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Jim Henson's Folk Horror Baby

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Cranky poet. Disillusioned teacher. Seriously into make-believe.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📣 IT'S! 📣 THE! 📣 TOMTHEDANCINGBUGREVIEW! - 🐕 Armaggeddog! 🃏🃏🃏 A New York con 🔥 After the Revolution 👤 Celebri-Teasers 💔 Dinkle, the UNlovable Loser 🚤 Uncle Cap'n's Puzzle Pontoon! AND MORE! - FREE, and almost worth it! tomthedancingbug.substack.com/p/its-the-en...
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It’s the end of the world as we know it
And we know why
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Banning the existence of Panhellenic fraternities would not solve every problem on every campus, and certainly not the existence of sexual assault, but when you've got a mosquito infestation it doesn't hurt to go right for the biggest pools of stagnant water
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope the October surprise is on par with Kristi Noem's husband's love of balloon titties. I could use a laugh.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got two shots at the pharmacy today: the Go Fuck Yourself RFK Jr vaccine, and the Fuck Off RFK Jr You Evil Anti-Science Piece of Shit vaccine. Both very effective.
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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Vampire Lestat will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Sam Reid as Lestat on The Vampire Lestat, performing onstage as part of the band The Vampire Lestat
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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Does she understand that the bones are going to be inside her? What is she promising that dog?!
An ad for a drug that grows “new bone,” with a woman earnestly engaging with a dog who looks like it wants bones.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Jim Henson's Folk Horror Baby @uppitycrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In case you somehow need more evidence that Charlie Kirk was a bigoted piece of shit, Orson Scott Card wrote an essay eulogizing him.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there
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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I would forgive any and all flaws in this movie if Dracula introduced himself, full Eastern European accented: "Good evening. I am Dracula...Two Thousand."
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
*Person shows me their "Eat The Rich" tattoo* Me: Awesome. *They also show me their "Devour The Poor" tattoo* Me: Oh shit they're just a cannibal.
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 08/09/2026
I don't often engage with the fandoms of things I enjoy because, in my experience, fandoms have more often decreased my enjoyment of those things rather than increased it.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Smurves should be the plural.
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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Screenshot of the video for Anything Can Happen on Halloween starring Tim Curry, but I've photoshopped it to say Anything Can Happen on Labor Day. I added a yellow hard hat on Tim Curry's head and I put a bunch of graphics of all kinds of tools floating around -- a hammer, saw, stethoscope, paintbrush, etc. I also added a red circle with a line through it, and in the circle is a pair of white shoes.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists
Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“I regret voting for Trump“ is what people who didn’t vote or voted 3rd party should say.
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Boo-ly, Little Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Reader, I married him."
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like when people are being chased by a mummy not enough of them just try to kick the mummies ass. I wouldn’t try that shit on a Frankenstein but I feel like a mummy isn’t ready for that.
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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Ai gave me five new ideas I never would've thought of!" I dunno man you might just be fucking dim
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’ll cost a fortune to swap out the giant letters from the middle of the lake! It’s not worth it!!!
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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hüsker Dü or Hüsker Dü Not. There is no Hüsker Try. - Punk Yoda
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maybe if we rename it Lake Tiffany, Trump will forget it exists.
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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 24/08/2026
I'm sorry but I invented Waziggy, a mean Ziggy who likes bad things and is rude. I invented him but I cannot control him, and I am afraid of him.
A cartoon character who looks very similar to beloved character Ziggy, but looks cruel and has a big "W" on his shirt
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a big problem with american politics is that one third to one half of voters are essentially pakleds.
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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hot take: Indiana Jones dealing with aliens in 4 was a good idea, since that's what the popular pulp of the 50s was focused on. They should have continued that trend so that the next one, set in the 70s, would be a drug-fuelled supernatural conspiracy thriller like 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy.'
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026
In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“…But on the other hand, the Trump administration deserves praise for…” There is no ending for this sentence, and no reason to have ever begun it the first place. Anyone who has anything resembling this thought is completely untethered from reality.
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#booksky
Can't believe we're at the stage of dystopia where we're destroying old books because Tim from corporate can't write his own emails.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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But Dave Died 10 Years Ago This Very Night @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
wasn't interested in Doomsday at all but now that Marvel says you need to have played all the Infocom games up through Bureaucracy to get it, I gotta say, I'm curious
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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Elmo with a speech bubble indicating he is saying the quoted post
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I saw this on Facebook, and I feel like it's a joke made for like ten people. I am, however, one of those people, and I love it.
Image of ROM #1 from Marvel Comics, but it's "Rom of Finland" instead of "Rom Spaceknight."
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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Let the lazy smooth-brained shits be even lazier, it just makes things easier for those us with functioning brain cells. “Me no read wordy pagey things.” “Oh, really?” *sharpens the knives, cuz Eloi is on the menu tonight*
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The funeral home.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Matt Damon at the end of The Odyssey [getting in his boat]: I Odyssey about a girl.
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Jim Henson's Folk Horror Baby @uppitycrow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The runaway success of the new Christopher Nolan blockbuster means that the time is finally right for my mashup of the Odyssey and Hamlet, "The Rest Is Sirens."
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Paul Callahan (he/him) @paulcallahanmv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I would be surprised if he ever read a translation of the Odyssey. TBH I'd be surprised if he read Stranger in a Stranger Land, despite acting like "grok" is a really cool word he discovered, though it was beaten to death in popular culture by 1970 before he was born. He is ignorant and unoriginal.
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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