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Skull-es Xavier

@charlesxavier.bsky.social

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Nerd, Bostonian in exile, Catherine Wheel superfan.

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · Aug 26

I spent 20 minutes trying to force myself not to write a post that would have gotten me a visit from the FBI. So new plan, every time I feel the need to write one of these posts, I’m just putting an unpopular opinion in this thread. Ideally one of these will get me run off BlueSky so I stop posting.

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 4m

To be clear, because I believe in the rule of law - I don’t want a president to pledge to jail 99.44% of this administration.

I do want a president to pledge to jail anyone undertaking illegal activities that 99.44% of this administration are doing. There is a difference!

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, my friends and I were playing poker in the back of my high school calculus class, so this tracks.

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 4h

“No, the stripper really DOES like you” as a business model? It’s evil, but I think people are underselling how successful this could be.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 4h

😂

I think it’s literally the red of the fish reminded them of his redshirts.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 10h

Also, I think Olivia Reingold is incredibly cute, and God do I hate myself for this.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 10h

John Oliver should not be in charge of a broadcast news organization, but his team spends a lot more time fact checking his comedy bits than Bari Weiss ever did fact checking her “news organization” at the Free Press.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 10h

Game of Thrones was an incredibly rich source of political analogies and I hate that the last 2 seasons put so many people off it (including me) we just lost it as a point of reference.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 10h

It’s funny trying to convince white people* that for most of human history Northern Europe was a backwater with almost zero interest for the rest of the world.

*this group includes me, to be clear, took me a long time to understand this.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 11h

No nutritional value?!? Coffee is the single largest source of antioxidants for many Americans.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, he’s probably 5’9”, which is the average height for a male in the US, but not for the “Übermensch” he tries to portray himself as.

And yes, I’m aware that Nietzsche thought a ubermensch had nothing to do with physical characteristics, but using it the way Nazi’s would, because it’s Thiel.

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 11h

Cool people turned me on to BRMC so in my head they’re cool, and I’ve never actually heard an interview with them or seen them live to dispel that idea.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 16h

And a technology the US has an early lead on, but squandered for purely ideological reasons by the worst people you know.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

And a fish

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

Hero of two worlds.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi - Wikipedia

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

I’m lucky, because I have never misread a skeet, tweet or post.

a close up of a woman 's face with a disney logo on the bottom right

Alt: Definitely not a wink

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, I’m below 50 and also didn’t notice anything jumping out of when I read it a few years ago, but “below 50” is going to be untrue very soon.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

I read Vonnegut’s “Sirens of Titan” in school, can’t imagine my daughter’s school allowing it.

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

I found about him for the first time this year on a cycling forum, he really is the GOAT

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

I assumed so, just wanted to be clear!

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

Which claim? Will’s, or the “this was a uniquely terrible economy”?

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 1d

The NYPD kidnapped Bill DeBlasio’s daughter until he stopped trying to enforce any rules on them, not exactly surprising that some of them wouldn’t like Mamdani.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 2d

Seems disrespectful to Benson Boone, honestly.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 2d

If I got into it with Derek I might genuinely delete my account, I’d never recover. I can’t think of anyone else I’d say that about.

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Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 2d

I think I could have handled lox on a cinnamon raisin bagel, but it was the capers that just took it too far for me.

Skull-es Xavier @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 2d

The whole thread is great, but this one is my favorite (so far)