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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1h

1960s man: Yes, I must work, but I will use my ties to express what I do in my leisure time. What today, hunting dogs or sailboats?

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 4h

No, this is not how language works and this helps nobody.

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17h

Judaism and Islam are not flavors of Christianity

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 17h

The last living survivor of the Titanic could have seen James Cameron’s Titanic but refused to

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 18h

I like WFMU because they’ll be like, we only have time for one more song, and the song will be a 30-minute field recording of a pig grunting

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 18h

Publishers keep rejecting my fantastical Louisa May Alcott reboot, Giant Women

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 19h

Choir: Swing low, sweet chariot.

The chariot: It looked like hot metal glowing in a fire. Inside the cloud, there were four living beings that looked like people. But each one of them had four faces and four wings. Their feet looked like calves’ feet, and they sparkled like polished brass.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 19h

Me: A mohel? Do you only take tips?

Mohel: It's called an honorarium.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 19h

Me: I'm thinking of getting into storyyelling

You: Storytelling

Me: IT'S BEEN ANOTHER QUIET WEEK AT LAKE WOEBEGONE

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 19h

Guardrail looks like it should be the name of a sketchy drug sold on podcasts that also sell supplements and gold

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 22h

He was also a terrifying assassin in Cop Shop

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 22h

I still cannot get over the fact that the police chief from Weapons was the guy that played Artie, The Strongest Man in the World on Pete and Pete

A picture of Toby Huss in The Adventures of Pete & Pete

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Also, it was apparently briefly revived as a spoken (or at least governmental) language during Bar Kokhba

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Oct 24

One, two, Freddy's coming for you, three, four, better lock your door, five, six, grab your crucifix, seven, eight, eight, I forget what eight was for but nine, nine, nine for a lost god and ten, ten, ten, ten for everything, everything, everything, everything

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! I’m clippy! It looks like you’re using social media to spread antisemitic conspiracies!

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

good lord

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Typing issues definitely can’t explain the Bloofer Lady

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory that Mina’s growing weakness is because they don’t type her and so all the transfusions are causing an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

And Quincy has a backstory of dealing with Vampiric bats in the Pampas, making Dracula the first Weird Western

s’more of babylon @smoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 19d

it’s so important, now more than ever, that we remember: there’s a cowboy with a big knife in Dracula, because Dracula takes place in cowboy times.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

People say fairy tales aren’t real but I have a small forest apex predator that lives in my condo, has a human name, and shouts orders at me all day

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

You're getting dangerously close to writing a DEVO song

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

The city of Haven near Wichita? No Jew has ever opined on this.

Or did you mean heaven, in which case, there is a very long history of Jewish thought that righteous Gentiles have a place there. What has Christianity historically said about Jews, though?

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats on skipping over actual science and locating a crank

Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he is one the the GEICO cavemen

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

My people (Homo erectus)

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Theodor Morell was not Jewish. His family doctor was Jewish when he was a boy, and a Jewish neurologist treated him in 1918, but they weren't personal physicians.