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That's Irritainment
@irritained.bsky.social
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He/him. Movies 📽️, boardgames, some curling 🥌 content. A silly project about songs that juuust cracked the Top 40 at: thebottomfive.wordpress.com. #CCMF
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irritained.bsky.social
2026 resolution: cull podcasts that accept ads shilling AI this-n-that.

(This American Life is on notice)
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Committed to see Wake Up Dead Man in the city tonight, and now it's "how many hours buffer do I give the El?"
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
irritained.bsky.social
TSN *NOT* using the usual Brier/Scotties music for the Olympic trials is really throwing me.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
irritained.bsky.social
THE GUN IS GOOD, CHARLIE BROWN. THE PENIS IS EVIL.
flying stone head from ZARDOZ
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
irritained.bsky.social
What's the rumpus, Charlie Brown?
Johnny Caspar from Miller's Crossing. He has a Charlie Brown squiggle drawn on his forehead.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
irritained.bsky.social
One reason I'm not doing a Pie Night at the curling club this year
maureenjohnsonbooks.com Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 10d
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Put me on a slow movin' parliamentary hackin' bandwagon
You could put me little ass in the grave
Everytime you want it I'll be live, bring a date
I mean computer when it's over press save
So--
You can be the president
I'd rather be the pope
You can be the side effect
I'd rather be the dope
Pope Leo on the mic
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Why does a kebab place called Gary's Got a Doner only exist as an easter egg in this video?
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Taught curling 🥌 to a high school physics class today.

It went well except for the disturbing discovery that modern teens may or may not know how to read analog clocks (using "10 and 2" positions to discuss rotation…1 or 2 blank looks).

Also, what will dementia tests look like in 50 years or so?
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
irritained.bsky.social
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Hon. mention, also into at the time: License to Ill, Raising Hell, In Visible Silence.
Late to the party: They Might Be Giants (s/t), Element of Light, Reign in Blood, Big World, Skylarking
Life's Rich Pageant by R.E.M.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
irritained.bsky.social
For out-of-towners or those not inclined to scroll too far: What's going on in March in Illinois?

2026 PRIMARIES.
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
irritained.bsky.social
Watched STOP MAKING SENSE for the 1000th time. While it has no bad songs, just wanted to mention that "What a Day That Was" fucking rips.

IDK if anyone but Byrne was particularly invested in a song from his modern-dance collab with Twyla Tharp, but they all go so hard.

youtu.be/q5lXhfhHOes?...
Talking Heads - What a Day That Was (Stop Making Sense)
YouTube video by adrian's film diary
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November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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irritained.bsky.social
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck/ sayin' "we used all the lentils for artwork"
The ss edmund Fitzgerald rendered in crop art
August 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
irritained.bsky.social
(beaten to the punch on "100 Gland" several times, so)

Change a letter. Ruin a candy.

Bottle Faps
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

100 Gland
thisnicelady.bsky.social Amy C @thisnicelady.bsky.social · Oct 29
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Milky Wad
edwardsung.bsky.social Edward Sung @edwardsung.bsky.social · Oct 29
Change one letter. Ruin a candy.

Necro Wafers
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
irritained.bsky.social
Today I was made aware of Andy Gibb in Minnesota North Stars gear and now it's your turn:
Andy Gibb in a green (away) Minnesota North Stars NHL sweater, circa late '70s/early '80s. The logo is a big white N with gold borders; the rightmost line of the N is an arrow pointing toward a 5-pointed gold star.
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
irritained.bsky.social
There IS plenty of time for a better Maine candidate to emerge. I'm skewed over here in Illinois, where the primaries are ungodly early and tje paperwork deadline (incl. petition signatures) is less than 2 weeks from now.

