MonkeyMan85
@monkeyman85.bsky.social
IT guy who digs video games, comics, horror, and metal, among other things. I try to stay chill and positive. He/Him.
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MonkeyMan85
@monkeyman85.bsky.social
· Dec 20
Nobody talks about the best reason for us to tax billionaires: purely so they have less money. That alone is an impactful project in the public interest. Just setting it on fire would save people's lives and reform governments by itself.
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Every reporter or financial analyst writing about the 'math' of a 50-year mortgage better include what the **actual** cost is to the borrower over time. It is a fucking joke. Show the full amortization schedule and how much one really ends up paying!!
amortizationschedule.org
amortizationschedule.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Every reporter or financial analyst writing about the 'math' of a 50-year mortgage better include what the **actual** cost is to the borrower over time. It is a fucking joke. Show the full amortization schedule and how much one really ends up paying!!
amortizationschedule.org
amortizationschedule.org
Since i'm talking about enjoying things. In all seriousness, this shit is so fire. #blutoid
Faouzia - DON'T EVER LEAVE ME (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Faouzia
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November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Since i'm talking about enjoying things. In all seriousness, this shit is so fire. #blutoid
Before Joyce Carol Oates can get me:
Books - Very good read. Books really hit when reading is the vibe
Cinema - Truly a splendid experience of sitting and watching and even listening if it's one of the talkies
Friends - Pretty cool people, actually. They have accomplishments, I assure you
Books - Very good read. Books really hit when reading is the vibe
Cinema - Truly a splendid experience of sitting and watching and even listening if it's one of the talkies
Friends - Pretty cool people, actually. They have accomplishments, I assure you
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Before Joyce Carol Oates can get me:
Books - Very good read. Books really hit when reading is the vibe
Cinema - Truly a splendid experience of sitting and watching and even listening if it's one of the talkies
Friends - Pretty cool people, actually. They have accomplishments, I assure you
Books - Very good read. Books really hit when reading is the vibe
Cinema - Truly a splendid experience of sitting and watching and even listening if it's one of the talkies
Friends - Pretty cool people, actually. They have accomplishments, I assure you
Antigone (440 BC)
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Antigone (440 BC)
Reincarnated as an Grok: Now I Regurgitate Nonsense in the Dungeon Depths!
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reincarnated as an Grok: Now I Regurgitate Nonsense in the Dungeon Depths!
It's starting to look like starving the populace while having fancy balls might be bad politics.
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It's starting to look like starving the populace while having fancy balls might be bad politics.
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I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Shame
Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.
www.the-reframe.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
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NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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There's a new centrist dem How-to-Win guide and... it's exactly the same as the last 5 of these things.
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There's a new centrist dem How-to-Win guide and... it's exactly the same as the last 5 of these things.
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Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
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cohost.org is gone, but this post will never die:
![[by hystericempress]
Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of 'what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?' We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost.
I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:752y77nxqoruw2serahdltgh/bafkreidtk34sqj3c62rjr743xrtkoghce5wyh35gtpoonbjp62xrwytt2e@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
cohost.org is gone, but this post will never die:
When you see supposed hard leftist accounts clearly trying to drive wedges and start drama, like, say, rejecting anyone who's ever served in the military or supported Sanders, block that shit immediately. That's a wrecker.
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When you see supposed hard leftist accounts clearly trying to drive wedges and start drama, like, say, rejecting anyone who's ever served in the military or supported Sanders, block that shit immediately. That's a wrecker.
I'm seeing so many bizarre takes on whether it's okay to not want The White House to be demolished. I don't think caring about people and buildings is some kind of either/or zero-sum game. People tend to either care or not care about things in general.
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm seeing so many bizarre takes on whether it's okay to not want The White House to be demolished. I don't think caring about people and buildings is some kind of either/or zero-sum game. People tend to either care or not care about things in general.
Deathstroke the Terminator (D)
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Deathstroke the Terminator (D)
I'm taking the tactical stance of blocking people suspiciously defensive of how the public reacts to nazi tattoos. 🤔
Seems prudent.
Seems prudent.
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm taking the tactical stance of blocking people suspiciously defensive of how the public reacts to nazi tattoos. 🤔
Seems prudent.
Seems prudent.
The Shining (1980)
October 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Shining (1980)
So let me get this straight: the internet found out about a rejected post-Skywalker Ben Solo movie script, and they're on the side of the Ben Solo script? Like... they think this movie would be good? I would not have predicted that reaction.
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
So let me get this straight: the internet found out about a rejected post-Skywalker Ben Solo movie script, and they're on the side of the Ben Solo script? Like... they think this movie would be good? I would not have predicted that reaction.
What really sucks is that they knew this would happen w/o the public option and that removing it was intended to predictably undermine it.
if we're doing spicy obamacare takes, mine is that the part everyone likes (insurers can't drop you for preexisting conditions or impose lifetime pay caps) is directly related to the part everyone hates (insurance premiums have been going up faster than inflation for 15 years)
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
What really sucks is that they knew this would happen w/o the public option and that removing it was intended to predictably undermine it.
New rule: If you reference "purity tests" in your argument, you have to say what the purity test is. What is the thing you need us to throw away, and be specific.
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New rule: If you reference "purity tests" in your argument, you have to say what the purity test is. What is the thing you need us to throw away, and be specific.
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America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
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I think a good sign off for work emails instead of “best regards” is “we all float down here,” help me make this a thing.
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I think a good sign off for work emails instead of “best regards” is “we all float down here,” help me make this a thing.