Emperor Norton
@ashleynaftule.bsky.social
Playwright. Associate Artistic Director at Space55 in downtown Phoenix. Freelance journalist. Next play "Selena and Judy Go Dancing" runs June 6-15 at Metro Arts.
Check out my radio play "Radio Free Europa":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbQ23qB5-6c
Check out my radio play "Radio Free Europa":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbQ23qB5-6c
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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Genuinely hilarious that Trump's love of winners transcends everything else. You could be his personal version of the Antichrist but if he was ever in a room with you and thought that you had The Juice, that's it, game over, he thinks you're the bees' knees. His own family can't get that out of him
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Genuinely hilarious that Trump's love of winners transcends everything else. You could be his personal version of the Antichrist but if he was ever in a room with you and thought that you had The Juice, that's it, game over, he thinks you're the bees' knees. His own family can't get that out of him
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
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i'm like
beside myself crying laughing what is this
beside myself crying laughing what is this
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
i'm like
beside myself crying laughing what is this
beside myself crying laughing what is this
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imagine if all tech ceos were like this instead of being greedy to the point of absurd evil
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
imagine if all tech ceos were like this instead of being greedy to the point of absurd evil
DM: You're in the Oval Office. What do you do?
ZOHRAN: I use my Persuasion to make him think I'm cool
DM: Okay. Roll it. Donald, save versus Zohran's Charisma.
ZOHRAN: *rolls natural 20*
DONALD: *rolls 1*
DM: oh shit
ZOHRAN: I use my Persuasion to make him think I'm cool
DM: Okay. Roll it. Donald, save versus Zohran's Charisma.
ZOHRAN: *rolls natural 20*
DONALD: *rolls 1*
DM: oh shit
this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
DM: You're in the Oval Office. What do you do?
ZOHRAN: I use my Persuasion to make him think I'm cool
DM: Okay. Roll it. Donald, save versus Zohran's Charisma.
ZOHRAN: *rolls natural 20*
DONALD: *rolls 1*
DM: oh shit
ZOHRAN: I use my Persuasion to make him think I'm cool
DM: Okay. Roll it. Donald, save versus Zohran's Charisma.
ZOHRAN: *rolls natural 20*
DONALD: *rolls 1*
DM: oh shit
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
Final Fantasy Tactics has been great so far but you know what would improve it? If one of the Jobs you could master was something wildly inappropriate & non-fantasy. Like a basketball player. I want a party with a Monk, a Black Mage, an Orator, a Dragoon, and a Hooper w/ the power of Fouls & Dunks
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Final Fantasy Tactics has been great so far but you know what would improve it? If one of the Jobs you could master was something wildly inappropriate & non-fantasy. Like a basketball player. I want a party with a Monk, a Black Mage, an Orator, a Dragoon, and a Hooper w/ the power of Fouls & Dunks
Change one letter and ruin a candy:
Spittles
Spittles
Change one letter and ruin a candy:
THX Gummies
THX Gummies
Change one letter and ruin a candy:
Cunts
Cunts
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Change one letter and ruin a candy:
Spittles
Spittles
My chess game has progressed from "doodoo straight from the butt" to "stinks on ice" to its current place at "no longer visibly embarrassing but would still be vaporized Dr. Manhattan style by any decent player"
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My chess game has progressed from "doodoo straight from the butt" to "stinks on ice" to its current place at "no longer visibly embarrassing but would still be vaporized Dr. Manhattan style by any decent player"
History has produced men more evil than Elon. There have also been stupider men than Elon. But history has never before brought us a man so singularly, transcendentally pathetic than Elon. The Angel of History beholds him and cringes so hard that entire centuries of memory vanish from its mind
I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.
![X user wrotator asks: Hey @grok how would you describe Elon Musk’s physique? How about his mind? And his relationship with his kids?
Grok answers: Elon's intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields [buying websites, electric car companies and spacecraft and destroying them]. His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands. Regarding love for his children, he exemplifies profound paternal investment, fostering their potential amid global challenges, surpassing most historical figures in active involvement despite scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreibdrfwpkt563lqwl7xsvd5my6vufdjd7ov4sef4qm3sz4lx2t7jsq@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
History has produced men more evil than Elon. There have also been stupider men than Elon. But history has never before brought us a man so singularly, transcendentally pathetic than Elon. The Angel of History beholds him and cringes so hard that entire centuries of memory vanish from its mind
Gaslighting a younger co-worker by telling them the early 2000's were a time of insane abundance. ""When Paul Banks sang 'we have two hundred couches where you can sleep tight', that wasn't hyperbole. Everybody had too much furniture. Even the poorest among us owned a dozen ottomans, minimum."
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Gaslighting a younger co-worker by telling them the early 2000's were a time of insane abundance. ""When Paul Banks sang 'we have two hundred couches where you can sleep tight', that wasn't hyperbole. Everybody had too much furniture. Even the poorest among us owned a dozen ottomans, minimum."
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i can smell a brick of chat gpt text from a mile off. my geiger counter starts clicking the second a screenshot enters my bubble. i am not going to read a thing that some loser did not even bother to write
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
i can smell a brick of chat gpt text from a mile off. my geiger counter starts clicking the second a screenshot enters my bubble. i am not going to read a thing that some loser did not even bother to write
Ten of my "comfort" films (dues-paying Weirdo Union member since 1982)
-Chungking Express
-Gremlins
-Demolition Man
-whatever Soderbergh Ocean's film is playing on TV right now
-Zazie dans le Metro
-Rear Window
-Cat People (1942)
-All That Heaven Allows
-The Shop Around The Corner
-Kung Fu Hustle
-Chungking Express
-Gremlins
-Demolition Man
-whatever Soderbergh Ocean's film is playing on TV right now
-Zazie dans le Metro
-Rear Window
-Cat People (1942)
-All That Heaven Allows
-The Shop Around The Corner
-Kung Fu Hustle
Ten of my "comfort" films (also a weirdo)
- No Country for Old Men
- The People Under the Stairs
- The Apartment
- Inglourious Basterds
- Phantom Thread
- Fright Night (1985)
- The Little Mermaid
- A.I.
- Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
- Tombstone
- No Country for Old Men
- The People Under the Stairs
- The Apartment
- Inglourious Basterds
- Phantom Thread
- Fright Night (1985)
- The Little Mermaid
- A.I.
- Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
- Tombstone
Ten of my "comfort" films (from me, signed: a weirdo.)
• ALIEN
• SEXY BEAST
• THE GREAT ESCAPE
• ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
• FLASH GORDON (1980)
• NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
• THE DARK CRYSTAL
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
• AFTER HOURS
• ALIEN
• SEXY BEAST
• THE GREAT ESCAPE
• ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
• FLASH GORDON (1980)
• NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
• THE DARK CRYSTAL
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
• AFTER HOURS
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Ten of my "comfort" films (dues-paying Weirdo Union member since 1982)
-Chungking Express
-Gremlins
-Demolition Man
-whatever Soderbergh Ocean's film is playing on TV right now
-Zazie dans le Metro
-Rear Window
-Cat People (1942)
-All That Heaven Allows
-The Shop Around The Corner
-Kung Fu Hustle
-Chungking Express
-Gremlins
-Demolition Man
-whatever Soderbergh Ocean's film is playing on TV right now
-Zazie dans le Metro
-Rear Window
-Cat People (1942)
-All That Heaven Allows
-The Shop Around The Corner
-Kung Fu Hustle
A friend on Saturday told me I dressed like I just got off work from Trader Joe's and I'm still bed-ridden at the burn ward, waiting for an ego transplant
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A friend on Saturday told me I dressed like I just got off work from Trader Joe's and I'm still bed-ridden at the burn ward, waiting for an ego transplant
My big old man opinion right now is that if you want to gamble you need to go to a second location. You should have to go to a vaguely disreputable, embarrassing place that makes you question your life choices before making that prop bet. None of this phone shit. You make a gambling app? GULAG
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
My big old man opinion right now is that if you want to gamble you need to go to a second location. You should have to go to a vaguely disreputable, embarrassing place that makes you question your life choices before making that prop bet. None of this phone shit. You make a gambling app? GULAG
"Crazy Big Adventure" (Kengo Furusawa, 1965). Same bones as "Big Explosion"- this time it's a counterfeit money operation instead of a bank heist; instead of spies as the villains it's a cabal of secret Nazis- but The Crazy Cats share the wisdom of The Ramones: sometimes you don't need a second song
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"Crazy Big Adventure" (Kengo Furusawa, 1965). Same bones as "Big Explosion"- this time it's a counterfeit money operation instead of a bank heist; instead of spies as the villains it's a cabal of secret Nazis- but The Crazy Cats share the wisdom of The Ramones: sometimes you don't need a second song
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"Idiocracy is a documentary" no actually we are living in Southland Tales and things are only gonna get more fun
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Idiocracy is a documentary" no actually we are living in Southland Tales and things are only gonna get more fun
*patiently hand-cranking my gramophone so it plays a 78 of Little Johnny Boy Maple Syrup's 1937 hit "I Got The Shut The Fuck Up Blues"*
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
*patiently hand-cranking my gramophone so it plays a 78 of Little Johnny Boy Maple Syrup's 1937 hit "I Got The Shut The Fuck Up Blues"*
I won't be convinced he's cooked until it actually happens but if the Epstein stuff does take Trump down it'll be so hard for Future Generations to understand why a man so implicated in a series of heinous crimes would campaign his way into office based around investigating THOSE EXACT CRIMES
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I won't be convinced he's cooked until it actually happens but if the Epstein stuff does take Trump down it'll be so hard for Future Generations to understand why a man so implicated in a series of heinous crimes would campaign his way into office based around investigating THOSE EXACT CRIMES
Kash looks like he just ripped a fart but a little shit came out and he's trying to play it real cool right now, Bondi has no idea, but the guy on the left KNOWS
Bondi on the Epstein investigations that Trump demanded: "We're not gonna say anything else on that because now it is a pending investigation in SDNY"
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Kash looks like he just ripped a fart but a little shit came out and he's trying to play it real cool right now, Bondi has no idea, but the guy on the left KNOWS
Finished Chapter One of Tactics:
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Finished Chapter One of Tactics:
The existence of Dude Wipes isn't embarassing enough- we need to macho up the bidet. We're calling it the brodet now. The junk sink. Put your man stank in the brodet, dude, it's not gay, I saw it on Rogan, he's got like five of them and they're all installed around the rim of an active volcano
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The existence of Dude Wipes isn't embarassing enough- we need to macho up the bidet. We're calling it the brodet now. The junk sink. Put your man stank in the brodet, dude, it's not gay, I saw it on Rogan, he's got like five of them and they're all installed around the rim of an active volcano
*puts on black turtleneck so tight my skin turns purple* No, je suis pas polyamorous… I date and make le fuck in a rhizomatic fashion
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
*puts on black turtleneck so tight my skin turns purple* No, je suis pas polyamorous… I date and make le fuck in a rhizomatic fashion