the melley
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mostly retweeted stuff i like and/or hate, with occasional cat pictures and personal bitching
mostly retweeted stuff i like and/or hate, with occasional cat pictures and personal bitching
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the melley
@randomthursday.bsky.social
· Dec 31
when i post every five minutes that means i'm supposed to be doing something else
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The QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theories on /pol/ were such strange distortions of reality because they were limited hangouts by the actual child sex traffickers trying to mislead the public and deflect blame from themselves. Just... mull that over.
January 31, 2026 at 6:08 AM
The QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theories on /pol/ were such strange distortions of reality because they were limited hangouts by the actual child sex traffickers trying to mislead the public and deflect blame from themselves. Just... mull that over.
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-Walking simulator about going to Wawa at 3am
-Yakuza-like about rival Amish gangs
-Yakuza-like about rival Amish gangs
January 31, 2026 at 1:16 AM
-Walking simulator about going to Wawa at 3am
-Yakuza-like about rival Amish gangs
-Yakuza-like about rival Amish gangs
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every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse
January 31, 2026 at 4:06 AM
every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse
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At this point the rich and powerful across the globe should really just have to prove they DIDN'T go to that fucking island, and if they can't, put them in jail.
January 31, 2026 at 12:22 AM
At this point the rich and powerful across the globe should really just have to prove they DIDN'T go to that fucking island, and if they can't, put them in jail.
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not a molecule of executive functioning to be found in my entire being today
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
not a molecule of executive functioning to be found in my entire being today
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Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
January 30, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
new vw beetle.
i actually have a prius (it's orange and i love it)
i actually have a prius (it's orange and i love it)
When you were 16, what car did you think you’d absolutely be driving by now?
January 30, 2026 at 10:29 PM
new vw beetle.
i actually have a prius (it's orange and i love it)
i actually have a prius (it's orange and i love it)
filled a fountain pen with ink that isn't as dark/legible as i thought, and it feels wasteful to just pour it out so i feel the need to use it up, so everything looks like this now
a person is writing on a piece of paper that says brandon on it
Alt: a person doodling a lot of doodles
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
filled a fountain pen with ink that isn't as dark/legible as i thought, and it feels wasteful to just pour it out so i feel the need to use it up, so everything looks like this now
cat just threw up on her favorite bed and is now offended that there's vomit on it.
January 30, 2026 at 9:40 PM
cat just threw up on her favorite bed and is now offended that there's vomit on it.
I need a potato
January 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I need a potato
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People are getting on board with dissolving ice but we really need to drive home that ice is just a police dept that cares less if you see them be awful.
The police do all this and get away with it because they've done it to black people and white america has long held the belief that it's just.
The police do all this and get away with it because they've done it to black people and white america has long held the belief that it's just.
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
People are getting on board with dissolving ice but we really need to drive home that ice is just a police dept that cares less if you see them be awful.
The police do all this and get away with it because they've done it to black people and white america has long held the belief that it's just.
The police do all this and get away with it because they've done it to black people and white america has long held the belief that it's just.
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
the awkward moment when you log into work and bsky and realize there's supposed to be a strike or something
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
the awkward moment when you log into work and bsky and realize there's supposed to be a strike or something
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Do people realize how many "hacks" are just someone finding a way to get you to give them your password 💀
January 29, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Do people realize how many "hacks" are just someone finding a way to get you to give them your password 💀
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January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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A pair of illos courtesy of @tkingfisher.com with her Ursula Vernon hat on: the Transcendent Pig, and a version of Chao's art with a caption by the Pig's, uh, facilitator (19/n)
January 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
A pair of illos courtesy of @tkingfisher.com with her Ursula Vernon hat on: the Transcendent Pig, and a version of Chao's art with a caption by the Pig's, uh, facilitator (19/n)
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A cover of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAT. (10/n)
January 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM
A cover of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAT. (10/n)
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...No idea what to make of this. (9/n)
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
...No idea what to make of this. (9/n)
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"WORK is not always required. There is such a thing as SACRED IDLENESS." (2/n)
January 30, 2026 at 2:13 PM
"WORK is not always required. There is such a thing as SACRED IDLENESS." (2/n)
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For like the billionth time this year, wherever THE LINE is, we're way past it
January 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM
For like the billionth time this year, wherever THE LINE is, we're way past it
I'm NO MEANING
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I'm NO MEANING
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oMG this!
I remember reading how Stalin used the same tactics. They covered themselves with communist ideology, but communism was never the goal; tyranny was. Ideology is just used so the oppressed have someone else to blame other than the boots on their backs.
I remember reading how Stalin used the same tactics. They covered themselves with communist ideology, but communism was never the goal; tyranny was. Ideology is just used so the oppressed have someone else to blame other than the boots on their backs.
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM
oMG this!
I remember reading how Stalin used the same tactics. They covered themselves with communist ideology, but communism was never the goal; tyranny was. Ideology is just used so the oppressed have someone else to blame other than the boots on their backs.
I remember reading how Stalin used the same tactics. They covered themselves with communist ideology, but communism was never the goal; tyranny was. Ideology is just used so the oppressed have someone else to blame other than the boots on their backs.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.
January 30, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.
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and remember kids, always shoot for the moon because then if you miss, you'll be in the uncaring void of space where nobody can see how embarrassed you are
January 30, 2026 at 6:18 AM
and remember kids, always shoot for the moon because then if you miss, you'll be in the uncaring void of space where nobody can see how embarrassed you are