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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

Scouring my library and finding both Philip K. Dick and Franz Kafka because of how the librarians thought of "science fiction."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

Japan populated by robots who were the last caretakers of the elderly, keeping up their traditions and living their lost lives. Slowly falling into disrepair in an all too accurate emulation of their creators and the state of their country.

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 10h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 9h

Baseball is broken. Fixing it will take a courageous band of mavericks to drill to the center of the fabled Baseball Diamond.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 10h

Hey I didn't make any of them evil, I'm just putting it in stark relief!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 11h

The monsters can't get you if you close your eyes.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 11h

Is actually full of them. 900 baseballs in an umpire suit.

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 11h

So many of these right-wing tough guys would wither from one sideeye from Tom Waits.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hey, uh, open letter to billionaires.

Just call me. Hit me up. I can be your friend unswayed by your income. I refuse all gifts. I'll give honest opinions that may have you mad at me for weeks.

But I promise honesty at no charge.

I'm free. The only cost is humility.

When all the yes men fail

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Feb 17

This is part of the hate that the wealthy have for the skilled. Money can't instantly make them acclaimed artists or intelligencia, so they try and mock and devalue what they can't have.

AI "art" and LLMs are the biggest example of sour grapes ever.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jun 26

"But the rich might get taxed!"

"Go on..."

"Which might cause them to leave!"

"You've got my attention..."

"But real estate prices would plummet!"

"Really selling me..."

"And then the poor would move in!"

*prepares writing a large cartoon check*

"Defund the cops and there's plenty more!"

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm shocked they don't have their own gated community of social media where rich people talk. Except that they'd all expect sycophants and none of them usually praise anyone else. They'd end up paying a grifter class to grovel.

Hmm. This explains a lot of AI.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jan 17

Being rich doesn't magically grant you taste or acceptance or talent or anything really.

It instead grants you a bunch of sycophants who will gladly tell you it does.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jul 10

Just thinking about how the billionaire class thinks it has an image problem that can be solved by buying outlets and social media and stifling opinion

And not a fundamental problem that is rooted in their own greed

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Nov 25

Billionaires are never the solution.

No billionaire of any flavor will save you.

Coddling billionaires puts you in the grave that much faster.

No billionaire, ever, is or was "self made."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Aug 23

Honestly, is Mark Cuban worried about being poor? No. No amount of taxation could do that.

What he fears is becoming irrelevant. And given his absolute ass of a general outlook those fears are well-founded.

Losing his billionaire status would relegate him to his deserved out of touch status.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 14h

Print them on reversible shirts with a frog on the other side.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 14h

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller: *towering over a small Lego village*
Stephen Miller: "Oh no Mr President, look!"
TRUMP: "Oh no!"
Stephen Miller: *sprays Village with starter fluid*
Stephen Miller: "Portland..." *drops lit match* "Is BURNING!"
Christy Noem: *tossing small Lego dogs into ablaze Lego diorama*

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 14h

Velcro the books in. That should fix it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 14h

Why the hell would you want investors having any part in any of your medicine.

Get investment profit out of Healthcare.

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 15h

Wait, what!? My options are a fly and ... a hungry ghost?

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller: *towering over a small Lego village*
Stephen Miller: "Oh no Mr President, look!"
TRUMP: "Oh no!"
Stephen Miller: *sprays Village with starter fluid*
Stephen Miller: "Portland..." *drops lit match* "Is BURNING!"
Christy Noem: *tossing small Lego dogs into ablaze Lego diorama*

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