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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 11h

they could barely handle the french revolution and they ARE french

julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 11h

on the one hand, ubisoft are cowards, on the other hand, because ubisoft are cowards, i'm not sure i would trust them to handle content related to, uh, reconstruction

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 11h

which is not only unhelpful for whatever conversation i'm actually having but also cannot provide any opportunity for a helpful response in return. it's either "ok but you still have to do your job" or "have you tried NOT reading the news so much?"

victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 11h

with the caveat that i was never that great at articulating my emotions to begin with, i'm having an increasingly hard time talking to anyone when i'm upset because without fail it always, always devolves into "have you noticed how everything is falling apart"

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 14h

it's like reparations for making professor x british

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 19h

i don't think i want to work on the internet anymore

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 1d

You'd been banished at this point but to this day i still have fond memories of taste testing the monster cereals www.themarysue.com/monster-cere...

We Rank Monster Cereal Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy | The Mary Sue

We decided to taste and rank all five of the General Mills Monster Cereals which include Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy for the first time in years.

www.themarysue.com

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 1d

(when I say "stay upright" i mean it. we were not allowed to sit down when we were manning the valiant booth. sometimes during breaks we hid behind the retractable banners just to sit on the floor. i remember i used to deliberately walk through the dark horse booth because their carpet was PLUSH)

victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 1d

At Valiant we had these Bloodshot-branded energy shots left over from some promotional licensing deal in 2015 (it was 2018). we started bringing them to cons to try to... sell? give to superfans? i don't remember, because we also drank them to stay upright and i think they made me lose time

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

For a while I was a barback at one of the Joe coffee shops; they were really big on latte art so if someone fucked up the flower or whatever they would remake the drink. One shift I was like "okay every latte we would normally throw away im going to drink" and I almost died

trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 1d

a similar thing happened when i worked at (redacted chain bookstore) but it was butterfinger buzz candy bars and those suckers were a bad time for all of us but they were free so we kept eating them

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 1d

Advertising Week feels like a comic con where everyone in attendance is dressed like the talent‘s PR reps

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 1d

me: fanfiction can be a lovely hobby and people shouldn't be shamed for writing and enjoying it

also me: fuck eliezer yudkowsky that harry potter fic writin' ass

Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 1d

tech ceo: “so I set out to build the superhuman AI from the classic book, if anyone builds it, everyone dies”

A subway ad for a book

IFANYONE BUILDS IT,
EVERYONE
DIES

WHY
SUPERHUMAN AI
WOULD
KILL US ALL

ELIEZER YUKOWSKY & NATE SOARES

WE WISH WE WERE EXAGGERATING

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 2d

THE BALL! YOU THREW IT, WE CAME

Azlancat @azlancat.bsky.social · 2d

A chihuahua in a DIY Pinhead costume from Hellraiser, complete with head pins and leather attire, carried in a bag against an autumn park backdrop for a timely Halloween vibe.

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 4d

(somebody’s gonna write such a good song of The Raven for the movie adaption and it’s 100% gonna break my latent litgoth ass)

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 4d

how is it that every time a new hunger games book comes out it fucks me up More than the last one, actually

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 4d

I gotta tell yah, I’ve seen a lot of bad subway ads over the years and I’ve NEVER seen a single ad campaign get as much negative graffiti as the friend ones do. Even Lucas using Venmo didn't garner this kind of hate

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 4d

usually the ads that appear on the subway cars themselves go un-graffitied, but some enterprising young Luddite found a way

A friend.com ad over which someone has pasted an index card that says” talk to someone, most people are kinder + friendlier than you think! I promise :)” underneath is another card that reads “A.I CRAP”

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 5d

i have a pitch for a horror movie set during a project graduation lock-in and vitamin c's "graduation (friends forever)" is already half of the way there

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 5d

question for the timeline

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 5d

what if we brought back "boo"

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 6d

i thought it was a mindfuck when i hit the age that my mom was when she stopped having kids but i just realized i'm a year away from how old liz lemon was at the beginning of 30 rock and that one's really gonna feel weird

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 6d

Who’s up pondering their orb

Luna the black cat curled around one of those little RGB LED balls, which is currently emitting a deep indigo light

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · Feb 20

I loved Penny Dreadful because other "prestige" TV series would be centered around the drama of rich dudes and PD would be on its own like "Frankenstein's monster gets a crying monologue. Eva Green writhes around on a table during a séance. Dorian Gray and the Wolfman make out for a while."

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Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 8d

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 8d

I think it might also be the root of the word “grimoire”?

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 8d

September 30 ➡️ October 1

Major Kira Nerys from Deep Space 9 in one of her civilian outfits, complete with a misshapenly-crocheted vest

Intendant Kira Nerys from Deep Space 9's Mirror Universe, lounging in an all-vinyl bodysuit and looking hot as fuck

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victoria mcnally @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 9d

It’s the BEST of the movies hands down and I cry during moon revenge every time

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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 9d

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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