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Skellington Nickell

@salvius23.bsky.social

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Tech support, gamer, writer/poet, law school dropout. He/him. Opinions are not those of my employer(s), past, present, or future. They may not even be *mine*. https://linktr.ee/salvius23

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · Mar 2

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a tiny amount of power corrupts with the fire of a thousand suns.

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 10h

Six Degrees Of Protocols of the Elders of Zion. We can call it 6DOPEZ for short.

Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 10h

Well, one of my players used it to sacrifice himself as a PC (now lost in the astral plane) to temporarily inconvenience a planes-traveling necromancer (incidentally another former PC who did a face-heel turn under the influence of a powerful artifact). So, sort of a benefit in some instances?

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 20h

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all COWARDS

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 19h

So, depicting himself wearing a crown and flying a plane labeled KING TRUMP means the president was willing to say the king is Jesus?

Are you suggesting Trump believes he is Jesus? Do *you* believe Trump is Jesus?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 1d

And that's why we're here. All 300 of us.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 1d

BRB, stealing the Mona Lisa by carrying a clipboard and just walking confidently up to it in front of everyone.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Original photo from post showing a well dressed man with a blazer, hat and umbrella standing next to police. I have helpfully circled the man on the photo and drawn arrows pointing at him to help law enforcement

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 1d

Counter-argument: Training kids not to automatically trust everything an authority figure tells them is good, actually.

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 1d

Related: Cemeteries (George Carlin even mentions them both in the same bit).

US burial in most places is "in perpetuity," so graves can't be reused, which means cemeteries must be ever-expanding to contain more remains. We should at least dig them up & move them to ossuaries after 100 years or so.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 2d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 2d

Holding off the reveal of Fizzgig fully opening his mouth until then was genius.

Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 2d

My personal favorite (probably because I've had pet rabbits in my home for about 25 years now).

The cover of the Criterion Collection blu-ray of the animated film by Martin Rosen, Watership Down (1978). In a scene from the film, it depicts a silhouetted rabbit in a field, struggling for his life against the snare he has been caught in.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 5d

You know, there's a great Bob Fosse number about taxi dancers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaqD...

Hey Big Spender | Sweet Charity (1969) | TUNE

YouTube video by TUNE - Musical Moments

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 6d

A bunch of horror movie references. C.H.U.D. in the first paragraph is literally the title of a movie. "Trioxin" in the 2nd paragraph is the chemical that reanimates the zombies in "Return of the Living Dead". And "xenomorph" in the 3rd paragraph probably comes from "Aliens".

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 6d

You know, when I read the first book, one of the things I thought was how it reminded me of Roald Dahl in some ways (e.g., Harry's mistreatment by adults after losing his parents). In retrospect, maybe I should have paid more attention to that.

Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 7d

All* fiction is sci-fi/fantasy, because every book takes place in an alternate universe where that book was never written.

*Well, most. There are a handful of exceptions, although even then the meta-fictional weirdness tends to cross the line into SF/F anyway.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 10d

Best last line of a movie ever.

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 10d

A panel from "Strange Planet" by Nathan W. Pyle. A cartoon alien being holds his hands to his face, surrounded by stars, with an expression of happiness and wonder. The caption reads: "Existence is finite; Joy needs no defense."

Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 10d

That series' version of Hooded Justice's origin was better than Alan Moore's (I mean, what you could piece together from the comics & the RPG sourcebook).

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Skellington Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, "While My Guitar Violently Sobs" would be a very different song.

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