Moose Jolly Holcomb
@reverendmoose.bsky.social
Mostly just posting what comes to mind, like politics, video games, pop culture, advertising jingles stuck in my head for decades, some void screaming, every now and then post my "bad" art. Should probably come back and edit this description someday.He/Him
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This is always presented as a big thing but I feel like if you search through enough shady forums you can just find the designs of a proven-to-work nuclear bomb instead
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is always presented as a big thing but I feel like if you search through enough shady forums you can just find the designs of a proven-to-work nuclear bomb instead
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I like how I did an entire module in the 6th grade on "the mystery of who built the Easter Island statues" and the answer is simply "the people who live there"
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I like how I did an entire module in the 6th grade on "the mystery of who built the Easter Island statues" and the answer is simply "the people who live there"
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Pitching new versions of A Christmas Carol in 2025
www.youtube.com/shorts/IqZrB...
www.youtube.com/shorts/IqZrB...
Pitching new versions of a Christmas Carol in 2025
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Pitching new versions of A Christmas Carol in 2025
www.youtube.com/shorts/IqZrB...
www.youtube.com/shorts/IqZrB...
Okay but like 28 years ago that was peak Internet activity.
A thing that baffles me is that when you turn off personalisation etc, Google shows you *trending searches*. Like I'm not searching for a specific thing, but searching for the sake of searching. As an activity in and of itself.
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Okay but like 28 years ago that was peak Internet activity.
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
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Or you could just stop using Twitter because it’s a racist website owned by a racist
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Or you could just stop using Twitter because it’s a racist website owned by a racist
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I used to think I didn’t like board games or a lot of games really, then I found out that I just don’t like having to learn how to play a game from people who are bad at explaining it. And because some don’t know, you can play a game very well AND be bad at explaining how to play the game.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I used to think I didn’t like board games or a lot of games really, then I found out that I just don’t like having to learn how to play a game from people who are bad at explaining it. And because some don’t know, you can play a game very well AND be bad at explaining how to play the game.
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This line from Video Games (Apr 83) was too prescient. One of the more frustrating things to me about the state of video game preservation is what feels like a general lack of interest in pre-'80s games; I will never stop banging the drum about the importance of '70s games (especially Death Race).
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This line from Video Games (Apr 83) was too prescient. One of the more frustrating things to me about the state of video game preservation is what feels like a general lack of interest in pre-'80s games; I will never stop banging the drum about the importance of '70s games (especially Death Race).
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wild fact I just learned (mostly) from reddit:
This person who modeled as the policeman for this Norman Rockwell drawing (Policeman with Boys) was a real policeman, and he's Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
huh!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
This person who modeled as the policeman for this Norman Rockwell drawing (Policeman with Boys) was a real policeman, and he's Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
huh!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
wild fact I just learned (mostly) from reddit:
This person who modeled as the policeman for this Norman Rockwell drawing (Policeman with Boys) was a real policeman, and he's Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
huh!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
This person who modeled as the policeman for this Norman Rockwell drawing (Policeman with Boys) was a real policeman, and he's Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
huh!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
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Asteroid City has come in handy during times this past year
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Asteroid City has come in handy during times this past year
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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And so close to the Columbus statue?!?!??!
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And so close to the Columbus statue?!?!??!
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I hope the rest of the world is having a perfectly pleasant Thursday
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I hope the rest of the world is having a perfectly pleasant Thursday
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
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Research shows unequivocally what the benefit limit means: kids go without food, clothes, and heating. You can think it’s unfair some parents get cash you don’t or made poor choices you didn’t. But if you think that resentment is more important than a child, I’d suggest you might reflect on that.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Research shows unequivocally what the benefit limit means: kids go without food, clothes, and heating. You can think it’s unfair some parents get cash you don’t or made poor choices you didn’t. But if you think that resentment is more important than a child, I’d suggest you might reflect on that.
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"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
"Left on the economy, right on culture" is also, as needs repeating a hundred thousand time, the central lie of fascism.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
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Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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we joke a lot about author depictions in Hollywood but no profession gets a weirder on screen rep than literary agents
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
we joke a lot about author depictions in Hollywood but no profession gets a weirder on screen rep than literary agents
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Love that for him.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Love that for him.
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WELCOME TO THE DAY OF MANY CALORIES
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
WELCOME TO THE DAY OF MANY CALORIES
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
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There is only one instance when racists understand that an entire group of people can't be blamed for the violent actions of 1 person...and that is when the perpetrator is a white man.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There is only one instance when racists understand that an entire group of people can't be blamed for the violent actions of 1 person...and that is when the perpetrator is a white man.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
Look not really the point but, Breath O Pine is better if you can find it, and usually cheaper by a dollar or two.
I went to Family Dollar to buy a bucket, pine sol and dish detergent AND ENDED UP SOMEHOW PAYING $30.00 FOR IT!?!?!!?
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Look not really the point but, Breath O Pine is better if you can find it, and usually cheaper by a dollar or two.
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hi...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
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My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...