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Nepobabies will always tell you they have the heart of the cards and turn around and immediately use a deck they inherited from their grandpa, a world famous duelist
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Nepobabies will always tell you they have the heart of the cards and turn around and immediately use a deck they inherited from their grandpa, a world famous duelist
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Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
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- Will the film of Wuthering Heights be faithful to the book?
- No, I was hoping it might be good.
- No, I was hoping it might be good.
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
- Will the film of Wuthering Heights be faithful to the book?
- No, I was hoping it might be good.
- No, I was hoping it might be good.
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Is it OK to admit I think boba tea is disgusting? The gimmick being that you feel yourself swallowing all these little pellets just feels like some kind of uwu version of overdosing on painkillers
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Is it OK to admit I think boba tea is disgusting? The gimmick being that you feel yourself swallowing all these little pellets just feels like some kind of uwu version of overdosing on painkillers
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I'm honestly surprised mass-market paperbacks were still a thing in the US. I don't think I've seen a new one in the UK in twenty years.
February 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I'm honestly surprised mass-market paperbacks were still a thing in the US. I don't think I've seen a new one in the UK in twenty years.
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On a personal level, he really is quite funny and I hate it so much.
February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
On a personal level, he really is quite funny and I hate it so much.
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test is still very popular despite being conclusively debunked decades ago. There's no such thing as people having different personalities
January 26, 2026 at 4:51 AM
The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test is still very popular despite being conclusively debunked decades ago. There's no such thing as people having different personalities
Bus companies: I can understand the busses being delayed or cancelled in the last two weeks during the freeze and heavy rain. I cannot understand how your busses are running 15 or more minutes late today, the first mild day of the year.
January 28, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Bus companies: I can understand the busses being delayed or cancelled in the last two weeks during the freeze and heavy rain. I cannot understand how your busses are running 15 or more minutes late today, the first mild day of the year.
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It's kind of wild that the Strugastkys's "Roadside Picnic" and Tarkovsky's "Stalker" came out *before* the Chernobyl disaster. As if the world warped out of shape to give fiction a post-text.
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 AM
It's kind of wild that the Strugastkys's "Roadside Picnic" and Tarkovsky's "Stalker" came out *before* the Chernobyl disaster. As if the world warped out of shape to give fiction a post-text.
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Love Solid JJs work this had me howling sound up for full effect
January 26, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Love Solid JJs work this had me howling sound up for full effect
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
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The only times I’ve ever had a tab of ChatGPT open were to do extended research into ChatGPT itself.
It is simply not good enough for any purposes other than looking at the ways in which it is bad.
It is simply not good enough for any purposes other than looking at the ways in which it is bad.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The only times I’ve ever had a tab of ChatGPT open were to do extended research into ChatGPT itself.
It is simply not good enough for any purposes other than looking at the ways in which it is bad.
It is simply not good enough for any purposes other than looking at the ways in which it is bad.
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It really bothers me that I don't know the connotations of foreign names. Some random person in a foreign movie could have a name that's the Korean equivalent of "Melvin" or the Italian version of "Karen" and I won't ever know and it kills me
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 AM
It really bothers me that I don't know the connotations of foreign names. Some random person in a foreign movie could have a name that's the Korean equivalent of "Melvin" or the Italian version of "Karen" and I won't ever know and it kills me
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I realized that the hive mind in Pluribus and vampirism in Sinners (a sort of hive mind) both kinda represent the homogenizing force of cultural colonialism. I think the big key difference is each work's distinct perspective - one on Black community & the other an upper-middle-class queer woman.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 AM
I realized that the hive mind in Pluribus and vampirism in Sinners (a sort of hive mind) both kinda represent the homogenizing force of cultural colonialism. I think the big key difference is each work's distinct perspective - one on Black community & the other an upper-middle-class queer woman.
AI shows the Barthes model of "Death of the author" is monstrous. Send tweet
January 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
AI shows the Barthes model of "Death of the author" is monstrous. Send tweet
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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I don’t expect to ever get a Hugo nomination, little yet a win. But I suspect that if I do get one it’ll be this year, for Cuddled Little Vice, and I’d be lying if I said that wouldn’t make me an extremely happy little nerd.
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I don’t expect to ever get a Hugo nomination, little yet a win. But I suspect that if I do get one it’ll be this year, for Cuddled Little Vice, and I’d be lying if I said that wouldn’t make me an extremely happy little nerd.
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
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In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")
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The Polar Express (2004)
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Polar Express (2004)
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It's okay to be surprised and outraged by stuff Trump does. It doesn't make you a naive palooka or bourgeois reformist scum.
January 4, 2026 at 9:23 AM
It's okay to be surprised and outraged by stuff Trump does. It doesn't make you a naive palooka or bourgeois reformist scum.
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And once more Keir Starmer comes across as a man who watched Hamilton and thought Aaron Burr was the hero
January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
And once more Keir Starmer comes across as a man who watched Hamilton and thought Aaron Burr was the hero
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wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French