers", 1970. The vampire takes the form of a cat when she feeds. They could have caught her easily by simply placing an empty cardboard box on the floor, she'd have been unable to resist its allure.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I love when people in movies see a ghost or something, another character says "you must have imagined it", and they just agree. Like, is your imagination really that good? I've never seen anything that wasn't there, ever! I frequently fail to see things that ARE there, but never vice versa.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't know which is funnier in "The Tomb of Ligeia" film: that the climax is Vincent Price fighting a house cat, or that the cat is so much better at fighting.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I would rather do five new work assignments than revisit an old assignment and change it. So boring to go backwards.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My regular grocery store is in the same shopping center as my eye doctor, so sometimes after an exam I kill time in there waiting for my eyes to un-dialate. I get some looks from other customers because they think I'm on ALL the drugs.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being woken up by opossums snapping at each other outside my window was not in my expectations today.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Battle of the Creepers! The Virginia creeper in my yard attempted to take over the creeping phlox. I don't think so, buddy!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some horror movies are too confusing to actually be scary. If I can't tell what's going on, and what's supposed to be scary, it's not really going to work.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Getting tired of people doubting my numbers at work. Fine, here's the 436K rows of data that prove I'm right. Let me know if you spot any errors in there!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The scariest thing about old Vincent Price movies is the discovery that he was kinda hot back then.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just saw a video talking about the Narnia books that referred to Aslan as "Jesus's fursona" and can't stop laughing about that.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Love it when a low budget horror movie casts a decent character actor for a small colorful part. They always end up stealing the entire movie. Maybe skip the generic interchangeable leads and just have character actors?

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Super tone deaf for a company to have a company-wide "town hall" in which the first ten minutes are the overpaid C-suite execs being jocular with each other over nonsense, while everybody else on the call is worried about layoffs and pay cuts. Nobody cares about your stupid step challenge.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's very satisfying when the total amount of your purchases is very nearly but not completely equal to the total of your remaining balance on the store's gift card!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I got new tires yesterday and since then the tire place has sent me three texts, an email, and a voicemail message. All just thanking me for the business. It's coming across as pretty needy. I'm not a car person, I literally will not even think about my tires until I notice they're low on air.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Getting new tires for your car definitely makes the ride feel a lot smoother! Probably I should also not have let the old tires get to 60% pressure, that may have played a factor. But in my defense: I'm very, very lazy.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I watch online videos about quantum physics and hair styling, as if I have any grasp of either topic.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How stupid can people be? Don't discuss politics at work! It can't lead to anything good!

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This horror movie's terrifying climax included a strange beeping noise that really amped up the tension. Then I realized it was my dehumidifier signalling it needed emptying. I should email the director and suggest they include beeping in their next film, it really worked.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If the question about a Microsoft product is "can I disable these very annoying notifications that pop up and block a critical part of the screen I'm trying to use?" the answer is always "No, you can't stop those." You can never customize the stuff you want to, only stuff you don't care about.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Always a great sign when you email out your monthly reports to your company executives and get notifications that two vice presidents' email addresses are no longer valid. Just fired 'em without notifying everybody, eh? Feeling SO positive about that.

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TragicMonkey @tragicmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I had forgotten that David Ogden Stiers had a recurring role on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And Helen Hunt played Murray's daughter in at least one episode.

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