Grim Flandango
@grimflandango.bsky.social
Writer of stuff, mostly weird, sometimes dirty. Chronic oversharer. He/him, 40+ Find my writing on Medium https://medium.com/@flannigan479 or Patreon https://patreon.com/GrimFlandango?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creat
I look at replies to this stuff and there’s so much rejoicing at the idea of MAGAts suffering. And I could point out that the suffering isn’t gonna discriminate, which is true, but also I can’t help thinking that I’m not a huge fan of people suffering en masse but thats just me I guess…
@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I look at replies to this stuff and there’s so much rejoicing at the idea of MAGAts suffering. And I could point out that the suffering isn’t gonna discriminate, which is true, but also I can’t help thinking that I’m not a huge fan of people suffering en masse but thats just me I guess…
It’s not a fuck you to Trump. The tide has turned and they are realizing they’ve torpedoed their careers and legacies and now they’re trying the old “You can’t fire me I quit” gambit. Our national has been functionally destroyed by the choices they made, and they must never be free of that.
The rumor is more GOP members of Congress are getting ready to retire as a fuck you to the White House.
Why not do it today?
Why not do it today?
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s not a fuck you to Trump. The tide has turned and they are realizing they’ve torpedoed their careers and legacies and now they’re trying the old “You can’t fire me I quit” gambit. Our national has been functionally destroyed by the choices they made, and they must never be free of that.
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Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
I have some thoughts about this but I have no idea how to condense them so that’s gonna bother me for a bit.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I have some thoughts about this but I have no idea how to condense them so that’s gonna bother me for a bit.
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There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before*
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before*
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
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please help angel if you can. He's outside tonight and needs to get in.
it's cold as hell.
💸💕🏳️⚧️
it's cold as hell.
💸💕🏳️⚧️
it’s been 4+ days since we hav made enough for one single nite of housing at a cheap motel n we r hungry 😭
pls help how u can even if that’s just reposting, tysm ! ILY !!! 🥺💗👼💕
pls help how u can even if that’s just reposting, tysm ! ILY !!! 🥺💗👼💕
For @freakingangel.bsky.social who needs a MINIMUM of $75 daily for secure housing! Rates for hotels/motels vary! They also need food!! 💕💸
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November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
please help angel if you can. He's outside tonight and needs to get in.
it's cold as hell.
💸💕🏳️⚧️
it's cold as hell.
💸💕🏳️⚧️
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Also, this is one of the fundamental problems with the concept of economic growth: by itself it is meaningless and does not denote benefit. This kind of growth is not positive for people and isn't needed.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Also, this is one of the fundamental problems with the concept of economic growth: by itself it is meaningless and does not denote benefit. This kind of growth is not positive for people and isn't needed.
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This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
I…wait…what now?
Honestly I think the story about the 2 white American men who wanted to hire homeless people as mercenaries to murder all the Black men on an island off Haiti, and then keep the women and children as sex slaves should be getting more traction because what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I…wait…what now?
Love libraries and librarians!
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Love libraries and librarians!
My favorite thing to do on social media is to see a post I like, respond to it and immediately upon hitting the post button seeing the original was from 32 seconds ago so I can obsess over the certainty the OP thinks I’m a creepy stalker now.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My favorite thing to do on social media is to see a post I like, respond to it and immediately upon hitting the post button seeing the original was from 32 seconds ago so I can obsess over the certainty the OP thinks I’m a creepy stalker now.
I want to be able to feed plums to groundhogs and am now enraged this is not a part of my daily life!
He is not sorry
he ate the plum
you gave to me
for it was so
sweet
give me more
he ate the plum
you gave to me
for it was so
sweet
give me more
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I want to be able to feed plums to groundhogs and am now enraged this is not a part of my daily life!
When it comes to writing your AI will never defeat my anxiety disorder, motherfucker.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When it comes to writing your AI will never defeat my anxiety disorder, motherfucker.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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After one of the worst acts of racial terror in our history, *we erased it.*
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
After one of the worst acts of racial terror in our history, *we erased it.*
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Munger laughing, somewhere.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Munger laughing, somewhere.
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It's me!
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It's me!
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
1/
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
1/
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
1/
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"It's getting to the stage where I just can't trust video games, and it means I'm starting to approach every game I play dubiously ...
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"It's getting to the stage where I just can't trust video games, and it means I'm starting to approach every game I play dubiously ...
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
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Sharing this again since it’s pertinent:
This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor.
If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!
If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sharing this again since it’s pertinent:
All of this
Or you could reach out to the author of the book you want and say that you're struggling and maybe we could work something out?
I've been poor most of my life. I live in an area where libraries aren't seen as important. You know what I've never done? Pirate a book.
I've been poor most of my life. I live in an area where libraries aren't seen as important. You know what I've never done? Pirate a book.
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
All of this