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Meatba'al

@vance.bsky.social

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Writer/Irish-born American dumbass. Working (very slowly) on a reference book about the 3DO. Voted funniest man on the northbound Metro Blue Line.

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · Oct 16

BBC announcer voice: At 6pm we'll be showing Sex Secrets of the Druids, and at 8 it's the entire panel at QI talking about Brexit and randomly pointing a loaded revolver at each other.

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3h

Look, you want a job in that office building? We're going to tear it down and you're going to have to rebuild it. You're not getting a free ride, kid, I had to work my ass off and I'm not building things so some future generation can benefit. Get back here and watch me impregnate your cat you little

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 6h

LIFE HACK: Live your life the way you want your Wikipedia teaser to read.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 7h

*Whispering into my racist lapel* Sir, we have lost the 70-year-old Midwest white ladies...

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 7h

I got this vision of the cyber nomad, people roaming from service to service as each one gets enshittified, over and over.

Anyway I'm currently using notion.so but they keep pushing the word AI closer to the header every day

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 8h

Government shutdown put a neighbor on furlough and I am jealous of the time off she's getting.

She gets paid pretty well so not too many worries there, either.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12h

kinda surprised peter thiel didn't smoke weed in college cause hearing him talk you're like, i think this guy is smoking weed in college right now

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 11h

It's all these NCIS spinoffs these days. When I was a kid we had real variety. The RoboCop cartoon, the Rambo cartoon, the Chuck Norris cartoon where the narrator said Chuck Norris 17 times in the intro, The Erotic Adventures of Captain Crunch...

The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

Entire Precinct Made Up Of Loose Cannons https://theonion.com/entire-precinct-made-up-of-loose-cannons-1819569414/

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 23h

We're doomed

Outerheaven Pirate Television @outerheaven.pyoko.org · 1d

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 1d

I would pay real money to see the American Stasi try to play this game.

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1d

RUMOR: New ICE Recruits Given Copy of “Papers, Please” in Lieu of Proper Training

Title screen for the video game “Papers, Please”

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2d

Look I'm not suicidal but one of the general foremen just got so mad at me for not doing overtime that he's now only speaking to me through intermediaries.

I'm gonna try the sandwich.

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

‘Task’ Teams Up With Wawa For New Fentanyl Brick Hoagie

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2d

Are we done with explainer websites?

👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 2d

superpower whose economy is built on data center construction, sports betting, healthcare extortion, and subprime auto loans. very healthy

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4d

Also I may be hallucinating this but I remember my mother buying me the ET novelization and it involved the kids drawing naked women with lasers and ET peeping on Elliott's mom in the shower. His psychic connection with the kid caused Elliott to get disturbingly aroused at school.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4d

Not denying this, but I want to point out that I do have existential dread at the aborted ET sequel that was apparently going to be called Nocturnal Fears.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

This Halloween season there’s no movie as frightening as everything currently happening in real life

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4d

I've spent a bizarre amount of time thinking about how cults are different from most other groups and I'm here to tell you, if all your classrooms all have a flag in them and you have kids doing a group chant honoring that flag, you're in murky territory.

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Eyepatch Wolf but like spooky or a ghost or something @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social · 4d

The irish presidential election is basically now between "dog fighting transphobe" and "woman who destroys children in soccer matches"

I will be voting for Connoly in support of her war on childrens egos.

Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 5d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 4d

I think anyone who saw the episode where Mr. Rogers explains the Trolley Problem has it seared in their memory forever.
So much violence, depictions of gore we never thought possible in puppetry.
We wept, we screamed, we were scarred.
Still, it was educational.
So that’s good.
I guess.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 4d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 4d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4d

Do not forget him repealing the WARN Act at the beginning of the pandemic and subjecting pretty much all workers to layoffs without compensation.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · Jan 11

Eric Raymond: I’m going to touch your brother’s nipple.
Stormer: please don’t
Eric Raymond: booooooop

Eric Raymond touching Craig Phillips’ nipple.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 5d

Tron Ares would have been better if Jared Leto had just played himself and gone into the computer to go into underage girls' DMs

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4d

The thing about Julia Roberts is that you can't help but love her even when she's about to cut a narrow slit down your center so she can watch your skin fall off.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4d

A miserable pile of tiles

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 5d

It seems like the future of manufacturing the same way the US is The Greatest Country On Earth.

Propaganda.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 5d

The data center angst feels like a leading indicator of a broader economic development question about if the public will ever support high-value industrial activity that:
-uses a lot of power
-doesn’t create many jobs

Because that seems like the future of manufacturing.

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