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Gloaming Spooketti

@twilightmacaroni.bsky.social

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Homebody. Wide interests + shallow understanding. IT trunk monkey. (He/Him)

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Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · Nov 27

My interests:
🎧 Podcasts, catholic musical taste
🎞️ Horror, scifi, fantasy
📚 (See film)
🎮 Single-player. RPGs set in worlds of vast scope, life-building sims, easily set-down novelties
🧪 Dilettante/browser
🧑‍💻 Home office technologist
🗳️ Center-left (radical left by US standards)
🍺 youtu.be/dF7euO5RmqI

Road Movie to Berlin

YouTube video by They Might Be Giants - Topic

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Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 1d

Victorian authors are the worst in history. Renowned literature from this period ranges from borderline to outrageously unreadable.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 1d

Actually I think you mean pedagoguery. /s

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 1d

"The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage," (2015) by Sydney Padua. It's a loving steampunky graphic novel fanfic about the founders of Computer Science and Engineering.

It's been a while, so I forget if Isambard Kingdom Brunel makes an appearance...

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 1d

You mean Dan C. Leggard?

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 2d

This is the [Yas] Queen of Bad Takes.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 2d

It's a very MBA-brained way to look at the world -- EVERYTHING must originate at the top and be pushed downwards, because the top is where the work* happens and all ideas come from.

* MBAs define 'work' as 'time spent in meetings'. See also, Hegseth's pep rally.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 2d

Suddenly seeing so many posts affirming that Sun Tzu's "Art of War" is a remedial leadership primer directed at failsons finding themselves in a position of military command.

Why?

Did Kegseth assign it as required reading for his "No Fatties" book club?

I'm confusion.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 2d

Me: *Regaling my spouse with the latest episode of 'shit RFK said'*

My Spouse: Can you just assume I know what he sounds like, and stop doing the voice?

Me: But... my art!

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 3d

Same.

*Ominous music plays as I lower the symbolically white handkerchief from my lips, note the even more symbolic crimson spatter on it, and quietly tuck it away*

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 4d

Fun story that the GOP may not have heard: It's not simply a weird/European spelling of the word 'Noble', there actually WAS a guy named 'Nobel'! He endowed the prize in his will, that's why it's named after him.

Hypothetically, ANY wealthy guy concerned about his legacy could do the same.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think Kissinger's top spot is in danger, but seems like this is going to make the list of biggest Peace Prize whiffs.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 5d

Alligator Abu Ghraib

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 5d

All the most serious governments and medical experts devote their time to talking about a Thing they saw on TikTok.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 5d

Everything is terrorism, except measles and school shootings.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 5d

"Much depends on what people dream in the secrecy of their hearts."

Frank Herbert / God Emperor of Dune

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 6d

Was she flying the Epstein plane?
No?
Then not interested.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 7d

That's one long blackout...

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 7d

Still from the Simpsons:
Hollis Hurlbut, curator of the Springfield Historical Society Museum, stands atop the town seal (Jebediah Springfield surrounded by his famous quote, "A Noble Spirit Embiggens the Smallest Man.") Hollis is pointing after a departing Homer and Lisa.
Caption: "You're banned .. You, and your children, and your children's children! For three months."

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 7d

Doritos on a sandwich. I think in New England it's a considered a niche/perverse thing to do potato chips? Fuck that. Doritos.

(The first time I did this in front of my spouse they looked at me cockeyed and in a neutral tone said "Oh, you're one of those...")

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 7d

Recent deep dives by Behind The Bastards and Last Podcast On The Left have really highlighted how the nazi high command was a bunch of dweebs. Absolute incompetents and losers who failed upwards in a leadership vacuum created by anti-communist reactionary politics.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 9d

Watched "Another Simple Favor." Good movie, over the top ridiculous.

One nit: There's a scene where Anna Kendrick demonstrates she can hold her breath for at least 2m30s, but it never comes up again. Wtf? Anton Chekov is so mad at ya'll.

Gloaming Spooketti @twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 9d

That good good Bosmer shit

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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