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Max 🚫👑🐸

@callmemax.bsky.social

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Fed by day, Lover by night. Creature of vinyl records, old movies, vintage books, and G.I. Joe. Battle-scarred survivor of the DC nightlife, and can talk about it. Failure at dating apps. Consumer of beer, bourbon, and sticky buns.

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · Jun 27

So…there’s a lot of downtime in the office. Let me do something constructive to pass the time.

How about a 🧵 of all the guest voices on The Simpsons:

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 41m

That lady is clearly drinking some kind of kool-aid.

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 45m

#NowPlaying The Sonny Criss Orchestra “Sonny's Dream (Birth Of The New Cool)” (1968; 2025 reissue)

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinyladdict #vinylcollectionpost #vinilo #vinilos #sonnycriss #jazz #sundayjazz #jazzsky #musicsky #vinylsky

A record album in a stand on a table with a plant behind it.

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 10h

Seated for “Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) 🍿🎃

Patricia Carroll travels to London to marry her boyfriend. While there, she stops by to visit Mrs. Trefoile, the mother of her deceased ex-fiancé. When Mrs. Trefoile begins holding Patricia prisoner, she must find a way to escape.

#filmsky

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 16h

October 18, 2025 will be in the history books moving forward 🚫👑

#NoKings #resist

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 18h

Omg I love him ❤️

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 19h

For a place like Lufkin, Texas, this is a pretty big crowd.

#NoKings #Resist

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19h

No Kings
Lufkin, TX

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

I voted for Kodos.

#NoKings

a springfieldian werewolf in shelbyville @springfieldians.bsky.social · 1d

no kangs

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my.

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SonicAlligator @sonicalligator.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Ring doorbell user and don’t already know the significant hazards of using that brand for your security and doorbell needs, please read this. Your data, your video, it’s not secure. It hasn’t been for ages, do you want it contributing to ICE gestapo?

www.theverge.com/news/801856/...

Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock

The partnership allows police agencies who use Flock software to request footage from Ring users in the Neighbors app.

www.theverge.com

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

Fetch the bolt cutters with fur.

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

Seated for “The Fearless Vampire Killers” (1967) 🍿🎃

A vampire hunter and his bumbling assistant who are traveling across Transylvania witness an innkeeper's daughter whisked away by vampire Count von Krolock. They plot to rescue the girl and destroy their murderous host.

#filmsky

Theatrical poster for “The Fearless Vampire Killers”

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

This will help those soybean farmers 🙄

BNO News @bnonews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Trump signs commutation releasing former U.S. Rep. George Santos from prison

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck you.

#resist

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Noir Haunted Shack🕸♬🎞🦇 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 2d

14 days until Halloween

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 2d

Spike

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 2d

Seated for “Cat People” (1942) 🍿🎃

Irena Dubrovna, a Serbian immigrant in New York, fears she will transform into a panther due to an ancient curse if she becomes physically intimate with her husband, Oliver Reed.

#filmsky

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 3d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 3d

It might $40B now.

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 3d

Seated for “Sugar Hill” (1974) 🍿🎃

Blaxploitation horror film where Diana "Sugar" Hill seeks revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend by enlisting the help of the voodoo spirit, Baron Samedi, to raise an army of zombies.

#filmsky

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Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s just trying to secure his escape plan from the U.S., and going to the place where the Nazis fled to after the war.

#resist

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. So that would be a total of $40 billion for Argentina,” he said.

@politico.com 🇦🇷
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 4d

Yay, another security screening this morning.

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 4d

Diane, D’Angelo…please let the third one be Donald 🙏

#resist

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 4d

Why do they all look like they ate another human being?

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 4d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Max 🚫👑🐸 @callmemax.bsky.social · 4d

Not D’Angelo!?! 😭

D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.