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Joé McKen
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Personal account · Freelance composer in Québec, Canada · Progressive godless civil-libertarian · He/him · Seize the day, but not today, I’m tired · Music account: @music.joemcken.net

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@jaz.sh Just a heads up, I think your stats site may be down? I’m getting a “NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource” message with no stats showing
Jaz’s Bluesky stats site with nothing working and a “Error: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource” message
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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A baker’s dozen hundred
“Joé McKen: 1,300 followers”
January 6, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Arrested Development “but it might work for us” meme: MAN: The idea is that if reporters suck up to Trump enough, then he might not attack them and try to throw them in prison WOMAN: Well did it work for those people? MAN: No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but… MAN: …but it might work for us.
January 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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All that’s missing is the Pringles can
“Let me do it for you” meme with long-nosed dog staring hopefully up at a person trying to reach into a can of Pringles
January 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Y’all can keep your Christmas lights and your trees and your Mariah Carey, I for one don’t believe it’s the holidays until the VLC media player tray icon puts on its little hat
Screencap of the VLC media player icon, an orange cone with a white stripe, now adorned with a white-and-red Santa Claus hat (which only appears in in the days before and after Christmas)
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Lol. Just noticed this in the background of a scene in ‘The Dark Knight’, which takes place in Gotham City and totally not any real-life US metropolis.

Whoops.
Screenshot of a background building in ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) with a sign above the door reading “Sweet Home Chicago”
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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If only.
A derp derping
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Screenshot of ‘South Park’ where Donald Trump talks on the phone saying, “- And Hegseth, don’t just make a bunch of content.” Screenshot of ‘South Park’ where Donald Trump continues on the phone: “Like, actually go and do something.” Screenshot of ‘South Park’ where Pete Hegseth looks at his phone in shock as he holds out his phone on a selfie stick
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Hope Hegseth doesn’t see this or he’s gonna be so mad he’s gonna demand Fox broadcast him doing eleventy hundred pushups until he pops a coronary
Real-life photo of Pete Hegseth holding a grenade in each hand and making a very serious face with the caption, “This is the Department of War!” I checked this time and it really is a real-life photo of … Wait, seriously? This is also just a screenshot of ‘South Park’ where Hegseth is a silly cartoon character? But that’s his real face! … Really? It isn’t? Damn.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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#SouthPark’s Pete Hegseth is perfect. No notes.
Real-life photo of Pete Hegseth fast-roping down into the South Park police precinct and introducing himself at a soldier’s phone for a video and … Wait, sorry, I’m being told this is a screenshot from tonight’s ‘South Park’ episode and that this is actually a crude cartoon. I apologize for not being able to tell the difference.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Hey folks how do you feel about using a VPN company that behaves like this on main
The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal): “If you hold the wrong view on [political topic] you’re not welcome here!” [Quoted tweet by Theo – t3.gg (@theo): “If you don’t respect our trans peers, unfollow me and stop interacting with my community.”] Reply by Windscribe (@windscribecom): “It’s not polite to make fun of the mentally ill” Reply by Theo – t3.gg (@theo): “Wild – the shitty grifter VPN company that inserted itself in OSS drama is transphobic. What a surprise!” Reply by Windscribe (@windscribecom): “Wild – a retarded ChatGPT wrapper maker doesn’t have common sense or reading comprehension. What a surprise!”
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band
Screenshot from ‘School of Rock’ (2003) showing Jack Black and the other then-child actors whose names I’m too lazy to look up playing a kickass rock tune on a stage
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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#Frankenstein was very nice. Solidly acted, beautifully shot, a nice mix of horror and heart. A tad long – some bits of the backstory could stand to be trimmed – and part of the ending felt a *li’l* bit rushed, but overall a fine film. 7/10
Screenshot from ‘Frankenstein’ (2025), featuring a lone dark figure in a tattered coat (the Creature) standing in the distance on a flat icy plain, framed perfectly center against the darkening orange sunset. There is nothing but flat ice on the ground, nothing but empty sky above, creating a feeling of total desolation.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Bright colors? In a movie? A drama/horror film, no less? No desaturated “cinematic” filter, no gloomy color-grading?

Have we truly made it back into the light?

#Frankenstein
Screenshot from ‘Frankenstein’ (2025) showing an establishing shot of an old European manor home and its spacious grounds. The grass and trees are a lush green, the sky a bright blue behind the clouds. Even though the day is overcast, the scene is still brighter and more vivid than most exterior shots you’ll see in movies this year.
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Seems Xitter is cracking down on third-party apps tonight, ’cause all my accounts – which I accessed through OldTweetDeck – just got permanently suspended simultaneously for “inauthentic behavior”. Lol.

