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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 8h

I had one book assigned to read all semester on 19th century Chinese civil society.
Cracked the spine the first time the night before my 10-page majority grade paper was due. Skimmed it, wrote it, got an A.
Went to work hallucinating from lack of sleep, went home and passed out watching Finding Nemo

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 11h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 13h

“Are you sure I don’t need to take my whole shirt off to get the shot?”

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 17h

Like, pretty much all companies are cowards. But Ubisoft enjoys a unique place in cowardice for borrowing the aesthetic of historical and political engagement but absolutely meaning nothing with any of it. And more, they’re frightened of their own pretend thoughtfulness.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 17h

Years ago, Gameological (rest in power) visited an Ubisoft event for the release of AC 3.
It was a gallery show featuring paintings like George Washington as a king or the protagonist framed with graffiti like ‘rebel!’
When asked what any of it meant, the pr person basically said, “uh, nothing.”

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 23h

First frost of the season and Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left falls on me like a cartoon safe.

Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 1d

I let my kid go see Cold Slither at Excel Center a few years ago and now he’s piloting some kind of upright saw blade against U.N. forces outside of Sudan.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 1d

The same Wells Fargo that had to pay out $3 billion dollars in settlements for signing customers up for accounts and paid services without their permission.
In an industry where shitty behavior is the baseline, they really go above and beyond.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out.

Fucking crazy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 1d

No, this is accurate. It was well documented.

The moon, partially blinded by a primitive space rocket.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah? Well you try writing an entire religious denomination to justify your own obsessive sexual peccadillos.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

This would be the cruelest thing I’ve ever read were it not simply the most accurate.

defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain,

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been a good year for horror movies punching above their weight class.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 2d

I thought Barbarian was pretty good with some exceptional moments, but this was just leaps beyond. Just masterful in concept and execution (ha ha).

Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

I was about to say Weapons is the best horror movie I’ve seen in a while but I think it’s just the best movie I’ve seen in a while.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 3d

To answer your question so you don’t need to watch the movie:
1. It’s set in a coastal town, not the suburbs
2. That’s Sloth. Sloth love Chunk.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

I was about to say Weapons is the best horror movie I’ve seen in a while but I think it’s just the best movie I’ve seen in a while.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

Mystic Quest? I like your moxy.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 4d

Handheld vacuum cleaners and Adderall are chocolate and peanut butter.

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 6d

Kids in the Hall sketch featuring a horror writer’s sophomore release, “Hey, There’s a Spider On Your Back!”

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 6d

I’m keeping Spotify, but I’m only using it to listen to problematic artists so they don’t get paid.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 7d

They’re going to have to lift the ban on smoking in the CC Club now to get it in proper shape for production.

Finn Wolfhard Mounts a Biopic on ’80s Band The Replacements (EXCLUSIVE)

'Stranger Things' star Finn Wolfhard is bringing Bob Mehr’s book 'Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements' to the big screen.

variety.com

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 8d

"Well, everyone knows Eric Adam’s dropped out of the New York mayoral race. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't."

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 8d

Crypto billionaire Brock Pierce, speaking at Fraunces Tavern in downtown Manhattan alongside Rev. Al Cockfield, says he's launching the "draft Eric back campaign" to try to get Eric Adams back in the mayoral race.

More about it here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/30/b...

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth tried leveraging all the manosphere pick-up books he’s read to neg an entire department.

Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 8d

I am...weirdly not anxious about this insane war speech bullshit Trump and Hegseth are doing

I mean it is BAD but also so deeply sloppy and actively insulting to the military itself (he straight up went you're all too fat, I'm in great shape) and makes them look like weak idiots more than anything

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 8d

I would wear ankle-length hippie skirts all the time if it weren’t for the fact it would make me Visible in Public.

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 9d

Cartoonist Jesse Duquette honored the guy who escaped ICE on his bike with a new cartoon.

Cartoon with a white background on the left and a black silhouette of a man on a bike with the word ANTI in black lettering at the top. On the right 1/3 it’s a black background with a heavy white figure with ICE written across his chest and it says FA at the top.

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