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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 7h

LIFE IS BULLSHIT, MIROKI

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Amanda Boekelheide @amandaboekelheide.bsky.social · 22h

Just being alive is such a crapshoot

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

Krang took her to Dimension X and it was beautiful

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 12h

"It was like getting my pussy ate by stereo playing 'metal machine music'"

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12h

look for it in your local bookstore's "nobody asked for this" section

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

crazy. I’ve never been there, but a friend visited like two decades ago & his description did not paint a pretty picture. Also like: If the doodie is in the water you can still sure as hell see it, so what exactly are those Krauts up to? Ponderous, man…fuckin’ ponderous

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

this isn’t a “scoop,” it’s an advertisement, & I hope she & her goddamn book fall into a bottomless sewer real, real soon

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

honestly there was so much terrible/weird stuff in the 80s & early 90s that even if I was actually good at gaming I don’t know that I could answer this—like, shit that wasn’t actually impossible would often contain scenarios that made it impossible to proceed if you fucked up. Does Frogger ever end?

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 16h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

unrelated except Heat’s been on tv lately so I keep watching it, & I’ve decided that the best/most demented Halloween costume one could choose if one were a 10-yr-old girl would be Waingro. Just ringing doorbells & intoning “The Grim Reaper is visiting with you” as you hold out your plastic pumpkin

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

ahhhh, the 90s

Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · 10h

Mods are asleep, post Whoopi Goldberg as an old white businessman in The Associate (1996).

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

again: search for The Devil’s Spitoon. Because that’s exactly what he was referring to (& yeah, we’ve all been there; just the absolute worst way to start a morning, short of someone dying or something)

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 8h

this story reminds me of how my friend Gary (who I hadn’t met at the time) apparently convinced my friend Mike to trade him (temporarily) a then-newly-released copy of Super Mario 3 for Donkey Kong 3. He still crowed about it years later—“You just shoot bug spray up a monkey’s ass!!!” Ahhh, youth…

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

this game definitely looks like…something

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

(tho actually I think her books got popular a few years later, so maybe this is more something that helped usher in an era of imitators, I dunno)

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

Cool, thanks. I mean obviously the aesthetic was widespread back then, but this image definitely looked like it could’ve graced a copy of Deenie or whatever

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

suggest searching for Dril’s old tweet re: “the Devil’s spitoon”

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

DUDE FINALLY THERE ARE ANSWERS @karlzimmerman.bsky.social

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

Is that the reason for the mythical poop shelf????
cc @karlzimmerman.bsky.social

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

HER HEAD LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING BEDPAN

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 11h

So it’ll be part “who gives a shit” and part “so what”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

Gotta ask: Did this Drew person also do kids’ book covers? Because this thing has absolutely massive original-1970s Judy Blume paperback vibes (& I mean this as a compliment)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10h

Web of Epeira strix, an Orb-weaving Spider, Galloway, 1915.

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

Edward Gorey was so fucking good

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10h

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

purple yam doggie

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10h

🖼️ Franz Marc

Painting of fox lying down on green, red, blue, yellow landscape background, tree trunk on right.

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 9h

seriously though: Congrats again on all this, & I do hope I get to see it at some point. Also thinking about film-going in Bklyn gives me pleasant flashbacks to various nights of zipping from Sunset Park to BAM alone on weeknights to watch a lot of great movies; solo trip home was always very zen