Gem City Expat @gemcityexpat.bsky.social

STR 10, DEX 8, CON 12, INT 15, WIS 14, CHA 13. Opinions my own.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social
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I feel like it's unfair we get the stupid prizes when we weren't the ones playing stupid games.
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Rant-in-waiting:

People whose line on bad entertainers/artists is "I'll look at their face on screen, sing along with their voice in the car, visit their imaginary worlds and read their written words but I WON'T GIVE THEM MONEY FOR IT" are just fucking gross to me and it's so fucking common.
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FFS "The dude SQUARES UP for Native rights" is the ONE THING that normal-ish people might know about Gorsuch.

How the hell does a dude show up to argue before the actual Supreme Court and NOT HAVE AN ANSWER on this?
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social
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"if the students can use a LLM to do the task it was never really teaching critical thinking to begin with" is a very dumb take, sorry. I can bring a forklift to the gym and bench press more than Arnold. The point is not to move the weights.
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Put another way, when I read Gibson, I want to write cyberpunk.

When I read Pratchett, I just want to write that well.
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It bothers me that some men's bathrobes do not have pockets.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com
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I still get amazed that somehow standard like USB and 802.11 and HDMI not only were assembled but they were adopted worldwide.

My friends some of you don't remember but there was a point in time where if you needed to plug something into the computer you cleared your schedule for the day.
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"How could THOSE CHEEKBONES and THAT DIACRITIC have BAD OPINIONS about BALLET?"

- A lot of people on the internet, apparently
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Ngl as a cradle (and former) Presby the number of blue wave midwits who do not know what a Presbyterian is, cannot be arsed to look it up, and are painting Talarico as a theocratic fascist has done more to negatively polarize me against Crockett than anything else
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"Deeznutz" actually does sound like the name of a Pokémon to me.
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I have Google alerts set for my sister's kid's names so every day I alert them to "their" successes in college sports (New York), country music (Minnesota), and murder charges (Florida).
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Napoleon low key the funniest guy in European history because he was like “what if I promoted officers based on how good they were at army and recruited troops who actually liked my country“ and it was basically the same as unleashing Godzilla.
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social
1mo
love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social
1mo
if i were in charge of the Star Trek wiki every time a person used the transporter that NEW PERSON would get a new wiki entry
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social
1mo
You would never know it from this website but the median Democrat (a woman in her 50s) is quite fond of both Secretary Mayor Pete and AOC, and would describe Biden as “liberal” and Sanders as “very liberal”
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Based on the contemporary political theory that everything that happens in the UK happens on steroids six months later in the US, we're about six months out from actual consequences. One can but hope.
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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social
1mo
I know its small, but its incredibly disrespectful to talk about Greenland or Alberta as our 51st state when American Samoa is by per capita the state or territory that commits the most to the US military personnel
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Xeans @xeans.bsky.social
1mo
People rag on Voyager (correctly, mind, the character of Chakotay alone is worth endless scrutiny) but Equinox Parts 1 and 2 are better explorations of "what if Starfleet goes bad" than any Section 31 episodes ever were.
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White Soccer Mom: Why are the kids out of school on Tuesday, anyway?

Me: Lunar New Year.

WSM: What's that?

Me: It's sometimes called "Chinese New Year" but a lot of Asian cultures celebrate it.

WSM: So how come MY culture doesn't get a special day off from school?

(...no, she was not joking.)
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Donald Trump was never going to face meaningful consequences for anything. Not because he was loved by those with the power to do it, because doing it would've sent the wrong message.
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Gonna start commenting on random large-group photos with stuff like "We were all so young!" or "I can't believe y'all let me WEAR that!" so the Lincoln High Class of '67 alumni association or the organizers of the Johnson family reunion have to scramble to figure out who the hell I am.
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Broke: It's a vast conspiracy!

Woke: It's a bunch of very stupid people being very stupid!

Bespoke: It's a vast conspiracy of very stupid people being very stupid!
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Now and then the pipes in my house make a sound that is exactly like the quick meow/sigh that my childhood cat would make right before he'd jump up on the couch next to us.

And every time it happens I look over and wait just in case.
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I'm like...out in space? Not near any of the labels?

Not sure how I feel about this.
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Emmanuelle @eludesu.bsky.social
2mo
If your dog need to have his ears and tail mutilated in order to win a dog show then fuck you and fuck your dog show.
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The 5yo is obsessed with "The Raven" and asks to hear readings of it in the car.

I'm 90% certain that this is because she loves the Baltimore Ravens mascot (which is how the topic came up) and talking animals in general and not because she is entering a Goth phase way ahead of schedule or anything.
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every time i block someone it's because they're annoying and not worth engaging with

every time someone blocks me they are admitting defeat in the marketplace of ideas
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The 5yo decided with ZERO input from Mama or me that Mama's Spock and Kirk dolls needed to kiss each other.

"The Premise", as fans have been calling a certain theory for 50+ years, is powerful.
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Walk Off the Earth, My Stupid Heart

Harry Manx, Only Then Will Your House Be Blessed

William Prince, The Carny OR Breathless (tie)

Corn Lund, I Wanna Be in the Cavalry

Jim Hanlon, Wooden Ships and Iron Men
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"They shot their hypothetical good guy with a gun in the back."
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