Christopher Bird
@mightygodking.com
Lawyer, writer, boardgamer, cyclist, tries-not-to-be-a-dickhead-ist.
T-dot 4 life (or until something better comes along).
Likes are "I need to check this out later" and nothing else
Email: mgk (at) (BS handle)
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T-dot 4 life (or until something better comes along).
Likes are "I need to check this out later" and nothing else
Email: mgk (at) (BS handle)
(he/him)
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Remembering Scott Adams.
January 14, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Remembering Scott Adams.
gotta admit, "no we're losers" is definitely an accurate assessment of the situation
Asked if he's willing to shut down the government over ICE funding, Senator Cory Booker replies: "We had the longest government shutdown, and Democrats could not hold together to sustain that kind of pressure."
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
gotta admit, "no we're losers" is definitely an accurate assessment of the situation
Hobbes votes Tiger Party, straight ticket, and has Opinions about first-past-the-post systems
Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess.
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Hobbes votes Tiger Party, straight ticket, and has Opinions about first-past-the-post systems
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On the advice of my husband I have just started reading my very first @guygavrielkay.bsky.social novel, The Summer Tree. As someone who attended the Faculty of Music every day for seven years, reading a scene taking place on Philosopher's Walk is delightful and jarring at the same time.
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
On the advice of my husband I have just started reading my very first @guygavrielkay.bsky.social novel, The Summer Tree. As someone who attended the Faculty of Music every day for seven years, reading a scene taking place on Philosopher's Walk is delightful and jarring at the same time.
For a long time, most newspaper comics were Bad, Actually, with a few outliers (PEANUTS, DOONESBURY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, the first decade or so of CATHY, THE FAR SIDE). Then we got a renaissance of exceptionally clever strips all at the same time in the 90s, just before newspaper revenues collapsed
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
For a long time, most newspaper comics were Bad, Actually, with a few outliers (PEANUTS, DOONESBURY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, the first decade or so of CATHY, THE FAR SIDE). Then we got a renaissance of exceptionally clever strips all at the same time in the 90s, just before newspaper revenues collapsed
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get Ethan Hawke and Rose Byrne in a buddy movie, thanks
January 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
get Ethan Hawke and Rose Byrne in a buddy movie, thanks
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my fondest Scott Adams memory is the time he got caught sockpuppeting on Metafilter to post comments about how smart Scott Adams was
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
my fondest Scott Adams memory is the time he got caught sockpuppeting on Metafilter to post comments about how smart Scott Adams was
Scott Adams lost at chess against Deathbert
January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Scott Adams lost at chess against Deathbert
the uncanny Trump eye for business: investing billions of dollars in mansions in the desert in areas that will soon become uninhabitable thanks to climate change
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
the uncanny Trump eye for business: investing billions of dollars in mansions in the desert in areas that will soon become uninhabitable thanks to climate change
funny thing about pinball is that if you know pinball, like I mean at all, you know that The Addams Family pinball machine (1990) is *universally agreed* to be the best pinball machine ever made. like there are no outliers here arguing for anything else. it's just the ultimate expression of the form
my husband came to me last summer. he said,”I’ve been trying to find a good Addams Family pinball machine for you for four years. Last summer we played the Jaws machine and you said it was the best game you’d played since Addams Family. What if we just fucking bought that?”
I woulda gone with Addams Family but Jaws is a banger of a board.
January 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
funny thing about pinball is that if you know pinball, like I mean at all, you know that The Addams Family pinball machine (1990) is *universally agreed* to be the best pinball machine ever made. like there are no outliers here arguing for anything else. it's just the ultimate expression of the form
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this format is how 75% of Americans now get their news
January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
this format is how 75% of Americans now get their news
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many commercial jets have been blown out of the sky because they were believed to be covert military aircraft. Secretary Hegseth just gave every SAM site on the planet an excuse to take pot shots at any 737s they think are suspicious, and now we’re all less safe
perfidy (concealing a military object as a civilian object like Hegseth apparently did) is both morally abhorrent and also puts EVERYONE in danger because it erodes existing and pretty-dang-effective norms around “don’t shoot at civilian aircraft.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 AM
many commercial jets have been blown out of the sky because they were believed to be covert military aircraft. Secretary Hegseth just gave every SAM site on the planet an excuse to take pot shots at any 737s they think are suspicious, and now we’re all less safe
As someone who was paying attention to Doug Ford long before it was cool: no. Ford isn't a sex creep type and he doesn't have Trump's pedo tendencies. He just prefers blondes, which is the most basic thing there is. He married a blonde and IS blond, so he has blonde daughters. That's it.
Ford shares this kink with Trump.
Kinga looks exactly like his daughters.
Anyone seen photos of Kinga and Doug's baby?
Kinga looks exactly like his daughters.
Anyone seen photos of Kinga and Doug's baby?
January 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
As someone who was paying attention to Doug Ford long before it was cool: no. Ford isn't a sex creep type and he doesn't have Trump's pedo tendencies. He just prefers blondes, which is the most basic thing there is. He married a blonde and IS blond, so he has blonde daughters. That's it.
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When the Superman Radio show did their run of episodes where he fought the Klan using real Klan info dug up by KKK infiltraror Stetson Kennedy, membership dropped as racist dads saw their own children playing "Superman vs the Klan of the Firey Cross."
The kids always have the capacity to be alright.
The kids always have the capacity to be alright.
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
When the Superman Radio show did their run of episodes where he fought the Klan using real Klan info dug up by KKK infiltraror Stetson Kennedy, membership dropped as racist dads saw their own children playing "Superman vs the Klan of the Firey Cross."
The kids always have the capacity to be alright.
The kids always have the capacity to be alright.
at a certain point someone really needs to point out, when they say this, that "Greenland will be acquired or taken over by China or Russia" is insanely stupid
Leavitt: "The president was very clear last night. He said he wants to the US acquire Greenland because he feels that if we do not, then it will eventually be acquired or perhaps even hostilely taken over by China or Russia. Perhaps it would be in the best interest of Greenland to be part of the US"
January 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
at a certain point someone really needs to point out, when they say this, that "Greenland will be acquired or taken over by China or Russia" is insanely stupid
the Don, represent
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
the Don, represent
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There really is a book to be written about how we went from withering public outrage at Ford's decision to accept Pinto deaths as the cost of doing business to a general shrug when EPA does this. It's the same damn thing, just at scale.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
There really is a book to be written about how we went from withering public outrage at Ford's decision to accept Pinto deaths as the cost of doing business to a general shrug when EPA does this. It's the same damn thing, just at scale.
the virgin Netflix COWBOY BEBOP: we need to make this palatable to audiences who expect a degree of realism in their shows
the chad Netflix ONE PIECE: here is the cartoon talking reindeer who inexplicably becomes part of the pirate crew
the chad Netflix ONE PIECE: here is the cartoon talking reindeer who inexplicably becomes part of the pirate crew
January 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
the virgin Netflix COWBOY BEBOP: we need to make this palatable to audiences who expect a degree of realism in their shows
the chad Netflix ONE PIECE: here is the cartoon talking reindeer who inexplicably becomes part of the pirate crew
the chad Netflix ONE PIECE: here is the cartoon talking reindeer who inexplicably becomes part of the pirate crew
first season of live-action ONE PIECE was, despite everything you expect from live-action anime adaptations and Netflix generally, really quite fun, and the fact that season 2 will, in fact, introduce Tony Tony Chopper is just further proof that they understand the point of it all is sheer insanity
ONE PIECE: Season 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
first season of live-action ONE PIECE was, despite everything you expect from live-action anime adaptations and Netflix generally, really quite fun, and the fact that season 2 will, in fact, introduce Tony Tony Chopper is just further proof that they understand the point of it all is sheer insanity
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I truly appreciate Bluesky if only for acting as Perseus’ mirrored shield for indirectly viewing and protecting myself from the Medusa-gaze gutter slop of the other place.
like if you’re only on this website, I don’t think you’re emotionally prepared for the tsunami of “Charlie Kirk as an e-girl/furry/piss-fetishist/esoteric Nazi alien” Content that is on the social media platforms young people actually use
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I truly appreciate Bluesky if only for acting as Perseus’ mirrored shield for indirectly viewing and protecting myself from the Medusa-gaze gutter slop of the other place.
now, if I put on my Dipshit Hat so I can think like the Trump Administration, I think "well I'll just fire Powell and appoint all the Fed people I want via recess appointments until I control the Senate again"
Republican US senator backs move to block Trump Fed nominees after Powell indictment threat
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski on Monday threw her support behind fellow Republican Thom Tillis' plan to block President Donald Trump's Fed nominees after the Justice Department over the weekend threat...
www.reuters.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
now, if I put on my Dipshit Hat so I can think like the Trump Administration, I think "well I'll just fire Powell and appoint all the Fed people I want via recess appointments until I control the Senate again"
planning simultaneous invasions of Iran, Mexico and Greenland because that's a sensible thing to do
A U.S. official said that American forces in the Middle East are ready for any contingency and any mission, and to defend themselves and U.S. interests. The official added that planning for military options against Iran has reached advanced stages.-Al Jazeera
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
planning simultaneous invasions of Iran, Mexico and Greenland because that's a sensible thing to do
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starting a thread here of all the accounts we KNOW are paid DNC influencers, because it’s clear the dem party line is “dems deport millions the right way”
please add screenshots if you find them
please add screenshots if you find them
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
starting a thread here of all the accounts we KNOW are paid DNC influencers, because it’s clear the dem party line is “dems deport millions the right way”
please add screenshots if you find them
please add screenshots if you find them