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Prufrock451

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Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · Sep 22

Fuck this hustle-culture bullshit. When I’m a skeleton I’m not doing a goddamn thing

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · May 10

"The Empire is like America ten years from now".

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 10

Please tell me one of the kids gets thrown off Hell In A Cell and plummets 16 ft through an announcer’s table

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · May 10

three million years ago somebody picked up a rock because it looked like a little face and held onto it

This is older than any god this is who we truly are

jam @socialistboat.dad · May 10

one of my favorite archaeology terms is "manuport" which just means a thing (rock, animal, stick, etc) that's in a weird place because a prehistoric human picked it up and carried it there. this one is estimated to be 3 million years old

Wikipedia screenshot of a reddish brownish maroonish rock that had indentations in it that look like a face. There's a scale at the bottom that shows it's a little bigger than 5 cm across. The caption text reads "The Makapansgat cobble with its distinct 'face'."

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flamby ✨🐝🔪 @flamby666.bsky.social · May 10

the pope isn't from chicago unless he works being from chicago into every conversation

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

Recognize ≠ respect

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

You don’t flip over the table when you’re holding aces

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

Great minds!

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

Didn’t even need the third F-18 to get a pope from Chicago, it turns out

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 7

Once I complete the ritual with the offering of a third F-18 it’s over for you bitches

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Stop Motion Cyclops @stopmotioncyclops.bsky.social · May 9

Feeling emboldened that perhaps, in my lifetime, we could have a pope that was in The Sea and Cake

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

*two wolves fly out of the soles of your feet*

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

Didn’t even need the third F-18 to get a pope from Chicago, it turns out

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 7

Once I complete the ritual with the offering of a third F-18 it’s over for you bitches

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

-Their fleet could not have accomplished anything had they not briefly paralyzed the New Republic’s political and military leadership.

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 9

The Mothma Doctrine was proven correct; while the First Order and Final Order bet on huge capital ships which could force the surrender of key planets, neither could deal with the numbers or agility of the Citizens’ Fleet once concentrated. This is why the First Order destroyed Hosnian Prime-

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Julia McHugh @drjmchugh.bsky.social · May 8

Associate Director for Research Libraries position at the Smithsonian Institute

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 8

Hard agree

Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 8

The moment Bobby Prevost decided to leave for seminary

The “Fishes” episode of The Bear where a dysfunctional Chicago Catholic family dissolves into a fight over Christmas dinner

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Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr.bsky.social · May 8

the New Pope says he's from Chicago but he's *actually* from Naperville

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · May 8

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · May 8

INTRODUCING YOUR CHICAGO PAPAL BULLS STARTING LINEUP [monophonic Gregorian chanting intensifies]

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 8

The moment Bobby Prevost decided to leave for seminary

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · May 8

He's gonna be out there turning water into malort

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 8

A mathematician from Chicago! Get ready to hear a shitload of Wilco blasting across St Peter’s Square

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · May 8

i don’t believe in the great man of history theory, but i do kind of believe in a stupid asshole theory of history where one dumb motherfucker ruins things for everyone

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 8

Just want to make this plain: You only have permission to make a weird computer sock puppet of me during the trial of my killer in order to explain my fan theories about Admiral Ozzel from The Empire Strikes Back

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · May 8

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · May 8

okay if i get murdered and someone plays a video of a robot version of me in court FORGIVING MY MURDERER i'm haunting everybody. the judge the jury the lawyers, the bailiff, everybody

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · May 8

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

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Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · May 8

*A Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS plane steps out of the shadows and grinds a cigarette out with its heel*

“Forget it, MH-60R Seahawk. It’s the USS Truman”