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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not a Madballs fan myself, but I know plenty of you are...

OAFEnet @oafe.net · 12h

Know those Target #Madballs that are gone now? www.oafe.net/blog/2025/09... Five Below has all the same ones, plus three others.

A box of knock off Madballs on the shelf at Five Below. There are six designs, so two of each in the box. In addition to Slobulus, Repville, and the facehugger one, there are also legally iffy versions of Slobbernaut, the Taiwanese version of Bash Brain/Crackhead, and what appears to be an original snake(?) design.

Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

"I need a book for my son. He's in 8th grade and needs something for a book report. He doesn't like anything in particular. He doesn't even really like reading. What can you suggest?"

What I can't say: "I suggest you stop enabling your son and make him get his own damn book." 😑

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

Right? Because, let's be real here, if these guys just don't show up, it's not like they can all get arrested. They simply don't have that kind of manpower or the enforcement mechanism. Are you going to send the cops after them? A bunch of them ARE cops!

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

So let me see if I understand this: the people in power are saying they don't have to pay anyone during a shutdown, while simultaneously telling hundreds of Guardsmen they have to leave their jobs and homes to go somewhere they're not wanted.

I don't think they thought this through.

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

Oooh, someone's getting cut out of the will...

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

For real. We all engage with lots of things don't have "value" to other people. Our lives are short and the world is cruel, why waste your time harshing someone else's buzz? Let people have fun.

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

I'm thinking they showed the ad to the legal department.

"You have to indicate they need to pay for it."
"How much can we obfuscate that?"
"Are you seri--never mind, just tack 'to purchase' on the end."

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 12h

The wording of that is so weird too, like it's an afterthought. It could just read "MU subscribers can purchase an exclusive HERBIE pin".

I guess they hope people will buy it accidentally. Just say "oh cool I get this!" without reading further? 🤨

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 13h

"English degrees are useless" says man who needs ai to write an email

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 13h

Good thing you're starting with Ten-Forward, you can get a drink to cry into.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13h

The trans agenda (as I’ve observed)

-equal rights

-equal opportunity

-equal access to healthcare

-pizza

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13h

conservatives are angry at Netflix because Netflix is shoving the trans agenda onto young children

Evidence: the presence of baby blue, soft pink and cloud white in a scene set in a child’s bedroom

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 13h

Your wife's gonna call you Utopia Planitia with the way you're building that D.

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 13h

For a significant portion of my grad school time, TV Land ran Hot In Cleveland on what seemed like a nonstop loop. I had it on all the time, they were basically my study buddies. 😄

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 14h

How are they going to sell me the toys when the toys are annoying me by making the show that is meant to sell me the toys into a chore? Huh? You ever think of that? Checkmate, I win!

(Sorry I yelled, I didn't mean it, I'm just really stressed from seeing the same commercials 22 times in a row...)

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, true. Finding places to watch it isn't the issue. Hell, I have the season I was watching on DVD. I just wanted something fun on my lunch break, and ended up going "this shit AGAIN?!" every 90 seconds or so. 😄

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 14h

I don't have an issue with the commercials themselves, but... come on, this is overkill. It's not enhancing my viewing experience; it'll just make me stop watching Power Rangers on Youtube. It's not increasing my interest in the figures; if anything I actively hate them now. What's the point then?

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 14h

Watched an episode of Power Rangers on Youtube. In a 22:30 video there were ELEVEN 15-second commercial breaks. The same two commercials for the Playmates Power Rangers line, over and over.

Watched a second episode and had the exact same experience. The same 2 commercials eleven times.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

hey admiral, we stopped on planet X-14938-J7 in response to a federation emergency beacon broadcast and -- yeah, yeah, it was our ship we found crashed. yep. yeah. no the bodies of the crew were us. yeah Twilight Zone bullshit, that's what we figured. we'll take off and nuke it.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 15h

I saved this so fast that I think I broke the time barrier.

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 21h

Cartoon panel, blond girl sitting in the window sill says to her friend who is writing something on a notepad: "This shit sucks, and it sucks having to explain why it sucks and it sucks that assholes will argue it doesn't suck."

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Archivist Prime @archivistprime.bsky.social · 15h

I bet they have a different chest mold and so the answer is effectively "because boobs".

(I know Tommy also has a different chest and doesn't have this problem... but that proves my "because boobs" theory more than it refutes it.)

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filth_waste @filth-waste.bsky.social · Sep 5

unearthing an ancient tome of deep knowledge and crying about how woke it is

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Mister Valiant @mistervaliant.bsky.social · 16h

You know what I think we should do? I think we should counteroffer. Anyone who's thinking about implementing AI, we come at them with a lower bid. Pay me half of what you were going to spend on the AI and I'll fuck up any email you want me to.

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