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That's Irritainment
@irritained.bsky.social
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He/him. Movies 📽️, boardgames, some curling 🥌 content. A silly project about songs that juuust cracked the Top 40 at: thebottomfive.wordpress.com. #CCMF
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irritained.bsky.social
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Hon. mention, also into at the time: License to Ill, Raising Hell, In Visible Silence.
Late to the party: They Might Be Giants (s/t), Element of Light, Reign in Blood, Big World, Skylarking
Life's Rich Pageant by R.E.M.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
irritained.bsky.social
For out-of-towners or those not inclined to scroll too far: What's going on in March in Illinois?

2026 PRIMARIES.
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Watched STOP MAKING SENSE for the 1000th time. While it has no bad songs, just wanted to mention that "What a Day That Was" fucking rips.

IDK if anyone but Byrne was particularly invested in a song from his modern-dance collab with Twyla Tharp, but they all go so hard.

youtu.be/q5lXhfhHOes?...
Talking Heads - What a Day That Was (Stop Making Sense)
YouTube video by adrian's film diary
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November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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irritained.bsky.social
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck/ sayin' "we used all the lentils for artwork"
The ss edmund Fitzgerald rendered in crop art
August 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
irritained.bsky.social
(beaten to the punch on "100 Gland" several times, so)

Change a letter. Ruin a candy.

Bottle Faps
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

100 Gland
thisnicelady.bsky.social Amy C @thisnicelady.bsky.social · 20d
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Milky Wad
edwardsung.bsky.social Edward Sung @edwardsung.bsky.social · 20d
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Necro Wafers
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Today I was made aware of Andy Gibb in Minnesota North Stars gear and now it's your turn:
Andy Gibb in a green (away) Minnesota North Stars NHL sweater, circa late '70s/early '80s. The logo is a big white N with gold borders; the rightmost line of the N is an arrow pointing toward a 5-pointed gold star.
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
irritained.bsky.social
There IS plenty of time for a better Maine candidate to emerge. I'm skewed over here in Illinois, where the primaries are ungodly early and tje paperwork deadline (incl. petition signatures) is less than 2 weeks from now.

In Maine, gathering sigs can't even start until Jan 1 for pete's sake.
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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windiermegatons.bsky.social
If you are a liberal who (correctly) scoffed at Vance's hand-waving of the Nazi chat, but now your response to a Dem candidate with Nazi tattoos is "Well we're none of us perfect," I want you to think about whether your standards are real, and if not, how that might be exacerbating our problems.
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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suss2hyphens.bsky.social
why is it called a nazi tattoo and not a kampf stampf
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
irritained.bsky.social
time flies Fun Fact: The Mitchell & Webb "Are We the Baddies?" sketch is a year older than Graham Platner's Totenkopf tattoo.
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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sarahmaywalt.bsky.social
I wrote Dean Gemmell, CEO of #USACurling, a letter. And when I say "wrote," I mean WROTE. It will take two posts to show it all. The text will be in the alt. (1/2)

#Curling #trans #WeBelong
Page 1 of letter to Dean Gemmell: Hello Dean, I’m writing this letter old-school, because I want you to understand the importance of this fight to me, and emails are way too easy to ignore. At this point, I have no illusions that simple argument will change your or USA Curling’s minds, but I want you to understand some things. To start, you have no idea what it is like to be trans. I spent my entire childhood trapped, alone, and terrified. I feared what would happen if anyone else found out who I really was inside, but that wasn’t all. I feared myself. I thought that this made me a freak or a monster. That was how the world viewed people like me back then. We were either punchlines or perverts. I was a child. I believed them. I couldn’t even expect my family to accept who I was. My life was excruciating and hopeless. There was no help to be had. There was no light at the end of the tunnel. I know what suffering is, Dean. I’ve lived it. Page 2 of letter to Dean Gemmell: There are more trans people out now than there used to be. This isn’t because there’s something in the water, and it isn’t just because it has felt safer to be trans in recent years. Part of the reason there are more trans people visible now is because they are still alive. When you said, patronizingly, that my anger could be better directed elsewhere, that wasn’t just completely awful to say to a person in pain from injustice you are a part of. It’s also dead wrong. Right now, nearly all the voices who had claimed to support trans people have fallen conspicuously silent, and many of them, including USA Curling, are taking part in a new wave of propaganda and oppression toward transgender people. People in the media are calling us “insane,” “perverts,” “predators,” “murderers,” “terrorists.” They say we are unsafe. Our suffering is making a big comeback. Most like me, who had the strength to endure this before, will survive, but a lot of these trans kids who are alive now wouldn’t have made it if they grew up when I did. Each back that turns on them now is another straw. Will USA Curling’s capitulation be that last straw that breaks a kid? I don’t know. More importantly, you don’t know. I’ll tell you one thing for certain, it will be part of the weight that breaks more than one. Page 3 of letter to Dean Gemmell: My anger is directed at many, many places right now. USA Curling did something despicable. I have access to USA Curling. USA Curling will hear my anger. And to the suggestion that USA Curling standing up wouldn’t change things, I’ll say this: What the hell does that matter? Since when was it OK to do something wrong because you thought it wouldn’t matter? I was taught, and I believe with all my heart, that the times when doing something right seems pointless are the most important times to do so. That is the difference between integrity and cowardice. History is full of times when cowardice allowed atrocities to happen. “But Sarah,” I hear you say, “these aren’t atrocities against trans people.” To that I say, not yet. Once you start compromising your integrity, your morals, it becomes easier to do so again. Just add the new compromise to the permission structure you’ve already built for yourself. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. This is how a society gets to the point where they are willing to exterminate a group of people. This is why this moment matters. Page 4 of letter to Dean Gemmell: Had USA Curling stood up for its trans and non-binary members, it would have taken a small weight off many people who are currently being crushed. It would have given hope to people who desperately need some. It would have assured other vulnerable curlers that they had an ally. It might just have inspired others to stand up as well. I’m fighting. I worry it’s pointless, but I’m not going to stop. I’m not going to leave the bat on my shoulder as the third strike whizzes past. I’m going down swinging. I’m shocked so few are willing to do the same, but that only strengthens my resolve. To be honest, I’m not sure you, or USA Curling, even cares. Even if you do, you don’t care enough. I’m not even sure that you understand the problem.
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
irritained.bsky.social
I look forward to this 2025 world series in which a team from the leader of the free world faces a team from the United States of America.
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
irritained.bsky.social
LOL my curling 🥌 club's FB page has locked down political content/discussion.

