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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 1h

I think it’s time that a whole court of owls thing enters the common lexicon of Batman and be in a movie

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 1h

Tangential but: that first court of owls run to establish what they were was the first story like that I ever encountered where the focal point of the story was that Bruce Wayne was the problem according to the villains

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 9h

The dumbest part about that cognitohazard is that Bruce *does* canonically give large amounts of money to charity via the Wayne Foundation

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 9h

THat one tumblr post about how Bruce would better serve giving away his wealth instead of being Batman was a disaster for humanity.

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 2h

Ok I’m raising my kid right she’s grooving to TLC’s waterfalls she gets it

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 3h

There’s a lot of X axis players evil and Y axis ownership evil and a Z for fan base evil

Yeah, Panthers had it, Canes *just* took the mantle but they have it

Orlando Magic is lower tier evil
Bucs are lower tier evil
Rays lower tier evil

Tyreek Hill… hoo boy he’s rocking the X axis now

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 3h

FL sports teams ranking by most to least evil would be an entire podcast series I don’t even know where you begin but the Jags are maybe the least evil and then idk man it’s pretty murky if you’re going to weigh ownership heavily

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 4h

Yep

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 4h

You never choose what breaks containment huh

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 5h

It is interesting no one has any footage of the mayhem that’s engulfed Portland

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 5h

It’s surprising he fell asleep listening to that harrowing tale of how homie almost died after getting hit with a frosty

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 5h

Can we all just grift and say we’re cons now, solicit money and then donate the money to like liberal causes or did I just invent fraud

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 5h

I do know that shit POPS OFF once the Jedi put 2 and 2 together when they’re like, okay Sidious is gone the very second Palpatine dies what is that all about

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 5h

Tbh I’d almost say some fighting and then some sort of peace treaty with CIS because the main instigator of everything is now dead.

Maybe even Bail becomes Chancellor.

Anakin and Obi-wan have a falling out and who knows what becomes of it.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 8h

Star Wars alternate history question:

Let’s assume Palpatine dies of a heart attack in the opening scenes of Attack of the Clones

What do you think happens to the galaxy?

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 6h

He was poised for a comeback and like a guy in a movie putting the final little touches on their ship in a bottle someone said, “Chingy huh, sounds like cheugy,” everything collapsed and he had to start all over again

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 6h

Lmao you gotta love the section of Bluesky who is looking at Dems favorable coverage during the shutdown and is like, wait wait c’mon they’re going to fuck it up just give it time

Do yall just like Ls because it’s familiar or something like what is this

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 7h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h

Sen. Kelly and Sen. Gallego confront Mike Johnson about the GOP shutdown:

"Why don't you bring back your Republican members so we can have a serious negotiation?"

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t fucking @ me bc you’re not happy that Trump was an effective communicator I’m not happy about it either but Trumpism without Trump or worse, Trumpism coming out of Mike Johnson’s mouth doesn’t work and actively makes people hate him and I love that for the Speaker

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 8h

Throwing down my marker that we’re going to get a couple blessed years where the GOP continues to try and crib Trump’s affectations but it’s going to fall flat like this bozo.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 8h

He’s already off that and on to throwing down his marker that there won’t be 2026 midterm elections and I’m still not sure what that even means, logistically and I don’t think he does either

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 9h

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 9h

I think if it took you to October 5th, 2025 to realize that maybe this 1/6/21 business was maybe a big deal I think you shouldn't be allowed to comment on politics

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 9h

You know JD Vance has entertained the idea that he could be a 21st Century Henry VIII, split from Catholicism and do some form of American Anglicanism where he is the head of it

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escalator TO HELL @escalator.bsky.social · 9h

one of my thoughts, that i don’t think is really true but sometimes feels true, is that liberals have mostly won Cultural Victory without corresponding Political Victory, and vice versa for conservatives, and no one is happy about it because if they had to choose one they’d would prefer the opposite

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11h

This is all downstream of the lack of cultural power too; it’s not socially acceptable to be a giant pig and they hate it.

I swear that all Trump supporters want is to be able to call President Obama the N-word and not lose their jobs

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 10h

Morgan Wallen is absolutely the answer because Wallen did the SB my god would the Right declare total cultural victory and would people be pissed