bloviated
@bloviated.bsky.social
Constantly beset
created August 14, 2023
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bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reposted
One time on here I got into an embarrassingly protracted argument about something stupid and one of the person's friends jumped in to say "How come all the incels identity with Boris from Goldeneye?" First of all no they don't, but if they did the reasons would be very obvious.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
lol
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
No I don't have a "quest" for you. That's not even what we do here.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
One time on here I got into an embarrassingly protracted argument about something stupid and one of the person's friends jumped in to say "How come all the incels identity with Boris from Goldeneye?" First of all no they don't, but if they did the reasons would be very obvious.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Has any bit of stage banter ever been more destructive to the vibe of a song than this?
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
All the local companies I've been applying to use the workday.com domains (or whatever it's called) to handle their application process and I eventually realized that every time I created an account for a new company, lastpass was overwriting the password I used for the last one.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
If Grassy Valley came 20 years earlier it would have been great fodder for a browser based flash game with a couple of half baked minigames.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
The doctor took a beat to remove his stethoscope and fold his hands on his lap before telling me that my nosebleeds are of the horny anime type.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Talking to my doctor to see if my nosebleeds are caused by dry mucous membranes, or if it's the kind that tells me I'm ignoring a higher calling in my life, that I have some great albeit personally destructive potential that I'm repressing in order to try and live a "normal" life. I'm so nervous!
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Feminism has made women forget how to be devious! One reason America is in the shape it's in is because we've never had a scheming matriarch pulling the strings. Employing her wiles to provoke loyalty, solving a succession crisis by tainting the right cup with her malicious philter. #EvilWomen
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Oh no, upheaval?
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Award Nominated BBC Series: The Piecemeal Story Stylish detective Veronica Beige is used to solving cold cases, but can anyone discover the truth behind her own forlorn condition? Saoir Rebecki stars as the enigmatic lead in this fugue state driven thriller. Tags: Nosebleed, sudden departures
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
We'd have an imperial regency before he resigns
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you look at that person's profile and their pinned tweet. Really really interesting.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Star studded wars you should fight in if you get the chance: 1. WW2 (good guys) 2. Second Punic 3. 3rd Crusade 4. Napoleonic Miss these drab wars: 1. Korean 2. WW2 (bad) 3. WW1 4. 4th Crusade
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
They're just conservative guys with podcasts
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I know him from the youtube short I'm most obsessed with youtube.com/shorts/cZntI...
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation is a really important book to me, but they took the audiobook down from my library app so I got it on audible and ripped it to YouTube because a deceased monk's book shouldn't be behind a paywall. youtu.be/zEHD4RmLM7M?...
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Guess I got in a lotta trouble for this one 🤣
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is a guy who's pretending to speak with a Northern English accent weighing in on the governor of California
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
And I didn't mean to say that you should never smoke weed or masturbate, just to be clear.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry to hear that. Personally I'm a pretty spiritual person, after spending most of my adulthood as a bog standard atheist. I think there's an ontologically real goodness that is nourished even through small acts. Suffering is inescapable and unfair but working for good is always worthwhile
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess I just feel like that outlook prescribes hedonisticly doing drugs and jerking off all day just as much if not moreso than it encourages a discovery of the world's splendor. I'm glad that nihilists tend to be life affirming but I worry that theyre always just barely fighting off total despair
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Anti-woke Elder Millennial: If they made Run Lola Run today she'd probably have blue hair.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I've never understood why "nothing matters" is supposed to lend itself to the latter thing.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Every Instagram comment section is just people arguing to the death about something they've never thought of before
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Tuned mass dampers are great, it's so cool to know that large buildings have a giant, orb shaped vital core that has to be protected from attacks.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Guy on a movie date who has been doing pretty well until now, turning to make direct and plainly visible eye contact. "Uh, of course they give the love interest blue eyes. They always think brown eyes are too plain to be attractive or something." Still holding eye contact.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Loudly enough for people to hear: "Taylor...? Oh, yeah her. The country singer. She's like pop now though? Huh. Oh who's she marrying? Uh huh, and he's like another singer? No? A football player? Oh, huh. The Daryl Hannah to her Neil Young, not that she's anything like Neil Young or course..."
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Come and See is not an anti-war movie, it's an anti-Nazi movie. The moral of the story is that it's good to fight a war against Nazis. The best anti-war movie is Stalingrad because it's from the German perspective. The moral of that movie is "Doesn't seem like such a good idea now, does it?"
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Uh oh, Warhammer lore YouTuber is making associations to the real world.
BayBayFriend (@baybayfriend.bsky.social) reposted
Me: I have the kind of raw intelligence that makes everything in life a breeze. No big deal. Me when I see a headline that’s like, “Judge stays motion to overturn blocked ban”: Only one person could ever possibly understand what this means. I’ll give you a hint. His first name was Albert
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bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
So, would it be too crazy to show this pic to my hairdresser?
escapedexplorer.bsky.social (@escapedexplorer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
>Diagnosed with common condition that also can cause painful and hard to treat leg ulcers, as well as DVT, and is visibly falling apart >Recently going off on tangents about his concerns about going to hell >increasingly looks like Prince Philip circa ~2023-2024 what did he mean by this
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
(90 Day Fiance couple with good chemistry and no major issues) Maria decided to leave early because she had a headache. Which was kinda strange? I mean, we're all here to hangout, but I guess she had other ideas. (Next couple) Isobel just found out I have a third girlfriend, from my UFO meetings
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
There might be a worthwhile conversation to be had about how useful these terms are for reaching the average person, but I can't take anyone seriously who doesn't see this as just a way to control acceptable topics of discourse
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Guy who can't stand Reiki ever since his dad got into it and they really messed up his back.
The Heterodox Surgeon (@heterodoxsurgeon.bsky.social) reposted
My secretary Noémie, though 35 years my junior, is whip-smart, sharp as a tack, tough as nails, switched-on, put-together, and fiercely loyal.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Being among the most powerful people in America and being unable to muster up this level of dignity
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
It's too dignifying towards AI to come up with slurs for it. Only living things possess the inherent sense of dignity that slurs try to deprive them of. You're giving AI too much credence if you do that. You also shouldn't use slurs against people, just to get ahead of that one.
patrick (@partnardy.bsky.social) reposted
In the 1997 film 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺, spy/lothario Austin Powers is unthawed after 30 years in cryogenic stasis. I don’t often go long on here but I feel the need to address something that’s been nagging at me. 🧵 (1/X)
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
I'm watching instagram's new most popular poster, a beautiful 20 year old woman in a Led Zeppelin shirt who plays classic guitar riffs, and writing my new NYT editorial: The Unwoke Gen Zers Reviving Rock
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Kirby
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
C. 4th century monks of the 'Desert Father' age of Christianity used to tell stories where Satan asks his underlings what they accomplished, and they'd say "today I unsettled the minds of an entire town with thoughts of avarice" and I think today they'd be social media managers
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
I think a good rule of thumb is that anyone who brags about how many views a post gets, not likes or reposts, is not just a vacuous idiot but an unsouled charlatan too.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
The people I feel I've wronged the most in life are the people who saw me post something and then saw me post the same thing minutes later with slightly different wording. Due to my personality and values it shames me in a way that knocking bird nests over would.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Sullen man visibly stewing over ice cream truck song
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Going to start subtly dropping hints in future conversations that I think Star Wars and Lord of the Rings take place in the same universe. That it's just a Warhammer and Warhammer 40K situation. I also know that's not how Warhammer works, you're missing the point.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reposted
You actually should let your clothes get as stinky as possible before washing them. Like phone batteries.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
If it's the lantern flies, the threat those things pose to the ecology ended up being pretty insignificant to everything except for like grape crops so I excused myself from the task of stepping on them.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
While the infestation is certainly eukaryotic, we have ultimately decided that the infestation does not fall under the fungal umbrella.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Did he say The Minis was a true story?
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
There's a Prevagen commercial where the actress says she tried Prevagen because the people in the ads were "so authentic." That's just crazy. Even if I couldn't tell she was an actress that's a move you only pull on people suspected of cognitive decline. But that's Cozi TV for you, watching Columbo.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Tupac is one of the greatest rappers ever but does he have one truly essential album? People usually point to All Eyez on Me but I think the people saying that are forgetting that it's a 27 track double album that takes 2 hours 12 minutes to listen to.
Need To See You In Barnyard (@stefanheck.bsky.social) reposted
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Peep THIS Out, Joey’s World Tour, Ken Domik, Crazy Food Crew, Daym Drops, Amazing Random Products, Outlaws Generation, Caffeine Man, Baking Diva, Ghostbusters News, Badlands Chugs, Geoff Esper, and Grace Randolph
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reposted
Finally getting around to opening the mail intended for a previous tenant. Really in love with the idea of someone who finally flips the calendar to a new page and is pleasantly stimulated by a completely new picture of a violin.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
I've been unemployed for a while and it's starting to feel like the job market for my field is drying up. I really hate to ask but I'm getting desperate, so, does anyone know if you can become a private investigator without being a cop first? Or maybe I should ask, does anyone have a mystery for me?
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
My SNL pitch is a sketch where someone tries nude modeling, trying to recapture a love of their body through art, but all the artists finish startlingly fast and it turns out they're all caricature artists. I also don't know how SNL works but I'd be content with a last half hour placement.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Traditionalist Catholic, 2025: We need more rigid social roles in order to maintain Western hegemony. Catholic layman, 1302 CE: Don't cut down that elm tree, little Elma says she saw faerie livin' there and no sense badgerin' the underfolk over kindlin'.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
What many modern people conceive of to be "traditional" Christianity would have been entirely out of touch with a regular medieval Christian, who by and large believed that forests were inhabited by fairies that you ought to respect.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I think if you went back to the middle ages and observed how common folk practiced their religion, it would look somewhat similar to what modern Hatian voodoo looks like today
A-Lister Crowley (@enterim.bsky.social) reposted
Hop in your overbuilt DIY camper, cuz tomorrow nite at 8pm EDT, it's Ken Night XCIV: Ass, Gas, or Grass-fed with guest @bloviated.bsky.social on the enterim twitch stream.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
If your tutorial tooltip has 1/3 at the bottom of it I am not reading that. I'd rather learn through failure than exhaust myself out of enjoying the game. Marcus Aurelius: Yes, this is exactly what I've been trying and failing to say throughout my many published meditations. Albert Camus: Me too
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Women love my problematic rizz
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Yup
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Finally getting around to opening the mail intended for a previous tenant. Really in love with the idea of someone who finally flips the calendar to a new page and is pleasantly stimulated by a completely new picture of a violin.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Peeping Toms really fell off. I'm not saying they should come back but there was a love of the game that's no longer there.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably in one of these protests www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
www.jewishnews.co.uk/stop-killing...