In other news, curling equipment in the US has magically gotten more expensive, and fewer Canadian teams are likely to attend our bonspiels. Gee, no way to know how, why, or who's responsible 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
irritained.bsky.social
It is remarkable to me how quickly Cub fandom awarded a rent-free mind apartment to the Milwaukee Brewers.

I don't even think they bothered getting the keys back from the Cardinals.
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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lornadinosart.bsky.social
Ready for #NoKings tomorrow. 🥌 #takeoutice
October 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Parents are taking juvenile GLP-1 a bit far
An adult-sized skeleton supervises two child skeletons arranged on a backyard geodesic jungle gym
October 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Watching F1 for some reason and not since Veronica Mars has a media product insisted on saying a main character's first AND last name so many times.
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Connie Willis is one of the most lauded living SF authors out there, and her most prescient book is turning out to be a minor-at-the-time book called REMAKE
October 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
irritained.bsky.social
TicketBastard wanted to survey me about "events in my city" (which is the Chicago metro area).

Fully half the questions were about visiting NYC. Finally...
Marketing question: "Why did you not consider seeing a Broadway show?" My response: "What does this have to do with events in my city?"
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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gothamgirlblue.com
I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Oct 14
“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com
Rate Dogs & • Follow ... 2h • This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers. According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-834-8400 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-
October 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Distance, both of us dropping the activity that brought us together in the first place, and — oh yeah, and a worldwide pandemic — means I haven't had a conversation with CDB in years. So it was nice to hear @hooverstreetrag.org spiel about minutiae I know next to nothing about. As is his way.
wthupod.bsky.social What's The Hold Up Podcast @wthupod.bsky.social · Oct 13
It's time to ruin your childhood with @hooverstreetrag.org , but not really because a lot of things hold up surprisingly well here

Also we don't get into it, but lord if this was made today would the wrong types of folks be so pissed about Roadblock and Scarlett

open.spotify.com/episode/7ud7...
Episode 11 - Arise Serpentor, Arise with Craig (aka HooverStreetRag)
open.spotify.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

1. Raisins. Curiously OK with most other dried fruits
2. Goonies. If I wanted to listen to kids scream at each other I mighta' had kids
3. Two Princes, but anything Spin Doctors, really
amabel.bsky.social Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Oct 13
Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

1. Pineapple is really repulsive.

2. "Salo" was absolutely the worst date night I ever had

3. There were some strong contenders but then Samhain made me listen to Temporary Secretary
ava.foxfort.net Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net · Oct 13
Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

I'm vegan.

I'll sit through dreadful films for fun. But rarely watch things twice.

I really don't like defining myself by things I don't like, but Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. Apparently.
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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flowerhorne.com
I honestly believe Christians have a spiritual responsibility to shun ICE agents and make them unwelcome in society

This is different from the moral responsibility we all have to oppose the evil they do, and the patriotic responsibility to oppose their crimes
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Oct 13
Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.
inquirer.com Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Oct 13
Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
October 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Me: I'm glad you weren't driving around with me today; I was listening to a Judge John Hodgman that you would find *in-FYOO-riating.*

Spouse: tell me all about it!

Me: So it was this guy--

Spouse: I hate him already
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM