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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Great family story about Robert A. Heinlein getting a (deserved) slap in the Soviet Union!

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Apr 18

There's a family story that when my great-grandmother Grace was a tourist in the Soviet Union in 1960, she was in a small airport and oddly enough, there was another American couple there.

The plan was delayed, and the man was getting quite irate with the situation.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

also @matthewclaxton.bsky.social, going to reshare my family encounter with RAH

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Apr 18

There's a family story that when my great-grandmother Grace was a tourist in the Soviet Union in 1960, she was in a small airport and oddly enough, there was another American couple there.

The plan was delayed, and the man was getting quite irate with the situation.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

Heinlein is one of my favorite raconteurs who explored a lot of interesting ideas.

Unfortunately, the fixed points in his fiction are busty redheads, twins, and turning little girls into wives in a way which is technically consensual and technically not incest, but feels really squicky

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

Canonically diaperfur

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3d

Don't laugh. These are veterans of the Battle of Burgertown.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3d

"Yes, we'd like to put in a winning bid for that WMD"

Which my assassin character then stole. I escaped by jumping through hard vacuum from a starship to a waiting space taxi

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3d

My group is playing Eclipse Phase, and we're breaking the adventure with the power of mind-hacking, stealth, and very large sums of money.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 4d

Finished @chrisdeville.bsky.social "Such Great Heights". It was excellent!

If you have good taste in music, you have to read this book.

If you don't have good taste in music, you *really* have to read this book.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/53b5...

Review by mburnamfink - Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

As someone who loves indie music deeply, this is a great book, one that chronicles the rise an...

app.thestorygraph.com

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 4d

Remember that Panera lemonade that kills people?

Pepperidge Farms remembers

Mitskimask The Slump God @mitskimask.bsky.social · 4d

The Millennial version of this is:

"In my day people were dying from Four Loko having caffeine, and we loved it."

Which is true. We did.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

Of all the Sundays anyone has ever had, this is the Moast

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 5d

Okay now we’re really poasting

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

ICE agent's room clearing shits about to push frontiers in 3rd Amendment law

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 6d

sending this image to Secretary Whiskey Pete so he has a pretext to do the jelly donut monologue from Full Metal Jacket he's been practicing in the bathroom for the last three months

Senor Gato 🐾 @kingpachuco.bsky.social · 7d

It's a wild world out here in the Rose City.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

Committing hate crimes right now

A single tortilla warming in a convection oven

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

eating the $1500 NIST peanut butter just to feel something

a small jar of peanut butter. The blue and white label says is Standard Reference Material 2387, as specified by the National Institutes of Standards. The price is $1528, down from $1910

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

Blueskyism is when you literally cannot stop posting Bad Takes even though you're the boss of this hellsite

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

I love the internet and hope it never goes away (derogatory)

cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 7d

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 8d

Kid A was three years prior

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 8d

There was a period of time where every night I'd put on this album and get high

Still hits via flashback, just a little. #saddadband

Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 8d

Kid A came out 25 years ago today. It was one of the most important albums of my life. Five years ago, I wrote this retrospective: www.stereogum.com/2094039/radi...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left

'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'

www.forever-wars.com

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

agreed.

I've got enough historical object permeance to remember what happened when Bremen fired the entire Iraqi army. Don't do that again.

but yeah, these assholes can do foot patrols around Nowhere, West Texas, alternating with winter training in North Dakota.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 14d

I've been banned a couple of times for celebrating Toyotathon too hard.

Just because the owners are into radical Islam doesn't mean the trucks themselves aren't radical

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 14d

Cafeteria lunch today at Big Evil Tech is absolutely insane

"Nacho bar" with carrots, broccoli, cheese steak style roast beef. No onions, beans, or Pico de Gallo

Also Hawaiian pizza and vegetarian Hawaiian pizza

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 14d

It's on the low end of "mid", but Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King is a movie that I don't regret watching

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 16d

Spear Cuts Through Water is very much its own vibe. 2025 books that are adjacent are Sinister Extremity by Hugh Neill and House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 17d

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

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