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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled
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It's Mike. I wish I only talked about tabletop games, writing, and comic books (and tea), but politics keep happening. I like He/Him, and I like She/Her, and I don't like Twitter anymore.
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Gillibrand posting about expensive turkeys

THIS IS NOT ORGANIC

FUCK THIS! FUCK FACEBOOK!
30k total impressions, 28k laugh reacts
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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My partner's aunt's boyfriend would be popular as fuck On Here ngl
Bunch commie books
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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These are the responses to the Congressional Black Caucus posting about Trump's price hikes on Facebook.

This is just not organic engagement.

Facebook always sucked, but now it's Dead Internet. This is easily as evil as Twitter.
9.5k reactions, 9k laugh reacts. Something is *fucked*
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Yeah, and it was actually a really good set!
Magic:the Gathering card from the Doctor Who set -- "Everybody Lives"
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Ding Dong Dell: The Cat King's Castle from the Ni No Kuni series
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Within days of landing at the beach, Woke 2 is victorious.
Hooters making major uniform changes to create place ‘where everyone feels welcome’
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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That bird wants its fucking Big Mac
Citizen app report: "Duo refusing to leave McDonald's"
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This is too many posts.
I have 1.4k followers, am following 517, and I have 11.5 *thousand fuckin posts*
October 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I am legitimately shocked I found this on a Smithsonian Institution page in 2025. They must not know it's still there.
Beaumont to Detroit: 1943, by Langston Hughes Looky here, America What you done done--- Let things drift Until the riots come. . Now your policemen Let your mobs run free. I reckon you don't care Nothing about me. . You tell me that hitler Is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons From the ku klux klan. . You tell me mussolini's Got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont That he had his start--- . Cause everything that hitler And mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you. . You jim crowed me Before hitler rose to power--- And you're STILL jim crowing me Right now, this very hour. . Yet you say we're fighting For democracy. Then why don't democracy Include me? . I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight BOTH HITLER---AND JIM CROW.
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Maron's quote here is also pretty solid.
“I mean, how do you even promote that?” Maron said. “Like, ‘From the folks that brought you 9/11, two weeks of laughter in the desert. Don’t miss it.’ I mean, the same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a f---ing suitcase.”
September 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Presented without comment
Facebook's AI wondering if I want to ask, "Is Dean Cain's absence permanent?" with Over 9000 Laugh Reacts and no other kinds of reacts to speak of
September 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Ooh, BlueSky talking about something

At the end of this mess is someone I respect trying to make sense for these people, whoever they are.
A blocked post followed by like a dozen muted posts
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Cena has interesting suit taste in general
Cena in one of his many pinstripe suits
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Robert Redford leading a soul to the afterlife in The Twilight Zone "Nothing In the Dark"
September 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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You ever just wanna stop paying attention

Resign yourself to none of this fucking mattering

Stop making politics a hobby

J'ever

Well

I ever.
A bunch of posts I can't or won't see replying to each-other, followed by someone pointing out the obvious.
September 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Post the television character you most identify with
Kyon (from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya") doing a facepalm
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Side note: I can never unhear/unread this when I see the Bossk GIF
Star Wars CCG card entitled Res Luk Ra'auf, which is what Bossk says in this scene.
August 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Allow me to introduce you to DMSO skin cream, which is an industrial solvent that explicitly says not to use it on your skin, but marketed explicitly to do exactly that.

This labeling is awful, and also not uncommon.
"DMSO Rose Scented Cream with Aloe Vera" "SOLD AS A SOLVENT ONLY" "Avoid contact with [...] skin" You're not fooling anyone with this
August 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Hulk, with Doctor Strange and Valkyrie, saying, "Come friends -- let us go away from this dumb place."
August 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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“It’s not Murdoch’s paper. It’s my paper. He only bought it.” -- Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert, recounting a conversation about working for the Chicago Sun-Times after Murdoch bought it: “It’s not what I said about him,” Mike said. “It’s that after describing a Murdoch paper that way, how can I work there?” I continued to work at the Sun-Times, explaining: “It’s not Murdoch’s paper. It’s my paper. He only bought it.”
August 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Bathroom Smells Like Shit Published: September 27, 2000 GALENA PARK, TX–The second-floor men’s room of a Sysco Vending office building smells like shit, disgusted employee Art McCune reported Tuesday. “Jesus Christ, it smells like actual human feces in here,” McCune said. “I’m serious–it’s like someone walked in, dropped his pants and underwear, straddled a bowl, excreted nearly a pound of fecal matter out of his anus, and then walked right out again.” Building custodian Byron Withers apologized for the foul odor, assuring Sysco staffers that by the following morning, the bathroom would be back to smelling like bleach.
August 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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A glass of water that I am currently drinking
August 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Magic: the Gathering card "City of Ass"
August 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This whole thread just keeps reminding me of how someone on the wrestling indies responded to Kane -- now the homophobe mayor of Knox County -- by creating "Gayne," who is exactly what it says on the tin
Homophobe dickhead Kane (Glenn Jacobs) Improved hero, Gayne
August 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Typical Roman soldier patrolling Hadrian's Wall
Doug wearing giant shoes from the "Doug's Cool Shoes" episode of Doug
July 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM