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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Really disappointed in Joyce Carol Oates" is not a phrase I thought I'd ever say. For so many reasons.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sox win, Cubs lose. How much further can my sports luck go?

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Opening Night! Also, what league schedules 4 games for its first night back? A league run by Gary Bettman, that's what.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

49. I wasn't supposed to hit 21. Leaning into my old man era.

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 21/09/2026

Meet ICE agent Steve Rivas, of Chicago, IL. Rivas is one of the agents who brutalized the U.S. citizen in Evanston yesterday. Rivas has been involved in multiple questionable use of force incidents in Illinois and Minnesota. Rivas and his wife have been active in the local Chicago swingers scene.

An ICE officer with salt-and-pepper hair and goatee wearing a "Fugitive Operations" patch.

Plain clothed federal agents including Steve Rivas (black beanie with glasses) tackle and arrest a man after a short foot chase in the lobby of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via AP)

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 13: A federal agent [Steve Rivas] exits his car on January 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has deployed over 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents to the state of Minnesota in a push to apprehend undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stenheim think-pieces and Wilson "well actually" essays - catch the fever!

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*sigh* *rearranges* Sup, y'all? Happy Friday.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Been a long time since I stayed up to play a video game. So...sleepy...

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I feel stagnant, that I haven't learned anything* in a while, so I'm gonna look into some classes. * - that I wanted to know. I didn't wanna know that Knicks players are evangelical assholes, or that Argentina sucks for Black people, or that folk were thisclose to electing a Nazi because vibes.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

X-minus 30 hours before I can yell "WHO ELSE WANNA FUCK WITH THE GOD" as I sink numerous English and Spanish warships with my little brig-that-could.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I want to be a pirate very badly, so these hours until AC Black Flag Resynced are going by very slowly.

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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What’s that meme or Twitter screenshot about not taking advice from someone who has no interest in your success? the @chicagotribune.com does not give a shit about a strong Democratic Party. The paper has been between center right and far right for longer than I’ve been alive

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And he'll sell out, because this town is very contrarian and does not like to be told the right thing to do.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Drew something for the first time in three weeks. Something kept telling me not to; I kept finding excuses not to draw. I've been writing, so I've been putting pen to paper in a literal sense, but I haven't been creating. That bugs me. My brain is a terrifying place.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

There was a place called Pockets that sold calzones, and I loved them, but hadn't had any in a while. Looked them up; they're down to one store in the Chicago area. Last I ate there, they were opening five or six with franchising opportunities. Food retail is a mfer.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I hope y'all listened to some jazz yesterday. Or today. Or any day.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Over here watching videos on drawing shit when I could be..drawing shit. Social media got me fucked up, yall.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

One of the favorite things is that the Museum subreddit is going apeshit because people keep posting porn in it. Not the occasional nude study or modern movie still, but actual painted/sketched porn that is in a museum somewhere in the world.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I didn't even get a chance to grow a playoff beard; my team went out in 4 games, scoring 1 goal in three of those, and 2 in the other one.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Reposting this to find it again. This is insane.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Walked nine miles and visited ten indie bookstores in the city on Saturday. Stayed in bed most of yesterday. At work today, creaky but mostly ambulatory.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm here for any Assassins Creed: Black Flag stuff, so really hyped for more of it. I really enjoyed boarding ships and then sending them out on my shipping empire, like a boat hoe stroll. "Go get me my reales."

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

And valid points were made in the review! But a lot of people have such a hard-on for games journalism in ANY form that the knives came out.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I did not expect a review about a game where you play a mouse who shoots everything to be this year's Gamergate. Bonus points for people decrying people not as "journalists", but taking letters out of the word so it's "urnalists". Get it? Get it? No? Because it's dumb as shit.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Spending a lot of time watching people make things and not making things myself.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This describes the experience of a significant number of institutions who folded for Trump

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is my current rabbit hole. I'm told that Americans don't have the patience to sit and listen music quietly or reverently, but this is in LA and I want this so bad.

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Listening Parties: An Analog Antidote to Brain Rot? | Outside the Lyrics | S2 E4

YouTube video by PBS SoCal

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

the swag in this video is unreal

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Never on schedule, but always on time.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Was real depressed about shit - these corrupt fucks still operating with impunity, overt racism, human rights erosion here and EVERYWHERE... ..then I bought tickets to go visit my mom in June. Shit aint all bad.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

No idea how or why, but I am in a family group chat that contains four people over the age of 75 and this shit is simultaneously cringeworthy and precious.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Happy Opening Day

Chicago White Sox eliminated from playoff contention

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'll watch a bit of Opening Day of YOUR WORLD CHAMPION LOS ANGELES DODGERS... And cease to give a shit til October. #Dodgers, hoes. With love to the #SouthsideStruggle White Sox.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Visited the Midwest's only record pressing plant last night, and now I wanna talk music and the business and go buy records.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Looking around, found a hip hop mix with a lowrider as its cover. The mixtape info said "take a ride...smooth grooves..." And EVERYTHING was NYC hip-hop. And less "take a ride" than "GTFO your ride, we are taking it".

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New #FuckDeJoy dropped. Who is this Steiner fuck? And throw in a "fuck you the USPS isn't supposed to make money" like sprinkles on top.

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Solar-powered and saddity. @troyal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In your Philatelic Update, first class stamps are now SEVENTY EIGHT CENTS, which is that bullshit. BUT. There is a Bruce Lee stamp. And a stamp that features lowrider cars. And a dope Muhammad Ali stamp. And a stamp celebrating Harriet Powers, a woman born into slavery whose quilts are amazing.

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