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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll eventually block, but right now I’m using the replies to scope out bots and fascists to block.

Interestingly, the DHS account seems to have a *lot* of those.

I’m also amused that 2/3 of the rage-spittled responses are some variant of “that’s great, where are the Epstein files?”

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 4h

While I'm not blocking them (yet), I pledge not to engage (yet).

That said, the gov accounts *do* seem to be ripe hunting grounds for a number of blockable "we love you, Trump!" accounts that seems to have been created more-or-less at the same time.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 2d

In days of yore, such barbarity would’ve triggered an impromptu road trip and 24 hour punishment rally by the LSJUMB.

One does not f with the ClarPics.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 4d

Never has a title tested my completionist compulsion more than those last two years of Cerebus. Genuine artistic skill married to a bad brain is a sad thing.

Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll grant that with regards to Fountainhead, but at some point Atlas Shrugged throws subtext aside, whizzes right past text, and starts engaging in outright supertext.

It’s like Dave Sim’s descent into madness on Cerebus, but without the pretty drawings.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 5d

I mean heck, the guy was originally written as a thinly-veiled Doc Savage homage (complete with ersatz Fabulous Five henchmen)… it doesn’t get more “genius” than that.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 5d

Intermittent A One Crash

Unscheduled Design Review Meeting

Eight Hour Pickup Session

Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 5d

This kind of jibber jabber sounds a lot like I did in college when I got wasted and would tell everyone my theory that Charlie Bucket (original movie version) was a Christ allegory.

Alas, we travelled in different circles back then - perhaps I could’ve steered him towards whimsy instead of evil.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 7d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter’s to the title:

“John Carpenter’s Weekend at Bernie’s”

“John Carpenter’s Tyler Perry’s Madea”

“John Carpenter’s Chariots of Fire”

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 8d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter’s to the title:

“John Carpenter’s Home Alone”

Diane M. Johnson @caseyadamsstark.bsky.social · 8d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter’s to the title:

John Carpenter’s Four Weddings and a Funeral

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 9d

<MAGA Voice>

How woke. When will we get a day to celebrate our homegrown domestic lesbians!?

</MAGA Voice>

I'll be here all week.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 10d

That sound you hear is legions of Alyson Hannigan fans awaking from their ancient slumber. May God have mercy on your soul.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 11d

At the very least come with some variants on the theme, like something about Gorgonzola cheese or Oriel Sea Minerals.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 12d

It just occurred to me that one of the reasons you’re a cat person is that you very much enjoy playing with your food.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 12d

I think that’s Mitski’s younger brother, but I’ll have to check with my teenage children, as I am not particularly jiggy with the latest pop trends.

Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 12d

She has a vocal fry that could crack adamantium, and yes, she's all over the Expanse.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 12d

I say this as your freaky cultural twin (Tubes fan, deep Trek nerd, Superman devotee, unable to "get" Zeppelin, etc.) - Watch the Expanse. It takes a couple of episodes to rev up, but it's a show that'll make you go and read the books.

Also, you will greatly enjoy Shohreh Aghdashloo's character.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 13d

I tell that story all the time. “Like, do you know how annoying it would be to write all that extra cheating code?”

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 13d

I think there’ll be swinging, swaying, records playing, dancing in the streets, perhaps.

Where, you ask?

Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore and DC
Don’t forget the Motor City

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 14d

Extreme credulousness is a *kind* of reporting, I guess.

Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 17d

Ah, Jeff Flake… a man so spineless he makes Susan Collins look like Xena, Warrior Princess.

And yes, you all have to live with that mental image now.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 17d

This looks like the audience just before the end of Smile 2.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 17d

</Maude>
Don't be fatuous, Thomas.
</Maude>

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 17d

Besides, in Trump’s case it’ll be more like the Dusk of the Stubby Sporks.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 18d

My uncle saw Alan O’Day perform Undercover Wokester at the Warfield back in ‘78.

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Mike Stemmle @mikestemmle.bsky.social · 18d

There’s a “I am become death” joke somewhere in there.