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Nemo. 🎃

@sirnemo.bsky.social

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Cascadia resident. Mayor of Hobbiton. Fan of books, sports, movies, music, and good coffee. Personal sports obsessions: the Ducks (quack), Liverpool FC, Niners, Trail Blazers, Avalanche, and the Yankees. Cymru am byth. YNWA. 🦆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 7h

gonna tell people this was the royal wedding

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 8h

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 8h

Daily bunny no.3107 doesn't need a kitchen

A bunny in the wilderness cooks a stir-fry over a portable stove. It is evening, and he's hung up a tarpaulin nearby for a campsite. A chipmunk and a raccoon wait eagerly for their food.

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Bushido Brown 🇭🇹 @ikickclouds.bsky.social · 10h

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 12h

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12h

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 13h

Aaaannnndddd Seattle is getting hot at just the right time, probably because of the news that I dusted myself off (Go Yankees) and jumped on their bandwagon. And it shows.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 21h

“Okay, ma’am—it’s dead. In the future, however, it’s always a good idea to check your shoe each time you and the kids return home.”

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 15h

APPY BIRFDAY, BROTHER

Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 15h

Same. That's the best Beatles cover.

Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 15h

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night," Nirvana's Leadbelly cover, or The Band's rendition of "Atlantic City."

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 16h

Was worried that this was going to be *yet another* of the "people should all go back to Twitter" nonsense pieces, but @ianbetteridge.com's law of headlines rarely fails. The answer here is a clear "no" with good reasons:

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that that is the reason why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

Those who stayed behind have lost something, too: the ability to not have their worldview shaped by some of the maddest people on the internet. One of the Tories’ big conference announcements was the promise of an Ice-style border force that would deport [citation needed] 150,000 people a year. That mass deportations of most existing migrants is not actually popular in the UK – that such a policy places yet more distance between the Tories and the mainstream centre which deserted them last year – seems not to have occurred.

It’s hard not to connect this to the fact that much of the political class remains on a platform now dominated by the political extremes. They might do well to remember: Twitter is not the real world.

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 16h

*maternal. Didn't really know my paternal grandfather all that well, just knew he was up at some radar station in Alaska during Korea. Rest is a mystery.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

The people in charge of college football spent years claiming any amount of paying players would allow the biggest programs in the sport to dominate harder than ever, and then it became legal to pay players and we instantly got unprecedented parity. I’ll never forget it!

Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 1d

Week 8 SP+ ratings, 2019 vs. 2025. The top 8 teams are a combined 23.4 points worse today, and No. 9-25 are a combined 29.4 points better. 🤌

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 16h

My paternal grandfather was a Wallace-voting racist from the Jim Crow-era South. His sisters -- my Great-Aunts, and obviously from the same time as him -- always remarked "we do not understand that man" and volunteered with the NAACP. Good people exist in every era.

Fuck Columbus.

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 16h

Amen, and it drives me insane that people get absolved this way. It's just lazy bullshit.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

"Product of his time" harvest the fruit of the dick tree and choke on its fruit.

Medieval image of a nun harvesting from the penis tree

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING NEWS:

The Texas A&M police department confirms to Extra Points that the sandwich in question was “a pimento cheese” sandwich.

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

look I know journalism is a dying industry

but I want sandwich details goddammit

Capt. Silky @nowbacktome.bsky.social · 2d

If you still have Twitter the TAMUpolice account is gold during the games. Case in point dude had a water jug of whiskey and a BAC .337 how was he not dead?

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area king size candy bar man @professorbutts.com · 19h

absolutely the fuck not

Dear Parents,
If students wish to take part in this National Day of Remembrance, they may wear red to honor the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. Red shirt on top, uniform on bottom.
Thank you!

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 17h

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 17h

Dickens wished he could write a line as funny as "he had all the grace of a hippopotamus piloting a wheelbarrow."

Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 17h

God, how great is Mick Herron? What a fun fucking writer.

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 18h

He watches his little brother die, the older brother he loved and respected ran off, and, instead of dealing with Holden's trauma, his parents ship him off to boarding school. And the one adult he turns to, a teacher, tries to sexually assault him while he sleeps. Of *course* he's angsty.

Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 18h

The Catcher in the Rye is good, actually.

At 14, I loved it. At 25, I hated it, and I hated Holden Caulfield, too. Now, in my thirties, I've come back around on it. It's a scared, anxious, abused, lost kid lashing out at a world he wants to be better and is barely beginning to understand.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 1d

"I mean fuck it, right? Just fucking go night night." -- Kendall Roy.

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