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Woltergeist II: The Other Side

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Just a guy who did an antifascist drawing once, and used to tweet about Holiday Road. Also just a guy not actually named Nolan. I have an itchy block finger and am often in a foul mood, but I swear I’m often nice! Co-host of @MMISpodcast.bsky.social He/Him

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · May 18

This is literally the most sincere statement I have ever made online and ever will. I believe it to my bones and the day I stop believing it is the day I am no longer me, and I hope it’s the day I die.

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · May 18

We have been taught for so long (my generation especially) that the biggest sin in life is to let someone get one up on you. So what? Life isn’t a contest; the people selling you that already consider you the pawns in their game. Empathy being destroyed is the death of anything good in human culture

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 3h

If I had more I would!

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 3h

Also I’m just gonna say it: I actually enjoy Minnie Pearl’s Grand Ol’ Opry comedy sets.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot imagine what inspired people to keep giving him work.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 4h

Leto is the living embodiment of the phrase "Box Office Poison"

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 10h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 3h

Learning Minnie Pearl and Pee Wee Herman were friends is legitimately heartwarming to me.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 3h

The individual disc photos for this Duane Eddy box set are an emotional journey.

Five pictures of Duane Eddy, very close up. The first four are looking right at the camera. The first is a sort of warm grin. He looks a bit more serious in the second but a hint of a smile. The third is like he’s trying to grin again but can’t quite match the original one. The fourth he’s just staring ahead with a vaguely disappointed expressing. The final one is similar to four, but he is staring off to the middle distance slightly to the side of the camera.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah. They’re just another confederacy at best.

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8h

10000 times this. My son requires incredible amounts of support and intervention and his joy lights up a room like a miniature star.

Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 1d

…and I would note that autistic joy is a thing regardless of an autistic person's support profile. My high-support autistic son is capable of more joy than anyone I've ever met.

#autism #neurodiversity

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

"I ask you to consider that autism itself has the power to bring people joy. I experience happiness to the extreme. I can be entertained by the simplest things. I show ppl love in the most unique ways.” Marcy Hannah Waring, @ejwillingham.bsky.social's TPGA newsletter:

buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8h

Cat, not car. I mean my 2012 Nissan rogue is a perfectly dependable vehicle.

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8h

I’m sorry you don’t have the best car in the world in your house like I do.

Bonus, you hear the first half of my son scripting about his mother seeing a play with his grandmother

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8h

Charley actually spent time on my lap today, making it an official Caturday!

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8h

Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 8h

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8h

Damn it!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 10h

And why I eat my lunch at the commissary at the Wolters-Kluwer office building.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 10h

He’s enough of a malignant narcissist that I cannot dismiss it outright, at the very least.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 11h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 10h

And only throw 75% of it back up behind the couch!

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 10h

This is still bothering me.

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 23h

Wait…is the reason Trump eats so much McDonald’s because the name has Donald in it?

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 11h

"...people know what moment we’re in in history. They want to be on the right side of it."

Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 12h

Everyday Chicagoans are proving that they’re the first line of defense against this extraordinary federal incursion into this city. They're organizing against it, not just for the benefit of our city, but for the entire country.

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 10h

But…Farts Johnson died ten years ago…on this VERY night!

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 11h

That fierce engineer problem-solving brain, after a career detached from societal concerns and ambiguity, without the humanities training... it's like a loose nuke of philosophy.

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