In Maine, gathering sigs can't even start until Jan 1 for pete's sake.
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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windiermegatons.bsky.social
If you are a liberal who (correctly) scoffed at Vance's hand-waving of the Nazi chat, but now your response to a Dem candidate with Nazi tattoos is "Well we're none of us perfect," I want you to think about whether your standards are real, and if not, how that might be exacerbating our problems.
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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suss2hyphens.bsky.social
why is it called a nazi tattoo and not a kampf stampf
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
irritained.bsky.social
time flies Fun Fact: The Mitchell & Webb "Are We the Baddies?" sketch is a year older than Graham Platner's Totenkopf tattoo.
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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sarahmaywalt.bsky.social
I wrote Dean Gemmell, CEO of #USACurling, a letter. And when I say "wrote," I mean WROTE. It will take two posts to show it all. The text will be in the alt. (1/2)

#Curling #trans #WeBelong
Page 1 of letter to Dean Gemmell: Hello Dean, I’m writing this letter old-school, because I want you to understand the importance of this fight to me, and emails are way too easy to ignore. At this point, I have no illusions that simple argument will change your or USA Curling’s minds, but I want you to understand some things. To start, you have no idea what it is like to be trans. I spent my entire childhood trapped, alone, and terrified. I feared what would happen if anyone else found out who I really was inside, but that wasn’t all. I feared myself. I thought that this made me a freak or a monster. That was how the world viewed people like me back then. We were either punchlines or perverts. I was a child. I believed them. I couldn’t even expect my family to accept who I was. My life was excruciating and hopeless. There was no help to be had. There was no light at the end of the tunnel. I know what suffering is, Dean. I’ve lived it. Page 2 of letter to Dean Gemmell: There are more trans people out now than there used to be. This isn’t because there’s something in the water, and it isn’t just because it has felt safer to be trans in recent years. Part of the reason there are more trans people visible now is because they are still alive. When you said, patronizingly, that my anger could be better directed elsewhere, that wasn’t just completely awful to say to a person in pain from injustice you are a part of. It’s also dead wrong. Right now, nearly all the voices who had claimed to support trans people have fallen conspicuously silent, and many of them, including USA Curling, are taking part in a new wave of propaganda and oppression toward transgender people. People in the media are calling us “insane,” “perverts,” “predators,” “murderers,” “terrorists.” They say we are unsafe. Our suffering is making a big comeback. Most like me, who had the strength to endure this before, will survive, but a lot of these trans kids who are alive now wouldn’t have made it if they grew up when I did. Each back that turns on them now is another straw. Will USA Curling’s capitulation be that last straw that breaks a kid? I don’t know. More importantly, you don’t know. I’ll tell you one thing for certain, it will be part of the weight that breaks more than one. Page 3 of letter to Dean Gemmell: My anger is directed at many, many places right now. USA Curling did something despicable. I have access to USA Curling. USA Curling will hear my anger. And to the suggestion that USA Curling standing up wouldn’t change things, I’ll say this: What the hell does that matter? Since when was it OK to do something wrong because you thought it wouldn’t matter? I was taught, and I believe with all my heart, that the times when doing something right seems pointless are the most important times to do so. That is the difference between integrity and cowardice. History is full of times when cowardice allowed atrocities to happen. “But Sarah,” I hear you say, “these aren’t atrocities against trans people.” To that I say, not yet. Once you start compromising your integrity, your morals, it becomes easier to do so again. Just add the new compromise to the permission structure you’ve already built for yourself. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. This is how a society gets to the point where they are willing to exterminate a group of people. This is why this moment matters. Page 4 of letter to Dean Gemmell: Had USA Curling stood up for its trans and non-binary members, it would have taken a small weight off many people who are currently being crushed. It would have given hope to people who desperately need some. It would have assured other vulnerable curlers that they had an ally. It might just have inspired others to stand up as well. I’m fighting. I worry it’s pointless, but I’m not going to stop. I’m not going to leave the bat on my shoulder as the third strike whizzes past. I’m going down swinging. I’m shocked so few are willing to do the same, but that only strengthens my resolve. To be honest, I’m not sure you, or USA Curling, even cares. Even if you do, you don’t care enough. I’m not even sure that you understand the problem.
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
irritained.bsky.social
I look forward to this 2025 world series in which a team from the leader of the free world faces a team from the United States of America.
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
irritained.bsky.social
LOL my curling 🥌 club's FB page has locked down political content/discussion.

In other news, curling equipment in the US has magically gotten more expensive, and fewer Canadian teams are likely to attend our bonspiels. Gee, no way to know how, why, or who's responsible 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
irritained.bsky.social
It is remarkable to me how quickly Cub fandom awarded a rent-free mind apartment to the Milwaukee Brewers.

I don't even think they bothered getting the keys back from the Cardinals.
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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lornadinosart.bsky.social
Ready for #NoKings tomorrow. 🥌 #takeoutice
October 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM