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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 7d

Any recommendations for a replacement for the PS5 controller that is not made by Sony, since they demonstrated that they don't know how to produce a usable controller? The stick drift is unforgivable.

A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah but most of those X-Wings got shot down doing that. Their KD ratio is basically the same as the Y-Wings.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10d

This is Non and Asa. We do not know which one went into turbo mode first. But we do know it is highly contagious. 14/10 for both (IG: asa.n.kuroshiba)

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 10d

we all know where the chick-fil-a cow was on jan 6

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 10d

They were just tired from KO'ing a Star Destroyer at Scariff. Not sure what excuse the X-Wings had for doing just as poorly at Yavin.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 14d

Fun fact: The Iliad and the Odyssey actually take place on the Great Lakes. Also, it took Odysseus so long to get home because they didn't have cars back then.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 14d

fine i’ll do it. i’ll open the government

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 19d

anyone still hanging onto twitter are probably just waiting for bluesky to add a banking feature

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 20d

Evidently his first piece of writing was for a writing contest at the Navy Academy (he did not win).

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Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 22d

Whether you’re a cinephile, activist, or casual viewer, these films highlight the depth and diversity of Indigenous storytelling. From coming-of-age tales to political documentaries, each work honors the past while shaping the future of Native cinema.

7 Indigenous Films to Watch This Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Black Girl Nerds

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a celebration of survival, self-expression, and sovereignty. This list is shaping the future of Native cinema.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

Anyhow if anyone out there just genuinely liked Columbus Day because it was basically Italian Pride day, you'll be happy to know the Italians get an entire heritage month, except in the DOD.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

That's pretty easy. Columbus wasn't even Italian American!

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

Worth noting, I only memorized a handful of phone numbers. If a phone number was important and it wasn't listed on a directory, I just wrote it down, which is still mostly the case when I use the desk phones at work.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 22d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Morgan Perry @geauxta.bsky.social · 21d

Folks who enjoy to consume their stories in comic book form (including manga) or audio book form are no less well read than those who read “real books”.

Visual literacy is a thing. Auditory comprehension is a thing. We shouldn’t shame anyone for how they choose to engage with literature.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

Now I am wondering if the book was meant to be a cautionary tale about cults or something.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

If she was the nurse who figured out something fishy was going on, I recall being struck even as a teenager how passive she suddenly became in the story once she fell into Michael's orbit. Which to be fair was true of a few of the men in the same situation.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are both Isekais.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

A *lot* of anime plots make a lot more sense if you know what happened to Japan in the last year or so of WWII.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

I think it's a Pokemon?

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

When the only Italian heritage anyone in the US wants to talk about is a shitty navigator who introduced slavery to the Americas and who was later arrested by the Spanish for being a shitty Colonial administrator too.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

Reading Heinlein is one of those experiences where you just sort of get a window into another era or culture. When we say he was progressive for his time, it's worth noting he started writing in the 1920s.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

They're actually based on the distance between Windsor Castle and White City Stadium (plus one lap around the track), as established for the 1908 Olympic Games.

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A View From the Peanut Gallery 🌻 @meatballnonner.bsky.social · 21d

What's a fun and annoying history fact you've learned recently? I'll start:

Modern-day Marathons are not based on the distance from Marathon to Athens, despite the popular wisdom. (1/2)

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 21d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22d

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