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Maester Rory

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Just a progressive human here for the gaming, music, memes, friends, & current events on planet Earth.

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 17

The band "Rare Americans" recently released an animated musical film free on youtube.

It's like a punk rock opera set in 1993 about 3 teens navigating their last year of high school as they uncover something dark and sinister.

I enjoyed it. Gonna watch it again soon.
youtu.be/wYFkYbd0T5I?...

Rare Americans - (S)KiDS [Full Official Film]

YouTube video by Rare Americans

youtu.be

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · 2d

THE BUCKET RESIDENCE; LADY OF THE HOUSE SPEAKING.

Hyacinth Bucket on the phone someone with someone.
They mentions that POTUS is charging people a million dollars to sit in the same room as him at dinner.
She assures the person that his social events are inferior to the accoutrements at her own candlelight suppers.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · 2d

Doc Brown's car converts garbage into fusion.
Nazi Musk's Cybertrucks are just garbage.
They are the fascist thing on 4 wheels.

A Swasticar doesn't need a flux capacitor to go down in history as a recalled piece of crap. The Self Driving crashes and the Odometers are bogus. You can't drive in the snow or take it through a carwash.
(Pictured: A Cybertruck decorated like the time-traveling DeLorean.)

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · 9d

I will always support peacefully protesting frogs, that I imagine are living rent-free deep inside the orange man's brain.

If you live in the US, keep exercising your constitutional rights to speak out, protest, & vote!

#Frogs4Democracy

The unhinged orange man getting angry over protestors be like:

A picture of Joker with his altered Batman movie quote, "Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in, where people dressed up as FROGS get all of my press?"
(With pics of anti-Ice protesting frogs in Portland, OR)

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · 11d

I feel the urge to prepare a eulogy for oceanic life.

The once dense biodiversity is thinning in the toxic depths of warm sewage, oil, & plastic.

Radioactive filth will continue to make waves on the shore even after most life has gone from the saltwater ecosystem.

Mass extinction is happening.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · 24d

Good satire doesn't punch down; that's bullying. It punches up.

It is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose & criticize stupidity or vice.

Satire is not violence. It is expressing freedom of speech, sharing ideas and bringing attention to real problems.

Just saying.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · 26d

An ode:

There's nowhere to flee, there's nowhere to hide,
The Earth is too small, we can't abide
By the AI coming, there's no use running
It's either gonna save us or start the gunning
In this race you can't leave, there's nowhere to stay,
We're all vulnerable lifeforms at the end of the day.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Aug 28

After seeing the rose garden replaced with a cement patio & the huge ballroom plans, next I'm guessing we could see a gold enameled nursing home or McDonalds in the front lawn.

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today is a great day to go to youtube and look up "Randy Rainbow" for his musical satire. A new video dropped 6 hours ago.

Warf saying, "It is a good day to wake up to a new Randy Rainbow video."

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think this is it.
youtu.be/9H09xnhlCQU?...

The Hunt For Gollum - The Fan Film (2009)

YouTube video by Independent Online Cinema

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Aug 5

It's always interesting to witness people's dice superstitions. Including rolling technique, punishing the low rollers, or having lucky favorites.
I also love to see special storage containers, rolling trays & towers to roll in.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Aug 2

Cast Away

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 31

The film Redline (2009) has many cyborgs.

Including characters such as Machine Head Tetsujin, Little Dayzuna, and the President of Robo-World to name a few.

President of RoboWorld from the 2009 Redline animated film.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 29

Home Movies

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 22

I haven't heard very much of his music but this song is the one of his that stuck with me the most in the past. His voice is electric but the song is gentle and sad.
youtu.be/pnhTPeKijdQ?...

Goodbye to Romance

YouTube video by Ozzy Osbourne - Topic

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 20

Warming the oceans is a problem for the health of the global ecosystem.

But if Artificial Superintelligence becomes a threat, I'm guessing that the hardware is more protected from human physical sabotage, hidden down in the ocean.

Like a submarine armed with nuclear missiles.

ai-2027.com

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 19

A side note: I'm not an accelerationist and I support peaceful protests and the rule of law. And the power of voting.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 19

Agent Orange is undercutting the foundations of society that support the enormous financial weight of his ego with fascistic oppression. It's not just immigrants targeted, potentially anyone can be denied due process by ICE & get kidnapped & tortured in a local camp or foreign prison.
Resist & Vote!

A Fight Club frame that says:
Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We pick your food, we cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep.

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rare Americans - (S)KiDS [Full Official Film]

YouTube video by Rare Americans

youtu.be

Reposted by Maester Rory

💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · Jul 7

#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 15

It's long past time. Time for impeachment and removal, time for mass peaceful protest, time to wake up.

For climate, Ai, and governmental corruption, we need top to bottom regulation, accountability, and justice.

Aladdin trapping Jafar in a lamp, saying:
Phenomenal Presidential Power
Time For Impeachment

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jul 7

In some of my earliest TV memories in my youth, I remember seeing her in Faerie Tale Theatre. I've always loved her work.

Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very memorable animation, characters, action, & voice acting.

REDLINE: the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, organized crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends...
youtu.be/2t26m_Q6ENo?...

Redline Trailer

YouTube video by Manga Entertainment

youtu.be

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jun 27

"Quick fix with hidden costs" is right.

This game has Gacha, or "Surprise Mechanics." It's microtransactional gambling. Also I don't like mobile games trying to reboot full size games while fishing for whale customers.

The original Persona 5/Royal is a great game.

Reposted by Maester Rory

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Jun 27

$10 a day keeps a kid healthy on Medicaid.
Meanwhile, Republicans want to hand $6 million per billionaire.

This is theft in broad daylight—and kids will pay the price.

📞 Keep calling your senators: (202) 224-3121
Don’t give up.
Flood the phones.

#MedicaidSavesOurLives

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Maester Rory @maesterrory.bsky.social · Jun 22

First thing I thought of was the zombie movie "The Girl With All The Gifts." The protagonist is a zombie girl. Also a beautiful eerie soundtrack. Based on a book but I haven't read it.