I mainly lurked there, since *so many* peeps I follow still haven’t moved to Bluesky. 😔
Email from X(itter) informing me my personal account, @joemcken, was automatically suspended for violating the rules against “inauthentic behaviors”. Email from X(itter) informing me my music account, @joemcken_music, was automatically suspended for violating the rules against “inauthentic behaviors”.
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I’m sure @mmasnick.bsky.social feels this.
[Single-panel comic of a stick figure named Cueball sitting at his computer with a humidifier labeled “E-21” making clicking noises behind him.] COMPUTER: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… CUEBALL: Oh my god. Yes. YES. CAPTION: I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum, a statue. [HIDDEN HOVER TEXT: The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.]
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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John Oliver is what happens when a man’s employers refuse to tell him “no”.

And thank goodness for that.
Promotional photo of John Oliver, man with glasses in a suit and tie, holding a glass of wine whilst leaning against a barrel with a bottle of “CABERNET SAUVIGNJOHN” wine on it. He’s smiling affectionately, perhaps romantically, across the barrel at what he describes in the show as “himself if he were a horse”, except the horse has pouty human lips, grapes in its mane, and its own glass of wine in its hoof, somehow. The horse doesn’t look nearly as sure about this as John does.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Good morning to the 40 million peeps on Bluesky 🦋
Screencap of Bcounter (Bluesky user counter site) showing 40,007,135 users on Bluesky
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Hi! Is there an option to restore the regular endscreen content grid so that there aren’t just 3 giant video thumbnails? I’ve checked the current settings but I’m not sure if it’s there (yet)
Screencap of YouTube endscreen content with three stupidly oversized video thumbnails rather than the previous grid
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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AP when Israel claims Hamas killed 2 soldiers: “ceasefire violation”.

AP when Israel launches *dozens* of strikes that slaughter at least 36 Palestinians, including children: It’s merely a “test” of the ceasefire.

Interesting word choices there, @apnews.com.
Bluesky post by The Associated Press from the morning of October 19, 2025: “BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.”
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I keep seeing people say that Bluesky is seeing a new influx of Xitter refugees, which is great … except I’m really not seeing it in the Bsky usage stats? 🤔
Screenshot of Jaz’s Stats for Bluesky site showing an interactive “Daily Records” bar graph with all likes, posts and follows on the site over time. The visible period spans from July 12 to October 16, 2025; the records are all relatively steady, with no visible increase at all over the last few days.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Folks, the Israel Defense Forces, the most professional and moral military in the world:
Aftonbladet headline: “Greta Thunberg: ‘They kicked me every time the flag touched my face’ – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity” “Her red suitcase lies in the hall. ‘Whore Greta’ someone has written in large black letters. Around the text: an Israeli flag and an erect penis. “The bag was confiscated by the Israeli military from the boat – and returned to her like this. She laughs. “– They’re like five-year-olds!” Greta Thunberg looks through the bag she got back after it was confiscated by Israeli police. The red bag is covered in childish scrawls of penises, the Israeli flag, and “whore GRETA” “– They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me. “Greta laughs. “– Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum. “– They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time. “Every time someone looked up from the ground, they were knocked back down to the ground, Greta and the other Swedes recount. In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag. “– The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that.”
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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My dude manages to whip out both “so you hate waffles?” AND “leftists are the REAL fascists” in one single post, a real legend
Bluesky screenshot of Heretical_i (‪@hereticali.bsky.social‬) replying to my post about all them nazis in the Republican Party with this impressive bit of whataboutism: “So you prefer fascists with tasselloafers instead of jackboots then?”
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A true icon has left us.

If you don’t know who Drew Struzan was: He’s the guy who made your favorite movie posters.

Yes, that one. Yeah, that one too. All of those, actually.
DuckDuckGo search results for movie posters by Drew Struzan, showing over a dozen iconic theatrical artworks for ‘Star Wars’, ‘Waterworld’, ‘Man of Steel’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Hellboy’, ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Hook’, ‘Indiana Jones’ and more
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I’m so tired.
Edited screencap of a YouTube video with the runtime of 1 hour 33 minutes circled in red and the title “Literally Every Leftist YouTube Video Nowadays”
October 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM