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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 4d

Because of a podcast I listen to, I've started saying "YIKES ON BIKES" in conversations (it's so satisfying, friends) but I'm already phasing it out in texts for this perfect emoji kitchen-derived shorthand, please update your lexical maps accordingly

An amalgamation of the grimacing emoji and the bicycle emoji where the wheels of a bike have been replaced by two faces making the sort of expression you'd adopt upon seeing something incredibly awkward and/or terrible

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine what you could do with the sheer fucking audacity of Thiel -- who I understand already has some money!!!! -- to charge people TWO HUNDO A HEAD to come listen to him say his stupid bad ideas for MULTIPLE NIGHTS, holy SHIT

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 4d

I would do this with you in a heartbeat because this shit drives me NUTS and it's fucking EVERYWHERE

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 4d

SHE'S RIGHT AND SHE SHOULD SAY IT

Sara McH 🤧 recovery mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 4d

please teach your children about meter and scansion we are facing a fucking global crisis of this shit

Post from a redacted user:
Baby in a placenta I know I know, it's serious

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 5d

We need something nice to look forward to; here is that something (it's in a month) (please propagate this far and wide in the hope that someone who needs it will see it)

www.eventbrite.com/e/instant-ba...

Instant Band Night 33: BANDSGIVING

Instant Band Night is a party where musicians who've just met form bands on the spot. Come play or come watch!

www.eventbrite.com

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 27d

I've wondered if just a little occasional bump would give me the energy to keep up with small kids until I remember caffeine exists, but if this keeps up for long enough maybe cocaine will become cheaper than coffee and we'll start to see some real choices get made

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 27d

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been.

Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said.

Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · 28d

I MADE TOO MANY LITTLE GUYS AND I NEED YOU TO TAKE THEM OFF MY HANDS

THE DISCOUNT IS *INSANE*

TAKE CARE OF YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING NOW WHY NOT

www.etsy.com/shop/Forecas...

Medieval manuscripts sometimes feature drawings of bunnies armed with melee weapons out to start some shit; here we have a fully-fired ceramic sculpture of just such a bunny, ready to stand guard in your home or garden

The best I can do here is tell you that this is a sculpture based on a literal medieval doodle of a sort of lizard-like animal that has two legs and a hand where its head should be; the hand grasps the haft of an axe as if ready to strike a blow

This is a ceramic sculpture of a black cat with a cute pink nose and triangular ears and perhaps a few too many eyes on its head

What we have here is a ceramic sculpture of a tardigrade finished in a combination of three different colors of underglaze (a purple and two shades of blue) that have swirled and dappled together without mixing, a pleasing visual effect overall

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 14

Why does everybody in the Hayes Valley have this exact dog now, do you get issued one when you move there or something? We saw a half dozen of these walk past us during the dinner hour last night, all the same color even, what's going on

A picture of a doodle dog of some variety (labradoodle, goldendoodle, otherdoodle) roughly the color of dark caramel, exactly the same as the six (6) separate but identical dogs that passed by my wife and me while at dinner outside in the Hayes Valley, a San Francisco district reputed to have been heavily infested with crypto and AI developers in hacker-house hives over the past few years

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Sep 11

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Sep 11

Yeah well we have this little thing called freedom of the press. Yeah it’s pretty neat. 3 guys control the media and social media and they have more wealth than half the planet. If you ask about gun control they put you in a dog cage

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Sepulcrum eius fiat latrina publica" is what Google Translate gave me, but do any Latin scholars want to weigh in on a better way to render "May his grave become a public toilet"

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 10

It won't, because why would it, but WE CAN STILL DREAM

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 10

Even if he lives, I hope seeing the eruption of jubilation on the internet at the news does irreparable psychic damage

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 8

LEGO corporation, hear me: you could make even MORE money if you release the Star Trek TNG minifigs as a standalone pack, just trust me on this

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh shit oh no oh shit

All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · Sep 4

After discussion with @soundingline.bsky.social and @keithpille.bsky.social I have come up with something important for dudes

A two-axis personality chart. Left: Roast Beef. Right: Ray Smuckles. Top: Jack Aubrey. Bottom: Stephen Maturin.

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 2

Right???? I liked the book so I'm gonna go regardless, but holy HELL

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 2

Has it occurred to anyone in charge that maybe people would go see new movies if the trailer didn't show us THE ENTIRE FUCKING MOVIE

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Box Office: ‘Weapons’ Wins Quiet Labor Day With $12.8M, ‘Jaws’ Beats ‘Caught Stealing,’ ‘The Roses’

The holiday weekend closes out a fraught summer for Hollywood, with domestic revenue barely able to match 2024's disappointing haul.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Sep 2

Originally begun as a way to keep people informed about events I was doing or other things I was making, it's now mostly a vector for the kind of links that make you the most interesting conversationalist at any get-together:

ferociousj.beehiiv.com

Corgi Class Starship

Updates on things I've made for you. Items of esoteric interest. #dadthoughts.

ferociousj.beehiiv.com

Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 30

Are we going to be running around making out with each other randomly in the streets? Should I put "BRUSH TEETH" at the top of the checklist? etc

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 30

You know what that's fine, this whole thing has made me realize I need to sit down and get serious about planning my celebration for when it actually does happen

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 30

Did Trump's favorite dictatorial strongman Vladimir Putin give him a fucking polonium handshake when they had their big important meeting or what, because the poetry of that would be astounding

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 25

You know what, I have an AI use case that at least sounds possibly useful: ACTUALLY INTELLIGENT MICROWAVE

It has an internal camera, a mic, a scale, and enough brain to ask "Hey, is this 1.5lb of chicken? Is it frozen? How hot do you want it?"

And then it just ..... works

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's so much worse! I would at least respect a speedrun into despotism if, say, Cheney were running it; instead it's THIS fuckass idiot? Democracy is getting its ass kicked and it's HIM doing it? It's so embarrassing for all of us

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Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 19

Are we going to see more of my good friend Timothy Ocellus tonight in Alien: Earth or what (I know the T stands for something else but I'm pretty sure it should be Timothy)

A very good drawing of the creature T. Ocellus from Alien: Earth, who looks like a fucked-up land octopus with an eyeball where the whole head should be; additionally, it's wearing a top hat, because why not

Jon Sung @ferociousj.bsky.social · Aug 15

Immensely pleased to report that according to the dream I just had, being beamed down from a Federation starship feels like a combination of warm sun + elevator going down; no idea if beaming up includes the reverse but let's just assume yes

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