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Well I don't know if I agree with that
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Some of those who ride horses, are the same who look gorgeous. -- Horse Girl Rage Against the Machine New bit yo'ure going to be seeing some more of in the coming days as I recover from a low grade bacterial meningitis. "The menge"
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I think for guys like you, your personality is part of the appeal. People watch your videos because they personally like your perspective. Not so much because they've been wondering about the pipes in starfield recently
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyway, when people find out that the theistic philosophies have little to do with the "sky man" portrayal they got, they're not just liable to convert they will also feel like they were lied to, and it would be nice if they could learn this first from someone who isn't nostalgic for the crusades
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Like if a guy spent all day arguing against evolution, and you found out he was only familiar with the popular conception that giraffes have long necks because they spent a lot of effort trying to reach high leaves, you wouldn't just say he was being smug you'd say he was being stupid.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
The reason the reddit atheist guys sucked was not because they were smug, it's because they were deliberately incurious and had stupid ideas that depended on never learning about the thing they spent all day arguing about, except for its dumbest version.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
I think there's still a future for the select button. And I'm not gonna compromise by calling either of them 'options' or anything like that.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
R1 and R2 is the definitive nomenclature for the shoulder buttons. For face buttons there's the A and the B button, I don't have to tell you which those are. But then, and here's where I might lose some people, the other two are Square and Triangle. That's what the esperanto controller looks like
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reposted
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
(YouTuber still trying to establish an identity and brand) Alright that's all for today, keep on rocking you... fucking fuckers.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
You can just stand at the self-service kiosk for a while and then get a drink and they'll assume you were paying for it
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
ISS Astronaut 1: What's your favorite Earth memory? ISS Astronaut 2: Shut up man.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reposted
The fact that there's no such thing as lowercase numbers shows that the alphabet is the real star.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
"Lieutenant Dan, yer legs keep growin' back."
BayBayFriend (@baybayfriend.bsky.social) reposted
A Woman’s Battle grassyvalley.thecomi...
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Writing a followup to Forrest Gump where he's being guided through Dante's Inferno and it has all the same characters from the movie.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
(Plucking the first four notes of an incomprehensible melody on a bass guitar and abruptly stopping) You have to be a little bit insane to make music, to make any kind of art. (Three more notes followed by a too sudden bend) Have you heard Jaco yet?
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
(Man who you're trying to walk away from at a party, said with an uncanny energy clearly supplied by cocaine and a surprisingly dead eyed expression, not blinking while his head tilts subtly closer) Seriously, I'd do anything for music.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Guys, we need to organize one big post off to save bluesky! Come on everybody!
kiki33333.bsky.social (@kiki33333.bsky.social) reposted
Hail Mary Full of Grace
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Me: Little pug, so cute. Funny how the uglier they are the cuter they get. R-BUD: A logical contradiction, yet my processors are computing that — yes, this 'doggo' is in need of petting and cuddles. Mean girlfriend: He reminds me of you :) Me: Haha, R-Bud don't know where I'd be without you man.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Da Lil Steppa is Dua Lipa's full name.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
CONCEPTUALIZATION - Describe the shimmering ballroom from your dreams. [FAILED]
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Y'all really voting for Balthasar Gelt?
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
I hired a posting consultant. Question was, how do we tackle popular, viral meme formats without abandoning my personal brand of pensive learnedness? I think this is one who's impact won't be felt immediately, but years from now when I'm established as a poster's poster. Consultant has been let go.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social)
Noone: Absolutely noone: The bowling alley tv when you get a strike:
BayBayFriend (@baybayfriend.bsky.social) reposted
harmMonica🩸: i know the puppy face filter is played out but idc. i look CUTE! mollywog: beautifu pupp y ambuLANCE🗡️: respectfully love that puppy robertgregory: reminds me of this u may not like it lol [youtube link to Dog Inside Your Body by the Butthole Surfers, not available in your country]
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
You can put anything on a cashew. Everything seasoning, dill and vinegar. They're like chips but good for you.
bloviated (@bloviated.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's the tea. You were apologetic towards yt supremacy when the RIGHT supremacy was looking you in thr face, now the WRONG supreme leader is in the yt house and a new era of fascism has been BOURNE. See the picture? — the Streetwise Moderate