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here to complain about the nonsense of tech jobs, talk about RPGs, and contribute to the Art of Shitposting

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Feb 23

There's a cool dad at the park with a cool beard and sunglasses and a custom leather hip pouch, presumably full of dad supplies

And I stand here in head to toe Kirkland Signature and whisper "poser"

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 19h

Don't laugh. These are veterans of the Battle of Burgertown.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

"Yes, we'd like to put in a winning bid for that WMD"

Which my assassin character then stole. I escaped by jumping through hard vacuum from a starship to a waiting space taxi

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

My group is playing Eclipse Phase, and we're breaking the adventure with the power of mind-hacking, stealth, and very large sums of money.

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

Finished @chrisdeville.bsky.social "Such Great Heights". It was excellent!

If you have good taste in music, you have to read this book.

If you don't have good taste in music, you *really* have to read this book.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/53b5...

Review by mburnamfink - Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

As someone who loves indie music deeply, this is a great book, one that chronicles the rise an...

app.thestorygraph.com

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 2d

Remember that Panera lemonade that kills people?

Pepperidge Farms remembers

Chief Georgia O' Keef @mitskimask.bsky.social · 2d

The Millennial version of this is:

"In my day people were dying from Four Loko having caffeine, and we loved it."

Which is true. We did.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the Sundays anyone has ever had, this is the Moast

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 3d

Okay now we’re really poasting

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3d

ICE agent's room clearing shits about to push frontiers in 3rd Amendment law

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 4d

sending this image to Secretary Whiskey Pete so he has a pretext to do the jelly donut monologue from Full Metal Jacket he's been practicing in the bathroom for the last three months

Senor Gato 🐾 @kingpachuco.bsky.social · 4d

It's a wild world out here in the Rose City.

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 4d

Committing hate crimes right now

A single tortilla warming in a convection oven

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 4d

eating the $1500 NIST peanut butter just to feel something

a small jar of peanut butter. The blue and white label says is Standard Reference Material 2387, as specified by the National Institutes of Standards. The price is $1528, down from $1910

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 4d

Blueskyism is when you literally cannot stop posting Bad Takes even though you're the boss of this hellsite

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

I love the internet and hope it never goes away (derogatory)

cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 5d

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

Kid A was three years prior

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

There was a period of time where every night I'd put on this album and get high

Still hits via flashback, just a little. #saddadband

Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 6d

Kid A came out 25 years ago today. It was one of the most important albums of my life. Five years ago, I wrote this retrospective: www.stereogum.com/2094039/radi...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 7d

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left

'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'

www.forever-wars.com

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 8d

agreed.

I've got enough historical object permeance to remember what happened when Bremen fired the entire Iraqi army. Don't do that again.

but yeah, these assholes can do foot patrols around Nowhere, West Texas, alternating with winter training in North Dakota.

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

I've been banned a couple of times for celebrating Toyotathon too hard.

Just because the owners are into radical Islam doesn't mean the trucks themselves aren't radical

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

Cafeteria lunch today at Big Evil Tech is absolutely insane

"Nacho bar" with carrots, broccoli, cheese steak style roast beef. No onions, beans, or Pico de Gallo

Also Hawaiian pizza and vegetarian Hawaiian pizza

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 12d

It's on the low end of "mid", but Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King is a movie that I don't regret watching

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 14d

Spear Cuts Through Water is very much its own vibe. 2025 books that are adjacent are Sinister Extremity by Hugh Neill and House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 15d

Blueskyism is when we stop talking about "Blueskyism" for 24 hours

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 18d

One of my "if I gave a shit" projects is figuring out exactly when Futurism dot com flipped on Elon Musk

But lol slop

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 20d

What up cheerful reading buddy

Audiobook. How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 20d

Narrator: Yes they are.

Also you're mixing Seinfeld and Arrested Development. Pick a show.

*Me, staring directly at the camera like The Office*: don't think so