Mingus the Little Rat Boy
@ratboymingus.bsky.social
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“NO WAGE! ONLY SPEND.”
The last 50 years of American economics has been businesses racing to be the first to outsource and automate away all the jobs, with the hope that "well, as long as other companies don't do this, people will still buy enough stuff."
Welp, now we've surpassed the threshold and it's a downward spiral
Welp, now we've surpassed the threshold and it's a downward spiral
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“NO WAGE! ONLY SPEND.”
i listen to this song pretty much nonstop in that weird week between Christmas and New Year’s (along with Mountain Goats “Dinu Lipatti’s Bones” for the line “wringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets / to keep wintertime at bay / but December showed up anyway”)
Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
‘A Long December’ Always Gives Me Reason to Believe
December is a month of traditions. A myriad religious observances, baked goods, decorations and familial obligations. We all have our conventions, taking time t
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i listen to this song pretty much nonstop in that weird week between Christmas and New Year’s (along with Mountain Goats “Dinu Lipatti’s Bones” for the line “wringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets / to keep wintertime at bay / but December showed up anyway”)
more genres should have smut in them period. yes i am a pervert
Romance covers waaaaaay more territory than people think. There are loads of really great fantasy and scifi stories 'hidden' in romance just because it has a romance and/or smut in it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
more genres should have smut in them period. yes i am a pervert
when
Men of Bluesky Calendar
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
when
i also have a large print pill organizer so it’s like, we’ve already got common ground
i don’t love the way you’re all talking about the act of sleeping with ran thru older men because of this tho. there’s nothing wrong with a man who carries a large print pill organizer. who requires three separate levels of glasses to look at his phone for five minutes
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
i also have a large print pill organizer so it’s like, we’ve already got common ground
tag yourself i’m ring boy scandal
not unique to wikipedia but i love that every list of "wrestling controversies" is like
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
- double murder suicide
- they booked the world title bad
- industrial accident murder
- they booked the world title bad
- organized crime murder
- organized crime murder
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
tag yourself i’m ring boy scandal
i should be sleeping but i’m making long dance playlists in case i ever dj a dance party. i am not hypomanic.
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i should be sleeping but i’m making long dance playlists in case i ever dj a dance party. i am not hypomanic.
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my most compelling reason for why ai shouldn't be used in animation i that i want to see freaky shit made by the whackiest perverts imaginable
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
my most compelling reason for why ai shouldn't be used in animation i that i want to see freaky shit made by the whackiest perverts imaginable
my friends are all a bunch of
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
my friends are all a bunch of
i trimmed 28 pages of MFA bullshit off my story, now it’s a lean and mean 4.5 pages. is it good? idk, i need to let it marinate for a few days. there’s a few scenes i might need to add back in. but it’s better than it was.
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
i trimmed 28 pages of MFA bullshit off my story, now it’s a lean and mean 4.5 pages. is it good? idk, i need to let it marinate for a few days. there’s a few scenes i might need to add back in. but it’s better than it was.
lmao the british flag at the end
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
lmao the british flag at the end
are you a musician who likes dope shit? try zoe
#PortfolioDay
if you pay me to make your album cover and/or packaging design i will work with you and do a good job 👼
if you pay me to make your album cover and/or packaging design i will work with you and do a good job 👼
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
are you a musician who likes dope shit? try zoe
write something good challenge, level: impossible
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
write something good challenge, level: impossible
i’m furious that i just had to read the words “trump oral sex email”
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
i’m furious that i just had to read the words “trump oral sex email”
every single time i involuntarily yell “BOOOOOOO”
the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
every single time i involuntarily yell “BOOOOOOO”
i love when all of bluesky becomes writer bluesky for a day, especially when it’s a dunkfest
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
i love when all of bluesky becomes writer bluesky for a day, especially when it’s a dunkfest
this is a rupi kaur poem
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
this is a rupi kaur poem
“No Place to Fall” always wrecks me
townes van zandt’s If I Needed You…i can’t even think of a funny post to make about it i just need to flag for you all that that song is simply the most staggeringly gorgeous little thing
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“No Place to Fall” always wrecks me
wait until we have interplanetary white flight
Serial killer horror, not my favorite—but why has no one made a serial killer in space movie? This question brought to you by a discussion of the weird Jason movie.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
wait until we have interplanetary white flight
i like them
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
i like them
i love seeing the literati dunk on Elon Musk
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
i love seeing the literati dunk on Elon Musk
the hottest new DIY band is Aloof Wife
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
the hottest new DIY band is Aloof Wife
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People Magazine just announced their 2025 “Sexiest Man Alive”:
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
People Magazine just announced their 2025 “Sexiest Man Alive”:
