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Doctor Memory

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Just another bozo on this bus: please deflate your shoes before entering. The artist formerly known as dr_memory@twit (and same on livejournal, remember them?) and currently also known as @[email protected] on mastodon. Banner photo by @lifewinning.com

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 8h

Confirmed.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 8h

I don’t know if he was ever explicitly pro-Trump (everything I know about him is against my will) but yeah he’s 100% on the “Trump is actually doing antitrust right you stupid libs” train.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 9h

I got to see Nathan Watts live on Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life an anniversary tour. That man is a goddamn _monster_ (laudatory).

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 9h

In addition to the hilarious and predictable results of trying to dunk on Derek, I note that The Worst Matt is well on his way to fully negatively polarizing himself directly into Trumpism.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 9h

Pictured: the four primary forms of anarchism (mostly laudatory, except for Rick of course).

The cast of the 1980s British sitcom “The Young Ones”.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 10h

You know why that Batman villain The Riddler always gets caught? He announces his intentions and reveals his location through public spectacles like this.

But at least he throws in a riddle.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 15h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 10h

“I am a very serious and badass anarchist militant activist and it is extremely good tactics to draw a giant line in the sky pointing directly at my location. I am _definitely_ not a fed.”

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 20h

16 year old me: I wish that more people understood that Watchmen was one of the most important narrative works of the late 20th century and approached it with the seriousness it deserves.

Early 50s me: ...

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 20h

It’s doubly embarrassing to be incapable of writing coherently on Watchmen when off your face on drugs given that Alan Moore is, in point of fact, routinely off his face on drugs.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

No one has ever been able to confirm Nanni's alibi.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

It was ever thus!

www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/sf/lai...

SS > SF > Brain Eater Syndrome

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

I would bet a not insubstantial amount of money that it was written by an LLM, and I'd probably go double-or-nothing on it being Grok.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

If at all possible, live your life in a way such that Aimee Mann never writes a casually devastating breakup song about you.

Deathly
Song by Aimee Mann • 1999

Now that I've met you
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again
'Cause I can't afford to
Climb aboard you
No one's got that much ego to spend
So don't work your stuff
Because I've got troubles enough
No, don't pick on me
When one act of kindness could be
Deathly
Deathly
Deathly
'Cause I'm just a problem
For you to solve and
Watch dissolve in the heat of your charm
But what will you do when
You run it through and
You can't get me back on the farm

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

“Living” sadly eliminates Gift of Gab (RIP). With him disqualified… I’d have to think a while about “greatest” but goddamn do a _lot_ of Aimee Mann’s lyrics live in my head absolutely rent free and they have for decades now.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 7d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

I’ve heard of fursonas of course, and thanks to @swiftonsecurity.com I am cursed to know about planesonas, but this is the first time I’ve encountered a boatsona.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man wearing a shirt that says 'sickos' — he is looking through a window while saying “yes… ha ha ha… YES”

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

Oh Bluesky, never change.

<norman_rockwell_free_speech.jpg> actually there’s nothing remotely problematic about anyone in their 40s dating anyone older than them by any margin. 40 year olds are bona fide adults who can be trusted to make their own choices.

A post about the apparent romance between the singer Katy Perry and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau:

“13 year age gap :/ (She is 40 and he is 53)”

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

“He clearly has photos of studio execs with underaged women” would normally be an obvious cheap shot but in Leto’s case there’s a better than even chance it’s literally true. 😬

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

Man, even that was touch and go. A good film but it would have been even better without him.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

Was there any game studio of the 00s that was done dirtier than Monolith? Tron2.0 and the NOLF games were all fantastic and the whole thing fell into a hole of legal limbo for so long that everyone forgot about them.

Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d

Also Jared Leto is fucking box office poison. Stop giving him roles.

“Tron sequel starring Greta Lee…” okay you have my attention “…and Jared Leto” you no longer have my attention.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that Walz kept hitting the "weird" thing to the very end, neither Harris nor the vaguely defined "consultants" told him to stop, and the difference was the press stopped covering it

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1d

Man, we really fucked up by not lining the road from Appomattox to D.C. with hanged Confederates, huh?

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