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William Ray

@williamray.bsky.social
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Author, attorney, man unabout town. Fan of Star Wars, Transformers, D&D, &on. Writer of Gedlund (and other Tales of the Verin Empire). @VerinEmpire on retro.pizza

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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 18h
Yeah, my irritation with the recent update playing the "My Life As A Rolling Stone" playlist when you ask it to play My Music is particularly exacerbated by the fact that if you work around that and tell it to 'shuffle songs from my library,' it immediately replies, "Now playing My Music."😡
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like the Democrats were too focused on the big fish in Trump's last go-round. Even in his current condition, he'd be tough to impeach... but Vought, Hegseth, et al, don't have people flying flags with their names on them.
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VGJunk @vgjunk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Probably a sign I need more sleep that I keep laughing at this Lego manual page. Instruction: Block. You need: Block. Step 1: Have Block.
A Lego instruction manual page. A single flat 4x2 piece alone in a grey void, somehow perfectly encapsulating the feeling of a Sunday afternoon when you've got work in the morning.
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salad bar ham cubes @flangy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Being in your 50s is like a combination of being in your 40s and being dead.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They had such an unbelievably brilliant combination of writers and performers. That show had so many bits where I just had to pause the TV because I was laughing so hard that I was missing the next round of jokes entirely.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's hard for me to imagine any visual impression that could better convey the feeling of sneezing really hard.😄
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I followed this account for minicon drawings, not absurd takes on films from the '70s! 😛
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
funny thing about antitrust law is if you actually bother to enforce it you get markets with more small and mid-sized competitors that can't threaten you (see: Paramount threatening to leave California) as easily but alas, spineless corruption rules the american experiment
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Metropolis Hot Ones is just girl reporters answering questions as they're faced with increasingly spicy Clark Kents.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Can I get an A-Men?
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There's been a lot of really cool stuff since his tenure, but his run with it certainly had a brighter creative spark. Every season was something really new, even as it recycled older concepts. New characters, play patterns, and big concepts.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The party tore up all sorts of renewable energy contracts to make us more dependent on oil and gas, then went to war to raise oil and gas prices. If they wanted to create an object lesson on the importance of renewables, well done.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ceila Rose Gooding makes an exceptional evil queen. I think she should just give up acting and do that full time instead.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh, so you just mean doctors would be more important, not more numerous. I was trying to figure out how AI was going to somehow accelerate education, licensing, fix the residency caps, or something.😅
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why more doctors?
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's good to see someone standing up for those poor, mistreated animals who are later looking to become FBI agents.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For someone more studied in the economics... AI spin creates an appearance of growth, but amid rampant inflation. So is AI actually producing any verifiable productivity growth, or is it just stocks ballooning in price as the dollar loses value? My impression has been that it's the latter.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You'd be a hypothetical fool not to refresh your memory of the first 635 episodes before you go!
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cheerios continues to have the worst liner bags in the food industry.😡
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s very hard to rise up when all the food makes you shit yourself and the only authority you can even reach is a mindless inhuman voice that always agrees with you & tells you: you did it, you fixed the problem, with your bravery & cool ideas! Please stay on the line to complete our survey.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Sesame Street: The Count Laughs
Alt: Sesame Street: The Count Laughs while drumming
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just want to know when James Gunn is finally going to bring Teen Titans, Go! into the DCU.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Because there, floating on water and concealed from the heavens by an arch of stone, we are at last hidden from the judgment of God. That Dude just won't let up! The constant questioning attention is like living with a toddler.🙄
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You can't smash up a box that good without the sort of fully rounded education you get at a place like Lax Uni.👍
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Purpurkat 🔜 TFN Swindon @purpurkat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I don’t mean to brag but I’m really happy with how my Ratbat drawing has turned out
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You should absolutely brag about that one! I love it!
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Giancarlo Esposito would be amazing in a classic Leslie Nielsen comedy role. Stuff like Airplane, Police Squad, etc. I am 100% confident that Esposito could deliver riotous absurdity with straight-faced intensity.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I use 2.5 bottles of insulin per month, insurance refuses to cover it, so I buy without insurance. They only price it fairly as settlement from a price-gouging lawsuit, and so refuse to sell more than a 30-day supply. So they'll only refill my prescription every 25 days. US healthcare is stupid.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today is the first day I've had a chance to go see the new Spider-Man movie, and I pulled up Fandango, looked at the movie times... and was suddenly struck by the memory of sitting through a full half-hour of ads last time. Screw that. I'll wait for streaming.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well, sure. The only question is whether he's doing it for the fashy wing of the party that wants the military unable to intervene in their domestic insurrection, or the klepto wing of the party that wants to replace the weakened military with something they can collect rents on.🤷‍♂️
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
😆 I immediately dismissed that possibility -- those guys don't lose things!
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"America" is for geography, "Trump" for structures. If he breaks that pattern he'll never keep it straight.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The broken horn emblem has no broken horns.😄
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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rest in peace to a genuine icon and hero
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How ridiculous. Channelling outrage won't get you anything -- it's a kleptocracy, so just pool your money to offer a bigger bribe.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The MCU's Eternals made a mistake in hewing too closely to the source material from the comics; namely by introducing major new heroes and a vast, world changing story that is then ignored by the rest of the franchise. It's the Marvel way!
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My dog is old, has some neurological problems, and has a lot of trouble walking unassisted. Last night, she bolted up, dragged herself over to a pee-pad, and urinated there, instead of on her bed or the carpet. And I just wish I could somehow explain to people how heroic of an effort that was.❤️
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
National "concern" or national "hope"?
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm really tired of headlines saying"slams".
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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 19/08/2026
Kanan reading this
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Chris Farley's Reaction
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Eer Chios?
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The tokusatsu shows have basically been producing the same show with the same crew for decades. Steady employment allows for expertise, and expertise creates efficiency. But the US entertainment industry has fled from steady employment for anyone, so of course they can't keep up.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I love My Adventures with Superman (especially the Kara parts), so don't get me wrong, but... that was a VERY Kamen Rider season finale.😄
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Legalizing money laundering seems like it would be a huge blow to crypto.
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SteveC @clarkes428.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There is only one thing I want to see announced at D23 this weekend. It's not the X-MEN or VisionQuest - those are givens. I need Disney to announce the full return of The Muppet Show. 🙏🤞
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Miss Piggy's Dramatic 'You're Welcome'
Alt: Miss Piggy's Dramatic 'You're Welcome'
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
lmao
The trolley car problem with Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The trolley car defies the laws of physics and slams into Wile E. Coyote.
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William Ray @williamray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As a kid, I really loved the '82 X-Men/Teen Titans crossover. But they don't really come from the same world. After all those Daily Bugle editorials, how come Spidey's not being harassed by Sentinels? It's because that's not his story. But it's weird, when the X-Men are right next door.
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