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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 9h

"Hello, I love you, NOW GET LOST!!"

Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 13h

Today I learned that the notorious sexploitation film Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS was filmed on the abandoned set of Hogan's Heroes, which had been canceled several years prior. I say that means it canonically takes place at Stalag 13, after Col. Klink and Schultz were sent to the Eastern Front.

Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 14h

"not much to report today. super low energy"

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 15h

Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. For everything else, there's Florida.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 15h

And has now flounced back once more to run for the Senate next year.

The man is a political genital rash.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 15h

Our state constitution is dumb. It imposes term limits on the governor and members of the Legislature... but not LIFE term limits. You have to sit out for one term and then you can run again. Which he did, and, mercifully for once, lost. And then flounced off again.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 15h

Paul LePage made the same threat when he hit his term limit as governor and saw that the Republican candidate was unlikely to be elected to replace him. He then flounced off to Florida... until exactly the day he would have to re-establish Maine residency in order to run in the NEXT election.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 15h

theatrical poster for the 1979 Disney live-action sci-fi film THE BLACK HOLE

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 18h

Huh, cool. I'll have to keep an eye out the next time I make a run to the DXL down there. (They closed the one in Bangor way back when the chain was still called Casual Male.)

I hear they have good hot dogs. At Costco, not the big+tall store.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 18h

If I can summon up the energy, I think I'll make a pot of beef stew for my mother, even though I can't have any myself yet. It's definitely beef stew weather.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 18h

(nod) Some weeks this is the best a person can do these days.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 18h

Huh, I didn't know there was a Costco in Maine. Only Sam's and BJ's up this way.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, they're out? When I got my flu shot, the lady at the walk-in clinic told me the COVID and pneumonia shots weren't out yet, and they'd let me know when they were. I'll have to give them a call tomorrow.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

welp

Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

I must remember to run this new revelation past my dietitian when I go in for my 2-week post-surgery check-in this Tuesday.

Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

on a point of order, "be the ball" is for golf, not baseball

Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

The last straw was reportedly one of the other participants telling him, "lol ur cogitators r an embarrassment 2 the Omnissiah."

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

mmmmm, buttercream

Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe? The people who make WH40K games do seem like the sort who would have been into Transmetropolitan back in the day.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

They told me never to drink carbonated beverages ever again, but nobody said anything about shooting Reddi-Wip directly into my mouth.

(That was a joke. I'm not doing that.

Unless...?)

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 1d

My brothers, you appear to be tampering with xenotech Man was not meant to touch, much less attempt to understand. Would you like help reporting yourself to the Inquisitorium for that?

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 2d

"we're so cooked," as I believe the young persons say.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 2d

This is Reditus, a Magos Dominus of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the moment he understood the weakness of his flesh, it disgusted him.

* Whether the AdMech are Nazis is kind of a debate all in itself, but Reditus himself mainly just does archivist things, since he's just a servo-skull.

Magos Dominus Reditus from Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, the computer game.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 2d

Most histories of the early USSR I've read suggest that before joining the revolution, he mostly skated on a penchant for extreme personal violence, which fits well with his later career.

(And that as Lenin lay dying, he repeatedly told his inner circle, "Don't let Stalin succeed me." Welp!)

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