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SkyTwo
@skytwo.bsky.social
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East Asia scholar, I/O psychologist, bon vivant, ailurophile, boardgame enthusiast, MSTie, nerd of letters. Just a normal lad. #SWFC 🦉

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December 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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And as an aside, taking up Tunisian crochet this year helped me maintain my sanity-- less time spent obsessing over the news, more creative juice to keep up the fight. It's an obvious bit of advice, but also a great excuse to share a photo of Puja.
A sleepy-ish cat on my lap turns her head to look at me as I'm in an armchair rocheting a multi-color striped blanket square.
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Celebrate the year's labors. Cherish your loved ones. Rest. Then we join the fight again, more heartened than we were a year ago. And thank you, @adamserwer.bsky.social.
Copy from an Adam Serwer article in The Atlantic: "When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute."
December 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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As political photos go, this is no Conference of Yalta. Yikes.

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December 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Share something random or you’ll have an awful December
Diptych by artist Carl Otto Czeschka. One image shows a woman waking up in bed with a start. The other shows two large raptors descending on a white bird that sits on a fence.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)
An image of Pee Wee Herman with an expression of comedically exaggerated shock.
October 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Protest sign with "We Have Friends Everywhere" in block letters and the rebel logo from the series Andor.
October 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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One-Word Movie Reviews™️: Part of an ongoing one-joke premise

[N]ICE!!!

La Tour de Glace (2025)
An image of the English-language poster for the 2025 film The Ice Tower directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Cover art from Gang Starr's album Step In the Arena
September 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Album art for the album 11:11 by the band Come.
September 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Cover art for the 1991 album Illuminated by the band 360s.
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Cover art for the 1993 Swervedriver album Mezcal Head.
September 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Hell yes, I'm into K-Pop!
An image of the 20th century Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I see the bread is looking particularly apprehensive this evening. 🧐
A slice of bread sits next to the rest of the loaf in a basket. Air pockets coming to give it a somewhat troubled expression.
September 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A still from the original Planet of the Apes movie with the character Zira saying "Shun him."
July 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Separated at birth? #Pokerface
An image of the underground comic character Cherry Poptart, side by side with an image of the lead character from Pokerface, Charlie Cale. They appear similar is my only point, and with the new season dropping in pop culture references like Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! I'm positing that there might be some connection between the two.
June 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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An image of the flag of Washington, D.C.
May 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The moment I hear I hear the term Smarty Pants Arms Race:
May 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In a better world, this would just be an AI-generated image of a 21st century reboot of Angels' Revenge. #mst3k
A staged image of the women who were on the Blue Origin space tourist flight, all clad in their official blue and black, flared-leg Blue origin jumpsuits.
May 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Useless, embarrassing, et al.
March 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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One-Word Movie Reviews (TM)

Repli-CAN! 🫡

#CompanionMovie
An image of the movie poster for the 2025 film Companion, which does a very nice job of taking longstanding questions of the nature of humanity in an AI world a la Philip K Dick and puts a genuinely fresh and interesting spin on it.
January 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I had to choose between SPEED RACER and POSSESSION at the Alamo this evening, and what a choice to have to make! But I couldn't miss Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill!
A still of Isabelle Adjani holding a knife from the 1981 film Possession.
January 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Happy Holidays, fellow Owls, and all the best in 2025! #swfc #wawaw
A medieval illustration of an anthropomorphized owl in blue and white.
December 25, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Not that it makes all this any less depressing, but it's a good reminder that Badlands is an amazing film.
An image of the 1975 theatrical release movie poster for Terence Malick's Badlands.
December 21, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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"Waitaminute... What if this was MEANT to look like the Star Wars poster?"
Theatrical poster for the 1981 film Dragonslayer. I'd somehow not noticed until I started typing this that the protagonist is wearing seriously tight tights. Yikes.
November 16, 2024 at 6:16 AM